In late 2014, Damien Sandow was one of the most entertaining parts of WWE. His tag team with The Miz got him over like crazy, and he seemed poised to receive a solid singles push after they went their separate ways. Well, a bad breakup angle between the two damaged any chance of him working as a solo act. The fatal mistake was having him cut a promo telling the audience he was going to be his own man...until about five seconds later when Curtis Axel came out as Hulk Hogan and Sandow imitated him, very poorly. For no apparent reason, he decided to turn into Macho Man (an imitation he was painfully under-qualified for), and the two stunk up our TVs as the Meta Powers. Ah, imitating a dead wrestler is always a good career move! The real Hulk Hogan was then caught saying some racist things on camera, and the duo was split up. Sandow was largely M.I.A. on air, until the end of the year saw him for about two seconds at Santino's Christmas party. Maybe it would be better to leave him off of TV until they can think of something for him to do.
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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