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Monday, October 04, 2021

Mini Complete and Accurate: Heel Tommy Dreamer




Until very recently, Tommy Dreamer had one of the longest babyface runs in pro wrestling. There aren't many mainstream wrestlers in history who have worked heel less than Tommy Dreamer. When I think of guys who had long careers in the spotlight as babyfaces, I think Tito Santana and Ricky Steamboat. But if you look through Dreamer's improbably long career on television, there was really only a 2-3 month stretch where he worked heel: It was after WWF gobbled up WCW and ECW, leading up to Invasion. That was when he still had a bald spot, before the two ponytails. Let's look at consummate everyman babyface Tommy Dreamer, as a heel, and maybe it will help us adjust to the next stage of his career. 


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Anonymous Anonymous said...

It would involve watching TNA, but Dreamer did also have a heel run there in 2011 for a month or so where he feuded with AJ Styles. There is a match between the two on youtube but I haven't seen it to vouch for its quality and I think it may have been when the turn was still a bit ambiguous before being fully solidified? Not sure.

12:13 AM  
Blogger EricR said...

I'd be interested in adding to the project, if you or someone else can hammer down the date range of his TNA heel run. If there's a way to watch 2011 TNA I'd do it.

12:39 AM  

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