After an incredible 40-year career, the homicidal, genocidal, suicidal, death-defying Sabu has wrestled his last match.
At Joey Janela’s Spring Break, Sabu faced off against Janela in a No Rope, Barbed Wire match which was very poetic since Sabu and barbed wire have been bloody, gory friends and enemies throughout his entire career including that unforgettable ECW, Born to be Wired match against Terry Funk.
Outside the ring there were plenty of wooden boards with barbed wire attached to them and two chairs with a wooden barbed wire mesh atop them.
Sabu came out wearing a white suit with no shirt underneath. Sabu walks around the ring posing and greeting fans but there are no stairs to get in the ring, which confuses him. Sabu grabs a chair and uses that to crawl into the ring. Sabu walks around the ring back and forth, talking to the referee and the ring announcer.
After he is introduced, Sabu grabs the microphone and says something about someone apologizing. He does his trademark pose in the middle of the ring. Janela attacks him from behind. Janela kickc and stomps Sabu. Sabu fight back DDTing Janela. Janela pounds Sabu into the mat.
“F–k ’em, Sabu! Fuck ’em, up!” chants the crowd.
Sabu takes Janela down with a clothesline. Sabu pulls out a spike stabbing Janela in the head with it while pointing up the sky and his legendary uncle.
A whistle sounds and out comes Bill Alfonso with a steel chair. The crowd chants: “Holy shit!”.
Sabu digs the spike into Janela’s head. Alfonso throws the chair into the ring. Sabu throws it hitting Janela in the head. Sabu sets-up a chair. Sabu runs, jumps off the chair but lands, falls through the barbed wire ropes and falls lands, gets tangled up into the barbed wire structure, net on the floor.
Sabu gets back into the ring but his jacket is caught up in the wire. Janela rips it off of him. Sabu and Janela are busted up. Janela sets-up a barbed wire board against the barbed wire ropes. Sabu is whipped into them. He goes through the board, through the ropes and to the floor falling in a heap. Medical officials swarm Sabu. When Sabu raises his head there is a pool of blood on the concrete floor.
Alfonso enters the ring throwing a chair at Janela as Sabu is down for a long time. Otis and Atticus Cogar arrive on the scene. They attack Janela. Atticus stabs Janela in the head with skewers and powerslams Alfonso through a barbed wire board.
The lights go out. We hear strains of Enter Sandman.
The fans chant: ECW! ECW!”.
The Sandman arrives with a kendo stick in hand and a beer. He makes his way through the fans and down to the ring.
The fans chant: “F–k him up, Sandman! F–k him up!”.
Sandman canes both Cogar brothers. Sabu gets back to his feet as Janela hits the Sandman from behind knocking him out of the ring.
Sabu throws Janela out of the ring and through two barbed wire doors. When Janela gets back into the ring, Sabu extends his hand out to him. Janela punches him in the face. They trade haymakers. Janela and Sabu pick up chair and have a duel. Janela takes a chair to the head. Janel throws chair after chair at Sabu. Sabu walks up and hugs Janela. They get back to fighting.
Sabu DDTs Janela on a steel chair. The fight over a steel chair. Sabu gains possession of it. He whacks Janela in the head over and over. An Arabian Facebuster pins Janela.
Sabu and Janela share a bottles of water after the match. Janela gave Sabu his award naming him a living, breathing legend.
GCW: Joey Janela’s Spring Break 9 Results
Violence Is Forever (Dominic Garrini and Kevin Ku) (c) versus Alec Price – GCW World Tag Team Championships
Price is fighting alone since is partner Cole Radrick is injured with a torn ACL. Price is able to fend off both members of Violence for the entire start of the match until Ku gives Price a top rope brainbuster on the turnbuckle. Ku is already bleeding from the forehead. Price kicks out of Chasing the Dragon. Violence is Forever is about to clock Price with the championship belts but…Cole Radrick’s music hits. He arrives in street clothes and on crutches. He points off stage smiling. It is Jordan Oliver. Price DDTs Ku. Oliver slams Garrini off the top rope for the cover and the win.
Winners: …new GCW World Tag Team Champions, Alec Price and Jordan Oliver
La Familia Wagner versus Los Desperados, Jack Cartwheel
Dr. Wagner Jr. gives Cartwheel a big boot to the head and a butterfly powerbomb. He pins Cartweel with a Magistral Cradle.
Winners: La Familia Wagner
Bozilla versus Megan Bayne
This is a really decent match and felt like a clash of the titans…without Calibos. One of the best women’s matches of the year. The fans show their support for Bayne even before the bell rings. Bayne actually looks small compared to Bozilla. Bozilla even bowls her over with a shoulder tackle. Bozilla picks up Bayne drops her back in the ring from the apron. Bayne hits a senton from the top rope an F5, a tombstone piledriver for the victory.
Winner: Megan Bayne
Zach Sabre Jr. versus Manders
The Most Electrifying Wrestler in the World dodges Manders’ lariat and wins with a bridging pin. Zzzzzzz.
Winner: Zach Sabre Jr.
Atticus Cogar versus Fuego Del Sol – Career versus Mask Match
De Sol suplexes himself and Cogar over the top rope to the floor. The brawl on the floor. Del Sol is bounced off a steel post. Cogar throws a steel chair at Del Sol. Del Sol batters Cogar with a steel chair. They battle on the entrance stage. Cogar uses a pair of scissors on Del Sol. He starts cutting at the mask and jabbing the scissors into Del Sol’s forehead. He stabs Del Sol with skewers in the head then throws the rest of them into the crowd. Cogar gives Del Sol a running Air Raid Crash off the stage and through two doors on the floor. Otis, Atticus’ brother catches Del Sol in mid-air slamming him to the mat. Sam Stackhouse evens the odds. He levels Otis with a spinning kick. He bowls over both of the Cogar brothers on the floor. While standing on the chairs, Del Sol spikes Cogar through steel chairs with a Sun Fire Driver. Otis hands Atticus a taser. Del Sol gets shocked and stunned. Cogar pins Del Sol with a Brain Haemorrhage on a trash can. Del Sol is forced to remove his mask.
Cogar parades around with the mask. Del Sol removes his boots and leaves them in the middle of the ring. He thanks the fans and leaves.
Winner: Atticus Cogar
Minoru Suzuki versus Matt ‘Bulldozer’ Tremont
Tremont already has a knot on his forehead. Suzuki ducks. Tremont head butts a steel post and comes up bleeding. Suzuki won’t let go of a submission hold in the ropes. Suzuki turns on the official and gives him a Gotch Style Piledriver. The fight goes to the floor. They threaten to hit each other with their respective belts but don’t.
Winner: Matt ‘Bulldozer’ Tremont via disqualification
Masha Slamovich (c) versus Suzu Suzuki – JCW World Championship Match
Masha catches Suzuki and powerbombs her out of a corner. She hits a running knee strike on Suzuki. Suzuki back drops her way out of a White Knight Driver. Masha wins with a spin kick and a White Knight Driver.
Winner: …and still JCW World Champion…Masha Slamovich
Mance Warner versus Gabe Kidd
Kidd takes a screwdriver to Warner’s head. Kidd uses the screwdriver to loosen a turnbuckle. Kidd stabs Warner in the head and it blood actually spouts, squirts blood out of his head. YIKES! Kidd spikes Mance some more with the screwdriver. Kidd wipes the blood across his chest. Mance stabs Kidd with the screwdriver in the head. Kidd is busted open. Kidd slams Mance on some chairs. Warner DDTs Kidd through a door in a corner. After a forearm battle, Kidd haymakers Warner for the 1, 2, 3.
Winner: Gabe Kidd
Ricky Morton versus ‘Action’ Mike Jackson versus George South versus Damian 666 versus Robert Gibson versus – Senior Scramble Match
This isn’t the line-up that was announced but oh, well. Kerry Morton comes out.
“You have got to be f—–g kidding me right now! I look inside this ring and all I see is a bunch of erectile dysfunctions,” he says.
Kerry demands all the old asses get out of the ring. Gibson hits Kerry with a chair to the back. Gibson rolls him into the ring. Kerry is surrounded by the veterans. They each take a shot at Kerry. Ricky gives Kerry a Destroyer. A door is put between two chairs. They powerbomb Kerry through the door and everyone pins him.
Kerry: “I am NOT a f—–g jobber!”.
Winners: Ricky Morton, ‘Action’ Mike Jackson, George South, Damian 666 and Robert Gibson
