In an interview with WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross on The Ross Report, House Of Hardcore’s Tommy Dreamer discussed a variety of topics, including his motivation to starting up the promotion.

“It was kind of a combination thing. It was one of those weekends, a rarity that I was wrestling for an independent promoter, and he kind of screwed over a lot of the guys, and you know, I hate when that happens. I always wanted to do it just once, and I kind of fell into it with a building I was working with, at the old Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, New York. Their management was a friend of mine, was looking to start a school, and it kind of rolled from there.

We did the first one and you know, again, natural progression. Doing everything behind the scenes of ECW and then wrestling and then doing behind the scenes for WWE, so I did the first one, and then had a hell of a house and was blown away, you know, maybe we are onto something, and then the next year I did another one, actually another two, and kept growing and kept getting positive feedback, and it just, I guess the mantra of my company is no politics, no BS, just wrestling.

I know a lot of fans, especially on Monday’s or Tuesday’s, I know it just started, but I’m actually reading Jack Brisco’s book, and he was telling me the politics of him winning the NWA title; I hate that. We’re not curing cancer, we’re not creating rocket science here, it’s professional wrestling. It’s good vs. bad, there’s twist along the way.

I hate the political factor of life, and in wrestling, so I just wanted it based on the boys and their talents, and so far I’ve done that. Now we have this entire month booked.”

The interview is available in full at this link.