10 Wrestlers That Totally Broke The Mould

10. Sabu

For around three decades, the acrobatic madman affectionately thought of by fans as being €˜suicidal, homicidal and/or genocidal€™ has thrilled and amazed us in equal measure. Taking his cue from his uncle Ed Farhat, who wrestled as €˜The Sheik€™ and is legendary for being one of the founding fathers of hardcore wrestling, the three-time World Champion€™s scar-riddled body reads like a hardcore wrestling roadmap. Japanese barbed wire scars zigzag painfully across his chest and stomach, while ECW€™s trademarked pale, hungry lines of haggard flesh adorn both arms as a visceral reminder of THAT arena in Philadelphia. The tough, leather like hide of his face is also weathered and deeply cut, each gash a memento from an indie card blade job, somewhere in the world. Sabu has become such a fixture of the global indie wrestling scene that it is easy to forget that he is one of the most influential figures in the history of professional wrestling. Without Sabu, it is doubtful that ECW would have gotten off the ground, or that any fans would have ever heard its rebel cry. Every time D€™Von gets the tables, or Rob hits a Vandaminator, or anyone, anywhere goes through a table; they ought to be sending Sabu a royalty cheque. If Terry Funk piledriving Ric Flair through a table at the very end of the 1980€™s was the first intentional use of wooden furniture in pro wrestling, then it represents a hastily sketched out, almost primordial version of what Sabu would later do to the concept. He turned breaking tables into an art and then decorated his body with the resultant scar tissue. As an architect of the modern hardcore style and, as a result, one of the most important wrestlers of the 1990€™s and beyond, Sabu deserves to be remembered as one of the sport€™s true geniuses.