By James Caldwell, Torch assistant editor

Former WWE wrestler Tommy Dreamer says he's been contacted by TNA to possibly join the company. Dreamer's no-compete clause expires at the beginning of April after being officially released from WWE on January 4.

Dreamer says he doesn't know if he'll actually join TNA, though, as he has a number of projects he's working on outside of wrestling and he's currently booked through September with independent show dates.

"I have been contacted by TNA. May go there. If not, I'm very, very happy and content," Dreamer told Phil Strum of the Poughkeepsie Journal. "I'm seriously working every weekend up until right now to September straight. I did two movies, I've been writing two films that I'm hoping to get sold. It wasn't just a spur-of-the-moment thing. I've been working on this for quite some time."

Dreamer was also critical of TNA moving to Monday nights, saying TNA should have stayed on Thursdays and built up their audience separate from "WWE night" on Mondays and perhaps only had a few Monday night specials instead of a weekly show.

"Not the smartest move on TNA's behalf. I learned with the original ECW: the WWE machine cannot be destroyed. Nor should it be. There's enough piece of the pie. To go head to head wasn't the smartest move for a lot of different reasons," Dreamer said. "Everyone makes their mistakes. The ratings the first week were not good and favorable. Hopefully, they will continue. I think they had their niche on Thursday nights. They should have stayed and maybe just done specials on Monday nights."

Dreamer said TNA is over-matched compared to WWE's marketing machine and overall built-in audience with the ratings they pull in with Raw.

"If NBC had Thursday Night Football and wanted to move it to Mondays. Why? If we're all wrestling fans, we want to watch wrestling any day of the week," Dreamer said. "Just like, if I'm a football fan, I want to watch it Monday, Thursday, Sunday."

Caldwell's Analysis: Dreamer's argument has the evidential support of a very strong Thursday night replay rating last week that was just about equal to the live rating last Monday night. There would be no shame on TNA's part if they say two or three months from now that they're pulling back to Thursdays and going with "Clash of the Champions" specials on Monday nights every month or bi-monthly. Be sure to check out Dreamer's complete interview with Phil Strum linked above. Great interview.

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