Sabu A Day:Day 3 vs Big Show Extreme Rules MSG

So on the first day I said in regards to Sabu vs Abyss




"I wish Kane vs Sabu had happened once in Sabu's WWE tenure. If he can do good work with Dollar Tree Kane, then surely he could do great work with real Kane."

Today we put that theory to the test as we watch Sabu vs Big Show in an Extreme Rules match from Madison Square Garden.

This match is the blow off to the Sabu/Big Show feud. They had a match at Summerslam that Big Show won. They had a rematch where Sabu got a visual pinfall. That match had Sabu bloodying Show with a ring bell and it was great. It set this match up.

First things first, I think Big Show is the best ECW Champion ever. You could of put his reign in the original ECW and it would not of seemed outta place. Every week they were bringing in special attractions from Raw and Smackdown trying to take down Show. Mixed in with him feuding with ECW regulars like RVD,Sandman and of course Sabu.

Match starts and the size difference is obvious. Sabu tries to use a chair and Show swats it aside casually.
Show ragdolls Sabu around the ring. Bashes his head in with headbutts. Hits him with chops. As a dick move he tosses him outside and lets Heyman's bodyguards beat up on Sabu. Heyman is outside kissing Show's ass, and Show has this dopey grin on his face. Big Show has the absolute perfect balance between genuine monster and hateable dick head.

Show takes the chair Sabu tried to use earlier and destroys it. He actually rips it apart with his bare hands. Sabu takes this as a sign to get it in gear but Show crushes him with a clothesline. After being worked over, Sabu tags Show in the nuts. Dropping him to his knees. Sabu grabs a chair and tags him in the face with multiple chair shots. He tries to lock on the camel clutch which looks crazy. Like my two year old nephew trying to choke me out. Show picks him up and turns it into a side slam.

Sabu dodges a big boot, causing Show to crotch himself.. Sabu hits a flying dropkick, knocking Show to the floor. Heyman's guards help Show back into the ring. Show easily kicks out of a pin attempt and is already back in control.

Show is ready to end things. He tries to chokeslam Sabu thru a table but Sabu reverses it into a DDT. Show is so huge Sabu is briefly trapped under his arm. Like someone in a collapsed building under a beam. Sabu is up and has the chair and goes to town. Heyman is great wincing and crying. One last shot sends Show to the floor thru another table.

Outside the ring, Sabu attacks Heyman's guards. I love how when Sabu punched them he shifted his hand to a different position to protect his knuckles. Show tries to slam him but Sabu gets out of the way and shoves him into a turnbuckle post.

Show is draped on a table. Sabu comes off the top for a legdrop, sees Show has moved and adjust to hit him with Air Sabu but Show catches him and Chokeslams him thru the table. Back in the ring and the Cobra Clutch Back Breaker and Hog Log ends it.

I loved the first three months of ECW on Sci fi. It went downhill after Show lost the belt. I know it occasionally had its moments until it croaked last year. But nothing compares to Big Show tearing shit up with Sabu and Sandman every week.

Sabu A Day:Day 2 vs Kevin Thorn Halloween 2006

This match is from the Halloween 2006 episode of ECW on Syfy. Sabu is facing Kevin Thorn for a spot in the Extreme Elimination Chamber. Which as an aside is an unfairly slagged match BTW.


I love Kevin Thorn. I think I was singing his praises in 06 but not nearly enough. Loved his feud with Stevie Richards in 2007. I wish he had been moved to Smackdown to feud with Taker.

But this match is with Sabu. You get a similar dynamic to the match with Abyss. Though in the case of Thorn he is wrestling more like a monster. While Abyss was acting like a 6ft6 300 pound chickenshit heel.

Initially Thorn runs over Sabu. Having a clear cut size and power advantage. Until Sabu takes over using his speed and general unorthodox style. Thorn goes to the floor and Sabu dives onto him. I liked Ariel's 'Holy Shit" reaction. Sabu presses the advantage with a beautiful looking slingshot splash. One thing I loved about Sabu's eith month WWE tenure was he got a lot more creative without being able to use chairs and tables. So you never know where he is going to spring from.

Thorn gets back the advantage by turning an attempted leaping DDT into a sit out Spinebuster. Thron runs Sabu's shoulder into the turnbuckle and does a good job working him over on the mat with a chinlock and armbar. Not rest holds, really working him over.

Sabu catches Thorn with a sweet looking leaping leg lariat off the second rope. Follows it with a nice looking leaping clothesline and flying back elbow. He comes off the second rope and Thorn hits him with a nasty looking clothesline. Thorn misses a charge, and Sabu hits him with a GREAT flying DDT. Then hits him with a flipping legdrop and gets the rare submission win with the Camel Clutch.

I love this match. A perfect sub five minute TV match.

Sabu A Day:Day 1 vs Abyss Falls Count Anywhere

This match is from one of the old weekly TNA PPV shows. This was a part of the build up to the first match with Raven. Not sure why Abyss is involved.

I'm not a big fan of Abyss for whatever reason, he and Sabu have great chemistry. I have never seen them have anything less than a good match. They had a feud in 05 that culminated in TNA's only Barbwire match.

This is a street fight. Abyss has control of the early portions of the match using his size to take away Sabu's speed and crazy advantage but the match still goes to the outside. Sabu wears him out with chairshots. He hits a great looking Air Sabu dive to the floor. No seriously check it out, he gets some crazy hang time.

They fight up to the entrance set. I forgot how rinky dink the TNA "Asylum" looked. I'll still take it over the Impact Zone.

So a table is set up and Abyss and Sabu are fighting above it. Trading punches perilously above it as if the table was hot lava. I've said it before, but Sabu really understands how to get the most out of a table spot. Even matches with multiple table spots build in intensity. Sabu hits a sweet looking elbow splash into the table wreckage on Abyss getting a two count.

They fight back to the ring with Abyss continually going on the attack. Sabu has another chair and again gives Abyss noggin a floggin. Gets him down and hits an Arabian Facebuster.

The chair is all mangled and broken. Which is a cool visual. Abyss tries to catch Sabu on the turnbuckle but Sabu catches it and cracks Abyss skull. The match is kinda like a Road Runner cartoon with Abyss as the Coyote.


To further illustrate this point, Abyss takes out his chain. Sabu ducks grabs the chain and hog ties Abyss.

Abyss catches Sabu with a tossed chair as he tries the Triple Jump moonsault. Its interesting that every time Abyss gets any sustained offense it is thru cheating.

They fight down by the stage again. Sabu puts Abyss on a table and leaps off the bleachers onto Abyss.

Sabu does not pin him instead wanting to get another table to finish Abyss for good. Now Sabu is at the highest point in the Asylum. Lights go out and Raven pushes him off onto the table and it doesn't break. Raven dives off onto him with an elbow. Abyss gets the three.

I don't know if that was improvised but that was certainly a sick bump for Sabu to take.

I wish Kane vs Sabu had happened once in Sabu's WWE tenure. If he can do good work with Dollar Tree Kane, then surely he could do great work with real Kane.

From the pages of Savage Sports Stories comes Sergent Sargent's Horse Power

Horse Power:TRAPPED Day 2. The birth of Grease Trap.

http://horsepowerthemovie.blogspot.com/2011/08/sergent-sargents-horse-power-trapped_19.html

From the pages of Savage Sports Stories comes Sergent Sargent's Horse Power

It is the start of a brand new Horse Power saga.

Horse Power:TRAPPED!!!! Day 1. Horse Power battles the E-Unit's long time rivals Dread Watch.

http://horsepowerthemovie.blogspot.com/2011/08/sergent-sargents-horse-power-trapped.html

From the pages of Savage Sports Stories comes Sergent Sargent's Horse Power

Horse Power Dawn of the Necronoid Day 8. In the finale the team destroys the Necronaut.


http://horsepowerthemovie.blogspot.com/2011/08/sergent-sargents-horse-power-dawn-of_17.html

3 Minute Warning vs Ken Anderson & Andy Sealon

Found this on Youtube. I loved Three Minute Warning at the time. These guys were the best at squashing dudes. A worthy successor to the Samoan Swat Team. One of the jobbers here is Ken Anderson. You might not recognize him as it is before he "blossomed". To be fair though, Anderson showed a lot of potential here.

His partner Andy Sealon had some really nice punches. One really nice sequence with the jobbers hitting a double dropkick, only to be wiped out by a Rosie double clothesline.

Jamal (The late Umaga) hits a sweet spin wheel kick. Then they finish it with an Irish Whip into a leaping Samoan Drop.

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Keep forgetting to post the links here.

Day 5
http://horsepowerthemovie.blogspot.com/2011/08/sergent-sargents-horse-power-dawn-of_12.html

Day 6
http://horsepowerthemovie.blogspot.com/2011/08/sergent-sargents-horse-power-dawn-of_15.html


Day 7
http://horsepowerthemovie.blogspot.com/2011/08/sergent-sargents-horse-power-dawn-of_16.html

From the pages of Savage Sports Stories comes Sergent Sargent's Horse Power

Here are days 2 thru 4 of Horse Power:Dawn of the Necronoid.

Day 2

Introducing E-Unit
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Day 3
E-Unit encounters the Necronoids
http://horsepowerthemovie.blog​spot.com/2011/08/horse-powerda​wn-of-necronoid-day-3.html


Day 4
The Macabre Machinations of Professor Necro
http://horsepowerthemovie.blog​spot.com/2011/08/sergent-sarge​nts-horse-power-dawn-of_11.htm​l

Sergent Sargent's Horse Power: Dawn of the Necronoid Day 2

http://horsepowerthemovie.blogspot.com/2011/08/horse-powerdawn-of-necronoid-day-2.html

From the pages of Savage Sports Stories comes Horse Power

http://horsepowerthemovie.blogspot.com/2011/08/sergent-sargents-horse-power-dawn-of.html

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