The Sandman: "I know I'm a little late getting to the dance, but what can I say other than, shit happens when you party drunk and naked."

**The crowd starts laughing and chanting "SANDMAN! SANDMAN!" over and over until The Sandman quiets them down and continues talking.**

The Sandman: "Then again, if any of you can go out and wrestle one of the greatest wrestlers in eHw history for one full hour, lose the match, lose the world title, and then wanna show up right away and start flapping your gums, then I guess you are a better man then me."

**The Sandman takes out a pack of cigarettes, puts one in his mouth, lights it up, and takes puffs in between sentences.**

The Sandman: "Losing the world title, in one of the greatest matches, if not the greatest match in eHw history, was one of the hardest things I've done in my career. It was hard to take and harder to swallow then a cup of warm Schlitz. I trained, I started drinking light beers of all things, and I tried my absolute hardest in that match, but in the end, it wasn't good enough. To try my hardest, in something I am the best at, and to still come up short. . . is just really hard to take, and I needed some time to first of all let my body rest. Second, to let my mind re adjust to not being the world champion anymore, and third to go out and find myself a tag team partner for the Tag Team Title Street Fight that we are going to see at Suicide coming up later tonight. I went out and tried to find myself not just a hardcore mother fucker, I went out and tried to find someone who could hang in there with the best of them, someone who could hang in there with a world champion caliber wrestler like Al Snow. And since it is Al Snow who is on the other side of that ring, I wanted to find someone who has a history with Al Snow, and who knows him well. I wanted to bring in someone who has gone toe to toe with Al Snow in a hardcore war and knows what he is all about. But I couldn't just find someone that knows Al Snow, I needed to find someone who knows me. I needed someone who I know, because this isn't a pair of singles matches we are wrestling at once, this is a tag team match. It is a tag team title match, against without a doubt the greatest tag team eHw has ever seen, the Extreme Task Force. Hardcore Holly may not be shit without Al Snow, but with him, they make one hell of a tag team and anyone who says otherwise just doesn't know what the hell they are talking about and doesn't know their head from their ass."

**Sandman flicks his cigarette out of the ring then goes right back into it.**

The Sandman: "So I needed to go out and find someone who I have gone to war with. Someone who has been both with me and against me in some of the toughest battles of my career. But, it had to be someone that is not going to let the past interfere with the present because I am not going into this match with the mindset of hurting Al Snow or Hardcore Holly, I am going into this match to win. When you are a legend and an icon such as me, it is about winning and nothing short of winning is a victory of any sort. Maybe the young boys want to cut the legs out from underneath their competition, but when you are competing at the level that me and Al are at, it is all about winning. We have been through our fair share of wars in this ring, and although this is nothing short of a war, we still have that respect for each other in the end, especially after the Iron Man Match. So I needed to find myself a partner who is out to win the match, not out to go crazy and cost us the win."

The Sandman: "So in the end, what did I need? Someone who is a tough son of a bitch, someone who I know, who knows Al Snow in the ring, someone who is out to win, and of course someone who is in the same league as me. There is only one person I can think of that matches all of those criteria, someone who has been as big a part of making hardcore wrestling as big as it has become over the past ten years and a man who has been in the ring with anyone and everyone who has mattered in the world of hardcore wrestling, a ECW World and Tag Team Champion, a man who re established the importance of the WWE Hardcore Title before they took it away, and a former eHw Intercontinental Champion, the Innovator of Violence himself, Tommy Dreamer!!"

**The Sandman points to the entryway with his Singapore Cain as "Man in the Box" by Alice in Chains begins playing and Tommy Dreamer walks through the curtain to a standing ovation from the crowd.**

**Dreamer looks around the arena at all of the fans that are cheering for him, then makes a crucifix with his arms, yells out to the crowd, and begins to make his way to the ring. Dreamer gets to ringside and high fives many of the fans sticking their arms out, then walks up the ring steps, and gets into the ring. Sandman tosses Dreamer a beer, takes one out for himself, and the two simultaneously pop open the beers, and chug them down. Sandman swallows his beer, while Dreamer climbs up to the second turnbuckle of the near right corner of the ring, holds his arms out to his sides, and spits the beer out into the crowd. Dreamer gets down as his music stops playing. Sandman hands Dreamer the microphone and Dreamer looks around the arena as the fans are going nuts seeing the Hardcore Icon and Innovator of Violence in the same ring again. Dreamer puts the mic up to his mouth, and begins talking.**

Tommy Dreamer: "The more things change the more they stay the same would be the way to sum up this situation. It was about a week ago that my buddy The Sandman gave me a call asking me if I wanted to come out of my retirement and come down to eHw for a Tag Team Title Street Fight. I said, 'Sandman, you know you're my best friend, and have always been like a brother to me. But I haven't wrestled a match in damn near a full year. WWE has been keeping me on the bench and using me to train their wannabe Brock Lesnars down in OVW.' But this SOB wouldn't take no for an answer, even when I told him that, and the fact I'm not exactly in the best shape I've ever been in since I've done a lot of watching, rather than participating when it comes to pro wrestling over the last two years, let alone the one year that I've been unofficially, and then officially retired. He kept picking at me, and picking at me, so finally I said yes, but only if I felt I could hang in the ring with him and the ETF. Because I know first hand just how tough Al Snow can be. I fought him in a Hell in a Cell Barbed Wire Match for the Intercontinental Title four years ago. That was probably the most hardcore the IC Division has ever been, until probably tonight when Scott Steiner and that big bastard Kane go at it in a match that sounds like something Sandman here would come up wit on the tail end of a one month bender. But like I was saying, I said yes but only if I felt I could still compete up to the high level of competition that eHw puts out. Because if you haven't noticed, eHw is the place to be for those who want to be the absolute best and nothing else. WWE, TNA, they don't have anything on this locker room, they don't have anything on this company and the product shows it. And just watching the last couple of events eHw has put on, just talking with some of the guys in the locker room before I came out here tonight, has my spirit as high as it has ever been at any point in my career. As for the physical, well I'm not at my peak, but I've been in this business long enough to know that it isn't all about the physical, the mental aspect is very important if you want to be successful. And I have been around this business for well over a decade, I have seen and heard it all. I have been in some of the most intense feuds that wrestling has ever seen. I have fought some of the biggest names that eHw has ever seen and I have been able to hold my own, especially when it comes to Al Snow."

Tommy Dreamer: "I may not be Al Snow's greatest opponent in his career history, or in his history in eHw. But I have taken him to the absolute max in one hell of a battle for the Intercontinental Title, a title belt that I came into that match wearing, so I know a thing or two about being a champion here in eHw. Al Snow knows what it takes to be a champion in eHw as well, he's held them all, but coming up tonight at Suicide him and his partner are going to be getting into the ring with the two greatest innovators of hardcore wrestling that have ever lived. Me and The Sandman don't just hit people with weapons, we use them in ways no one has ever used them before to inflict punishment on our opponents the likes of which they have never seen or felt. Tonight, at Suicide is going to be no different. I have been in the ring with Al Snow when the stakes were high, The Sandman has been in the ring with both Al Snow and Hardcore Holly when the stakes were even higher. Me and The Sandman are not strangers to being tag team partners, and we aren't strangers to holding tag team title gold. I was a two time ECW World Tag Team Champion, The Sandman was a tag team champion in ECW as well and has been a tag team champion here in eHw. So we know how to hang in the ring with the best tag teams that have set foot in a wrestling ring. I got my first tag team title win against the greatest tag team of all time The Dudley Boys. And not only is this a match for the tag team titles, it is a Street Fight. A Street Fight is something that Sandman and I know about quite well, because we practically invented the match type during our time in ECW. We main evented a pay per view where the tag titles were on the line in a Six Man Street Fight, which we won, with me getting the pin fall. Al Snow and Hardcore Holly may be a great tag team, they may be the best tag team that eHw has ever offered, but I have been in the ring with the best tag team that wrestling has ever offered, period. And I beat them in a pay per view main event, and I took the tag titles away from them and ran them out of ECW. So don't think for one second that I am about to be intimidated by any tag team that stands in front of me, no matter what titles they where around their waste. It's not going to intimidate me that Al Snow is the current eHw World Champion, he has my respect, but not my fear. I've been in world title matches before, I've been a world champion before, and this isn't a world title one on one wrestling match. This is a Tag Team Title Street Fight, which is right up my alley, because it is the Innovator of Violence and The Hardcore Icon that set the standard for what Street Fights are all about. So Al, get ready to be one belt lighter, because after tonight, the Innovators and the Legends of Hardcore Wrestling, are going to leave you and your lackey a bleeding, bloody mess, and most importantly without the eHw Tag Team Titles. Because like Sandman said earlier, it is all about winning. It is all about walking away with the straps. I've walked away with tag team titles twice in my career, I've walked away the winner of a pay per view main event street fight before, and tonight I'm walking into the Street Fight with a spring in my step and a weapon in my hand, and I'm walking out with an eHw World Tag Team Title belt around my waste."

**Dreamer hands the mic back over to The Sandman.**

The Sandman: "And Snow, don't think that just because I was dejected about losing my world title, that I'm too upset to be thinking about the rematch I have coming to me. We both know I get a rematch, and after tonight I'm going to show you that even if it wasn't in my contract as the former world champion, that I am the biggest threat to your reign, and the deserving number one contender. Tonight Dreamer and myself are taking one belt away from you, then at the end of the month, when you are scheduled to make your first title defense, I'm going to take away the other, and will be bring my world title back home around my waste. AND YOU CAN TAKE THAT TO THE BAR!!!"

**The Sandman tosses the mic out of the ring as "Enter Sandman" by Metallica begins playing again. Sandman takes a can of beer out of his back right pocket, and one out of his front left. He tosses a can to Dreamer, and the two walk to opposite corners of the ring, climb up to the second turnbuckles, pop the beers open, and pour them both into their mouths. Both look back at each other across the ring, then look out into crowd, and spit the beer into the crowd getting even more cheers out of them. Both Dreamer and Sandman get down from the corner and then hug in the middle of the ring, having not actually seen each other in quite a while since Dreamer has been in WWE and Sandman has not. The two then get out of the ring, and make their way up the entryway aisle and through the curtain at the head of the entryway and head to the back as the pre show to Suicide continues.**