17 Wrestlers Who Took Forever To Get To WrestleMania (and Why)
5. Damien Sandow
Aaron Haddad first wrestled for WWE in tryout matches in 2002, but didn’t sign a developmental deal until 2003. Soon after, he wrestled at WWE’s Vengeance pay-per-view. You’d never know it, though, as Haddad wrestled in an Easter Bunny costume for the regrettable APA Barroom Invitational. (Many less fortunate Superstars had to participate in that match without a disguise)
Haddad made it back to WWE TV in 2006 as Idol Stevens, managed by Michelle McCool and partnered with KC James, but was sent back to Ohio Valley Wrestling before Wrestlemania 23.
Now named Damien Sandow, Haddad returned to WWE shortly after Wrestlemania 28 and was booked in an eight-person tag match at Wrestlemania 29, only for the match to be scrapped minutes before it was set to begin. Having missed Wrestlemanias 20-29, Sandow finally competed as one of 30 men in the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at Wrestlemania 30.
Hopefully Luke Gallows, who has also missed out on ten Wrestlemanias since his debut in 2006, will have better luck at Wrestlemania 33.