Paul Heyman's CONTROVERSIAL Take On Sabu! 

Controversial take? I would say it was spot on overall.

i like how his chair is backwards like one of those after school tv shows

Paul almost called Sabu the Head of the *Table* 🤫

Wth is he talking about!? Sabu was f’n great in TNA and even local house shows.. I remember Sabu as a household wrestling name for sure!

This take is so cold Inuits are hunting seals on it.

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Paul is 100% right in this clip nothing controversial at all. Sabu is a menace his barbwire match are insane, that man was trying to die in the ring for our entertainment. Point up to the sky👆

Right but this walrus stopped him from making millions in WCW.

The wwe network? That’s been gone lol..

People who really love wrestling will always have the memory that Sabu was one of the wrestlers, if not the first, who brought high-level highflying wrestling to the United States and as Heyman said, pioneers don't get rich. . For example, most fans saw highflying wrestling with Rey Mysterio Jr. and more Mexican wrestlers when they came to ECW around 94/96.

Sabu was one of those risk takers where his moves looked believable. To this day, his match with Rey Mysterio at One Night Stand in 2006 is one of my favorite matches. Even though it was short and it had a crappy ending. It was a great showcase of how great Sabu was. That match was just a tip of the iceberg on how talented he was.

Homicidal, suicidal, genocidal THIS IS SABUUUUU!

Sabu should have stayed with WCW when he signed in 1995. Between WCW and his stint in NJPW, Sabu should have retired as a millionaire.

The time period Heyman is talking about is before Benoit dropped Sabu on his head. I remember when he came back, I loved his feuds with RVD and Tazz

Nothing controversial here. Sabu was amazing. I never saw a boring match with him during the period he’s mentioning.

The sandman, tommy dreamer, raven,and new jack. Wcw and wwe buried half of ecw with the exception of rvd and the dudley boys.

Interesting he specifies 1993-early 1995 as his best years. I’m most familiar with his stuff in the later 90s.

Yup Sabu is in my top 4 of all time

Sabu was a pretty big star at least from reputation

Heyman never paid anyone, he was responsible for destroying a lot of these wrestlers.

He could have been if paul didnt fuck over every star on ecw

You could always just pay him for all the free work he did for you before/after you fucked with his WCW contract.

Why is it when anybody speaks the truth, they're labeled controversial? Is that where we're at now? Only saying what doesn't ruffle feathers?

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Agree and was honored to wrestle him twice

Sabu would have been big if Hayman hadn't squeezed everything out of him and asked him to do more. What an absolute bellend! Now I see what people like Shane Douglas, Cornette, etc. were talking about when they said he was full of bs. What a snake.

Man the things he could do with weapons like chairs and tables and the way he moved around the ring and how he used the ropes and so many other things. The man was way ahead of his time, arguably he was the first true extreme high flyer. He was doing stuff before RVD, Jeff hardy, and Ray mysteryo and was doing it so creatively as well. He could’ve for sure been a massive star but yeah his body was basically broken by the time a lot of people got to see him which is so sad especially when you think about everything he gave in the ring to ecw… the man wrestled with a broken jaw.

Big respect to Paul Heymam. He recognizes the real ones.

Nothing controversial about it thats a fact

*points to the sky*

This channel always clickbaits.

Why doesn’t anyone ask heyman why he screwed Sabu with the wcw deal

My controversial Sabu take is that he was the shits.

Sabu owes me $70. True story 😂

Maybe Heyman should have paid Sabu, and his other talent as well.

SABU was 1 of the most innovative wrestlers on the planet . The kamikaze style that he used was insane to a fault .His use of chairs and tables was ahead of its time . His paricipation in Barbed Wire Matches in Japan might have killed his chances in America because during that time it was more about creating heros for children and he was the complete opposite of that . They tried to bring him to WCW but it was short lived . His style was too violent for them . ECW was the only olace outside of Japan where his style could be appreciated . After ECW he wrestled for West Coast company XPW and a bunch of indy promotions . He was in the rebrand of ECW by WWE but that was short lived . He also worked for NWA TNA during the early years and competed in the 1st Barbed Wire Match shown on ppv against Abyss at Turning Point 2005 . His bloody ,violent legacy is respected and revered by Hardcore fans such as myself . Think if given the chance he would have done well in the WWF Attitude Era assuming that McMahon was willing to take the perverbial chains off and let him be him . Dont think that would happened though . Sabu was his own man and being the nephew of The Original Shiek he pretty much called his own shots . His Hardcore legacy is 1 to be respected by his sheer willingness to do the things he did and survive . Homicidal, Suicidal, Genocidal . That is the legend of Sabu .

That was spot on. Him and RVD driving around smoking so weed, good times.

Sabu HALL OF FAME!

no paul... WWE-Attitude Era- STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN & THE ROCK = BILLIONAIRS ECW-tommy dreamer & sandman = bankrupt... Attitude era doesn't mean shit without an incredible superstar to market...you know better than that

So damn true

I think most people misremember ECW because they want to embrace the same ideas Heyman did back in the day.. ECW went brutally popular by giving the fans the things that other territories and promotions would not give so often like breaking furniture for example but once people got used to it and the hype was gone what was left to present..? Saving the distances it's kinda like AEW today: started hot, gave people what they wanted all over again, until the hype was gone..

Jerry Lynn/Sabu was best matches I've ever seen live in the 90s. 100% on target.

Sabu was influencial no doubt. But to really get on top you got to adoubt your uniqueness to the mainstreamstyle to be able to work with the topstars.

Sabu is just like Dynamite. Although for different reasons of course but If I had a list of the top 10 in-ring pro wrestlers they would make it and now one of them is dead and one basically dead anyday now. Shame as he borderline created hardcore wrestling and the other created cruiserweights and elevated technical wrestling. Thank god Bret took it, meanwhile Moxley has butchered it.

When I worked my top 5 were Hitman Rvd Sabu Henning Taz

This is high praise from that man

Sabu could have been Rey Mysterio before Rey Mysterio

It sucks that he didn't fall into the mold that wwf/wcw were looking for at the time - and that maybe he didn't get the recognition of a mainstream audience.. but any wrestling purist will tell you Sabu was one of the greatest talents we'd seen in a generation.

Paul Heyman broke labour laws by not paying his talent.

I was expecting something negative. This was spot on.

Sabu was revolutionizing table spots before anyone

Sabu was the moxley of the wrestling verse back then. Didnt wanna be in wwe so wwe fans pointlessly hated on him when he went to tna.

I think the problem with guys like Sabu is that they never picked their spots. You can take risks, but you should make sure when you do they matter and you get the most out of them. Lot of guys destroy their bodies when it doesn’t matter. You can also drag things out to build up anticipation. Raven in ECW was a master of it. Barely bumped and was their top guy for 2 years

Sabu the goat imo

I'm sorry, but no. Sabu would never have been a big star. He had zero personality.

Sabu could not have been a big star that's bologna