Trivia / Tommy Dreamer

• Breakup Breakout: From The Madison Brothers in ICW/IWCCW, a team he had with G.Q. Madison (he was T.D. Madison). Not much is known about G.Q., while Dreamer became an ECW and hardcore legend.
• He Also Did: Was "Biker #1"^note New Jack was "Biker #2" on the 2000 Early Edition episode "Mel Schwartz, Bounty Hunter."
• Role-Ending Misdemeanor: After very controversial comments during the Dark Side of the Ring episode on the Plane Ride From Hell, notoriously comparing the backlash against Ric Flair's alleged sexual assault to a hypothetical backlash against his ponytail, Dreamer was suspended from Impact the very next day.
• Romance on the Set: He married Beulah McGillicutty and was romantically connected to Francine. This caused some issues though — the two women hated each other. He was originally with Beulah, but after she retired from wrestling they broke up and he got together with Francine. Then he left Francine to go back to Beulah, which evidently angered her enough to warrant the reunited couple to get extra security for their wedding.
• Promoted Fanboy: His name comes from the fact that he dreamed about becoming a wrestler, having grown up watching Carlos Colon and Abdullah the Butcher's blood baths. When he turned nineteen, he went to Puerto Rico himself to participate, albeit in IWA Puerto Rico rather than the company he had been watching, CSP/WWC. He later got to wrestle for them at thirty nine.
• What Could Have Been
  • He got very close to getting Abyss a job in WWE.
  • He reportedly pitched a storyline in ECW where he would be shot by a sniper, the twist being that for the storyline, Dreamer offered to get shot for real, with a live round. Terry Funk eventually talked him out of it; besides the obvious risks involved, Funk said that with such a storyline, nothing short of Dreamer straight-up killing the person responsible would feel like a satisfying conclusion to it. Insterestingly enough, after he got signed on as a producer in Impact Wrestling, Impact did run a storyline in which John E. Bravo got shot, but this time it took advantage of Impact running from an empty arena due to COVID-19 Pandemic restrictions by having the "shot" taking place during a blackout.
  • An International Championship Wrestling event, Thunda In Guyana, was first announced for May of 2017 and was centered primarily around Caribbean based independent wrestlers. When Tommy Dreamer and several other "bigger superstars in the wrestling fraternity", including Al Snow, Bobby Lashley, Ryback, Tyrus and Carlito Colón, became available for booking it was pushed back to July 1st.
  • A pretty dark case of this, but Dreamer admitted on his podcast in 2019 that, in a major fit of depression after the end of ECW, he very briefly considered going to WrestleMania X-Seven with a gun^note The event taking place in Texas pre-9/11, this isn't actually as implausible as it sounds to kill Heyman and then himself on live PPV. He was brought out of this thought by finding out that he'd be brought in to WWE in a few months.
    Dreamer: When ECW went out of business I was 29 years old. I had a lot of my money, my parents’ money, trying to float the company. Paul Heyman, who I thought me and him were super tight, he screwed me over big time. He was in the WWE, the whole time. I had turned down hundreds of thousands of dollars to go to WCW. And now was unemployed. I went from a $750,000 offer, and Paul Heyman crying to me, that if I leave ECW, it will go out of business. Meanwhile, he was getting a paycheck from WWE. I don’t begrudge him, but then I did. I was depressed as depressed can be. [...] At Wrestlemania, I was gonna hop the rail and I was gonna whack Paul E. in the back of the head right at the announce table, then I was gonna whack myself. The ultimate martyr, I was gonna hit my pose crack, boom, pull the trigger. Because I was that insane.