10 Wrestlers Who Secretly Changed WWE History

3. Sabu

One of the most annoying things a WWE crowd can do is, during a hardcore match, relentlessly chant for tables. I like table spots as much as the next man, but sometimes this chant can overpower a match and take attention away from the performers.

Turns out we have Sabu to thank for this. While not the first wrestler to incorporate tables into their act, the high-flyer was the one who made the furniture item a staple of Western wrestling. 

In ECW, the Homicidal etc. etc. would routinely leap from tables, put people through tables, put himself through tables, and, more often than not, wildly miss a table while jumping from a great height. The site of a wrestler's body crashing through the splintery wood set fans' hearts ablaze and wrestling was never the same again. 

The popularity of ECW in general inspired WWE to kickstart the Attitude Era, but Sabu's rampages were a direct inspiration to many. When the legend died in 2025, Bubba Ray Dudley directly credited him for making the table spot famous. 

He didn't get everything right all of the time, but when he did, there was no one quite like Sabu.