Rob Van Dam has shared some touching and concerning details about the final days of his close friend and wrestling legend, Sabu, on a recent episode of his “1 of a Kind” podcast. RVD recounted Sabu’s state upon returning from a trip to Philadelphia shortly before his passing.
“The day he got back from Philly, he got back Friday or Saturday, the day before his death,” RVD explained. “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.”
RVD mentioned that Sabu’s health issues were alluded to in their upcoming documentary. “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,” he said. The plan for Sabu to seek medical attention was unfortunately diverted.
“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.” Van Dam also spoke about potential underlying health issues: “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.”
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