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How A Phone Call Prevented An On-Camera Murder Suicide at Wrestlemania 17

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  Former ECW Owner Paul Heyman and Former ECW Superstar Tommy Dreamer. Credit: WWE Wrestlemania X-Seven. Considered the greatest Wrestling event of all time, the WWF's seventeenth installment for their flagship event saw Chyna become the Women's Champion, Kane beating Raven and The Big Show to capture the Hardcore Championship, and Eddie Guerrero becoming the European Champion after beating Test. It also saw the Undertaker maintain his streak of Wrestlemania wins with a victory over Triple H, Edge and Christian captured the Tag Titles in a triple-threat Tables, Ladders & Chairs match, and Stone Cold beating The Rock for the WWF Championship. To say it was an all-time great card was an understatement; Many regard it as the definitive greatest pay-per-view wrestling card ever made.  However, it nearly had a much darker legacy. Preparing to head over to Houston, Texas' Astrodome was a dejected and irate Tommy Dreamer, with a gun in his hand. Dreamer was looking for one man...