On a recent edition of the “Stories with Brisco & Bradshaw” podcast, ECW legend Sabu revealed how being shot led to his decision to become a wrestler.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On the incident inspiring him to move ahead with his dream: “When I was 19, I got shot. Coming up, I wanted to be a wrestler then all of a sudden I got shot. I got shot in the face, in the teeth… As soon as I got out of the hospital, I said, ‘I’mma be a wrestler now.’ So, I started lifting weights, then I went up to my uncle’s about six weeks after that, and then I moved out there a few months after that, and then I started to go. I got shot first, and that kind of sparked me to do it now. Because I kept saying, ‘I’ll do it tomorrow’ or ‘next year.’”
On how he got shot: “I see this guy coming down with two guns. Boom, boom, boom … shoots my friend in the stomach, boom, boom, boom, and took off running, and I ran behind him, picked him up and threw him down. Then I came on top of him, and he pushed the gun on top of my face and shot me… [The shooter] got nine months for felonious assault because when he turned his back I kind of … I shouldn’t have did that, I took the law into my own hands, and I deserved to get shot. But the reason I got shot was my own fault, they said.”
