For those who ask a wrestling fan what involves their thoughts when ECW legend The Sandman will get talked about, it will often be one thing referring to beer, cigarettes, blood, and Metallica. It actually would not be WWE, however the five-time ECW World Champion did have a short run with them within the mid-2000s.
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Sandman was introduced in to be a part of the relaunched ECW model in 2006, which actually did not go the way in which folks thought it will, however regardless of the model not doing properly, Sandman was a well-liked determine with the followers, to the purpose the place WWE determined to draft him to “WWE Uncooked” in 2007. On “Busted Open Radio,” Sandman was requested if he loved his time in WWE, to which he defined that every little thing was going properly till he was drafted to “Uncooked.” He then went on to disclose that he hung up on somebody asking if he wished to work for WWE previous to becoming a member of the corporate, solely for a similar individual to name him whereas he was in WWE to inform him he’d be switching manufacturers.
“The identical dude calls in and says I used to be drafted to ‘Uncooked.’ I am like ‘what the — I did not even know that they had a draft.’ That is how conscious I used to be to the corporate as a result of I did not watch it. So I am like ‘I do not need to go to ‘Uncooked,’ I do not know anyone there, I will be depressing’ and he was like ‘properly, you are beat, see you at ‘Uncooked’ tomorrow.’ However I had no thought what the draft was, he needed to clarify it to me.” Sandman would not final lengthy on “Uncooked,” as he solely had one notable feud, that being in opposition to Carlito, leading to a Singapore Cane on a Pole match at Nice American Bash 2007, and was launched that September.
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