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- Updated: November 1, 2016
Last week on The Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling the mind behind the hugely successful House of Hardcore promotion and ECW Original the one and only “Innovator of Violence, Tommy Dreamer joined John Poz and Chad for podcast episode #213. In this excerpt Dreamer discusses being a mentor to talent and ironically taking on a similar role now to what Terry Funk played in his career. The full episode is available for download at this link.
Now being viewed as a “Godfather” like mentor and talent like AJ Styles turning to him for advice and how to utilize psychology:
“Honored that guys says that. For Kevin (Thorn) and for Justin Credible I did have a big hand in their careers. AJ (Styles) was always and I hate to use the term “phenomenal” but with AJ, he is amazing.”
“I was only ever nervous wrestling two wrestlers; one of them being the Undertaker and the other being AJ Styles because I knew just how great he was. When I left WWE I had a chip on my shoulder and I felt I had something to prove but I knew he was better than me and I didn’t want the fans to feel like AJ Styles has to slow down to keep up with Tommy Dreamer, I wanted it to be look at Tommy Dreamer keeping up with AJ Styles. Him and I clicked from day one in the ring and we became awesome friends and I couldn’t be prouder of AJ Styles.”
“With Justin Credible I just had to give him confidence because I once was where Justin Credbile was where I was begging and trying to get over with the fans. When he came to ECW I pretty much took him under my wing to get him over because I saw his talent. The same also goes for Kevin Thorn. Kevin is a big, big dude that looks great and who just worked two shows for me and as soon as he came to the back I told him that he is moving better than ever. A lot of times when you would come to the back in WWE and they don’t tell you anything you don’t just need a good job, you need that positive reinforcement or if you do something wrong, we are all grown men so you don’t need to yell at people or chastise people, it is looking at it like with a sports …
