I'm going to preface this by saying that if you don't know what you're talking about, you need to research. Seriously.
Guess who else got injured working in ECW? 99% of the roster, but you didn't see guys like Sabu and Rob Van Dam slowing down or taking time off. ECW was extreme, hardcore wrestling. It is what these guys signed up to do, they knew the risks and took them. Sabu had a torn freaking bicep but it didn't stop him from continuing his match with nothing but Duct tape to keep it together.
You're wrong. Right off, you claimed that Rob Van Dam didn't take time off -- well, gee, why'd he relinquish the TV Championship then? What about when Taz had to take months off to deal with a neck injury? The list goes on and on. ECW wrestlers may have been "hardcore," but they weren't invincible. Don't be fucking stupid.
I'm well aware of Sabu's bicep, but don't neglect Austin breaking his fucking neck in the ring and finishing the match. I don't give a damn if all his did was weakly roll Owen up, HE COULD HAVE DIED. Don't try to feed me this bullshit, Pancake.
But he still held a very impressive record over Stone Cold in ECW. That was due in part to his toughness and his violence in the ring.
...So? This may be in ECW, but we're looking at the men's careers as a whole. Frankly, it's embarrassing to think people actually want to compare Sabu to Steve Austin. Steve Austin outclasses him in every conceivable way.
Despite winning multiple World titles and being a ECW Triple Crown Champion, he is a mid-carder? Right.
Sabu is one of the toughest guys in Professional Wrestling. He may not have been as over as Austin, or RVD. But he was no where near the punching bag you are making him out to be.
Who cares if he won multiple world titles? Chris Jericho has won multiple world titles and he's a midcarder, for the most part. Jack Swagger was World Heavyweight Champion, but he's a midcarder. So's Rey Mysterio, so's Christian, so's Kane, etc. These are all guys who have competed for and won world championships, but they're still midcarders to upper midcarders, at best.
Sabu is tough, no doubt, but he's not Steve Austin. He's not as good. Not even clost.
Sabu had a torn, freaking bicep, yet he still kept on wrestling in a barb wire match. A torn bicep has kept guys out like Christian for 6-9 months out of the ring. But he kept on wrestling. Austin is a tough son of a bitch, but no one in this business can say they are as tough as Sabu.
Yeah they can, Pancake. There's dudes in ECW who were tougher than Sabu. New Jack comes to mind almost immediately. These were guys that went out there and did stupid shit and it most definitely hurt them. In a match against Steve Austin, with an injury where he'd be bleeding profusely, Sabu would definitely be in trouble. He's only human. The longer the match would go, the more trouble he'd be in. Austin won't go down easy, either. This is bad news for Sabu.
Are you kidding me, the WWF Attitude Era doesn't even hold a candle to the shit that happened in ECW. Sure, it was edgy, and it was violent. But ECW was edgy and violent on a weekly basis. Stone Cold didn't use a chair unless he was pissed off or he wanted to hurt someone. Guys like Sabu and Dreamer beat each other over the head with chairs
because they felt like it. That is a completely absurd statement to make that Austin can survive in ECW because he was in the Attitude Era. Despite it being painfully obvious he stayed in ECW for little less than a year. This tournament isn't a popularity contest, this is based on who would win in a match-up. And even Austin in his prime was never been pushed to the limits that Sabu would put him in ECW.
That's cute, look at you trying to be like Slyfox using smileys. Nice job, really.
If you actually read what I said -- and read it correctly -- you'll see that I wasn't once implying that Attitude Era WWF was as violent as ECW, I was pointing out that they used weapons regularly either. Austin wouldn't be a stranger to this shit.
I don't exactly see what you're trying to say here. Not only are most of your arguments coming firmly out of your ass, but you're saying the same thing over again. I get it, ECW was violent and Sabu was tough, but this match-up isn't fair. Not in the slightest. Steve Austin is just plain a better wrestler than Sabu and a violent motherfucker in his own right. He'd relish the opportunity to hurt Sabu, almost as much as Sabu would love to do that to Austin. You make it seem like just because this is in ECW, we need to forget that Sabu just isn't a good wrestler. Dude jumped into tables for a living, all the while facing competition well below Steve Austin, who is arguably the best professional wrestler of all time. I seriously doubt that Sabu would even be able to get a table involved in the match against a smart opponent like Austin -- hell, even if he did, Austin would be smart enough to use it against him. This is one of the savviest professional wrestlers ever going up against -- arguably -- the most reckless. Sabu would do himself more harm than good.
This is the biggest load of bullshit I've seen on here in a long time. We all know Austin would win.