Tommy Dreamer does not know the reason for media pressers.
The build-up to WrestleMania has had the media talk to the wrestlers for years. This has gone back decades, but it has extended into other events throughout the year as well.
Post-show press conferences are a fairly new phenomenon in wrestling. They only became a regular thing in recent years. Both AEW and WWE doing them after every pay per view event.
While they are usually fairly standard and uncontroversial, they are not without their occasions. CM Punk famously blew up over The Elite and Colt Cabana after All Out 2022. This lead to his suspension and contributed to him being fired from AEW a year later.
They have been used to further storylines too. Chris Jericho attacked Sting after Forbidden Door to challenge him to a match, while Will Ospreay revealed he is retiring his Storm Driver ’91 after AEW Dynasty.
However, Tommy Dreamer simply does not see the point of them. The former ECW Champion spoke on Busted Open Radio (via Wrestling Inc) about how he doesn’t understand the purpose of them, and that they focus too much on negativity.
“I don’t know what purpose it serves,” Dreamer said. “I thought the media thing at WrestleMania served a purpose. That’s when the shove happened, all that stuff. I thought that was cool, the slap. But then it goes back to media … What great thing has happened from any media thing, except getting knowledge that really has just been focused on the negative?”
Dreamer then said there are other good ways to keep fans involved and give them more access.
“TNA [Rebellion], four wrestlers legit got hurt,” Dreamer said. “And I saw that fans were concerned about them. You know why? Because the locker [room] was concerned about them. I said, why don’t we go kinda like ‘Real Sports’ and give an injury report on these people, because people are concerned about people that they actually care about. And we put it out on social, and it worked. But it wasn’t a press conference.”
