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Allen Sarven (born July 18, 1963 in Lima, Ohio) is a professional wrestler
better known by his stage name of Al Snow.Career
In the mid-1990s, Sarven received his first mainstream exposure with the
WWF as Leif Cassidy, the 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.
Inevitably, the angle 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. One of the wrestlers sent to
wrestle in ECW was Sarven.
Within this new environment, Sarven found success as the character of Al
Snow. In this role, Sarven received a lot of fan and management support for
his 'Job-Squad' angle, 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 and prompt ECW crowds to
chant "We want head", an intentional double entendre. Just two days before
he was booked to win the ECW Championship, Sarven was recalled to WWF.
Since then, Sarven, who still uses the Snow character, has enjoyed some
mid-card success in WWE, and still performs an on-air role as a commentator
for Sunday Night Heat. He has made the most impact in the WWE as lead
trainer on the promotion's reality show Tough Enough.
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