Sidney Raymond "Sid" Eudy
(born July 4, 1960) is an American
professional wrestler, better known
as Sid Vicious in World Championship Wrestling,
and as Sid Justice and Sycho Sid
in the World Wrestling
Federation. He is a four time
world
champion, having won the
WWF
Championship and
WCW World Heavyweight
Championship twice each. In addition, he is a
one time United States Heavyweight
Champion.
Professional wrestling career
Eudy entered the wrestling industry after an encounter with
Randy Savage and his brother
Lanny Poffo. After being trained by
Tojo Yamamoto, Eudy made his debut as he
teamed with
Austin Idol and wrestled the
team of
Nick Bockwinkel and
Jerry Lawler. He then adopted the masked
wrestler persona known as
Lord
Humongous.
After competing mainly on the continental
wrestling circuits (Alabama
, Memphis
, and Georgia
), he captured several regional titles while
there. He also competed in
New Japan Pro Wrestling, where he
challenged
Tatsumi Fujinami for the
IWGP Heavyweight
Championship under the name Vicious Warrior, but was unable to
win the title. Eudy then made a very brief stint in
World Class Championship
Wrestling, where he adopted one of his most notable
ring names: Sid Vicious, which he took from the
punk rock musician of the same name who
played bass for the
Sex Pistols.
World Championship Wrestling (1989–1991)
In 1989, Eudy signed with
World Championship Wrestling
and retained his Sid Vicious ring name. Originally slated as a
singles wrestler, Eudy was eventually paired with
Danny Spivey to form
The Skyscrapers.
Managed by
Teddy Long, The Skyscrapers
feuded with the
Steiner Brothers
and the
Road Warriors. During this
time, he incorporated the
Powerbomb as his finishing move.
However, the team was short-lived; Eudy was replaced by
"Mean" Mark Callous after suffering a broken
rib and a punctured lung.
Following his recovery, Eudy returned as a member of
Ric Flair's
Four Horsemen, and he
was billed by the ring announcers as being from "wherever he darn
well pleases". As one of the Horsemen, Eudy feuded with
Paul Orndorff and the
Junkyard Dog. He unsuccessfully battled
NWA World Heavyweight
Champion Sting for the title.
At
Halloween Havoc, a fake
Sting (
Barry Windham), in collusion
with Sid, let Sid pin him after switching places with the real
Sting in order for Sid to win the belt. However, they were thwarted
when the real Sting came out and beat Sid to retain the
title.
World Wrestling Federation (1991–1992)
On the July 20, 1991 episode of
WWF Superstars of
Wrestling, Eudy made his
World Wrestling Federation
debut under the name Sid Justice. He was announced as the
special guest
referee for the main event of that year's
SummerSlam, where
The Ultimate Warrior and then-
WWF Champion Hulk
Hogan teamed up against The Triangle of Terror (
Sgt. Slaughter,
Col. Mustafa, and
Gen. Adnan)
in a 3-on-2
handicap
match. Later that night, Sid saved
"The
Macho Man" Randy Savage and
Miss
Elizabeth from an attack at the hands of
The Undertaker and
Jake "The Snake" Roberts at the newly-wed
couple's reception. Sid dominated a short feud against The
Undertaker before he took on Roberts. In a match with Roberts, Sid
injured his biceps and was forced to miss the
Survivor Series pay-per-view.
Sid returned to active duty at the
Royal Rumble, emanating from Albany New
York that year. This particular edition had a special stipulation:
the winner would win the vacant WWF Title, which had been stripped
from Hulk Hogan after two controversial title switches in a row
between Hulk and the Undertaker. Sid entered at #29, and was among
the final four wrestlers, along with Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, and
Ric Flair, before he eliminated both Savage and then Hogan, leaving
himself and Flair in the ring. During the initial live Pay-Per-View
broadcast, this action was loudly cheered by the audience in
attendance even though, as per storyline plans, Sid 'sneaked up
from behind' to throw Hogan out. The reaction is in retrospect
widely believed to be due to a combination of fans tiring of
Hogan's All-American superhero act, and also responding positively
to Sid's charisma. Nevertheless, this reaction was edited out of
future television replays as well as the coliseum home video
release of the event. Hogan, who was still at ringside after being
eliminated, grabbed Sid's arm and distracted him long enough for
Flair to eliminate him to win the match and become the new WWF
Champion. After the match, Sid and Hogan got into an argument in
the ring and had to be separated by security. This incident
turned Sid into a
villain. Less than a
week later, on the January 25 episode of
Superstars, WWF
President
Jack Tunney held a press
conference to announce who among Sid, Savage, Hogan, "Rowdy"
Roddy Piper and The Undertaker would
face Ric Flair for the WWF Championship at
WrestleMania VIII. Before Tunney even
announced who the number one contender would be, Sid stood up as if
Tunney called his name. Yet to Sid's annoyance, Tunney chose Hogan.
After the press conference, Sid referred to it as "the most bogus
act Jack Tunney has ever pulled off." Sid later issued an apology
to Hogan, which Hogan accepted. Sid and Hogan then teamed up to
face The Undertaker and Flair on the
February 8 edition of
Saturday Night's Main
Event. During the match, after he
double
clotheslined Undertaker and Flair, Hogan reached to Sid for a
tag. However, Sid refused to tag in and walked out of the match.
Despite this, Hogan won the match by disqualification.
On February 23 on an episode of
Wrestling Challenge, Sid
appeared as a guest on
Brutus "The Barber"
Beefcake's "The Barber Shop". Knowing that Hulk Hogan
(Beefcake's good friend) was not in the arena, Sid attacked
Beefcake and destroyed the Barber Shop set with a chair. Later that
night, it was announced that Hogan would battle Sid (and not WWF
Champion Ric Flair) at the main event of WrestleMania VIII,
resulting in Flair facing Randy Savage for the WWF Title instead. A
week later, Sid hired
Harvey Whippleman
as his manager. During their match at WrestleMania VIII, Sid became
the first wrestler to kick out of Hogan's trademark
Atomic Leg Drop. According to
popular belief, the reason for this was due to Papa Shango missing
his cue; he was supposed to break up the pin attempt after Hogan
hit his legdrop. The bout was also notable in that it was one of
the first times Eudy was ever referred to on camera as "Psycho
Sid", on this first occasion by perennial wrestling commentator
Gorilla Monsoon. After Whippleman
interfered, Hogan won the match by disqualification before he was
attacked by the debuting
Papa
Shango. Sid and Shango continued to double-team Hogan until The
Ultimate Warrior made his return and saved Hogan. A month later,
Sid left the WWF.
World Championship Wrestling (1993)
Eudy, under his Sid Vicious ring name, returned to WCW in 1993 and
reignited his feud with Sting. At
Fall
Brawl, Sting's team (Sting,
Davey
Boy Smith,
Dustin Rhodes, and
The Shockmaster) defeated Sid's team
(Sid,
Vader, and
Harlem Heat) in a
WarGames match. At
Halloween Havoc, Sid faced Sting in a
rematch of the same pay-per-view three years previous, but was
beaten via a rollup.
During
their United
Kingdom
tour in Blackburn
, Lancashire
on October 27, Eudy was involved in a hotel room
scuffle with Arn Anderson. Both
were rushed to the hospital, as Anderson suffered scissor stab
wounds to the chest and stomach. Sid was released from WCW after
several wrestlers threatened to walk out because of him. It had
been planned to have Sid challenge then-World Heavyweight Champion
Vader at that year's
Starrcade, but
Sid's departure removed him from this match and Ric Flair was
elevated to be the challenger against Vader.
United States Wrestling Association (1994–1995)
Following
his departure from WCW, Eudy returned to United States Wrestling
Association in Memphis, where he began feuding with old rival Jerry Lawler. On July 16, he won the
promotion's
Unified World
Heavyweight Championship by
forfeit when Lawler, who had been
attacked and injured by Eudy earlier in the card, could not appear
for the scheduled match. While Lawler was able to defeat Eudy in
non-title matches, Eudy was able to retain his title in several
championship defenses through
screwjob initiated by
The Spellbinder, his ally at the
time. On February 6, 1995, Lawler won the Unified World Heavyweight
Title back from Sid.
World Wrestling Federation (1995–1997)
Bodyguard; Million Dollar Corporation
On the February 20, 1995 episode of
Monday
Night Raw, Eudy returned to the WWF under the ring name
Sycho Sid, where he became the bodyguard of
Shawn Michaels. He, along with
Jenny McCarthy, accompanied Michaels to
ringside for Michaels' WWF Championship match against the champion
and Michaels' former bodyguard,
Diesel,
at
WrestleMania XI. Michaels had the
match won after hitting his signature
Sweet
Chin Music, but Sid stood on the ring apron and distracted
referee
Earl Hebner, allowing Diesel
time to recover and pin Michaels after a Jackknife Powerbomb to win
the match and retain his title. The next night on
Raw,
Michaels expressed dissatisfaction with Sid's interference and gave
him the night off for his rematch against Diesel at the first-ever
In Your House pay-per-view. In
response, Sid replied to Shawn, "You don't give me the night off!",
and attacked Michaels from behind and powerbombed him three times,
turning Michaels into a
face again. Diesel came to
Michaels' aid and clotheslined Sid over the top rope. Michaels
sustained a legitimate back injury as a result of the attack and
was sidelined for six weeks, thus taking him out of the title
bout.
Two weeks later on the April 17 episode of
Raw,
"The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase announced
Sid as the newest member of the
Million Dollar Corporation after
Bam Bam Bigelow left the
Corporation. After joining, Sid challenged Diesel to a match for
the WWF Championship at In Your House, which Diesel accepted.
Diesel won the match via disqualification, and thus retained his
title, when
Tatanka interfered. After
the match, Sid and Tatanka continued to double-team Diesel until
Bam Bam Bigelow came out to save him. At the
King of the Ring, Diesel and Bam Bam
Bigelow defeated Sid and Tatanka. Sid faced Diesel once again at
In Your
House 2: The Lumberjacks for the WWF Title in a
lumberjack
match, which Diesel won to end the feud. Following this, Sid
onto a feud with Shawn Michaels and was scheduled to face him at
SummerSlam, but was replaced by
Razor Ramon at the request of WWF
President
Gorilla Monsoon, with
Ramon challenging for Michaels'
Intercontinental
Championship in a
ladder match as
Sid was seen watching on the backstage television monitors. On the
September 5 episode of
Raw, Sid faced Michaels for the
title but lost after being hit with Sweet Chin Music three times.
Sid then started a brief feud with
Henry
Godwinn, culminating in a victory over Godwinn at
In Your House 3:
Triple Header.
On the November 13 episode of
Raw, Sid faced the
Intercontinental Champion
Razor Ramon in
a non-title match, with Ramon's friend
The
1-2-3 Kid as the special guest referee. Razor was about deliver
the
Razor's Edge on
Sid, but The 1-2-3 Kid helped Sid avoid it, allowing Sid to pin
Ramon with a powerbomb after with the Kid making a fast count.
After the match, the Kid turned
heel and joined the Million
Dollar Corporation. In the first elimination match at
Survivor Series, Sid and Corporation
leader Ted DiBiase helped The 1-2-3 Kid pin
Marty Jannetty to win and become the sole
survivor for his team. Later in the event, Sid was randomly teamed
up with his rival Shawn Michaels,
Ahmed
Johnson, and
The British Bulldog
to face
Yokozuna,
Owen Hart, Razor Ramon, and
Dean Douglas in a "Wild Card" Survivor Series
Match. Sid was eliminated by Razor Ramon after Michaels hit Sid
with Sweet Chin Music. After his elimination, Sid powerbombed
Michaels. At
In Your House
5: Season's Beatings, Razor Ramon and Marty Jannetty defeated
Sid and The 1-2-3 Kid. Sid and The 1-2-3 Kid teamed up the next
night to participate in the first-ever Raw Bowl, which
The Smoking Gunns won.
A severe
injury sustained before or during a January 2, 1996 house show
match in Hartford,
Connecticut
with Bob Holly led to Sid
being taken off television.
WWF Champion
Eudy would not be seen again until the July 8 episode of
Raw, when he was announced as the replacement of The
Ultimate Warrior (who had left the WWF) for the six-man tag team
match, teaming with former rival Shawn Michaels and Ahmed Johnson
against Vader, Owen Hart, and
The
British Bulldog at the main event of
In Your
House 9: International Incident, effectively making him a
face. However, Sid's
team lost the match.
The next night on
Raw, Sid started a feud with The British
Bulldog. Sid faced the Bulldog at
SummerSlam on August 18 and pinned Bulldog
with the powerbomb, despite interference from Owen Hart. At
In Your House
10: Mind Games on September 22, Shawn Michaels hit
Mankind with Sweet Chin Music and went for the
pin to retain the WWF Championship, but Vader came out, broke up
the count, attacked Michaels, and got Mankind disqualified. After
the match, Mankind and Vader double-teamed Michaels until Sid came
out to make the save. He and Vader fought their way backstage,
starting a feud between the two.
Sid fought Vader at
In Your House 11:
Buried Alive on October 20 in a match where the winner would
face Shawn Michaels for the WWF Championship at Survivor Series on
November 17. As Sid was about to powerbomb Vader, Vader's manager
Jim Cornette got on the ring apron to
distract him. Michaels responded and pulled Cornette off the apron
before hitting him with Sweet Chin Music. Sid then pinned Vader
with a
chokeslam to win the match and to
become the number one contender for the WWF Championship. After the
match, Sid celebrated his victory with Michaels.
At the 1996 edition of the
Survivor Series, history repeated
itself. Sid grabbed a camera from the cameraman and prepared to hit
Michaels with it. Michaels' manager,
Jose
Lothario, got on the ring apron and told Sid to put the camera
down, but Sid refused and hit Lothario in the chest with the camera
instead. Although this was the act of a heel, the audience cheered
wildly for him and booed Michaels, just as they had done, in Sid's
favor, four and a half years earlier against Hogan at the Royal
Rumble. Sid dropped the camera and as soon as he turned around,
Michaels hit him with Sweet Chin Music; however, Michaels went
outside the ring to check on his manager instead of going for the
pin. Sid hit Michaels in the back with the camera, then threw him
back in the ring before hitting him with the powerbomb to win the
WWF Championship.
At
In Your
House 12: It's Time on December 15, Sid defended the title
against
Bret Hart in a match where the
winner would defend the title against Shawn Michaels at the 1997
Royal Rumble on January 19. Hart made Sid tap out to the
Sharpshooter, but the referee was knocked out and unable to witness
the submission. As Shawn Michaels was commentating at ringside, Sid
and Hart left the ring and started fighting right beside him. After
Sid pushed Michaels then climbed into the ring with Hart, Michaels
went to hit Sid but Sid threw Hart into him. Sid then pinned Hart
with the powerbomb to retain the title.
At the
Royal Rumble, Sid
defended the title against Michaels. This event was one of the most
"heavily papered" shows in WWF history, meaning that large numbers
of tickets had to be given away to fill the arena even though it
was Michaels' hometown. During the match, Sid hit the chokeslam on
Michaels and repeatedly powerbombed him outside the ring. Later on
in the match, Jose Lothario got on the ring apron and Sid
approached him, but before he could do anything to Lothario,
Michaels hit Sid in the back and the face with the camera, knocking
him out in the process. Michaels went for the pin, but Sid managed
to kick out. Michaels then hit Sid with Sweet Chin Music to become
the WWF Champion for the second time. Michaels soon forfeited the
title due to being unable to wrestle, a claim still widely disputed
by many during that time, especially Bret Hart, who believe
Michaels didn't want to drop the title to him at
Wrestlemania XIII. At
In Your House: Final Four in
Chattanooga, a four-way title match was held for the vacant belt
between Bret Hart, the Undertaker, Vader, and Stone Cold Steven
Austin. Hart won, and was scheduled to face Sid the following
night, on the February 17, 1997 episode of
Raw. During
that match, Hart had Sid trapped in the Sharpshooter submission
when
Stone Cold Steve
Austin, whom Hart was feuding with, came to the outside of the
ring and hit Hart with a steel chair, allowing Sid to hit Hart with
the powerbomb to win the WWF Championship for the second
time.
At
WrestleMania 13 on March 23, Sid
defended the title against
The
Undertaker. Hart interfered during the match, allowing The
Undertaker to hit the
Tombstone
Piledriver and pin Sid to become the WWF Champion for the
second time. Following WrestleMania, Sid was kept off of television
until the May 12 episode of
Raw, where he returned as a
face. He competed against Owen Hart and defeated him to become the
partner of
The Legion Of Doom in their
feud with
The Hart
Foundation. At
King of the
Ring on June 8, Sid and The Legion Of Doom faced The Hart
Foundation (Owen Hart, The British Bulldog, and
Jim Neidhart) in a six-man tag team match,
which The Hart Foundation won when Owen pinned Sid with a roll-up.
Sid made his final appearance in a losing effort against The
Undertaker on
Raw before leaving the WWF once again.
Extreme Championship Wrestling (1999)
After some time on the Memphis independent circuit again, Eudy
debuted in
Extreme
Championship Wrestling in January 1999, where he feuded with
the
Dudley Boyz,
John Kronus,
Skull Von
Krush and
Justin Credible. He left
ECW in May due to the monetary problems plaguing the
promotion.
World Championship Wrestling (1999–2001)
Eudy returned to WCW in mid-1999, joining
Randy Savage's
heel stable Team Madness. Upon his return, he took the
nickname of "The Millennium Man," shortly after
Chris Jericho's "Millennium Man" gimmick
debuted in the WWF. WCW even released a home video highlighting
Sid's return to WCW called
Sid Vicious: Millennium Man.
Additionally, Sid was dubbed as undefeated, having a winning streak
much like
Goldberg had previously;
although, the majority of this streak was due to Sid coming to the
ring and attacking wrestlers already in a match or immediately
following their match and thus "defeating" them. On September 12,
1999, Sid won his first and only
US Heavyweight
title from
Chris Benoit at
Fall Brawl. He then began a feud with
Goldberg who challenged him for the US Title at
Halloween Havoc. Earlier that night,
however, their backstage fighting led Sid to require stitches. The
nWo's
Scott Hall and
Kevin Nash then attacked Sid during his match
entrance, and after brawling with Goldberg, a weary Sid lost the
bout due to excessive bleeding, awarding Goldberg the US
Championship against his opponent's will. Sid lost again to
Goldberg in an
"I Quit" match at
Mayhem, effectively ending their
feud and Sid's "streak."
After the "Millennium Man" gimmick ran dry, Sid became a
face and started to contend
for the
World
Heavyweight Championship. He was placed in a match at
Souled Out in January to fill the
suddenly-vacant title after Bret Hart was forced to relinquish it
due to a concussion. Sid would lose the match to Chris Benoit, but
the title was again vacated as Benoit left for the WWF the next
day. The onscreen explanation was that Sid's foot was under the
rope during his submission loss. The next week, Sid was presented
with a challenge by Nash, who had become commissioner of WCW. If he
could beat
Don and Ron Harris in a
match on
Monday Nitro that
night, he would face Nash for the championship that night. Sid
managed to defeat the Harris Brothers and eventually Nash himself
to win the World Heavyweight Championship. Two nights later on
Thunder, Nash stripped Sid of
the championship due to him not beating the legal Harris brother in
the match on
Nitro. A rematch between Sid and Nash was set
up, but Sid again defeated Nash on
Nitro to win the title
for a second time. He later successfully defended the title at
SuperBrawl X in a three-way
match against Scott Hall and
Jeff
Jarrett.
On March 19, Sid defended his title against Jeff Jarrett thanks in
part to help from a returning
Hulk Hogan,
which set up a match for the following night's
Nitro
pitting Sid and Hogan vs. Jarrett and
Scott Steiner. During the course of the match,
Sid turned heel and attacked Hogan, due to his being incensed that
the fans were chanting Hogan's name. He chokeslammed Hogan and
forced the referee to count Hogan being pinned, although the
official result was a no contest. This apparently might have been
to set up a match for the upcoming
Spring Stampede pay-per-view in April.
However, shortly after this, WCW began its
New
Blood angle and Sid (along with all the other WCW champions at
the time) was stripped of his championship. He did not play a large
role in the angle that followed, and was kept off of television for
several months. He returned late in the year as a challenger for
Scott Steiner's World Heavyweight Championship, but Sid failed to
defeat Steiner in their title match at
Starrcade.
Injury
On January 14, 2001 at the
Sin pay-per-view,
Sid faced Steiner, Jarrett, and
Road
Warrior Animal in a
Four Corners match for the WCW Championship. During the bout,
however, he suffered a near career-ending injury.
Members of WCW management allegedly felt that Eudy needed to
broaden his arsenal of wrestling moves and suggested that he try an
aerial maneuver, despite his "unwillingness." During the match,
Eudy consequently suffered a
leg
fracture following his leap from the second turnbuckle in an
attempted
big
boot on Steiner. This had him awkwardly landing on one foot
while kicking with the other, severely fracturing the leg he landed
on. Eudy broke his left leg in half, snapping both the
tibia and
fibula, with at least
one of the bones breaking through the skin. The fracture was too
graphic for many TV stations to re-air; although, it was shown on
the following
Nitro.
The injury put Sid out of action indefinitely, and he pondered
retiring from wrestling for good.
- "I had about a year left on my contract, and I was thinking
back then prior to hurting my leg what was I going to do as far as
wrapping up my career. The only thing I really wanted to do was
ideally go out in a big pay-per-view, like a WrestleMania or something like that main event,
leave like that, and not come back again. It would really be the
retirement match."
A 17-inch (43 cm) rod was placed in his leg during the
two-hour surgery. For a while, Eudy used a cane to walk. Sid later
sued WCW, claiming that he was made to jump off the second rope
against his objections. The injury forced a plot change in the 2001
SuperBrawl Revenge
event. The main event was supposed to be Kevin Nash,
Diamond Dallas Page, and Sid against
Scott Steiner, Jeff Jarrett, and Road Warrior Animal but was
rewritten as Kevin Nash vs. Scott Steiner. WCW would then be
purchased by the WWF the following month, ceasing any
possibility of Sid's return to the company after
rehabilitation.
Special appearances; return to wrestling
During his
rehabilitation, Eudy made several appearances as World Wrestling All-Stars's
commissioner during
its 2002 Australian tour, though at the
beginning of WWA's Sydney
show, it was
announced that Eudy would not be featured due to a broken
arm. On June 5, 2004, Eudy returned to active wrestling with
the Canadian-based
Internet Wrestling
Syndicate. Appearing as
Pierre Carl
Ouellet's mystery partner, Eudy competed and won a ten team
battle royal.
Sid then made his way to
Memphis
Wrestling, with his brother Johnny Rotten, on July 14, 2007 and
started a feud with old rival Jerry Lawler, while also serving as
"Hollywood" Jimmy Blaylock's enforcer. Sid also wrestled for the
National Wrestling
Alliance from March to September. Sid also appeared at the
Juggalo Championship
Wrestling event Evansville Invasion, helping
Tracy Smothers attack the promotion's
Heavyweight Champion
Corporal Robinson.
He also had a match at the "Jerry Lawler 35th Anniversary Wrestling
event" on November 7, 2008 at the
Tennessee
Fairgrounds. He wrestled in the main event and lost to Lawler
in front of 657 fans.
Personal life
Eudy is married to Sabrina Paige and they have two sons together,
Frank and Gunnar. He is also good friends with Scott Hall, Eudy was
also the first guest on the internet show called
The Last Call
with Scott Hall.
He currently lives in Marion,
Arkansas
.
In wrestling
- Nicknames
- "The (self–proclaimed) Master and Ruler of the World"
- "The Millennium Man"
- "Psycho" Sid Vicious
Championships and accomplishments
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