10 Worst WWE Moments Of 2002

6. Tommy Dreamer Drinks Undertaker’s Tobacco

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'Hey, do you want to come over to my place and check out Raw tonight? I hear Tommy Dreamer is gonna do something else totally disgusting, and I can't wait to find out what it is!'. It's hard to imagine anybody spewing those words back in 2002, but that's what WWE's writing team wanted. They thought 'Dreamer gets disgusting' would grab some eyeballs and entertain.

Nope.

ECW original Tommy was in the midst of doing all manner of foul things (some tame, some outrageous) for attention. On the 27 May flagship, he took his one-man Jackass/Dirty Sanchez exercise to the next level when confronted by The Undertaker. Get this: 'Taker asked Dreamer to eat an entire coffin! Sorry, no. No that's not what happened. This wasn't supernatural Undertaker, it was 'American Badass' biker.

Thus, 'Big Evil' tasked Tommy with drinking the contents of his tobacco spit cup. Dreamer actually did it, the mad man. He downed that vile mix of tobacco juice and saliva like it was the tastiest drink on the market. Before that, Paul Heyman's old right hand man had brushed his teeth with the same toothbrush his dog used, shaved his tongue (?!), drank toilet water, ate food off the floor dropped by the fans and more.

All of that paled in comparison to the tobacco thing. It was stomach-turning stuff, but what was the payoff supposed to be? That 'Taker was so repulsed by Dreamer that he threatened to kick his head in on a future episode of Raw or on WWE pay-per-view? Perhaps they could've worked the first ever 'Tobacco Spit Cup On A Pole' match.

Thankfully not, but the whole gimmick tanked.

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