A high school phenom from Nazareth, Pennsylvania in the wrestling-rich Lehigh Valley, Sammy Sasso has been on an upward trajectory since a young age. The culmination of that youth career occurred in the same valley in which he grew up when he blew the roof off Lehigh University's famous Snakepit at the 2018 edition of Who's #1 with a pin over fellow blue-chipper Anthony Artalona.