Former WWE star Al Snow rescues boy from riptide

Former WWE star Al Snow says he saved a boy from drowning at a Florida beach.

In an interview with TMZ Sports, Snow explained that he was at Santa Rosa Beach in Destin, Florida, on Thursday when he heard people yelling. He then saw a boy in the water being pulled away by a rough current.

Snow said there was a lifeguard on the beach, but he "knew she wasn't going to make it in time" and went to rescue the boy himself.

"I made it, thank God," the 58-year-old Snow said. "And, I caught him just by the arm just as a wave started to pull him even further out. If I hadn't have grabbed him, I think he'd have probably went out to sea. That would have been it."

Snow said that as he pulled the boy to safety, he thought of the late wrestler and actor Shad Gaspard, who died in May 2020 after getting caught in a riptide.

"I was able to stay up and hand him off to the lifeguard, and I made my way back across to my friend and we went up on the beach and I felt like I was about to collapse. I was exhausted," Snow said, adding that no one was hurt.

Snow, whose real name is Allen Sarven, competed in WWE from 1998 to 2004 following stints in the ECW and Smoky Mountain Wrestling. One of his gimmicks involved him talking to a mannequin head.