Sabu a Day 6 vs Cactus Jack NWC 1995

Last night on DVDVR, I got a request from Dylan Waco to review the matches Sabu and Cactus Jack had in 1995 for NWC in Las Vegas. I'm going to look at the Cage match first since cage matches are such oddities for both of them.

Cactus does this great promo about how Sabu brings out the worst in him. I really miss Cactus Jack. Not Mick Foley but Cactus Jack the sick and twisted fuck. The cage match has a good premise. Last time they wrestled they destroyed the building, endangered fans and ruined a blackjack game.


Cactus and Sabu have really weird chemistry. A lot of it is they feel like putting two magnets together of the same polarity. It makes me wonder what a Cactus Jack circa 95/Necro Butcher match would be like. Have Butcher and Sabu wrestled?

The match starts and it is awkward. It is escapes rules BTW and filled with weapons. A combination of Sabu and Jack's weird chemistry and Jack being bad in cage matches. In his book Foley said anytime he was in a bad match he would kick into over drive to try to save it. That happens here. He really tears into Sabu and like the Parka match it feels like two guys dropping bombs. Jack beats the shit out of Sabu. Laying into him with kicks, punches and weapon shots. Wears him out with a snow shovel. Then starts trying to shove Sabu through the cage.

I think that Foley know he can't outcrazy Sabu, so he steps into the role of large brute and fucks him up. He breaks a pane of glass over Sabu's head and starts cutting him up, even messing up his own hand. I don't think even the Japanese Death Leagues were using glass yet.

Cactus sets up a table and Sabu blindsides him. Tries to go up top and Cactus puts him in a sleeper causing them to plummet into the table.  Sabu tries to scale the cage and Cactus follows. Sabu hits a dropkick on the top rope crotching Jack. Now Sabu is going after Cactus with a barrage of weapon shots.

We get another edit and Cactus is trying to escape but Sabu wails on him with the shovel. They fight on top of the cage again and Sabu knocks Cactus to the mat and follows up with a Rey Mysterio esque splash.

Later Sabu is thrown at full speed into the table which doesn't break. Staggers out and headbutts Cactus in the gut. Later Sabu places Cactus on the table and misses a moonsault and the table does not break.

Sabu's selling is great. I mean he probably is hurt but the result is the same. Cactus misses a top rope elbow and the table still does not break. Now Sabu hits the legdrop and the table still refuses to break. They have both collective said fuck it and go to the finish. Which is the Orndorff/Hogan SNME finish.