History Wrestling / DamienSandow

* {{Joisey}}: He was part of a Jersey Shore before someone went and made a television show of the same name. Consider this was during his tenor in an Ohio/Kentucky promotion and figure out the rest.

* SpringtimeForHitler: His run as "Mizdow" was meant purely as a stupid comedy turn- which made things a bit awkward when he somehow ended up ''more over than the actual Wrestling/TheMiz!''

** Had a minor one during the September 21 episode of ''[=SmackDown]'' when Wrestling/{{Edge}}, Wrestling/{{Kane}}, and [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] were in the process of "hugging it out" to get rid of their frustrations. Sandow came out and was doing his usual schtick when Edge asked the audience if they'd rather see Sandow face Kane or Bryan. After Edge kept repeating "Bryan or Kane?" over and over, Sandow went from being calm like he usually is to screaming "STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT!"

* ArchEnemy:
** Early on Wrestling/ZackRyder became one to Sandow, till Ryder was creatively destroyed anyway.
** Wrestling/TeamHellNo
** Wrestling/{{Sheamus}}
** During the Teacher's Pets run, [[Wrestling/LondonAndKendrick Paul London and Brian Kendrick]].
** And [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XER2MzEg5Fg at one point]], his former tag team partner Wrestling/CodyRhodes.

* BullyingADragon[=/=]TooDumbToLive
** His choice to interrupt, of all things, the Wrestling/DGenerationX reunion on the 1000th episode of [[Wrestling/WWERaw Monday Night Raw]]. And this wasn't just ''any'' DX reunion: this was a '''''DX Army''''' reunion - [[Wrestling/TripleH Trips]], [[Wrestling/ShawnMichaels Shawn]], The New Age Outlaws, and X-Pac. And it gets better: Sandow actually [[LampshadeHanging acknowledges how stupid it is]] during the promo and admits ([[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness in so many words]]) that he's probably going to get his ass kicked. (Of course, he does.)

** And again with [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]].
* BreakupBreakout: He is currently a much bigger star than his former tag team partner KC James. Inverted with the Rhodes Scholars as Cody has gotten a bigger push out of the two. Time will tell who gets the better of his inevitable breakup with The Miz.
* TheCastShowOff: Sandow's recently done some parody singing on the JBL and Cole Show and even occasionally on Raw. He's pretty good

* CombatPragmatist: His cash in for the WWE championship actually went further than most money in the bank winners, not merely waiting for the champion to get injured or be beat down but ''both'' and then further beating him down himself with the briefcase.
* CrowdChant: Damien's better (while teaming with the Miz)

* DeclarativeFinger: "If I can have your attention for a moment?"
* DemotedToExtra: Sandow went from winning the Money in the Bank match for a World Heavyweight Championship opportunity to become the first to lose the cash-in title match,[[note]]Wrestling/JohnCena had been unable to win the WWE Championship in a previous cash-in match, but he won that one by disqualification.[[/note]] become a comedic impersonator, was randomly thrown into a team with Curtis Axel, and then taken off television before finally being released.
* DiabolusExMachina: His loss of the Jack Bricoe 15 championship to Wrestling/SethRollins was overturned by a phone call to to FCW President Liaison Wrestling/NormanSmiley, turning it into a draw.
* DifficultySpike: After his Tag Team Partner, Wrestling/CodyRhodes, was PutOnABus due to injury, his most recent gimmick involved him "searching for an apprentice" by calling a random person from the audience up into the ring and asking three questions to test their intellect. The first two are usually easy enough that almost anyone with a basic education can get them right, but the third ends up being a question better suited for the Million Dollar Question in ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire''. This gimmick was dropped when [[TheBusCameBack Cody Rhodes returned]] and Team Rhodes Scholars was reformed.

* FleetingDemographicRule: His InsufferableGenius gimmick had previously been used by Wrestling/ShaneDouglas (Dean Douglas) and Lanny Poffo (The Genius). The gimmick of parodying other wrestlers on a regular basis had been done before by the Blue World Order ([[Wrestling/{{Nova}} Hollywood Nova]], Wrestling/StevieRichards, and Wrestling/TheBlueMeanie) in Wrestling/{{ECW}}, and Wrestling/{{the Big Show}} and Charlie Haas in WWE.

* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler: Firmly established this part of his character after screwing Wrestling/CodyRhodes at the Money In The Bank ladder match.]]
* {{Joisey}}: He was part of a the Jersey Shore before someone went and made a television show of the same name. Consider this was during his tenor in an Ohio/Kentucky promotion and figure out the rest.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor
** He plays the obnoxious know-it-all to perfection, but during an episode of ''Wrestling/WWEMainEvent,'' Wrestling/CodyRhodes took a nasty fall that left him with head and shoulder injuries. Cody and a lot of fans noticed that Sandow refused to tag Cody back into the match after it happened and prevented the injury from getting worse. Cody later thanked him saying it probably saved his career.
** In 2014, he was spotted on the street giving $10 bills to homeless people. Hardly anybody was there to witness it, meaning that was purely an act of kindness rather than a publicity stunt.
* MeaningfulName: His TNA name, Aron Rex. ''Rex'' is Latin for "king". Furthermore, he already started spelling his first name with a single A via What Culture Pro Wrestling, and the most common use of Rex aside from dinosaur stories and representing "the Crown" in lawsuits is as a title ''following a name''.
--> "I'm gonna keep it real with you guys. My name is Aron. And as of right now, as of this second, Aron Rex's new home is ''Impact Wrestling''!"

* PerkyFemaleMinion: Aaron "the idol" Stevens had quite a few, including Wrestling/{{Daffney|Unger}} and Wrestling/BethPhoenix. Shelly Martinez and Trudi [=DeNucci=] being a less known but still examples worthy of mentioning, as they debuted around the same tome he did. Stevens himself was Michelle [=McCool=]'s minion on Smackdown.

* RealMenWearPink
** His choice of gear, pink tights and purple kneepads. He wears purple briefs under his tights too.
** Not to mention the fact that he essentially walks down to the ring in a bathrobe.

-->'''Rock''': Let The Rock ask you one final question and if you get it right, you'll get an amazing prize from The Rock here in Miami: What happens when you combine a geological aggregate of minerals with its lowest form?
-->'''Sandow''': That would be, you would get 'rock bottom'!
-->'''Rock''': Exactly. *Rock Bottoms Sandow*

** His theme song "Hallelujah" makes sense when you remember his former ring name "the idol" and his current claims to be an intellectual ''savior''.

* SpringtimeForHitler: His run as "Mizdow" was meant purely as a stupid comedy turn- which made things a bit awkward when he somehow ended up ''more over than [[Wrestling/TheMiz the actual Miz!]]''
* SunglassesAtNight: Miz started wearing them, which caused Damien Mizdow to start doing so as well

** The Meta Powers, with [[Wrestling/CurtisAxel AxelMania]].
* ViewersAreMorons: The original "WWE in Roughly Five Minutes" videos on Website/YouTube (since removed, though they can be found elsewhere on the Interwebz) began a segment called ''Understanding Sandow: A Simple Guide for the Feeble-Minded''.

* VillainousBreakdown[=/=]EnragedByIdiocy: Had a minor one during the September 21 episode of Smackdown when Wrestling/{{Edge}}, Wrestling/{{Kane}}, and [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] were in the process of "hugging it out" to get rid of their frustrations. Sandow came out and was doing his usual schtick when Edge asked the audience if they'd rather see Sandow face Kane or Bryan. After Edge kept repeating "Bryan or Kane?" over and over, Sandow went from being calm like he usually is to screaming "STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT!" Had another one when Rhodes deliberately threw his Money in the Bank briefcase during the July 26, 2013 episode of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GBZcxqby-k SmackDown.]]
* VillainousBSOD: When he [[spoiler: cashed in his Money In The Bank contract on Wrestling/JohnCena and failed (despite him destroying Cena's injured arm beforehand and coming so close to succeeding), the look on his face in the corner while Cena celebrated]] just screamed this trope. There was no doubt that he was a broken man when this happened.

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Is constantly referred to as Miz's "stunt double"... but that title would imply, in this context, that Mizdow would be called upon to wrestle in a lot of situations where Miz didn't feel like getting his hands dirty. In reality, he hardly gets tagged into matches (Miz is - probably correctly - [[GreenEyedMonster concerned that Mizdow will upstage him]]) and spends half his time on the apron imitating everything Miz does - including falling down and taking bumps. This would make Mizdow more or less a "mime."

Rather than being a disappointment, however, his WWE release made him one of the hottest free agents in the world, his popularity putting him in high demand. Returning to the Independents under the ring name '''Aaron Stevens''', he's signed on for matches with several indie promotions, including Global Force Wrestling and [[WebVideo/WhatcultureWrestling What Culture Pro Wrestling.]]

'''Aaron Steven Haddad''' (born April 3, 1982) is an American {{professional wrestl|ing}}er, best known for his past tenure with Wrestling/{{WWE}} under the ring name '''Damien Sandow'''.

* CatchPhrase: Begins his promos with "Allow me to beg your indulgence. My Name is Damien Sandow, and I'm here to help all of you." Ends his promos - and occasionally his beatdowns - with "You're welcome." Also tends to use "I do this for the benefit and the welfare of you, the unwashed masses"
** '''Silence'''!

** He gets a lot of comparisons to both "The Genius" Lanny Poffo (brother of Wrestling/RandySavage) and Wrestling/TripleH in his original "Hunter Hearst Helmsley" gimmick.

** However that cartwheel he does was a staple of the Genius.
** The Genius confirmed in an interview that he personally gave Sandow his blessing to use the gimmick.
** Also comparable to Wrestling/{{Goldust}}, in that his early pre-debut vignettes also started with quotations. Though, instead of referencing movies, his started with him quoting [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuKVQqv_NNM Marshall [=McLuhan=]]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfBX1yKmIuQ and]] Creator/BenjaminFranklin.

** After failing to Cash In His Briefcase against John Cena, Damien Sandow would get one more match against him. Not only would Sandow not get an onscreen entrance, he would not even get an introduction. In hindsight, Sandow's fall down the card was obviously foreshadowed.
** On the last Smackdown of 2014, Damien Sandow had a proper entrance and Wrestling/KofiKingston had a jobber entrance. Damien Sandow still lost!

** KarmaHoudiniWarranty: However, this expired, despite him winning by cheating, when Wrestling/BrodusClay knocked him out and danced with his kids and dancers in the arena.

* RhymesOnADime: The cartwheel he does is referred to as the "Rotation of Illumination."

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Is constantly referred to as Miz's "stunt double"... but that title would imply, in this context, that Mizdow would be called upon to wrestle in a lot of situations where Miz didn't feel like getting his hands dirty. In reality, he hardly gets tagged into matches (Miz is - probably correctly - [[GreenEyedMonster concerned that Mizdow will upstage him]]) and spends half his time on the apron imitating everything MIz does - including falling down and taking bumps. This would make Mizdow more or less a "mime."

'''Aaron Steven Haddad''' a.k.a. The Intellectual Savior of the Masses is a professional wrestler, known under his ring name '''Damien Sandow'''.

He made his Wrestling/{{WWE}} debut in 2006 wrestling under the ringname '''Idol Stevens'''. He was one half of a tag team with KC James and managed by Wrestling/MichelleMcCool. Stevens was released from WWE in 2007, and James lingered [[{{Jobber}} in perpetual jobberhood]] under the name James Curtis before following suit a year later. In 2010, Stevens was rehired and sent back to developmental, where he received a gimmick change and a new ringname (Damien Sandow). Originally portrayed as a militant character, as Col. Damien Sandow, he later received another gimmick change. He spent a good amount of his career as an InsufferableGenius-type character who proclaims himself to be "The Intellectual Savior of the Unwashed Masses". Now, he's been acting as a sort of DittoFighter to the rest of the WWE roster, mimicking the likes of Wrestling/BretHart, Wrestling/VinceMcMahon, and most notably Wrestling/TheMiz.

Among his in-ring achievements, he was one half of the WWE Tag Team Champions with [[Wrestling/TheMiz the Miz]], a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ky/ovw/ovw-h.html OVW Heavyweight Champion]], a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ky/ovw/ovw-tv.html OVW Television Champion]], a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ky/ovw/ovw-t.html OVW Southern Tag Team Champion]] w[=/=][[Wrestling/MikeBucci Nova]], a former 4x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pr/wwc/wwc-t.html WWC (Puerto Rico) World Tag Team Champion]] and a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/fl/fcw/fcw-fl-t.html FCW Florida Tag Team Champion]] w[=/=][[Wrestling/PrimeTimePlayers Titus O'Neil]].

As usual, you will without question locate the primary and most traditional information about Mr. Sandow's career at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Sandow The Other Wiki]].

* AffectionateParody: [[Wrestling/TheMiz Damien Mizdow]] and [[Wrestling/RandySavage Macho Mandow.]]
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Referred to Wrestling/CodyRhodes as "The mustachioed magnificence of manhood (and my best friend)!"
** Macho Mandow.

** His choice to interrupt, of all things, the [[Wrestling/DGenerationX DeGeneration-X]] reunion on the 1000th episode of [[Wrestling/WWERaw Monday Night Raw]]. And this wasn't just ''any'' DX reunion: this was a '''''DX Army''''' reunion - [[Wrestling/TripleH Trips]], [[Wrestling/ShawnMichaels Shawn]], The New Age Outlaws, and X-Pac. And it gets better: Sandow actually [[LampshadeHanging acknowledges how stupid it is]] during the promo and admits ([[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness in so many words]]) that he's probably going to get his ass kicked. (Of course, he does.)

* DemotedToExtra: Sandow went from winning the Money in the Bank match for a World Heavyweight Championship opportunity to become the first to lose the cash-in title match,[[note]]Wrestling/JohnCena had been unable to win the WWE Championship in a previous cash-in match, but he won that one by disqualification.[[/note]], become a comedic impersonator, was randomly thrown into a team with Curtis Axel, and then taken off television before finally being released.

'''{{SILENCE|YouFool}}!'''

* DittoFighter: His "comedic impersonator" gimmick, besides having him mimick fictional characters like Magneto and Sherlocc Holmes, had him mimick other wrestlers, such as Shawn Michaels, Bret Hart, and Vince [=McMahon=], sometimes wrestling as them.

* TheFightingNarcissist: Sandow dismissed people as too stupid to wrestle against him and just flouncing away. (Just type in "Team Rhodes Scholars" on [=YouTube=].)

* DemotedToExtra: Both Sandow and [[Wrestling/WadeBarrett Barrett]] should have been solid midcarders. They have the look, the promo chops and the wrestling ability. (On his episode of ''Talk is Jericho'', Sandow said he worked for 2K Sports and did all the mocap-suit stuff for ''every'' WWE Superstar's moves. He can do it all!) They were just unfortunate to have come through at a time when WWE was obsessed with protecting rather than making stars. By the time WWE started looking to the future, both were too far gone.

* DittoFighter: That "mirror image" gimmick. It went over organically (Mizdow, Macho Mandow), but they could have gone even further with it.
** [[http://dailywrestlingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Damien-Sandow-as-Vince-gifs-0011.gif Damien McMahondow.]]

** It's less common as the other two, but a few people have also drawn comparisons between him and Wrestling/MuhammadHassan, because he has a distinctive theme and a habit of interrupting other people's promos.'

* TheFightingNarcissist: Those of us old enough to remember the Million Dollar Man have a strong fondness for when he would come down and throw cash at people if they agreed to just lay down and take a pin. Ditto Sandow, dismissing people as too stupid to wrestle against and just flouncing away. (Just type in "Team Rhodes Scholars" on [=YouTube=].)

* DittoFighter: That "mirror image" gimmick. It went over organically (Mizdow, Macho Mandow), but they could have done even further with it.

* TheFightingNarcissist: Those of us old enough to remember the Million Dollar Man have a strong fondnss when he would come down and throw cash at people if they agreed to just lay down and take a pin. Ditto Sandow, dismissing people as too stupid to wrestle against and just flouncing away. (Just type in "Team Rhodes Scholars" on [=YouTube=].)

* DoWellButNotPerfect: Damien put a quiz detailing the history of the WWE on the organization's website which mocked participants as sub ignoramuses if they did terribly and cheaters if they got them all right.

** [=Damien McMahondow.=]

'''Aaron Steven Haddad''' is a professional wrestler, known under his ring name '''Damien Sandow''', made his Wrestling/{{WWE}} debut in 2006 wrestling under the ringname "Idol Stevens". He was one half of a tag team with KC James and managed by Wrestling/MichelleMcCool. Stevens was released from WWE in 2007, and James lingered [[{{Jobber}} in perpetual jobberhood]] under the name James Curtis before following suit a year later. In 2010, Stevens was rehired and sent back to developmental, where he received a gimmick change and a new ringname (Damien Sandow). Originally portrayed as a militant character, as Col. Damien Sandow, he later received another gimmick change. He spent a good amount of his career as an InsufferableGenius-type character who proclaims himself to be "The Intellectual Savior of the Unwashed Masses". Now, he's been acting as a sort of DittoFighter to the rest of the WWE roster, mimicking the likes of Wrestling/BretHart, Wrestling/VinceMcMahon, and most notably Wrestling/TheMiz.

* FleetingDemographicRule: His InsufferableGenius gimmick had previously been used by Wrestling/ShaneDouglas (Dean Douglas) and Lanny Poffo (The Genius). The gimmick of parodying other wrestlers on a regular basis had been done before by the Blue World Order ([[Wrestling/{{Nova}} Hollywood Nova]], Wrestling/StevieRichards, and Wrestling/TheBlueMeanie) in Wrestling/{{ECW}}, and [[Wrestling/{{the Big Show}} and Charlie Haas in WWE.

** The [[Main/FanNickname Meta Powers]], with [[Wrestling/CurtisAxel Axelmania]].

* YouLookFamiliar: Was once Idol Stevens, part of a tag team managed by Wrestling/MichelleMcCool.

* FleetingDemographicRule: His InsufferableGenius gimmick had previously been used by Wrestling/ShaneDouglas (Dean Douglas) and Lanny Poffo (The Genius). The gimmick of parodying other wrestlers on a regular basis had been done before by the [[Wrestling/StevieRichards Blue]] [[Wrestling/TheBlueMeanie World]] [[Wrestling/{{Nova}} Order]] in [[Wrestling/ExtremeChampionshipWrestling ECW]] and [[Wrestling/TheBigShow the Big Show]] in WWE.

!!! "My name is Damien Sandow, and these tropes are here to help you."

* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Team Rhodes Scholars

* GenreSavvy: During the Money in the Bank ladder match, he hid for the majority of the time, and only re-entered the match when everyone has been laid out and Cody was on his way to victory.

'''Aaron Steven Haddad''' is a professional wrestler, known under his ring name '''Damien Sandow''', made his Wrestling/{{WWE}} debut in 2006 wrestling under the ringname "Idol Stevens". He was one half of a tag team with KC James and managed by [[Wrestling/LayCool Michelle McCool]]. Stevens was released from WWE in 2007, and James lingered [[{{Jobber}} in perpetual jobberhood]] under the name James Curtis before following suit a year later. In 2010, Stevens was rehired and sent back to developmental, where he received a gimmick change and a new ringname (Damien Sandow). Originally portrayed as a militant character, as Col. Damien Sandow, he later received another gimmick change. He spent a good amount of his career as an InsufferableGenius-type character who proclaims himself to be "The Intellectual Savior of the Unwashed Masses". Now, he's been acting as a sort of DittoFighter to the rest of the WWE roster, mimicking the likes of Wrestling/BretHart, Wrestling/VinceMcMahon, and most notably Wrestling/TheMiz.

* FleetingDemographicRule: His InsufferableGenius gimmick had previously been used by Wrestling/ShaneDouglas (Dean Douglas) and Lanny Poffo (The Genius). The gimmick of parodying other wrestlers on a regular basis had been done before by the [[Wrestling/StevieRichards Blue]] [[Wrestling/TheBlueMeanie World]] [[Wrestling/Nova Order]] in [[Wrestling/ExtremeChampionshipWrestling ECW]] and [[Wrestling/TheBigShow the Big Show]] in WWE.

** Claimed to be intellectual and professional equals with CodyRhodes, as well as promising that neither man would prevent the other from achieving greatness. Cue Money in the Bank, where Cody seems primed to take the briefcase and Sandow unceremoniously dumps him off the ladder to claim it for himself. Then the following weeks would see Sandow saying that he was smarter than Cody and that he [[BlatantLies "taught him everything he knows"]] in the ring.

* PerkyFemaleMinion: Aaron "the idol" Stevens had quite a few, including Wrestling/{{Daffney| Unger}} and Wrestling/BethPhoenix. Shelly Martinez and Trudi [=DeNucci=] being a less known but still examples worthy of mentioning, as they debuted around the same tome he did. Stevens himself was Michelle [=McCool=]'s minion on Smackdown.

** Worked with TheMiz as his stunt double, Damien Mizdow.

* VerbThis: During his beatdown of JohnCena, he could be heard shouting "rise above ''this''!"

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Is constantly referred to as Miz's "stunt double"... but that title would imply, in this context, that Mizdow would be called upon to wrestle in a lot of situations where Miz didn't feel like getting his hands dirty. In reality, he hardly gets tagged into matches (Miz is - probably correctly - concerned that Mizdow will upstage him) and spends half his time on the apron imitating everything MIz does - including falling down and taking bumps. This would make Mizdow more or less a "mime."
* YouLookFamiliar: Was once Idol Stevens, part of a tag team managed by [[Wrestling/LayCool Michelle McCool]].

* AffectionateParody: His impersonator gimmick, as [[Wrestling/TheMiz Damien Mizdow]] and [[Wrestling/RandySavage Macho Mandow.]]

* FleetingDemographicRule: His InsufferableGenius gimmick had previously been used by Wrestling/ShaneDouglas (Dean Douglas) and Lanny Poffo (The Genius). The gimmick of parodying other wrestlers regularly had been done before by the [[Wrestling/StevieRichards Blue]] [[Wrestling/TheBlueMeanie World]] [[Wrestling/MikeBucci Order]] in [[Wrestling/ExtremeChampionshipWrestling ECW]] and [[Wrestling/TheBigShow the Big Show]] in WWE.

* RunningGag: Each and every week he comes out as a different person (real or otherwise).

** Currently working with TheMiz as his stunt double, Damien Mizdow.

* FleetingDemographicRule: His InsufferableGenius gimmick had previously been used by Wrestling/ShaneDouglas (Dean Douglas) and Lanny Poffo (The Genius). The gimmick of parodying other wrestlers regularly had been done before by the [[Wrestling/ExtremeChampionshipWrestling Blue World Order]] and [[Wrestling/TheBigShow the Big Show]].

* FleetingDemographicRule: His InsufferableGenius gimmick had previously been used by Wrestling/ShaneDouglas (Dean Douglas) and Lanny Poffo (The Genius).

* FanNickname: His tag team with [[Wrestling/CurtisAxel Curtis "Axelmania" Axel]] is sonetime nicknamed "The Meta Powers".