Terry Brunk, a professional wrestler who is known to fans as Sabu who pioneered in the so -called hardcore style that became a touchstone of wrestling in the 1990s and 2000s, said World Wrestling Entertainment. He was 60.
It was not immediately clear when Mr. Brunk died, and that of the company rack The announcement of his death gave no reason. His family could not be reached immediately for comment.
Known for the use of tables and chairs in the Ring, Mr Brunk was a national familiarity with extreme championship struggling, a smaller and grim circuit compared to the more regular World Wordwrestling Federation and World Championship wrestling companies.
“Sabu became a national star as part of ECW, where he was a pioneer of struggling hardcore, jumped out of chairs and his opponents drove through tables and even barbed wire,” WWE said in his statement.
Mr. Brunk later joined the WWE in 2006, with which he performed for a year, including at Wrestlemania 23 in Detroit, the hometown of Mr. Brunk.
As recently as last monthMr. Brunk swung seats around a barbed ward ring and returned as Sabu in an event with the wrestler Joey Janela who was invoiced as Sabu’s pension competition.
Although generally remembered for his use of props and tables in the Ring, Mr. Sabu was wary of the spectacle of professional struggle. He would then criticize the more than life -sized stunts that would define later iterations of the WWE and other wrestling promotion companies.
“In an Olympic competition you can’t stack a few tables and then climb something and jump off. That’s a stunt,” said Mr. Brunk against one Interviewer with Covalent TV on Wrestlecade 2024. “I’m not a stuntman or actor.”
Mr. Brunk was trained by his uncle, Edward George FarhartA WWE Hall of Fame wrestler known as ‘The Sheikh’.
“I went through all the basic principles every day,” Mr. Brunk remembered in his Covalent TV interview. His uncle, he said, had him set up for months and break the training ring before he once gave him a chance.
For many fans, Mr. Brunk an era of professional struggling when telling stories was given priority over spectacle. Mr. Brunk said in his interview from 2024 that even his use of a single table could involve an audience – there was a narrative arch, a setup, a scourge. Not so, he said, struggling in modern professional.
“When they break a table,” Mr. Brunk said, “they just do it for the crash.”
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