Memories of Sabu from Chris Jericho.
On May 11th, Terry Bruink a.k.a. Sabu, passed away at the age of 61. Tributes poured in from wrestlers and fans alike and a new tribute to Sabu was done via the newest Talk Is Jericho podcast.
Jericho was joined by Bully Ray and Tommy Dreamer and they spoke about their respective relationships and dynamics with Sabu.
As the conversation went on, Jericho touched on Sabu's final match at Joey Janela/GCW Spring Break 9. Jericho shared that after the match, Sabu reached out to him about the possibility of doing a match with Jericho months down the line.
“But I will say this too, when you mentioned his last match on his terms, I don’t think I’m talking out of school here in saying that I did get a text from him. As a matter of fact, it’s the last text I got about a week before he passed away, saying, ‘Aye, in six months, you wanna have another match? I wanna have another match.’ So I think he had his retirement match, but still wanted to have other matches and I know that Rob (Van Dam) talked about it where Sabu said it’d be cheating to have a match against Rob because they’re so close. I did get an inquiry from Sabu, who was saying he wanted to have another one and that’s a classic, old-school brother wrestling story too.”
Another Sabu story that Jericho shared had to do with the Jericho Cruise. Sabu proposed the idea of him and Jericho having a match and the loser would have to jump off the ship. Sabu told Jericho that he'd win the match, but he'd still be the one to jump off into the water.
“When Sabu was giving me these DMs, before he actually came on the Jericho Cruise because he did come on the cruise. He was great on it. He did a live podcast which was great. He got to reunite with Luther, his old friend from F.M.W., but he was texting me prior for years and he’d say he wants to come on the cruise and he wants to do a match with me where the loser jumps over the edge into the water. Here’s the classic Sabu part, he goes, ‘Now I’ll beat you, but I’ll still jump over the edge into the water…’ I’ll beat you on your own cruise, and then jump basically to your death.”
Rob Van Dam echoed similar sentiments from the first Jericho quote. Sabu also reached out to him about the possibility of doing another match after his retirement bout.
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Talk Is Jericho with an H/T to Fightful for the transcriptions.
