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Former WWE Superstar Damien Sandow has certainly experienced a varied professional wrestling career.
Arguably the peak of that came with his Money in the Bank contract victory at the WWE Money in the Bank pay-per-view event in 2013.
During his time with WWE, Sandow portrayed a variety of characters, including The Miz's stunt double Damien MizDow, Macho Mandow and he was involved in a variety of alliances with the likes of Cody Rhodes and Curtis Axel.
Sandow is currently signed to the National Wrestling Alliance, where he competes as Aron Stevens. Stevens has achieved significant success with the NWA, becoming a former NWA National Heavyweight Champion.
Sportskeeda Wrestling's Dr. Chris Featherstone recently interviewed Damien Sandow for another episode of UnSKripted.
A variety of topics were discussed in the interview, including Sandow's professional wrestling career, his time as a WWE Superstar, and much more.
Let's take a closer look at five things we learned from former WWE Superstar Damien Sandow's Sportskeeda interview.
#5. Damien Sandow recalls his experience working for WWE Hall of Famer Carlos Colon in Puerto Rico
In addition to working for WWE, Damien Sandow has competed in a variety of promotions around the world.
One such territory that Sandow wrestled in was Puerto Rico for legendary professional wrestler Carlos Colon. The former WWE Superstar revealed that he learned a considerable amount working for Colon:
"Insane. I will say the whole experience with working for Carlos Colon, i mean it was the first time living off the continental United States, in the island. I was a heel on TV. I really didn't have too many good things to say about the island which is of course not how i really feel, it was just part of the character. So you'd go into some restaurants and cooks wouldn't serve you and people would cuss you out and do things and fans would throw stuff at you. But, i tell you what, I learned so much working for Carlos."
#4. Damien Sandow recalls his experiences in WWE's developmental territory Ohio Valley
WWE utilized Ohio Valley Wrestling as its developmental territory in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Names such as Brock Lesnar, John Cena, Batista and Randy Orton all began their WWE careers in OVW. Damien Sandow was also assigned to OVW in 2003 during that time period. When asked to recall his memories of OVW, Sandow admitted that many of the talents that trained at OVW in the mid-2000s are still close today.
"Lot of fun. Rip Rodgers' training is absolutely amazing. I think Rip's one of the best trainers out there. It's funny we took a picture at NWA, there's a bunch of us from OVW. The 2003 to 2005 era in OVW, we are all still very close. We have this weird bond between all of us and not a lot of people in developmental have that but we do. There's a very strange OVW family bond."
#3. Damien Sandow discusses working with Cody Rhodes in WWE and possibly signing with AEW in the future
One of Damien Sandow's most memorable periods during his WWE career was his alliance with current AEW Executive Vice President Cody Rhodes.
Known as Team Rhodes Scholars, Sandow and Rhodes made quite the team before splitting on WWE television in 2013. The former WWE Superstar admitted that the duo never had a bad segment when they worked together:
"Cody and I, you know what as a team, we've both said this, we never had a bad outing. Whether we were doing a three segment match on RAW, an interview segment, like an entertaining segment. We never had a bad segment. Cody and I were a very, very good team.
As far as signing with All Elite Wrestling, Sandow said that he hasn't had any contact with AEW and is focused solely on NWA:
"It's funny everyone asks me that. But I've had zero contact with them, as far as I'm concerned I'm NWA."
#2. Damien Sandow reveals the origin of the Damien MizDow "stunt double" gimmick in WWE
Many WWE fans still recall fondly Damien Sandow's 'stunt double' gimmick that he portrayed on WWE television during 2014 and 2015.
After being paired with The Miz, Sandow began mimicking the former WWE Champion during matches, falling down whenever his tag team partner did.
Sandow revealed that the character all stemmed from boredom and the WWE creative team having nothing for him:
"I was completely bored on RAW. I was pretty much kind of at my wits end creatively, in terms of 'creative has nothing for you,' so they put me with Miz and I was with him for a couple of weeks and all of a sudden i'm on RAW. And i'm like 'you know what, if i'm going to be a stunt double i'm just going to fall down, I'm going to mimic him.'"
The former Mr. Money in the Bank then recalled a story about WWE Chairman Vince McMahon's reaction to the character:
"I got called over to Vince after when we get back to the Gorilla position. He gives me the glasses on the end of the nose. 'You just fell down when Miz fell.' 'Yes i'm his stunt double, i'm supposed to do that right?' 'Do whatever you want, i'm the only one that will tell you when to stop.' Ok. Didn't talk to the man for nine months. That's pretty much how that went down."
#1. Damien Sandow reveals the original plans for his WWE Money in the Bank cash-in
The highlight of Damien Sandow's career came in 2013 when he successfully captured the Money in the Bank contract, turning on is partner Cody Rhodes in the process.
Many within the WWE Universe assumed this would lead to a WWE World Heavyweight Championship reign for Sandow.
Unfortunately, Sandow became the first WWE Superstar to cash in the Money in the Bank briefcase and lose. The Intellectual Savior To The Masses was defeated by then-World Champion John Cena on RAW in October 2013.
Sandow revealed that this wasn't originally supposed to happen. However plans changed:
"Yeah i was supposed to win it. Cody and I had our feud, everything was great. I heard I was going to win the World Title, Cody chases me and then we had a whole wonderful thing planned and yeah it didn't happen, but whatever. But I'm still very proud of that Money in the Bank match that we had. I think even Cody said this before, that was one of his favorite matches, if not his favorite in WWE and mine too. Just because, it's nothing to do with the fact that i won, but like in Philadelphia we had like seven heels and we made a babyface in that match. It was such a great moment."
