10 Wrestlers Who Were Recklessly Dangerous
5. Sabu
Though rarely at the wrong end of somebody else's injury, Sabu had little care for his own wellbeing to the point where it became the most marketable part of his persona after the rest of his act aged as badly as he did.
An iconic figure in the pockets of the North East and Japanese circuits he'd found fame in, Sabu's 'Homicidal, Suicidal, Genocidal' style was brave and revolutionary at the time, but the theft of most of his best bits by the late-1990s had left him something of a relic in his own time.
Through fire, flames and broken tables, Sabu persisted in earnest, leading to grisly moments such as the misplaced landing from a Chris Benoit throw that broke his neck and the glueing of his own arm back together after a chasmic wound appeared during his 1997 no-roped barbed wire ECW Heavyweight Title match with Terry Funk.
He unexpectedly lasted a year after arriving in the rebooted WWECW nearly a decade later, but he looked 40 years older rather than 10. At this point a continued danger to himself even if his botchy offence usually looked featherlight, Sabu's steeply declining match quality prompted his release shortly after his one and only (multi-man) WrestleMania match.