Many people are very angry at Vince McMahon because of the number of jobs lost due to WWE's company-wide purge, but former WWE Superstar and ECW Hardcore Legend Tommy Dreamer is not one of 'em.
The Innovator of Violence shared his thoughts on his Twitch channel, and while he sympathizes with and supports everyone who was let go, he doesn't believe it's fair to blame WWE or Vince McMahon for what boiled down to a difficult business decision.
“You can’t hate the WWE. You can’t hate Vince McMahon. That is business and it’s big business. I saw it in my little, little ass company and I see it from WWE all the way down and I use this example for everyone who goes, ‘Oh, they should stop live television, they should stop doing this, they should stop doing that’ — think of the financial hit WWE took with the loss of WrestleMania from merchandise, live gate, all that stuff. If you paid somebody to paint your house and you have a contract that says, “I need you to paint my house” and you pay that person, or you pay that person half their money and they only paint the front side of the house and they say, ‘Well, I can’t get workers to come to your house’, would you want to pay them the full amount of money to paint your house? They didn’t finish the job.
So this is all coming down to this — money, and this is why stuff like this happens, and it sucks, but it is a business and nobody has a job or guaranteed a job forever. I guess the Undertaker and Shawn Michaels and Triple H are the only [three]. Hell, even Shane McMahon didn’t have a job for a while. Though he walked away, but that’s business.”
Of course, from one perspective, Dreamer is absolutely right - but he did fail to address the main reason so many people are up in arms.
Yesterday's releases are just further evidence of WWE hoarding talent, with no intention of actually utilizing them, just so they can't go to the competition. When it came to the crunch, Vince had no problem cutting them loose - even though he reportedly only saved the company about $3 million more than he paid Goldberg to spear a ring post in Saudi Arabia.
That puts a slightly different perspective on things, wouldn't you agree?
What do you guys think? Do you agree with Tommy? Let us know in the usual place.