Former ECW World Champion Tommy Dreamer, who is part of the IMPACT Wrestling creative team, revealed during a recent edition of Busted Open Radio that featured recently-signed AEW Tag Team The Acclaimed (Max Caster & Anthony Bowens) that the duo had interest from IMPACT Wrestling, which began with Brian Myers (fka Curt Hawkins) pitching their names.

“You know, I’ll tell you this, I’ll let you in on a little inside. We were losing The Rascalz and wrestling, we know when contracts are coming up in IMPACT Wrestling and Brian Myers pitched both you guys to come to IMPACT and we’re like yeah, we’ll probably look at them for the upcoming year, so it’s cool to go from having nothing and I’ll tell you this, because not only did you have AEW interested, you had IMPACT interested in you.

That didn’t happen and everything happens for a reason, but just the fact that you go so long in wrestling and then, all of a sudden, the doors open up for you and to tell you a quick story, Scotty 2 Hotty was the next Shawn Michaels, he looked just like Shawn and he was plugging away for the business for a long, long time and in the same week, he had job offers from ECW, WCW and the WWF and from doing it for like six to eight years and then, for the same week, to have all these people clamor for him, it’s pretty, pretty cool, so you guys I know at least had options, where I didn’t even know if you guys knew that other people were plugging for you and it was based upon your talent.”

The show is available in full at this link.