Al
started wrestling in 1982 after being trained by Jim
Lancaster. His first few years he did t.v.
jobs for AWA,Poffo's ICW,St Louis Wrestling at the
Chase,ect.After that he mostly wrestled the
independents in and around Ohio. His big
break actually occured because of a no show in
January 1994.It was on the infamous Joe Lake cards in
Michigan.Sabu did not have an opponent,so it was
suggested that Al wrestle him.It was a great
match,easily in the 4 star range. After
that,local promoters were all wanting to book Al vs
Sabu,eventually they had their how famous ladder
match all the tape traders wanted. In may
of 1994,Snow wrestled on a show in Ashland KY for
Bobby Blaze,they had a mutual friend who got Al
booked on the show.Blaze kept running shows in
Ashland using Al and Smoky Mt Wrestling
talent.Cornette took a likeing to Snow and said that
when a place opened up for him,it was
his. As we all know this did'nt happen
until February of 1995 In the mean
time,Snow was a busy man.He had been to Japan a few
times for the Kitao shoot group,helped Dan Severn
train for the UFC,and had some great matches in near
by Philly His match with Candido at the NWA Tourney
in November was easily the best match on the show.His
match with Benoit at the ECW arena was even
better,however,it seems that Paul E. did'nt like the
idea of Al working for Cornette and never used him
again.Shows how BRILLIANT Paul E.,huh?(editer:please
note this was writen in 1995,Paul E didn't know about
HEAD) It is true that Snow trained Severn
for pro wrestling,and helped him prepare for
UFC. Al has a brown belt in Jitsu and a
black belt in Akido,I may have the disciplines
wrong,but you get the picture.Al has also trained
many of the younger local wreslers including Steve
Nixon,Ray "the Crippler"Roberts and Rob Austin(now
Super Kongo) in Calgary. He also trained
referee Pee Wee Moore of ECW,and now New Japan
fame. On the personal side,Al is married
and has 4 kids He's actually a pretty
normal guy for a wrestler,many of them are nuts or
really messed up.He never took steroids or drugs,and
does'nt even drink credit:Jason A
Campbell 4/23/1995 Deja News
Other than doing jobs on t.v. shows Snow has never wrestled for a
major federation until recently.