Sabu

Sabu was one of those wrestlers who genuinely rewired what people thought pro wrestling could be — watching him work an ECW crowd with a folding chair, a table, and absolutely zero regard for his own body was something else entirely. The guy from Staten Island became the face of hardcore before "hardcore" was even a marketing category, and he did it by wrestling like every match might be his last. Three-time world champion sounds clean on paper, but the actual texture of his career was anything but — it was chaotic and dangerous and completely his own invention. I've always had massive respect for performers who carve out a style so distinctive that nobody else can really copy it without looking like an imitation, and Sabu absolutely did that.

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Name (English)

Sabu

Name (Japanese)

サブゥー

Reading

さぶぅー

Born

December 12, 1964 – May 11, 2025

Origin

Staten Island, New York, United States

Height

183 cm

Occupation

professional wrestler

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Dragon

• Xhttps://x.com/TheRealSabuECW
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabu%20(wrestler)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%96%E3%82%A5%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q445365

Tags

• New York
• professional wrestler

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.