10 Wrestling Careers That Bombed After Their Biggest Match

2. Damien Sandow

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There was a time when Damien Sandow's name was ubiquitously found at the top of 'Most Underrated' lists. The Intellectual Saviour of the Masses had carved out a pretty impressive niche for himself as a modern-day incarnation of The Genius, albeit with better promo skills and more credibility between the ropes. Sandow may not have been a megastar in waiting, but he certainly had the ability to be a genuinely big deal.

Creative seemed to agree with this when they put the Money in the Bank briefcase on him in 2013. This was the beginning of the end for Sandow, who went on a losing streak before cashing his briefcase in against an injured John Cena. What should have been the crowning of Damien Sandow became a loss that made the history books, as the self-proclaimed Beacon of Light in a Harbour of Iniquity became the first man to lose a cash-in match.

Sandow never recovered. A year later he was a comedy character, doing stunt double duty for The Miz and somehow getting over in the process, only to see his momentum stopped time and time again. Sandow - now known as Aron Stevens - hasn't done much outside of WWE, to say the least.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.