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Welcome to the first edition of ‘Dueling Chair Shots’.  Last week in the TNN TV review a mystery tag team partner was promised but just like the identity of the hummer driver we are not delivering on our promise.  The identity should be revealed next week (I can feel the anticipation building).

The topic that I posed last week was “Should Tommy Dreamer continue to wrestle with his back problems?”

I talked to Tommy for a couple of minutes the day after Heatwave as we were boarding the same airplane in Dayton back to the east coast.  I asked him about his back and he told me all the herniated disks and the rehab and everything else that most of us are familiar with.

I quickly learned that surgery was not much of a choice for Tommy.  If he went this route he would be out of action for at least 6 months and it could possible be career ending.  He told me that he wouldn’t allow a doctor to determine the fate of his career while he was under the knife.  So Tommy has opted for rest and rehab.

The problem I see with this option is that while Tommy maybe rehabing he definitely isn’t resting the back.  And while I am not a doctor I suspect that continuing to wrestle with herniated disks isn’t the best way for him to get healthy.

Not helping the situation is that Raven has come back to ECW and now he and Tommy are involved in the only interesting angle going right now.  Dreamer’s loyalty to ECW and the fans is such that he feels that he must go out there and entertain even though he is likely taking years off of his career.

While this is very noble of him, Tommy needs to step back and look at the big picture and be selfish for once.  Tommy’s current matches are painful; for his back and for us watching him at less than 100 percent.  He needs to take as much time off as he needs to get his back healed up and then we can see the real Tommy Dreamer in the ring and not a shell of his former self.
 

I also received a lot of letters to Tommy on this topic.  Here are a few interesting ones:

Tommy-
You need to stay in the ring until you either can’t walk anymore or until you die.  You should consider a tuxedo match with Gorilla Monsoon for your next match.  The fans would love that.
Signed, Moolah and Mae West

Tommy-
Take all the time you need over the next 6 months to rest that back.  Then come springtime you and I can swing for the fences again.
Your softball pal, Sid

Tommy-
Put me over, then retire.
Signed, Old School Steve Corino

Tommy-
If you see the ratings going up then be sure to stick your nose into everything and take credit for it.  If the ratings go down, complain about your back, don’t wrestle, and call everyone else midgets.
Signed, Hulk Hogan

The topic for next week’s column will be “Did Taz sell out?”.  If you have any good opinions on the subject I’ll be sure to include them in the column.  If you have really bad opinions they may be included too.  Send all comments on the subject to me at [email protected].

If you are upset at anything in this column be sure to send e-mail to [email protected].