12 WWE Superstars You Forgot Debuted Under Different Names
9. Al Snow
The mid-90s also featured the WWF debut of Al Snow - though not under that name.
Snow first competed as a samurai named "Avatar", and had an awful debut match on Monday Night RAW in late 1995. It wasn't long until the Avatar character was scrapped and Snow became "Shinobi", another masked competitor hired by Jim Cornette to take out Shawn Michaels. Coincidentally, Snow's next gimmick was to be the new partner of Michaels' former tag team partner, Marty Jannetty.
Now known as Leif Cassidy, he and Marty Jannetty became known as The New Rockers. The team elicited such little fan support that they were quickly turned into comedy heels and, when Marty departed WWE in 1996 (for the fifth time), Snow went solo again, retaining the Leif Cassidy character.
Eventually, Cassidy found success in Extreme Championship Wrestling with a new name and gimmick that would endure through the rest of his career. Off the back of a crazy, mannequin-head carrying character, the real-life Allen Sarven returned to WWE as Al Snow with Head.