20 ECW Easter Eggs, References And In-Jokes You Never Noticed

5. That Time That Sabu Brought The Attitude Era To WCW In 1995...Then Left

Sabu put Alex Wright through a table on the second-ever episode of WCW Monday Nitro on September 11, 1995 and was the third featured cruiserweight of the Nitro era after Jushin "Thunder" Liger and Brian Pillman. As well, in the buildup to his Halloween Havoc match with Mr. JL (aka Jerry Lynn), his uncle/manager The Sheik threw a fireball at the then-masked Lynn. Was wrestling in 1995 prepared for Sabu? Absolutely not. The idea that Sabu debuted by breaking a table, then using a fireball was certainly too much for wrestling in that era, and Sabu left WCW by the end of 1995. The idea that The Public Enemy debuted in January 1996 and broke tables as babyfaces (Sabu was a heel) says everything. When happy, smiling homies do it, table-breaking and hardcore wrestling isn't violent, it's amusing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkqoa-aepI4 Given that by June of 1996 that Stone Cold Steve Austin was winning the King of the Ring and taking about "whipping asses," and by October 1997 "Hell in a Cell" exists, it's amazing that in literally continuing to copy ECW in as early as 1995, the Monday Night Wars could have been over before they started.