10 Wrestlers You Didn't Know Were In WWE's Ruthless Aggression Era
6. Idol Stevens
Before he was the Intellectual Saviour of the Masses or flopping around a squared-circle as Miz's stunt double, the performer eventually known as Damien Sandow actually first attempted to make an impact on WWE television during the Ruthless Aggression era.
Donning the name of Idol Stevens, after being bullied by the APA when dressed as the Easter Bunny at Vengeance 2003, a star fresh off of three years in developmental finally looked to make it big in a unit alongside KC James and Michelle McCool.
Unsurprisingly, though, the concept of two dudes acting as McCool's favourite teacher's pets didn't exactly catapult either man to superstardom. But they did at least get a tag title shot against Brian Kendrick and Paul London at No Mercy 2006. Shortly after that failed attempt to win gold, however, both men were sent back down to OVW before Stevens was ultimately released in August of the following year.
His second bid to become a featured WWE player from 2010 onwards was a little more successful, of course, with Sandow winning Money in the Bank and getting somewhat over via his many comical impersonations and much-loved work alongside The Awesome One.
Sadly, though, it once again all ended in release in 2016 on the back of WWE entirely fumbling his eventual break-up with Miz.