Allen Sarven
Statistics
Ring name(s)	Leif Cassidy Steve Moore Shinobi Avatar The Five Star Ninja Al Snow
Height	6 ft 0 ft (183 cm)
Weight	234 lb (104 kg)
Born	July 18, 1963 Lima, Ohio
Trained by	Jim Lancaster
Debut	1982

Allen Sarven (born July 18, 1963 in Lima, Ohio) is a professional wrestler better known by his stage name of Al Snow. He currently works in World Wrestling Entertainment for Extreme Championship Wrestling. Image File history File links Alsnowecw. ... July 18 is the 199th day (200th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 166 days remaining. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... Downtown Lima. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... July 18 is the 199th day (200th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 166 days remaining. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... Downtown Lima. ... Professional wrestling is generally any form of wrestling in which the wrestlers receive payment for participating. ... A stage name or a screen name is a pseudonym used by performers - such as actors, athletes, comedians, musicians and clowns. ... World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. ... This article is about World Wrestling Entertainments ECW brand. ...

Career

In the mid-1990s, following a notable term in Smokey Mountain Wrestling, Sarven began his career in the WWF under numerous gimmicks such as Avatar (Which was supposed to be an unusual superhero gimmick with Sarven putting on a mask before the match) and Shinobi (Which was a generic Ninja-style gimmick). He also competed in and lost a match against Marty Jannetty under the name Steve Moore. Sarven received his first mainstream exposure with the WWF as Leif Cassidy, the heel tag team partner of legendary tag team wrestler Marty Jannetty. The duo was promoted as "The New Rockers", a throwback to the 1980s team of Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty. Eventually, the storyline was dropped and Sarven was reduced to jobbing for mid-carders. In the late 1990s, WWF and ECW began to cross-promote their organizations to counteract the success of WCW. Sarven was one of the wrestlers sent to ECW. Seinfeld was a pop cultural phenomenon during the 90s and became one of the most popular TV programs ever. ... Smoky Mountain Wrestling Logo Smoky Mountain Wrestling was an organization staging professional wrestling in the Appalachian area of the United States from 1992 to December 1995, when it was run by Jim Cornette (now working for the World Wrestling Entertainment developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling). ... Ninja (忍者) were said to be agents of espionage and assassination in feudal Japan in legend and popular fiction. ... Marty Jannetty (Real name is Marty Jannetty and never was Marty Oates, born on February 3, 1962 in Columbus, Georgia) is an American professional wrestler. ... World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. ... A professional wrestling tag-team consists of two or occasionally three wrestlers who are working together as a team. ... Marty Jannetty (Real name is Marty Jannetty and never was Marty Oates, born on February 3, 1962 in Columbus, Georgia) is an American professional wrestler. ... MacGyver - 1980s hero The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ... Michael Shawn Hickenbottom, (born on July 22, 1965 at Williams Air Force Base, now part of Chandler, Arizona) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Shawn Michaels. ... In professional wrestling, an angle is a fictional storyline (the wrestler Kurt Angles name is a coincidence). ... As professional wrestling is scripted, inevitably a wrestler will be required to lose to an opponent. ... This article is about the original promotion that lasted from 1992-2001. ...

Within this new environment, Sarven found success as the character Al Snow. In this role, Sarven received a lot of fan and management support for his J.O.B. Squad storyline, which promoted him as being angry with and driven mad by his years as a jobber for WWF. He would come to the ring with a mannequin head that he talked to as if it were a real person, which in turn prompted ECW crowds to chant "We want head", an intentional double entendre. His popularity was enhanced with his choice of entrance music, "Breathe," performed by The Prodigy. ECW promoters handed out plain mannequin heads out at wrestling shows, and audience members started waving them and shouting, "Head! Head! Head! Head!" in time to his entrance music. Then the entire audience threw the heads into the ring before the match started. The JOB Squad was a tongue-in-cheek professional wrestling stable of wrestlers that before this push, often saw themselves on the losing end of matches as jobbers for other wrestlers. ... A pair of mannequins A mannequin (alternately, manikin, mannikin, manakin, dummy, or form) is a life-size, articulated doll mainly used to display clothing. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Profanity. ...

Just two days before he was booked to win the ECW Championship, Sarven was recalled to WWF, where he continued his gimmick of talking to "Head" creating some of the most memorable (and hilarious) skits of the "Attitude" era, injecting comedy relief into the shows. During that period he turned face. At one point he teamed with the all-too-serious Steve Blackman as an odd couple tag team called "Head Cheese" (because of Snow's attempt to get Steve to wear a Green Bay Packers "Cheese" hat). Later he would side with Mick Foley, but turned heel again by betraying him. He would later turn face due to fan reaction. He would then go to Raw during the first draft. When Jonathan Coachman was in a match against Lawler, Al Snow turned heel once more by turning on Lawler thus giving Coachman to pick up the win. During that time Snow and Coachman sided with each other and loved to mock J.R. and Lawler. When the 4th Tough enough came to Smackdown, Al Snow went there and turned face once again. A booker, as the term is used in professional wrestling, is a person who puts matches together and determines basics about their content, such as relative overall length, who the eventual victor will be, and many of the moves which will be made during the match; in other words, the... The ECW World Heavyweight Championship The ECW World Heavyweight Championship was the highest title in the Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) promotion, and is one of the two highest titles in the new ECW brand of World Wrestling Entertainment (the other being the WWE Championship, currently held by ECW Champion Rob... Steve Blackman (born September 28, 1963 in Annville, Pennsylvania) is a former professional wrestler who most notably worked for the World Wrestling Federation as The Lethal Weapon Steve Blackman. ...

Since then, Sarven, who still uses the Snow character, has enjoyed some mid-card success in WWE, and has performed an on-air role as a commentator for Sunday Night HEAT and most recently Ohio Valley Wrestling. He has made the most impact in the WWE as lead trainer on the promotion's reality show Tough Enough. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... OVW logo Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) is an American independent circuit professional wrestling promotion based in Louisville, Kentucky. ... Reality television is a genre of television programming in which the fortunes of real life people (as opposed to fictional characters played by actors) are followed. ... WWE Tough Enough is a reality television show produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wherein a selection of hopefuls compete for a contract with the professional wrestling company. ...

His most recent on screen appearance was with Head at the ECW on Sci-fi premiere. ECW logo from 1994-2001. ...

Snow was often the butt of Mick Foley's jokes during Foley's tenure as WWF Commissioner in 2000. Foley also pokes fun at Snow in his autobiography Have a Nice Day! A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks, although they are close friends in real life. Mick Foley (born Michael Francis Foley on June 7, 1965 in Bloomington, Indiana) is an American professional wrestler and author. ... World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. ... An Autobiography is an account of a persons life written by that person For music albums named Autobiography, see Autobiography (album) An autobiography (from the Greek auton, self, bios, life and graphein, write) is a biography written by the subject or composed conjointly with a collaborative writer (styled as...

ECW

Snow signed with ECW and took place in the special "WWE vs ECW" battle royal at WWE vs. ECW Head to Head with Head, he ended up losing the match. On the June 13 edition of ECW, he took part in the extreme battle royal and was eliminated by Big Show after trying to hit him with Head. WWE vs. ... June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining. ... ECW logo from 1994-2001. ... Big Show Paul Wight (born February 8, 1972 in Tampa, Florida), best known by his ring names of The Big Show or simply The Giant, is a professional wrestler currently working for WWE on the SmackDown! brand. ...

Personal Information

Al is divorced and has two children, Jake and Brittany.

In wrestling

Previous managers

• Head
• Jim Cornette
• Skandor Akbar
• Jerry Lawler
• Head (wrestling)
• Jonathan Coachman
• Pepper the dog
• Pierre (wrestling)

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Finishing and signature moves

• Snow Plow (Scoop brainbuster)
• Moonsault
• Snow Plex (Wheelbarrow suplex)
• Asai moonsault
• Diving leg drop
• Trapping headbutts
• Snow Bomb (Sit-out ura-nage spinebuster)
• DDT
• Clothesline
• Dragon Sleeper

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Championships and accomplishments

• World Wrestling Federation

• 1-Time WWF World Tag Team Champion with Mankind
• 6-Time WWF Hardcore Champion
• 1-Time WWF European Champion

• Other titles

• 1-Time Motor City Wrestling Heavyweight Champion
• 1-Time Motor City Wrestling Tag Team Champion (with Denny Kass)
• 5-Time ICW United States Tag Team Champion (with ?)
• 2-Time Midwest Tag Team Champion (with ?)
• 1-Time Midwest Territories Heavyweight Champion
• 2-Time GWA Tag Team Champion (with ?)
• 1-Time GWA Junior Heavyweight Champion
• GWA BodySlammers Tourney Winner (1994)
• 2-Time MTW Heavyweight Title (first-ever)
• 1-Time MTW Tag Team Champion (with Ray Roberts)
• 1-Time BCW Can-Am Tag Team Champion (with Denny Kass)
• 1-Time WWA World Tag Team Champion (with Mickey Doyle)
• 1-Time SMW Tag Team Champion (with Unabomb (a.k.a. Kane))
• 1-Time JAPW Heavyweight Champion
• 1-Time USA Pro Wrestling Heavyweight Champion

• Pro Wrestling Illustrated

• PWI ranked him # 329 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003.

• Wrestling Observer Newsletter

• 1996 Most Underrated Wrestler

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Job titles

• Co-host of Sunday Night HEAT
• WWE RAW Commentator
• Head Tough Enough Trainer
• Trainer for Ohio Valley Wrestling

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Trivia

• Sarven is well trained in martial arts, mat grappling, free style, hardcore, and shoot-fight wrestling. He was a trainer and cornerman of professional wrestler/mixed martial artist Dan "The Beast" Severn when Severn participated in four Ultimate Fighting Championship tournaments. He was even booked once as "The Ultimate Fighter" Al Snow during a match between him and Chris Benoit.

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External links

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Allen Sarven

• Al's Official Website
• ECW Profile
• Al Snow on Wrestling Weekly
• Al Snow's OWW Profile
• Marty Jannetty's Myspace with a video of Al competing as Steve Moore