Sabu (wrestler)

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Terry "Sabu" Brunk
Sabu in 2009

Sabu in 2009
Data
Ring name Terry "Superfly" Snuka
Sabu
height 183 cm
Fighting weight 103 kg
birth December 12, 1964
Detroit , Michigan
Announced from Bombay , India
Trained by The Sheik
debut 1985

Terry Michael Brunk (born December 12, 1964 in Detroit , Michigan ) is an American wrestler and is best known by his ring name Sabu . He currently appears in the independent scene. Brunk's trademark is his extremely risky and violence-oriented wrestling style, in which he often accepts injuries in order to inspire the audience.

Terry Brunk is the nephew of wrestling legend The Original Sheik and was married to a Japanese woman for a while.

Career

Sporty background

Terry Brunk was on the wrestling team of his school and had his first sporting success there. However, at the age of 12 he was urged by the school administration to leave. Brunk's ring style was already very hard for his youth and he had deliberately injured opponents several times.

Beginnings and Big Times Wrestling

Brunk began his wrestling training at the age of 12 after being kicked out of his school's wrestling team, which was carried out by his uncle Ed Farhat. In the wrestling school of his uncle the young Brunk also learned the Texans Dory Funk Jr. and Terry Funk , who visited there often. After all, he was to develop a deep friendship with Terry Funk. Nevertheless, Brunk had his bloodiest confrontations with funk both in Japan and in the USA (as part of the respective storyline ).

During his wrestling training Brunk teamed up with two young wrestling students of his uncle who would later become the wrestlers Raven and Rob Van Dam . With the latter in particular, Brunk practiced numerous “high flying moves”.

According to Farhat's will, Brunk should become a typical mat wrestler , a technician. He gave him the name Terry "Superfly" Snuka in 1985 and Brunk gained his first professional experience in the promotion of Big Times Wrestling , the small NWA league of Ed Farhat. But Brunk wanted a gimmick as wild as his uncle and so Sabu (the gimmick name was derived from the actor Sabu Dastagir , who was the favorite actor of Brunk's uncle Farhat) was born, initially from Saudi Arabia and later from Bombay / India came from. According to his storyline, this Sabu did not speak English and was initially just the sheik's assistant. Later, Brunk gave some interviews as Sabu , but these are very rare.

Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling

Brunk played his first real hardcore matches in Japan in 1991, when he hired his uncle in the hard promotion Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling and there later also met Mike Awesome: In this promotion, barbed wire and fire in the form of burning ring ropes and tables were more or less Brunk owes most of his scars to this doctorate. Later he will return to this doctorate again and again and will eventually call it his sporting home. Terry Brunk completed a total of 150 barbed wire or barbed wire matches in his first twelve professional years as a wrestler . In order to save medical costs, he usually treated his wounds himself. For example, he glued his largest wounds with superglue .

In the middle of 1993 Brunk came back to the States and was allowed to play two tryout or trial matches against the then Blue Blazer (a ring character of the late Owen Hart ) at the then World Wrestling Federation in 1994 . The WWF officials liked what he offered them, so they presented Terry Brunk with one of the best contracts of the time, which he refused.

Brunk preferred a small NWA league that was just beginning to make a name for itself: the NWA Eastern Championship Wrestling . There Brunk was largely known for the introduction of high-risk hardcore wrestling techniques and quickly became one of the cornerstones of the league - alongside Shane Douglas , the Sandman and Tommy Dreamer . Paul Heyman initially hired Brunk for the ECW only because of his many scars and quickly realized that he had a real star in him.

In the early days of the league as NWA / ECW Terry Brunk had to appear in a "Hannibal Lecter mask" and was led into the hall in chains by his "Lord and Master" 911 . The Moonsaults, which he performed on various tables in and outside the ring, cemented his reputation as the most extreme of the extremes in the USA. Because of this, Terry Brunk was voted the best wrestling technician of the year by independent wrestling fans back in 1995. In his early days, Terry Brunk had two bloody feud programs against Mick Foley in the NWA / ECW : Both argued over which of them was the "true" hardcore icon of modern wrestling.

On August 9, 1997 Terry Brunk played a "Barbed Wire Match" for the Heavyweight Champion Title of Extreme Championship Wrestling against his friend Terry Funk. It was Brunk's first barbed wire match outside of Japan and accordingly the match between the two was set up by Paul Heyman. He was allowed to decide this match for himself and win the title. But this match was too brutal even for ECW boss Paul Heyman, because it finally got completely out of control when a planned jump action by Brunks against Terry Funk went wrong: Terry Funk stood in a corner of the ring and Brunk started one of his well-known jump actions. But Funk left the corner too early and so Brunk tore his entire left biceps on the barbed wire, when as a result he jumped into space and fell backwards to the ground. Terry Brunk provisionally bandaged himself in the ring with a roll of duct tape and carried on. The course of the match has now been changed as Paul Heyman had Rob Van Dam and Tommy Dreamer intervene in the match. Rob Van Dam had the task of disabling Terry Funk , while Tommy Dreamer had to take off Rob Van Dam for it. Brunk was now allowed to defeat Funk by wrapping himself in barbed wire, showing a jump action against Funk and finally pinning it. This match was dangerous for both sides, including Terry Funk: Funk was wrapped in barbed wire before Rob Van Dam's first attempt at a pin, so that the next time he tried to pin, some of the wire's thorns penetrated his throat and throat and so led to the crucial 3rd pin. Eventually Funk and Terry Brunk had to be cut apart with wire cutters.

Independent and World Wrestling Entertainment

After the end of the ECW (summer 2001) Terry Brunk was not taken over by the new owner, the WWE . Brunk and other former ECW wrestlers took part for the first time in summer 2001 in tournaments organized by the IWA Mid-South promotion . With other wrestlers he then took part on August 11, 2001 in the former ECW arena in a re-union event called Main Event Championship Wrestling (MECW) . There he became the first (and only) alternative world champion, as MECW did not come out about this one event. In the ECCW promotion, which belongs to the NWA , Brunk took part in another ECW reunion event.

Terry Brunk was also temporarily under contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling from 2002 , but he was only signed for various individual matches and then went back to Japan.

In the spring of 2004, Brunk signed up for Combat Zone Wrestling . There he competed against the CZW owner John Zandig in a barbed wire tag team match.

On June 10, 2005 Terry Brunk appeared at the Shane Douglas hosted ECW reunion event Hardcore Homecoming , where he played the main event, a barbed wire match, with Douglas and Terry Funk . After Mick Foley unexpectedly intervened in this Extreme Three Way Dance and decided it for Brunk, he showed up only two days later at the WWE and took part in the first ECW One Night Stand .

After the renewed engagement of Brunks at TNA (2006), however, he entered the WWE Brand Extreme Championship Wrestling and again took part in the ECW One Night Stand , so that he was prematurely released by the TNA.

From June 2006 Terry Brunk was used in the WWE “ Extreme Championship Wrestling ” roster , which now also had a weekly TV show. With the Sandman , Tommy Dreamer and Rob Van Dam he formed the team ECW Originals . On July 3rd of the same year Terry Brunk and his ECW colleague Rob Van Dam were arrested for drug possession, which, unlike Van Dam, had no major consequences for Brunk, apart from the payment of US $ 1,000 and a public apology . At WWE Pay-Per-View, he was even awarded a title match against ECW champion The Big Show .

At Wrestlemania 23 Brunk competed with the ECW Originals against Elijah Burke, Matt Striker, Marcus Cor Von and Kevin Thorn (The New Breed) and was allowed to win the match. The feud with The New Breed continued anyway.

Terry Brunk was dissatisfied with the design of his ring character Sabu on the part of the WWE and now let his numerous (and well-known) whims run wild: He was late for events, forgot his wrestling outfit several times and slept during the event - meetings. As a final warning from the WWE, Brunk was finally removed from the December to Dismember 2006 main event and replaced by Bob "Hardcore" Holly . On May 16, 2007, the WWE announced that it had finally separated from Terry Brunk and terminated his contract prematurely.

Independent

After the WWE contract termination, Terry Brunk appeared briefly at the UWF Hardcore Wars . Brunk tried for a while to get a commitment to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and appeared in independent leagues. On July 13, 2007, the AAA announced Brunks as the latest commitment to their summer tournament. Meanwhile, Brunk signed a contract with the New York- based promotion Fight The World Pro Wrestling and was also listed on its current roster. In addition, Brunk had also signed a contract for the USA Xtreme Wrestling (UXW) based in Orlando , Florida , and competed in a tournament there on January 26, 2008.

Sabu (above) against Rob Van Dam in the title match for the AWR world title. Oberhausen on November 29, 2009

After the league closed in 2008, Terry Brunk took a break. Due to his very extreme wrestling style, Brunk's body had suffered greatly over the years. Therefore, he had to undergo a back operation in summer 2008.

Since his recovery, he has also competed for the Irish wrestling promotion American Wrestling Rampage since 2008 . As part of this promotion, Brunk took part in a European tour with Rob Van Dam and Raven, among others , and performed in several German cities in November 2009.

successes

  • Asylum Championship Wrestling
  • 1 × ACW Heavyweight Champion
  • Border City Wrestling
  • 1 × BCW Can-Am Heavyweight Champion
  • Extreme Wrestling Alliance
  • 1 × EWA Junior Champion
  • Insane Wrestling Federation
  • 2 × IWF Heavyweight Champion
  • Juggalo Championship Wrestling
  • 1 × JCW Heavyweight Champion
  • Main Event Championship Wrestling
  • 1 × MECW APW (Alternative Pro Wrestling) Champion
  • Motor City Wrestling
  • 1 × MCW Heavyweight Champion
  • National Wrestling Conference
  • 2 × NWC Heavyweight Champion
  • 1 × NJPW IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion
  • Professional Championship Wrestling
  • 1 × PCW Television Champion
  • Pro-Pain-Pro-Wrestling
  • 1 × 3PW Heavyweight Champion
  • Stampede Pacific Wrestling
  • 1 × Stampede Pacific Heavyweight Champion
  • Ultimate Championship Wrestling
  • 1 × UCW Heavyweight Champion
  • Universal Wrestling Association
  • 1 × UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Champion
  • USA Xtreme Wrestling
  • 2 × USA Pro Heavyweight Champion
  • USA Pro Wrestling
  • 1 × USPW Heavyweight Champion
  • 1 × WWC Universal Heavyweight Champion
  • Xtreme Pro Wrestling
  • 1 × XPW Heavyweight Champion

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Peter William in World Of Wrestling - Heros Of The Decade , Premiere X-Action (2000)
  2. ↑ Portrait: The Suicidal, Homicidal, Genocidal Death-Defying Maniac - The career of the hardcore icon Sabu in the wrestling magazine Ringside , issue 08/2007, p. 16
  3. ↑ a b c d e Terry Brunk in: Forever Hardcore , Franchise Promotions, 2005
  4. ↑ http://www.spiegel.de/sptv/magazin/0,1518,312934,00.html ( Memento from April 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Ringside , 8/2007
  6. ^ Paul Heyman in The Rise + Fall of ECW , 2004
  7. ↑ Power Wrestling 2/1995 (p. 40 ff.)
  8. ^ Silver Vision - The Hardcore Edition: Mick Foley - Greatest Hits & Misses , 2007
  9. ^ Silver Vision: Blood Sport - ECW's most violents matches
  10. ↑ http://czwrestling.com/lockerroom/alumni/
  11. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ftwprowrestling.com

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Commons : Terry Brunk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Sabu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brunk, Terry Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit , Michigan