WWE: 10 Most Extreme ECW Matches

1. Sabu vs. Terry Funk - Born to be Wired, August 9, 1997

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGc59YkEano Even the most desensitised deathmatch wrestling fans should cringe at the level of violence in this one. It is truly disturbing, and extremely difficult to watch, making it arguably the most "extreme" match in the history of the promotion. Filmed exclusively for ECW Home Video, most of this match was not shown on television, despite the fact it was for the ECW World Heavyweight Championship, held by Terry Funk. Early in the match, Sabu hooks Funk in a camel clutch, in the spirit of his legendary uncle, The Sheik. Now that's old school. Funk comes back with a neckbreaker, then spikes Sabu with a good old fashioned piledriver, followed by a DDT. Sabu is the first one to taste the barbed wire after Funk kicks out of a hurricarana-pin attempt, sending the homicidal, suicidal, genocidal madman flying across the ring. Funk gruesomely grinds and rakes the face of Sabu across the barbed wire, ripping his flesh. "Oh my god!" Styles screams as Funk crotches Sabu across the barbed wire, shredding his Arabian tights. Digging deep, Sabu reverses an Irish whip and sends Funk into the barbed wire, then hammers away on the hardcore legend with a series of chair shots, lacerating his face. With a fist full of barbed wire, Sabu stabs Funk in the head, as this match starts to resembles the vicious and bloody barbed wire battles between Jos LeDuc and Carlos Colon back in the '80s. It's the best of extreme and old school wrestling, as the 53-year-old Funk fights his way back and deeply lacerates Sabu's left bicep. Now that's extreme, as blood gushes from the ripped arm of Sabu, as Bill Alfonso runs for a roll of duct tape to stop the excessive bleeding. Before Sabu can fully bandage himself up, Funk hits a sickening neckbreaker across two metal chairs set up in the center of the ring. Mutilated and blood soaked, Sabu is mercilessly dropped mid-section first across the barbed wire, as Funk goes after Fonzie, slicing his back to bits. Tommy Dreamer and Rob Van Dam both make their way down to ringside to join in the action, as RVD wraps Funk up in barbed wire and lays his bloodied and beaten body across a wooden table. With no regard for his own well being, Sabu wraps himself in barbed wire and hurls himself off the ring apron and onto Funk with a flying leg drop. Barbed wire and blood is everywhere as the hardcore wrestlers are so intertwined, it will take wire cutters to cut these two loose. Sabu pins Terry Funk to become the ECW World Heavyweight Championship, in a tangled and bloody mess of barbed wire, and you have to see it to believe it. "This is the most amazing thing I have ever witnessed in my entire life," an awestruck Joey Styles states, almost in a whisper. After Born to be Wired, ECW never had another barbed wire match again. No one could ever top it, because this is as extreme as it gets.