Tommy Dreamer Labels Zack Ryder "An Idiot" Over $40,000 Action Figures Purchase

The ECW icon slams the one-time Hype Bro over his insane spending.

by Andrew Pollard
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Tommy Dreamer

As the world continues to look for ways to stay busy as more and more places see lockdowns of varying degrees introduced, ECW icon Tommy Dreamer has been using this time to showcase his own personal wrestling collection. And in doing so, the House of Hardcore owner has taken at shot at WWE’s Zack Ryder.

Not only is Ryder famed for Woo Woo Woo’ing, but he’s an avid collector of any and all wrestling merchandise. So much so, his wrestling figure collection is the stuff of legend. Where Dreamer comes into this though, is that he’s labelled the former United States Champion an “idiot” for the ludicrous amounts of money Ryder spends on his collection.

Revealing that he’s tried to sell one of his own championship belts to Ryder for the sum of $40,000, Tommy explained in a Twitch video, “That’s the only ever title with the New York plate, and I have the other WWE ECW Title here somewhere. And I’ve offered to sell that New York Title to Zack Ryder for now $40,000 since he bought a bunch of action figures for $40,000 ‘cause he’s an idiot.”

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Dreamer continued, “When this all gets settled, I will guarantee you WWE will probably start doing massive layoffs because it’s gonna be a lot of recoup time. I will say, ‘Bet you had the 40Gs back and not in action figures there, buddy’. That’s nuts."

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The New York plate that Tommy refers to is from his time as WWE Hardcore Champion, in which he personalised the belt to have New York City license plates on it.

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