Foley on Sabu: “I started hearing about Sabu and the amazing, death-defying feats that he was capable of, and I felt a little nervous because it sounded like my territory, except he was doing it with a much greater degree of athleticism,” Foley said. “I began seeing photos of this guy just tearing his body apart in horrific matches in Japan a few years before I started doing the same.”
RVD on Sabu "“Who else has ever jumped from a chair in the middle of the ring, up to the top rope — in the middle, not in the corner — and then dove out onto the fourth row? The moves were original, the style was original. It drew people in."
Heyman "“Whether Sabu gets the credit in history he deserves, the answer is no,”
“The reality of history is that others will take snippets of the style, incorporate it into another groundbreaking presentation and then get credit for implementing a new way to bring sports-entertainment to the masses,”
Though he conceded that nobody’s quite captured Sabu’s essence, Rollins admitted that the scarred maniac was an inspiration, to some degree, for his own aerial-based ring style.
AND ILL LEAVE THIS HERE... A SONNING FROM TERRY FUNK TO YALL KNOW IT ALLS
“Over the years, Sabu’s contributions to wrestling have been forgotten by a lot of people, it seems, and his historical importance is undervalued by many so-called wrestling ‘experts,’” Funk wrote.