Height: 6'2""
Weight: 238 lbs
Hometown: Lima, Ohio
ECPW Debut: June 1st, 2008
AKA: Leif Cassidy, Steve Moore, Shinobi, Avatar, The Five Star Ninja
Career Highlights:
Snow made his ECW debut against Chris Benoit as "The
Snowman" Al Snow, in a 15-minute match that was hailed as one of the best
of the year.
Snow was also being courted by Jim Cornette for his Smoky
Mountain Wrestling federation. ECW booker Paul Heyman agreed to let him work
for both companies.
In Smoky Mountain Wrestling, Snow teamed with Unabomb (Glen
Jacobs) as The Dynamic Duo and defeated the legendary Rock 'n' Roll Express for
the SMW Tag Team Championship. Both wrestlers caught the attention of the World
Wrestling Federation and were signed by the end of 1995.
Snow began working for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF)
when he signed a contract in August 1995. He wrestled under numerous gimmicks
in the WWF, such as Avatar and Shinobi. He also competed in and lost a match
against Marty Jannetty under the name Steve Moore. Snow received his first
mainstream exposure with the WWF as Leif Cassidy, the heel tag team partner of
Marty Jannetty. The duo was promoted as The New Rockers, a throwback to the
original The Rockers team of Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty. In the late
1990s, WWF and ECW began to cross-promote their organizations to counteract the
success of WCW; Snow was one of the wrestlers sent to ECW.
Snow found success back in ECW, billed once again as Al
Snow. He developed a new character gimmick after reading about abnormal
psychology, and finding a mannequin head on the street near ECW Arena. He got
the idea to portray schizophrenic transference disorder with the head as a
prop.
In this role, Snow received a lot of fan and management
support for his J.O.B. Squad storyline, which promoted him as being driven
insane by his years as a jobber for the WWF.
Just two days before he was booked to win the ECW
Heavyweight Championship, Snow was recalled to the WWF, where he continued his
gimmick of talking to "Head," creating some of the more memorable
humorous skits of the "Attitude Era."
In early 2000, he began to team with Steve Blackman as a tag
team called Head Cheese.
Later Snow would side with real life friend Mick Foley, but turned
heel by betraying him due to Foley joking about him in his autobiography, Have
A Nice Day. He would later turn face again due to fan reaction.
Also in 2000, he won the European Championship. He then
began a tongue-in-cheek gimmick of entering the ring to various European
countries' native music and wearing attire which would suit the stereotype of
that country.
He was drafted to SmackDown! as part of the 2002 brand
extension, where he teamed up with former student Maven. After taking time off
again for another season of Tough Enough, Snow returned as a member of the RAW
roster and eventually became a commentator for Sunday Night Heat alongside
Jonathan Coachman.
In 2006, Snow returned to wrestling full-time as a member of
the new ECW brand of World Wrestling Entertainment.
During his time with the WWE Snow was also a trainer for the
WWE’s show Tough Enough as well as their developmental promotion Ohio Valley
Wrestling.
Al is a former WWE European Champion, WWE Tag Team Champion & 6-Time WWE Hardcore Champion.
Did you know?
Al made his film debut in 2006's "They're Just My Friends" and
will be starring alongside fellow WWE alumni Diamond Dallas Page and Jacqueline
Moore in 2008's Knight Fever.
