Tommy Dreamer Discusses His Process Of Picking Teammates For Hardcore War Match At IMPACT Rebellion

Tommy Dreamer is proceeding with caution when it comes to finding people to team with at IMPACT Rebellion.

With the Rebellion pay-per-view approaching quickly, many fans of IMPACT Wrestling are eagerly awaiting the Hardcore War match between Team Bully (Bully Ray, Kenny King, Masha Slamovich, John Skyler & Jason Hotch) and Team Dreamer (Tommy Dreamer, Frankie Kazarian, Yuya Uemura, Killer Kelly & TBA). The match has been building for months, as the feud between Dreamer and Ray has heating up on nearly a weekly basis.

In a new interview with WrestleZone, Tommy Dreamer talked about the process of picking teammates for the anticipated match. Dreamer noted that he wants to find people that have a certain attitude and that are able to endure the issues that come with a match like Hardcore War.

“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.”

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