Former WWE Superstar Aaron Haddad (Damien Sandow) made an appearance on the
Why It Ended with Robbie E podcast. The man formerly known as Damien Sandow talked about his career in professional wrestling, most notably his time in WWE.
One of the topics discussed was Sandow’s MITB cash-in on John Cena back in October 2013; The former WWE superstar would ultimately lose against the multi-time world champion and as you can imagine, Sandow wasn’t thrilled about it:
“Was I completely happy? No, but it was how I was treated after that match that was like, ‘OK, really?’ Everyone is high fiving me and the next thing I know is I’m dressed up like an astronaut or Daniel Boone or something like that.”
“Again, I had no choice but to do the best I could. You never really saw me able to have some of those kind of matches. That’s the role I was cast in. The WWE is not my sandbox. I don’t get to call the shots. It is what it is. I have absolutely no idea [what the reason was] and you know what? If I kind of pondered that, I would make myself crazy, so I just had to let it go. It is what it is.”
To many in the WWE universe, it came as a total shock when the company announced his release back in 2016. According to Haddad, he actually asked for his release several times, but is grateful for the time he’s spent in the company:
“I had asked to be let out of my contract a few times and it was always, ‘We’ll talk to you next week,’ and kind of not getting answers. The thing is they never took me off the road. I was at every house show, at every TV and I wouldn’t get a dark match.”
“It was like, ‘What is going on? At least let me sit at home and recover a little bit.’ I never had a break ever. I just got to a point where I wasn’t happy and was like, ‘Let me get out and we’ll see what’s next.’ They were like, ‘No, no, no,’ and of course they did it with like five or six other guys. It is what it is and again, I’m grateful for my time there and still won’t say a bad thing about them because again it wasn’t my sandbox; I was just playing in it.”