When legendary UK wrestling promoter Brian Dixon saw Stu Sanders, he saw pound signs at the same time - in the mid 2000s, English wrestlers simply didnt come in that size. At one All Star Wrestling show he was asked to make a run-in later in the show with a weapon: the young juggernaut, out to make a name for himself by flattening his opponents. There was just one problem: they couldnt find an appropriate international object. The venue was lacking in vicious weaponry, and of course Bennett hadn't brought one with him, as he hadnt realised hed be required to brutalise anyone that evening. Dixon ran around the building trying to find a proper weapon for him to wield, not just some heavy bit of tat or, god forbid, a chair, and eventually Stu Sanders found himself handed... a shovel. When the big rookie came enthusiastically bounding in, giant spade flailing above his head, the veterans in the middle of the ring were completely speechless. Sting may have had a baseball bat and Triple H a sledgehammer, but no one except William H. Macy has ever made a shovel work for him as a gamechanging weapon.
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