Tommy Dreamer Talks About IMPACT Rebellion’s Hardcore War Match Team Selection Method
When it comes to assembling a team for IMPACT Rebellion, Tommy Dreamer is being cautious.
Many IMPACT Wrestling fans are looking forward to the Hardcore War battle between Team Bully (Bully Ray, Kenny King, Masha Slamovich, John Skyler, and Jason Hotch) and Team Dreamer (Tommy Dreamer, Frankie Kazarian, Yuya Uemura, Killer Kelly, and TBA), which will take place at the upcoming Rebellion pay-per-view. The rivalry between Dreamer and Ray has been intensifying almost weekly for months, leading up to the showdown.
Tommy Dreamer discussed the selection of partners for the upcoming encounter in a recent interview with WrestleZone. Dreamer said that he is looking for people with a specific mindset and the fortitude to overcome with the challenges that an event like Hardcore War presents.
“To answer your question, I’m looking at a whole talented locker room, but I’m also looking at.. I wanna say people who could benefit from this or people who have the I really don’t give a F attitude, which is a little different now then it was before. It’s a hard call because you’re gonna tell somebody, ‘Hey, you’re gonna be fighting with weapons. Hey, you’re probably gonna be busted open on some part of your body. Hey, you’re gonna go out there and you know, fight against another person.. you could be in there at least 10 to 15 minutes before the match actually gets started.’ When I talk about wars, there are scars on my head, there are scars on Bully Ray’s head that I caused. He caused them for me as well. There’s a scar across his head, I remember I hit him with a trash can, I remember hitting him and he was standing there looking at me and I just saw a giant slit open in his head. The scars on the back of his head, I caused two out of the three of them. These are things where I say, even in promos, I am a fifty two year old man that has a little bit of PTSD from all of the violent acts that he did when he was younger. I don’t know if I wanna put people through that, that’s why [you’ve gotta know what you’re getting involved in.] So, it is hard to choose.”
Tommy Dreamer via WrestleZone interview
h/t Fightful
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