The ECW Career of Sabu

Wrestling Bios Presents - The ECW Career of Sabu
Sabu in ECW was a revelation. While the WWF / WWE and WCW were presenting much more traditional style of wrestling matches during 1993 and beyond, over on ECW, Sabu caught the attention of wrestling fans with a high flying style that had never really been seen on American wrestling shows. To quote Joey Styles, Sabu changed what aerial offense in professional wrestling was.
Trained by Ed Farhat, best known as The Shiek (or The Original Shiek), Sabu made his debut in Farhat's Big Time Wrestling promotion before making his way to Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling (FMW). The style of wrestling presented in FMW prepared Sabu for his ECW debut in 1993, where he was portrayed as an uncontrollable animal. From here, Sabu would go on to win the ECW Heavyweight Championship a total of 2 times during his days in ECW.
Well known for giving wrestling fans some of the most memorable moments in ECW history and becoming a fan favourite among hardcore wrestling fans, Sabu's impact on the extreme wrestling scene can not be ignored. In this mini documentary, we take a look at Sabu in ECW.
Topics covered include:
Sabu getting trained by The Original Shiek and working as Sabu "The Elephant Boy"
FMW wrestling and Japanese hardcore wrestling
The Sabu ECW debut
The Shiek and Sabu vs Atsushi Onita and Tarzan Goto in FMW
Sabu and his wrestling moveset
Sabu no showing an ECW event in 1995 and working in NJPW, leading to him getting fired
The Rob Van Dam and Sabu tag team
The "Born to be Wired" Sabu vs Terry Funk match
Much More!
#wrestling #wwe #documentary

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Sabu needs more recognition,he's definitely one of the G.O.A.T...

[@darylobey8867]

Hes up there with new jack terry funk tommy dreamer spike dudley those were my favs

[@JnbRKKy]

Imo the goat in hardcore wrestler's

[@Hanke86]

Sabu was what hooked me to ECW never seen anything like it before

[@midfie1]

ECW WAS LEGENDARY SABU, SANDMAN, RHINO, TAZZ, DUDLEY BROTHERS RVD

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I want to get the wwe network just to watch the ECW ppvs

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Same bro.

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[@tomworrier]

when he was on top of his game, that triple jump moonsault was a thing of beauty

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On this day, I see clearly

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Sabu did it for the love of the game.

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He did it for The Rock.

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@@solascriptura-e7t what you mean by he did it for the rock???

[@BrokenAscendancy]

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Really feel you, even though I'm a bit younger. Was born in 93 and the Monday night wars were my first impression of pro wrestling, and some reruns of 80s stuff. Found out about ecw through their video games, as they weren't on TV here in Germany. But I got my history lesson on limewire in middle school 😂.

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Sabu is my favorite ECW wrestler hands down☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺

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Congratulations. I remember watching ECW at 2 am in the morning sometime 3 or 4am in the morning. The time was never consistent. GREAT TIMES!!!

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Sports channel Philadelphia and a VHS station local 48 channel had ECW and USWA and other small indy promotions. 😂

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Got to meet and see him perform at a show in cork city a number of years back. Still had the amazing moveset and those scars in person are insane! He even went back to a fans house to party that night......

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[@Vercingetorix.Fantasia]

Having a brother 6 years my elder had me growing up an ECW fan. At 11 years old I was staying up on Friday nights until 1 am to watch ECW come on the spanish channel. Man those were the days, to be on the cutting edge of wrestling at the time. As I grew older I met a friend in middle school who's uncle was actually the famous WCW Fan Cam Guy. With that hook up, at the age of 14 we started going to ECW shows and getting free front row seats every time they came to town. Many have been able to look back and watch the old ECW shows but very few of us actually grew up and were active fans while it was all unfolding . I'll never forget when ECW invaded Raw for the very first time and Sabu dove off the old Raw sign, nearly breaking his neck! It all led to ECWs first pay per view Barely Legal. Still one of the best pay per views ever. ECW was an incredible company that was the very definition of right place right time.

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He was before his time

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The Beatdown Crew I completely agree I was so excited to hear he made it to WWE and then they didn’t do anything with him. His talent was waisted. Instead Devon would be remembered but 2 cool Scorpio was a superior athlete and performer.

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[@mattmadolah]

As a Referee in Indie wrestling I've met Terry. His broken neck is real deal. The scars on his body are centimeters deep. He cut his tricep with barbwired table at one of our shows and did the 'tape it up' method. Guy is just recently getting a hip replacement and still at it. He is also a ventriloquist! He could talk to you in the ring from across the ring without moving his lips or the crowd hearing

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There's something i did not know about Terry. In all the years I have been a Fan of Sabu i did not know he was a ventriloquist!

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Can you imagine if Jeff Hardy In his prime before he became an addict. Going head to head with Sabu... Especially in the tables ladders & chairs match throw hell in a cell just because there both crazy to try it..

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Seen where Hardy got arrested for DWI a few weeks ago

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A dream match up Sabu vs Jeff Hardy

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[@Rich-km7pr]

GOAT ECW wrestler and one of the greatest period! Icon! 🐐 🐐

[@SDSOverfiend]

Sabu....... The man who made me quit WWE and WCW the summer of 98. Love this dude.

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[@TheDeadlyTikka]

People don’t realise how over Sabu was, here in the UK he was one of the biggest names at his highest point. All that with basically never talking and not being a regular on TV Got the pleasure to meet him a few years back, really chill but that might have been cause he had just bought a tonne of codeine in the Boots down the road just before the show 😂

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Your show is great!!! I’m blown away with nostalgia and can’t stop watching!!! Thank you for sharing your love of wrestling, especially old skool.

[@Wez633]

Learning the tri jump from sabu saved my life. I was caught in the middle of a truck pulling a trailer. So I made the real smart move of getting in the middle trying to cross the street. Well I was in the middle when the red light turned green and some how I just jumped on the middle hitch and jumped off. I got out of the way but the trailers railing caught me. With my wrestling experience I controlled how I feel and landed hard on the other side and nearly missed getting crushed by the wheels. So thank you sabu.

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The Legendary Sabu Those Sabu Vs RVD matches where crazy.

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