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Thomas (Tom) Laughlin (born February 13, 1971 in Yonkers, New York) is a retired American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Tommy Dreamer. He was a mainstay in Extreme Championship Wrestling between 1993 and April 2001, when the promotion declared bankruptcy. Dreamer now works for World Wrestling Entertainment as a talent scout and trainer.

Career

Laughlin started wrestling in the New England area as Bobby Ocean against "Curly Moe" (a wrestler with a three stooges gimmick) in 1989. He soon changed his name to T.D. Madison to team with G.Q. Madison as The Madison Brothers in ICCW, where they won the tag team titles twice.

He debuted as Tommy Dreamer in 1993 for the now defunct Extreme Championship Wrestling and was a mainstay there until it closed in 2001. He became known as the "Innovator of Violence" when, during the time that ECW was being aired on SportsChannel America's local affiliate, he attacked an opponent with a , a car-washing brush for which infomercials often aired on the same network that ECW was being aired on. He was well-known for bringing foreign objects such as a Kendo Stick to the ring. He was the first wrestler to kick out of Superfly Jimmy Snuka's Superfly Splash.

He had a legendary feud with Raven that started in April 1995 and lasted until June 7, 1997, when Dreamer won a loser leaves ECW match. Dreamer had not won a singles match against Raven the entire feud. Dreamer stole Beulah McGillicutty from Raven during this feud. He also feuded with Justin Credible and Shane Douglas while there.

He was the main ECW representative in the ECW vs. USWA feud against Jerry Lawler in 1997.

He is a former ECW World Heavyweight Champion, winning the belt in 2000, but losing the belt 18 minutes later to Justin Credible.

He is a loyal friend of former ECW owner and WWE performer Paul Heyman and followed him to WWE in 2001 where he is still to this day. He won the Hardcore Title several times, but lost it when he lost a match to Rob Van Dam, the match was meant to unite Tommy Dreamer's Hardcore Championship and Rob Van Dams' Intercontinental Championship. Also while in the WWE, Tommy Dreamer did an angle where he ate disgusting things. He also had a brief revival of his feud with Raven, winning a loser leaves Raw match on June 24, 2002 which sent Raven to WWE's Heat program.

In 2005, Dreamer can still be occasionally found wrestling on the independent circuit. On June 12 he joined several former ECW wrestlers to promote the pay per view ECW One Night Stand.

He is married to his former ring manager Beulah McGillicutty (Trisa Hayes). They were married on October 12, 2002. During ECW's heyday he was also romantically linked to Francine Fournier. Since then Tommy had his last match at ECW's One Night Stand where he and Sandman fought the Dudley boys.

He was recently used as a "special guest announcer" on WWE's Taboo Tuesday Pre-show / Heat. Again on the December 17th edition of Heat, Tommy was the fill in announcer with Coach replacing Todd Grisham while he was on vacation.

Tommy has been appearing recently in Deep South Wrestling and may be a talent scout there also.

Tommy Dreamer has been comfirmed to appear at ECW Another One Night Stand, which will take place on June 11, 2006.

Wrestling facts

Finishing and signature moves

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Driver (Death Valley driver)
Dreamer DDT (Snap DDT)
Dreamer-Driver (Scoop slam piledriver)
Dream Cutter (Cutter)
Tommyhawk (Reverse crucifix into cutter)
Piledriver
Sky lift powerbomb

Managers

Francine
George
Paul Heyman
Jazz
Alexis Laree
Beulah McGillicutty
Luna Vachon
Kimona Wana-Laya

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