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The Sandman hated his time in WWE.
Forer ECW star The Sandman had a brief run in WWE. . He appared at ECW One Night Stand 2005, and he was part of the ECW revival. He continued to compete on WWE ECW, and he moved to RAW in 2007. The Sandman was later released in September 2007.
Speaking on 1 Of A Kind With RVD, The Sandman reflected on his experience in WWE
”I assume this is like right after SummerSlam because right before SummerSlam, Johnny [Laurinaitis] calls me into his office and he goes, ‘You can’t drink the beer anymore,’ And I’m like, ‘What?’ And I’m pissed. I’m like, ‘Johnny, how about you give me my release? He’s like, ‘Hak, wait.’ And I got two raises or at least one raise out of them by asking for my release, but it was up to like $125 to $150,000, but then I find out I gotta stop drinking,” he said. “Next thing I know, Austin’s in the fing main event for SummerSlam.
“So they’re taking the beer away from me so I can’t do it on my entrance. I was freaking pissed. I was hot. And I hated it there, dude. I had no friends. It was soul sucking. It honestly was soul sucking to me. I hated to get on a plane, I hated to go there. I hated to be in the locker room, I couldn’t wait to get out of the fing building.”
The Sandman: I Went Home Early Every Match
The Sandman went on to describe how he would go home early after every match, and he was told to stop doing that.
“Everybody goes on TV and they want to get as much time as they can. They had to tell me to stop going home early,” he said. “I was going in there and giving him five minutes to go. And then finally … Kevin Dunn says down to maybe [Mike Chioda] – he goes, ‘Dunn says DO NOT go home early.’ I went home early every single match.”
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Thanks to Dominic DeAngelo of Wrestling Writing for sharing these quotes.
