Tommy Dreamer and Eric Escobar in FCW's Shot of the Week Candidate

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Tommy Dreamer, Sandman, Hitman, Sabu, and Tommy Dreamer's older brother Thomas joined Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) since 1992, just before its name change to Extreme Championship Wrestling. In 1995, The Hitman, The Sandman, Sabu, Tommy Dreamer, and Thomas made their own stable name called, "The ECW Originals". Their first major gimmick in the company had them wrestling their matches in garish green suspenders and Thomas acting as something of a "pretty boy" at least in relation to the rest of the ECW roster. This gimmick got him soundly cheered by crowds, even when he became the first person in wrestling history to kick out of the pin that follows the Superfly Splash of Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka.[12]

After Michael Fay was arrested in Singapore and sentenced to a caning, ECW head booker Paul Heyman decided to capitalize on the publicity by holding a Singapore Cane match between Dreamer and The Sandman with the loser having to take 10 lashes. After losing the match Dreamer took his lashes, then asked the Sandman for another, causing the crowd to feel sympathy for him as he took the extra, and another. This was a launching point to an angle that ended up blurring wrestlings "face" and "heel" divide, as well as start a new way of working the fans, especially the "smarks" fans with some amount of inside information. In a later match Dreamer kayfabe accidentally blinded the Sandman, first by knocking a lit cigarette into his eye, then hitting in the other with a Singapore cane. Immediately after, Dreamer seemed to break kayfabe and started aiding the Sandman. He professed that he "didn't mean to do it" and that it was "an accident" as other wrestlers face and heel swarmed out to help. The feud eventually ended with Sandman planning to announce his retirement at an ECW show, only to attack Dreamer and reveal he was never actually blind.[13]

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[djanimalkc]

i was there and i got to meet tommy dreamer and he is a cool person

[grandtheftautowwe]

great move by dreamer, wish FCW came on cable