Sabu fired

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credit PWInsider.com

Former ECW World champion Sabu is gone from World Wrestling Entertainment, according to several sources. Sabu arrived hours late for tonight's scheduled Smackdown/ECW taping in Baltimore, Maryland and didn't even have his ring gear with him. I am told he was sent home from the taping and has been/will be released by the company.

Sabu, one of the trendsetters of the original Extreme Championship Wrestling, signed with WWE a year ago as part of the re-launched ECW brand. Sabu received a big push early in the brand's run, including challenging ECW champion Big Show at last year's Summerslam PPV before being deemphasized as a focal point.

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MORE ON SABU'S DEPARTURE FROM WORLD WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT
by Mike Johnson @ 7:36:00 PM on 5/15/2007


World Wrestling Entertainment issued an announcement on their website confirming the release of former ECW World champion Sabu, which PWInsider.com broke earlier this evening.

According to one source, the plan for tonight's ECW TV was for Sabu to wrestle Kevin Thorn, putting him over. Sabu reportedly balked at the match, claiming a neck injury. There are some who believe that Sabu arrived late this week expecting to be sent home as he's made noises to others about being unhappy working for the company. There have been some other recent instances of his arriving late and/or without his gear, including a TV appearance a few weeks back where he ended up wearing Daivari's boots and tights.

There are rumblings of an incident involving Sabu taking place over the weekend in Cincinnati as well, but I haven't been able to confirm any details at this time.