Professional wrestling legend and two times ECW World Heavyweight Champion Sabu who is also a former IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion recently claimed that two times WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair once refused to shake hands with him just to embarrass him.
Sabu is considered as one of the biggest names in the field of extreme wrestling. He mostly earned his fame from his Extreme Championship Wrestling days where he was one of the biggest names and of course one of the biggest attractions.
Sabu Says Ric Flair Once Refused To Shake His Hand
He was the nephew of the legendary professional wrestler Ed Farhat who is mostly famous under the ring name of The Shiek. He started his professional wrestling career back in 1985 and worked in different promotions before coming to the United States Wrestling Association USWA in 1991.
During the time he worked in different promotions as well. What most people did not know that he had a short run in WWE as well in 1993. The run was very short but in this short run, he secured a victory over Scott Taylor aka Scotty 2 Hotty. In 1993 he arrived at ECW for the first time in his career.
In his first run he could not do anything special and it ended in 1995 but his contract got renewed again in the same year. During this short period when he was not in contract with ECW, he worked in some other promotions as well including the likes of WCW and NJPW. After return to ECW he turned out to be one of the biggest names of the promotion.
He won so many different championships in the ECW including the likes of ECW World Heavyweight Championship, ECW World Television Championship and other titles as well. His Hardcore wrestling style made him an icon of the promotion. After ECW was sold to WWE, Sabu what in different professional wrestling promotions including WWE for one year.
He joined the WWE during the resurrection of ECW in 2006. He was given a one year contract in WWE and after the end of the contract it was never been renewed. In November 2021, this legendary professional wrestler took retirement from Professional wrestling.
Sabu who is also a former IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion recently spoke with PTM’s Vinny Vegas where he claimed that two times WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair once refused to shake hands with him just to embarrass him. He said;
“Ric Flair, he’d come in the dressing room and shake everybody’s hand and skip mine. I’d put my hand out, he’d skip it and embarrass me. I’d go to shake everybody’s hand and I’d go to him, I’d put it out and he’d turn his back on me. He’d turn his back and I’d try to get a handshake from his back, so I stopped putting my hand out for him.
“I don’t know, but there’s no reason for him to be jealous of anybody. He’s top of the world. He always was and he always will be. There was no reason for him to be jealous. But I’ve seen him and heard him stepping on younger guys when he didn’t have to. He was already on top, he was world champion.”
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