Man's ring dream comes true.

Byline: Bill Fortier

COLUMN: From the deck

If you tune into the "WWE Raw Supershow" at 9 p.m. Monday on the USA Network you might get to see Oxford native Aaron Haddad.

Just be on the lookout for 6-foot-6-inch, 250-pound Damien Sandow, a bearded wrestler who calls himself the Intellectual Savior of the Unwashed Masses. Mr. Sandow can best be described as an arrogant intellectual who talks down to his audience and those he steps into the squared circle with. Recent months have seen him refuse to fight some wrestlers because he claimed the audience wouldn't learn or benefit from his facing and easily beating an inferior opponent. He lectures the audience before ending his diatribe by looking into the camera with a smug smile on his face and saying "your welcome." Before a match he saunters toward the ring while his entrance theme, the "Hallelujah Chorus" by Handel, plays.

Such is life in the WWE which bares little resemblance to the wrestling people my age used to watch on Saturday morning when were kids

The 1999 graduate of Holy Name who turns 30 on Aug. 3, is being heavily promoted these days by the media savvy World Wrestling Entertainment and he is also going to be appearing Sept.16 at the TD Garden in Boston for WWE's Night of Champions.

"That will be a very special night for me because I'm from there and I was trained in the Boston area," he said.

With all due respect to Mr. Sandow and the WWE, we'll call him Mr. Haddad in this week's column and even though he said in a recent interview his character is based on his personality with the volume turned way up, we know better.

"He's really a nice guy and not the obnoxious guy you see on television," said WWE Publicity Coordinator Al Stavola.

Mr. Haddad said he's wanted to be a professional wrestler since he was kid and he really started pursing his passion when he was 16 and was introduced to some wrestlers after a show at Southbridge High School. Before long he started training at wrestling legend Walter "Killer" Kowalski's pro wrestling school.

Mr. Haddad said the late Mr. Kowalski, one of wrestling's best known bad guys, became his...