[1991-11-30-USWA-Memphis TV] Interview: The Sandman

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Seeing The Sandman in this gimmick is always a trip.

[Kevin Ridge]

Sandman’s backyard is the Pacific Ocean. So goofy with the outfit and surfboard.

[PeteF3]

Sandman awkwardly cuts a promo under the guise of a California surfer dude. Fantastic.

[soup23]

Sandman is going to hang ten into Tennessee. Really weird to see this knowing what is to come.

[garretta]

So this is how Hak got started. I've never seen a surfer dude heel before; most surfer types happy-go-lucky gladhanding faces, like Sting. Acrually, Sting vs. vs. this version of Hak might have been a decent feud in WCW around this time, a sort of wrestling answer to Superman vs. Bizarro.

 

Nice use of a WWF-style background. I love Dave, but there are certain types of guys he doesn't have chemistry with, and I have a feeling that Hak would have been one of them. It was probably better for everyone that he got a chance to say his piece uninterrupted, at least for now.

[dawho5]

Strange first big gimmick for Sandman. I would like to see him against Sting though...

[ajtroma]

I remember when Sandman was in USWA back then thinking "this guy is awful. He wont last long". Plus, even then at 14, didn't buy why a surfer dude would leave sunny southern California to spend the winter out here.