Sabu
Titles Won:
- ECW World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
- ECW World Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Taz (1) and Rob Van Dam (2)
- ECW World Television Championship
- FTW Heavyweight Championship
- Hardcore Hall of Fame (2009)
- Second ECW Triple Crown Champion
- NWA World Heavyweight Championship
- IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship
He is known for his trademark style of hardcore wrestling, which he pioneered in his time with Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) from 1995 to 2000. He is a three-time World Heavyweight Champion having held the ECW World Heavyweight Championship twice and the NWA World Heavyweight Championship once.
Under the tutelage of his uncle Ed “The Sheik” Farhat, Brunk began his career wrestling in the North American independent scene in 1985 under the name of Sabu, before traveling to Japan, competing in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), winning several championships, including the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship. He returned to the United States in 1995, briefly working for World Championship Wrestling (WCW), before beginning his most well-known stint in ECW, where he quickly became a fixture of the promotion.
During his time in ECW, he became a two-time ECW World Heavyweight Champion and a one-time ECW World Television Champion. He would have both a feud and an alliance with The Tazmaniac, defeated him for the ECW FTW Championship and winning the ECW World Tag Team Championship with him. In 1997, Sabu began a Rob Van Dam and Sabu tag team with Rob Van Dam, winning the ECW Tag Team Championship twice.
After leaving ECW, Sabu wrestled in several national promotions, winning the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in 2000. In 2006, he was hired by WWE as part of their new third brand, a rebooted version of ECW. Sabu would wrestle for WWE until he was fired in 2007. He also became a wrestler in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA, now Impact Wrestling) since the creation of the promotion in 2002.
Notable Matches
vs. Terry Funk at ECW Born to be Wired 1997
vs. Abyss at TNA Turning Point 2005
vs. Taz at ECW Living Dangerously 1999
vs. Rob Van Dam at ECW the Doctor is in
vs. Shane Douglas vs Terry Funk at ECW the Night the Line was Crossed
Notable Feuds
w/ The Tazmaniac vs. The Public Enemy
vs. Rob Van Dam
vs. Taz
w/ RVD vs. Tommy Dreamer & The Sandman
vs. Devon Storm
vs. Monty Brown
vs. Abyss
vs. John Cena
w/ The ECW Originals vs. The New Breed
Other Notable Achievements
ACW Heavyweight Championship
CEW Newfoundland Heritage Championship
HCW Heavyweight Championship
BCW Can-Am Heavyweight Championship
EWA Junior Heavyweight Championship
EWA Junior Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
FMW World Martial Arts Tag Team Championship – with Horace Boulder
IWF Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
JCW Heavyweight Championship
MECW Heavyweight Championship
MCW Heavyweight Championship (3 time)
NWA Independent World Heavyweight Championship
NWC Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship
Pro Wrestling Holland Championship
PCW Television Championship
3PW World Heavyweight Championship
Stampede Pacific Heavyweight Championship
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling Match of the Year (2005) vs. Abyss, Barbed Wire Massacre on December 11
UCW Heavyweight Championship
UPW American Championship (2 times)
UXW United States Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship
UWA Heavyweight Championship
WAR World Extreme Championship (2 times)
WWC Hardcore Championship
WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship
WWL Extreme Championship
Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards Readers’ Favorite Wrestler (1994)
XICW Xtreme Championship
X-LAW International Championship
XPW World Heavyweight Championship