{"id":16770,"date":"2015-01-28T13:49:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T18:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/?p=16770"},"modified":"2015-01-28T13:49:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T18:49:02","slug":"backstage-news-on-why-the-blue-meanie-and-tommy-dreamer-werent-used-in-the-wwe-rumble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/news\/backstage-news-on-why-the-blue-meanie-and-tommy-dreamer-werent-used-in-the-wwe-rumble\/","title":{"rendered":"Backstage News On Why The Blue Meanie And Tommy Dreamer Weren&#8217;t Used In The WWE Rumble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: PWInsider Elite<\/p>\n<p>There was a pitch within WWE, and on social media, to have ECW Original The Blue Meanie be a surprise entrant in the 30-man Royal Rumble main event on Sunday but that obviously didn&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<p>The idea behind the pitch was that Meanie would have received a good pop from the Philadelphia crowd and for new fans, it would have been a way to re-introduce him because Meanie and bWo partner Stevie Richards are hosting the upcoming ECW Unreleased DVD.<\/p>\n<p>Tommy Dreamer&#8217;s name also came up as a possible surprise entrant because he&#8217;s local but Bubba Ray Dudley was the only former ECW guy officials wanted to bring back. It was said that officials didn&#8217;t want more than 1 or 2 ECW guys because they feel that nobody cares about ECW anymore. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backstage News On Why The Blue Meanie And Tommy Dreamer Weren&#8217;t Used In The WWE Rumble<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-16770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-wwe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16771,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16770\/revisions\/16771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}