10 Worst Ideas That Actual WRESTLERS Came Up With
8. Tommy Dreamer's Sniper Pitch
Tommy Dreamer was desperate for you to know that he was hardcore.
He'd take Singapore cane shot after Singapore cane shot in order to gain acceptance from the ECW faithful. He'd lose and lose and take a battering each time, just so the fans would want him to win in the end. It was a bit desperate, in that he begged for the reaction that somebody like the Sandman simply got, but it worked out for him. He never was the Sandman, in truth, and more than one ECW fan deemed him a bit corny, but he just about secured his legacy, even if it wasn't quite show-don't-tell.
He wanted to take his crusade even further in ECW's heyday, but was talked out of it - "it" being a hit on his life.
Inspired by the "Whodunnit?" craze of the '80s and '90s, he wanted to get shot in the middle of the ring. With a gun. He actually had a clever touch on a very stupid idea, playing with the lights out trope to reveal the sniper's laser when the arena went dark. He was to feud with the person who was revealed to have shot him, but booker Paul Heyman refused to go ahead with the angle. He feared that a fan might get killed, were the sniper's aim not accurate. Dreamer himself could have died.
It was left to Terry Funk to talk Dreamer out of it, but, amusingly, he didn't have safety in mind. He told Dreamer that it wouldn’t draw; his dad got shot in an angle, and the fans stopped caring about him because he didn't kill the guy who tried to kill him.