Sabu (wrestler)

Sabu (Terrance Michael Brunk, 1963 to 2025) was an American professional wrestler widely regarded as a pioneer of hardcore wrestling. Trained by his uncle Ed "The Sheik" Farhat, he began on the North American independent scene in 1985, then wrestled in Japan for Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling and New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship. He became a fixture of Extreme Championship Wrestling from 1995, holding its World Heavyweight Championship twice and forming a tag team with Rob Van Dam. He also won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in 2000 and made repeated stints in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. Commentators credit him with popularizing tables as weapons, which helped lay the ground for the tables, ladders and chairs match. He wrestled his retirement match in 2025, shortly before his death.