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Al Snow
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In the mid-1990s (1990s: The decade from 1990 to 1999) , Sarven received his first mainstream exposure with the WWF (WWF: world wrestling entertainment, or wwe, is a professional wrestling promotion, currently...
[follow hyperlink for more...]) as Leif Cassidy, the tag team partner of legendary tag team (tag team: in professional wrestling, a tag team consists of two or more wrestlers who are working...
[follow hyperlink for more...]) wrestler Marty Jannetty (Marty Jannetty: marty jannetty (born frederick martin oakes in 1962) is an american professional...
[follow hyperlink for more...]) . The duo was promoted as "The New Rockers", a throwback to the 1980s (1980s: The decade from 1980 to 1989) team of Shawn Michaels (Shawn Michaels: right|thumbnail|300px|shawn michaels performing his trademark entrance pose with pyros in backgroundmichael...
[follow hyperlink for more...]) and Marty Jannetty. Inevitably, the angle (angle: The space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians) was dropped and Sarven was reduced to jobbing (jobbing: the act of losing is called jobbing, and a frequent loser is referred to as a jobber....
[follow hyperlink for more...]) for mid-carders. In the late 1990s, WWF and ECW (ECW: extreme championship wrestling (ecw) was a groundbreaking and influential professional...
[follow hyperlink for more...]) began to cross-promote their organizations to counteract the success of WCW. One of the wrestlers sent to wrestle in ECW was Sarven.
Within this new environment, Sarven found success as the character of Al Snow. In this role, Sarven received a lot of fan and management support for his 'Job-Squad (Job-Squad: more facts about this subject) ' angle, which promoted him as being angry with and driven mad by his years as a jobber for WWF. He would come to the ring with a mannequin (mannequin: A woman who wears clothes to display fashions) head that he talked to as if it were a real person and prompt ECW crowds to chant "We want head", an intentional double entendre (double entendre: An ambiguity with one interpretation that is indelicate) . Just two days before he was booked (booked: more facts about this subject) to win the ECW Championship (ECW Championship: more facts about this subject) , Sarven was recalled to WWF.
Since then, Sarven, who still uses the Snow character, has enjoyed some mid-card success in WWE, and still performs an on-air role as a commentator for Sunday Night Heat (Sunday Night Heat: wwe sunday night heat also known as sunday night heat or heat is the sunday...
[follow hyperlink for more...]) . He has made the most impact in the WWE as lead trainer on the promotion's reality show (reality show: reality television is a genre of television programming which generally is unscripted,...
[follow hyperlink for more...]) Tough Enough (Tough Enough: more facts about this subject) .
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