Matt Hardy Shares Emotional Final Interaction With Sabu

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On an episode of his podcast, The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy, TNA World Tag Team Champion Matt Hardy discussed various topics, including the passing of Sabu.

Hardy said, โ€œIt was sad. As crazy as this sounds, I hated to hear it because Iโ€™d seen him just recently, and I heard heโ€™d been doing better. But Sabu is someone who, because he lived a very hard life in many ways, I didnโ€™t expect him to live to be extremely old as it was anyway. So it was saddening, and it broke my heart to hear that. But in a lot of ways, I wasnโ€™t extremely shocked. Just because he really has lived a hard life inside the ring and outside the ring.โ€

On being at Sabuโ€™s retirement match:

โ€œSo they were on right before the Fourth Rope show was. And there โ€” I guess there were a couple issues with Sabu and his injury and they had to take time, and it slowed a lot of the process of the show, and maybe the breakdown and everything else. But there was a point where Iโ€™d walk by and I saw him in a room, and itโ€™s like, โ€˜Hey!โ€™ And he was back there and he was being iced, and you could see he had blood all over him where he had had his barbed wire match. And just, I said, โ€˜Hey, man, howโ€™s it going? You alright?โ€™ He said, โ€˜Yeah, Iโ€™m okay. I just took a couple of bad falls, but itโ€™s not that bad. Iโ€™ll be fine,โ€™ whatever else. And I said, โ€˜Alright man, was good to see you.โ€™ โ€˜Itโ€™s good to see you too, good to see you.โ€™ And you know, that was the last time I interacted with him. I saw him, and we did a wave at WrestleCon, because he was there the next couple of days. But that was the last interaction where I had, I just kind of popped my head in the room he was in where they were kind of tending to him and and chatted with him for a few minutes. Sabu, always from day one, has been nice. You know, heโ€™s always been very nice. He had a โ€” itโ€™s crazy, because people wouldnโ€™t expect it of Sabu. But he had a pretty, pretty sneaky sense of humor too. He was a pretty funny guy. I thought he had a real good, self-deprecating sense of humor in a lot of ways too. He was a funny dude.โ€

You can check out the complete podcast in the video below.

(H/T to 411Mania.com for transcribing the above quotes)