{"id":58203,"date":"2018-04-10T13:48:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T18:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=58203"},"modified":"2018-04-10T13:48:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T18:48:30","slug":"wrestlemania-weekend-qa-report-with-dreamer-ken-anderson-noelle-foley-dreamer-says-how-much-money-heyman-owes-him-noelle-on-matches-of-her-dad-she-cant-watch-anderson-on-orton-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/04\/10\/wrestlemania-weekend-qa-report-with-dreamer-ken-anderson-noelle-foley-dreamer-says-how-much-money-heyman-owes-him-noelle-on-matches-of-her-dad-she-cant-watch-anderson-on-orton-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"WRESTLEMANIA WEEKEND Q&#038;A REPORT with Dreamer, Ken Anderson, Noelle Foley: Dreamer says how much money Heyman owes him, Noelle on matches of her dad she can&#8217;t watch, Anderson on Orton conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1616907354\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><h3>Q&amp;A PRESENTED BY CHAIRSHOTS REALITY<br \/>\nAPRIL 7, 2018<br \/>\nNEW ORLEANS, LA. AT SPIRITS ON BOURBON ST.<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>PANEL:\u00a0Tommy Dreamer, Ken Anderson, and Noelle Foley<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>Before the Q&amp;A there was a meet and greet with Dreamer &amp; Anderson in the outside area in back of the bar. Both of them were extremely approachable and easy to talk to. Q&amp;A started at 3:30 and the attendance probably had about 100 people that all took place in the front of the bar.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>For Dreamer: How much money does Paul Heyman owe Dreamer?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He estimated about $400K. His mom still hates Heyman, but Dreamer has more respect for him because of what he provided for Dreamer\u2019s legacy. You learn from the past and he has no regrets of how things went down.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For Anderson: Memories of his feud with the Undertaker?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He learned a lot from Taker. He did have a good story too: Taker told him to go ahead and do a piledriver and he did it but Vince told him \u201conly two people can do that move.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For Noelle: Any match of your dad\u2019s you just can\u2019t watch?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HIAC pretty brutal. Any match with chairs. His match with Edge was also a bad one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For Dreamer: Drink of choice?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"pwtor-1839559279\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Dreamer doesn\u2019t drink. He really tries not drink, and tries to focus on the gym and staying in shape (he jokes about the irony of that.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dreamer has a story about Mick &amp; that Mania Match with Edge:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After a 19 hour work day of being a road agent, Dreamer had to throw himself through a flaming table for the fire chief for that match. At three in the morning. In a suit. He thought he was going to be apart of the event but here he was just a crash test dummy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For Anderson: What really happened with him and Randy Orton?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ken makes it clear that him parting ways with WWE wasn\u2019t just an incident with Randy. He says he made\/had a lot of missteps to lead to what happened in WWE. There were things he could\u2019ve certainly handled better. Ken comes off very reflective here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The benefits of WWE &amp; WrestleMania for the entire industry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This leads to Dreamer talking about the benefits WWE provides for the rest of the wrestling business. No matter how you feel about their product they manage to bring all us misfits together once a year in one city which is pretty incredible. He talks about taking risks, says that even Vince and Linda put their house up in exchange to help promote the first WrestleMania and if it didn\u2019t work the two would have literally been homeless.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What have the two learned from their other jobs in the business, with Ken teaching a wrestling school and Dreamer as a producer?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"pwtor-3948300695\" class=\"pwtor-content-1 pwtor-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: pwtorchcom_test_300x600 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __300x600\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Dreamer\u2019s been producing since the ECW days so at this point he\u2019s pretty used to it. He talks about having to just produce the Lucha Underground\/Impact wrestling show that happened on Friday. All the ECW talk sparks Ken to add that although Heyman gets the credit for ECW, Dreamer doesn\u2019t nearly get enough for his contributions.<\/p>\n<p>Ken says that he\u2019s still wrestling, but what he learns from teaching classes is that he loves the process of coaching \u00a0and witnessing the light go on for his students when they start understanding how things go.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lessons learned from being a wrestler?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tommy Dreamer makes a baseball analogy: Clayton Kershaw is MLB\u2019s best pitcher: he doesn\u2019t always have a perfect game, but he\u2019s the best at what he does. He has five people \u00a0whose job it is trying to make him great. For Dreamer, he had Heyman, Funk &amp; Foley trying to make him great. That\u2019s when the light turned on.<\/p>\n<p>For Kennedy it was when he went to the WWE. He\u2019s still learning and he\u2019s teaching wrestling school.<\/p>\n<p>Dreamer also said he learned a lot from wrestling by joking to never have Sandman on your card or have him referee a match. One time he had him do that and wouldn\u2019t make a three count because of his shoulder hurting.<\/p>\n<p>It was Terry Funk that told Dreamer that if he no longer loves his job then you stop doing it. Dreamer still loves it.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson talks about getting the phone call from Tommy telling him he was hired.<\/p>\n<p>Dreamer recounts that when trying to get into WWE, Ken would formally announce himself in every voicemail as \u201cKen Anderson from Green Bay, Wisconsin.\u201d Tommy clearly remembered him everytime he called so he when he called Ken to give him the good news he deadpanned that he was \u201cTommy Dreamer from Yonkers, New York.\u201d Ken was so amped he started saying how he won\u2019t \u201clet Dreamer down, etc.\u201d and Dreamer told him to not get all lame on him. Pretty funny stuff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Austin stories<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tommy brings up the first time Anderson met Steve Austin. Austin is Anderson\u2019s favorite wrestler so as he was being introduced to Steve, Dreamer leans over to Austin and tells him to ask \u201cwhat his dog\u2019s name is.\u201d Austin does and Ken sheepishly says \u201cAustin.\u201d Austin\u2019s reply: \u201cI guess it\u2019s as good as any other, ya mark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This sparks Dreamer to bring up a story about beepers. Someone in the crowd gives Dreamer flack for calling them \u201cbeepers\u201d instead of pagers and Tommy has a NSFW response that pops the crowd. Story goes: Anytime someone in ECW would get a beeper buzz that said \u201c3:16\u201d you\u2019d have to give the person you\u2019re talking to a Stone Cold Stunner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ken loves that NXT is a thing that is taking calculated risks.<\/p>\n<p>Noelle Foley says the fact that Rusev Day is still a thing makes her happy.<\/p>\n<p>Dreamer thinks Undertaker should have one more match as the Undertaker, not American Badass Taker. We should also get a chance to say goodbye to him in that gimmick.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall Thoughts:\u00a0<\/strong>Really engaging and fun show. One of my favorite experiences of the weekend to be honest. Even my buddy who is even a less than casual fan found the session and stories extremely entertaining. Anderson and Dreamer have great chemistry together, not only because of their friendship, but also in part to Dreamer\u2019s dry sense of humor and Ken\u2019s natural charisma. Both were appreciative of the attendees and Ken Anderson couldn\u2019t have been nicer to the guests. I left feeling that both have grown from their career experience and both have much more to contribute to the wrestling business in whatever capacity. If you ever get a chance to go to something similar with either of these guys, definitely do it.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>NOW CHECK OUT THIS RECENT STORY:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/04\/09\/brock-lesnar-re-signs-with-wwe-will-defend-his-universal-title-against-reigns-in-a-rematch-later-this-month\/\">Brock Lesnar re-signs with WWE, will defend his Universal Title against Reigns in a rematch later this month<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-2459394104\"><div id=\"pwtor-2089272496\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Q&amp;A PRESENTED BY CHAIRSHOTS REALITY APRIL 7, 2018 NEW ORLEANS, LA. 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