ECW Legend Tommy Dreamer recently spoke with Total Wrestling Magazine for a future issue, and a preview of the interview has been released at this link. Below are some highlights:
Total Wrestling: You’re heavily involved with the UK Indies as well as the US Indys and you have a show this weekend with Target Wrestling. How do you feel about the current UK Scene?
Tommy Dreamer: I keep tabs on what’s going on with wrestling around the world. I know the popularity is huge in Scotland with packed houses. There seems to be a kinda of, and I don’t want to use this word, but a revolution.
For a while there were a lot of crappy wrestlers, like there are everywhere but the UK always had a small group of great wrestlers, guys that could really wrestle. I remember watching these guys and being like ‘woah, what happened here’. Then all of a sudden there was the swell of talent and amazing wrestlers. I know because when I was working in WWE, they were some of the first guys I hired. This growth of UK talent and the UK scene in general over the past six to eight years is incredible.
Where did the decline in actual wrestling come from?
I think ECW spurred a lot of garbage wrestling. Guys would look at myself and Sandman and think that they could put on a T-Shirt and sweatpants and call themselves a wrestler. There’s a lot more to it. There are some seriously great workers out there in the UK.
Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.
