10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About Damien Sandow
1. He Was More Popular Than He Had Any Right To Be
If there was one moment in the recent career of Damien Sandow that rammed home the crushing disappointment of how he has been handled, that moment came at WrestleMania 32. Shaquille O'Neal was introduced as the final entrant in the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, and immediately a stand-off ensued between Shaq and Big Show.
A match between the two has been teased for the longest time, but the live crowd barely reacted to the two monsters standing nose-to-nose. Maybe it was being deep into a seven-hour show, maybe it was the lack of interest in Big Show in 2016, but the reaction wasn't what WWE wanted.
What made it worse was that after dispatching a couple of superstars Damien Sandow slid into the ring, and received a reception that was way beyond anyone involved in the match. Heck, it was as positive a reaction as heard on the show. Here we had two iconic athletes standing toe-to-toe, only for the crowd to be more interested in a man wearing pink and purple tights who has barely won a match in the last two years.
And thus was Sandow's lot in WWE. He was the tumour on WWE creative. They positioned Sandow directly behind the fan and catapulted masses of faeces at him, yet he managed to make it stick and turn it into gold. Damien Sandow became more popular than he had any right to be, and that is the one thing that WWE wants you to forget more than anything else.