Tommy Dreamer Reveals Paul Heyman’s Interest In Recruiting The Rock To ECW

During the mid-1990s, ECW and WWE maintained an amicable relationship, allowing ECW to often utilize some of the talent that was being underutilized on the WWE roster.

Recently, Tommy Dreamer revealed that Paul Heyman, founder of ECW, had expressed interest in recruiting The Rock (who was known then as Rocky Maivia) to join the company. Dreamer shared this detail during an appearance on Friday’s Busted Open Radio, while discussing the WWE-ECW alliance that had been formed.

Speaking of the working relationship between WWE & ECW and how Heyman wanted The Rock in his promotion, Dreamer said:

“Real, real cool revolutionary stuff. I remember Paul [Heyman] being like, ‘Give me that guy.’ That guy was The Rock. They were doing nothing with him. Paul saw something with him, even back then, and Vince wouldn’t let him go. Would that have been awesome to have The Rock under the ECW Original banner? Yes, but it didn’t happen.”

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