Rob Van Dam Gives Heartbreaking Details About Sabu’s Last Hours
The wrestling world was devastated by Sabu’s death, and now Rob Van Dam has given some insight into his tag team partner’s final hours.
The news of former ECW star Sabu’s death at the age of 60 came less than four weeks removed from Sabu’s retirement match in Las Vegas, Nevada on 18th April. The two-time ECW World Heavyweight Champion defeated Joey Janela on that night in a brutal No Rope Barbed Wire match at GCW Spring Break 9.
Joey Janela has defended the match from backlash following Sabu’s passing, and it seems there might have been more underlying health issues that he was battling.
Sabu Was Considering Hospital Visit Says Rob Van Dam
Speaking on his 1 of a Kind podcast, Rob Van Dam gave some insight into Sabu’s health before his passing and thinks the late star knew he was battling some kind of ill health:
The day he got back from Philly, he got back Friday or Saturday, the day before his death. He said he wasn’t feeling well and he couldn’t hear out of his ear. The kids were talking to him and he couldn’t hear. He said that he thinks he should go to the hospital. For Sabu to say he should go to the hospital, that wasn’t something that I thought he was even capable of saying. He knew something was going on.
Van Dam noted that health issues were mentioned in an upcoming documentary featuring Sabu and that he was going to seek medical attention before changing his mind:
In the documentary, we have up to before he goes to Philly, but there’s some things in there he talks about where he seems like he knew something was going on.
Anyway, they were going to go to the grocery store and then the hospital. After the grocery store, they changed their mind and they went home, and then Sabu passed.
He had some kind of infection under his tongue. There’s all kinds of things leading up to it that likely played a role in his health even though it could have been a pure accident of a bad combination of medicines or something that finally did him in, but that’s speculation, but either way, leading up to it, he wasn’t feeling good and that’s likely part of what went down.