10 Most Badass Wrestling Threats EVER
3. Taz Tells Sabu To Get Out Of His Dojo
In early 1997, Taz cut a typically threatening promo in his dojo - one of the coolest words ever, incidentally - building towards his slow-burn blowoff match with Sabu at Barely Legal 1997.
The programme is best remembered as a patient exercise in delaying gratification - Taz and Sabu didn't share a ring for a long, long time - but the promo work should be praised in equal measure. If it wasn't so unreal - and bear in mind Sabu didn't talk, so this was something special even by Taz's standards - the feud wouldn't be enshrined in legend.
Sabu wasn't the only target of Taz's ire. Bragging about how he'd been working hurt the whole time, and he was now at 100% following successful rotator cuff surgery, he insisted that ECW was his territory. He bemoaned the fact that every pretender relied on weapons to get ahead. Taz's hands were his weapons.
In a great line, he ripped Terry Funk apart for carrying a shovel around in a trademark short-tempered rant. "He should be dead! He should dig a hole for himself! The rigor mortis is settin' in! He's an old washed-up punk freak!"
Then, when locked into his zone, Taz saved the best line for his sign-off; after begging Sabu not to think their grudge was anywhere near over, he screamed like an animal and told him to "Get out of my dojo!"
It isn't the most vivid description of an imminent, violent sh*t-kicking, but the sheer rage of his cadence is exactly why he was taken seriously as the most feared shooter in the states in the mid-'90s.