Former ECW star Sabu has disclosed why his spell with WWE failed, revealing why he walked away from the promotion.
The veteran star mentioned why his run with WWE did not work on “The Wrestling Traditional” podcast, admitting that it was largely due to inventive causes and him not keen to chop promos.
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“Nicely, yeah, undoubtedly inventive as a result of they needed me to speak. And I figured I might persuade them haven’t got me discuss. It did not work. Vince goes, ‘You recognize, you are going to be one among my high babyfaces however you bought to speak.’ I mentioned, ‘What if I do not discuss?’ He goes, ‘You gotta discuss, you gotta clarify your self, you gotta present the folks you are human.’ I mentioned, ‘No, can I’ve a supervisor?’ He goes, ‘Umaga’s acquired that gimmick.’ I’m going, ‘F**okay, I have been doing it earlier than Umaga was born.”
He recalled how McMahon tried to teach him to chop a promo backstage, the place he was to speak along with his previous ECW buddy Rob Van Dam. McMahon needed Sabu to say his iconic catchphrase, “Homicidal, Suicidal, Genocidal, Dying–Defying Maniac” which took Sabu 5 takes, with Sabu admitting that he faked being unable to say it as he felt that it concerned an excessive amount of appearing. He then remembered Stephanie McMahon asking him to chop a scripted promo, which was seemingly the ultimate straw for the previous ECW star.
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“Stephanie gave me a script and I laughed, I mentioned, ‘You are kidding me. You need me to say these phrases? I do not even know … I am unable to even learn them they’re too large of phrases,'” mentioned Sabu. “So I mentioned, ‘How about I do that [mimics tearing a piece of paper] like this, then stroll away, then I pop my head again within the room.’ She goes, ‘No, do it once more’ and I’m going, ‘I will be proper again’ and I did not come again they usually removed me.”
