the thing with Sabu is that he was a damned good wrestler, who started taking more and more crazy bumps, and as a result, his body broke down REALLY fast.
i've seen interviews with him where he talks about how he did a crazy bump in ECW, and Paul Heyman was like "did you see the crowd go nuts for that?? do it again!"
and each week, the ante got upped, until it became impossible for Sabu to do anything other than something insane, because if he tried to actually wrestle, the crowd woulda crapped on it because they ewere expecting something else, namely, a guy slowly killing himself.