Trivia / Sami Callihan

• Breakup Breakout: He had the bad luck to be the Jannetty to Jon Moxley's Michaels. Callihan did get signed to NXT as Solomon Crowe with a promising black-hat hacker gimmick, but for whatever reason WWE bookers never got behind Crowe and used him so rarely that he requested his own release. Mox, as Ambrose, on the other hand, became a major star in WWE, both solo and as a part of The Shield, becoming one of the most popular wrestlers on the roster, winning numerous titles and even becoming WWE Champion, something no other CZW alumni ever managed to do so. At least Callihan became Impact World Champion as a consolation prize.
• Real Life Writes the Plot: Callihan vs. Eddie Edwards was more of a standard-fare wrestling feud until a legitimate botch on an already dodgy-looking spot with a baseball bat and a steel chair wound up legitimately injuring Edwards' eye. Rather than cutting out the botch from the episode and playing it safe, Impact was convinced by an insistent Edwards to air the moment and take it from there. Callihan, who'd been established on the show as a leader of White Gangbangers well beforehand, would run with the blowback from this event and create major heel heat out of it, with his persona going to such despicable depths as targeting Eddie's wife Alisha and causing Eddie to madly hunt for his head ever since, to the point of driving Eddie to become like him out of sheer hatred for him.
• Real Song Theme Tune: Used Muddy Magnolias’ "American Woman (David Lynch Remix)" in MLW.
• Romance on the Set: Dated, married and divorced Chrissy Rivera while in CZW. Is now dating Jessicka Havok.
• What Could Have Been:
  • He revealed on a podcast that he was originally planned to be Vokoder in CHIKARA. However, when he told Mike Quackenbush that he was skipping a show to attend a funeral, Quack fired him before he even got started - and demanded the return of the Vokoder costume which Sami had paid for with his own money.
  • Back in NXT, the day before she was fired, Zahra Schreiber debuted at a live show as Solomon Crowe's manager.
  • Jeremiah Crane wasn't originally planned to join the Reptile Tribe, but was slotted in to replace someone who couldn't take part in the show.
  • Solomon Crowe almost ended up as the leader of Sanity. After he requested his release, Eric Young took his place. Interestingly enough, upon being released from WWE, a former member of Sanity, Sawyer Fulton, would join Callihan in MLW as part of his Death Machine stable and later with oVe in Impact as Madman Fulton.
• You Look Familiar:
  • Sami Callihan on most of the indies.
  • Solomon Crowe during his time on NXT.
  • Jeremiah Crane/Snake on Lucha Underground.

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