“I am the master and ruler of the world!”
# 27. Sid Vicious
135 points (10 out of 43 lists)
Highest Rating: slappy at #2
Real Name: Sidney Ray Eudy
(In)Famous Gimmicks: Lord Homongous, Sid Justice, Sycho Sid
The self-proclaimed master and ruler of the world makes it a trifecta of Horsemen, although Sid is famous for much more than being part of a stable.
Sid Vicious is truly a one-of-a-kind individual in the world of wrestling. He is huge, he is charismatic, and he is at times crazy. But there’s something about him that has always made him a favourite and something that makes people cheer him no matter if he’s a heel or a face. I honestly can’t put my finger on exactly what that quality is, but I know it’s special.
Sid got his big break in 1989 when signed to an NWA contract. Initially a tag team wrestler with Dan Spivey, Sid was instantly recognizable in the ring for his height, his rugged good looks, and his physical style. Sid was one of the first people to use a powerbomb in North America, and arguably made it famous to audiences here.
It wasn’t too long that he was brought in by Ric Flair to be a Horseman. During this time, Sid was pushed to main event status because he really was the total package for wrestling in the 90’s. He earned a World Title shot against Sting at Halloween Havoc 1990, and was actually awarded the title due to the Sting-switcheroo mentioned in the Barry Windham article. Unfortunately for Sid, it was a “Dusty Finish” and he ended up losing.
Nearly immediately after this match, Sid shocked the wrestling world by turning down huge money from WCW, and signing with the WWF.
It turned out to be a great move, as Sid was instantly a huge star in Vince’s world. Renamed “Sid Justice”, he was initially a face along side the Ultimate Warrior and Hulk Hogan. He squashed jobber after jobber in dramatic fashion, and in a theme that would be recurrent throughout his career, the fans would cheer every power move. Let’s face it… people love to see Sid kick the shit out of smaller guys.
At the Royal Rumble 1992, Sid and on-screen chap Hulk Hogan got into a tussle after Hogan was eliminated by Justice. In a move that is still baffling today, the two got inserted into a main event feud. Hogan (who looked a whiner) was the babyface, while Sid (who was just doing what anyone would do) was the heel.
This led to a heated match at WrestleMania VIII, in what is arguably one of Sid’s biggest moments. The match ended in a DQ and the feud seemed far from over. However, just as was the case in WCW, Sid bolted from his job right when he was at the top. He was back in Turner-land within months.
Sid’s 1993 WCW run didn’t last long. Teamed with Vader, he was pushed to be one-half of the biggest and baddest teams in wrestling history. And rumour has it, Sid was set to win the WCW Title that fall. Unfortunately, he got into a fight with Arn Anderson in a hotel in the United Kingdom. The story says Arn threw a beer in Sid’s face, and Sid chased him to a hotel room where Arn lunged at Sid with a pair of scissors. Sid was cut, but managed to wrestle the scissors away and started stabbing Arn. No charges were ever laid, but Sid was fired almost immediately afterwards.
After a year in Memphis, Sid returned to the WWF in 1995 in what was his best run ever. Originally as Shawn Michaels bodyguard, Sid was portrayed as a crazy, out-of-control, lunatic who did what he wanted and said whatever he wanted. He was awesome in the role behind the mic, and even more awesome in the ring as a brutal destroyer.
Even though he was a psychotic heel, Sid was still getting face pops everywhere he went. Other than the little kids, everyone loved Sid. After a brief disappearance at the beginning of 1996, he returned and was put into a program with WWF World Champion Shawn Michaels.
Michaels and Sid had a couple of fantastic matches during this run that had excellent crowd heat behind them. At Survivor Series 1996, the two met in the main event at Madison Square Garden. The MSG crowd erupted when the baddest heel in the WWF pinned Michaels to win the WWF Title, and after many years of being so close, Sid was atop the wrestling world.
Over the next couple of months, the title would change hands numerous times and eventually would get back in Sid’s mitts in February of 1997. He pinned Bret Hart on Monday Night Raw… becoming the first person to ever win a World Title on the primetime show.
Unfortunately, Sid would lose the title to the Undertaker at WrestleMania 13 and would then again, disappear from the WWF for no apparent reason. This time, it’s said that the creative team had nothing to do with him. They really booked themselves into a hole. After showing this monster and destroyer on TV for so long, how can you put him out there and not have people believe him as an ass-kicker.
He would float around in the indy circuit over the next couple of years (including ECW) until being signed to a WCW contract in 1999. Initially, he was lost in the shuffle that was the mess of WCW in that era. After his initial retarded “Millennium Man” failed, the creative team put him into a feud with World Champion Kevin Nash.
Sid would pin Nash to win his first WCW World Title on an episode Nitro in early 2000. But because this was WCW, the title reign only lasted 3 days and he was stripped of the title due to outside interference on an episode of Thunder. Sid would pin Nash again later that episode, earning his second World Title run in 3 days.
He would then go on to successfully defend against Jeff Jarrett, and was set to feud with Hulk Hogan next. However, in all of WCW’s wisdom… they launched the “New Blood” angle and stripped all of their title holders… including Sid and his WCW World Title.
Sid would fade to the background of WCW for the following months, before earning a World Title shot against Scott Steiner at the Sin PPV. Rumour has it, WCW officials wanted Sid to “broaden his arsenal” and suggested different moves. Sid didn’t like the idea, but agreed. So during the match, Sid tried a move off the middle turnbuckle. Unfortunately, he landed the wrong way… and in the most graphic injury in wrestling history, he literally broke his left leg in half. He snapped two major bones, with one piercing the skin. It puts Joe Theisman to shame, and is sad to watch in retrospect, knowing he hasn’t done anything since.
Sid had to have a 17-inch rod inserted into his leg, and over the past 7 years he has only made a few appearances on the indy circuit.
Sid Vicious, Sid Justice, Sycho Sid… whatever you want to call him… is a true icon of wrestling. He was one of the biggest names of the sport in the 1990s and was a staple on TV for many of us growing up.
At age 47, there are plenty of guys still active who are roughly the same age or even older, so there’s still hope for one last run. I know those who voted for him onto this list would love to see it.
Video
November 17th, 1996 – Sycho Sid vs. Shawn Michaels (Survivor Series PPV – World Title Match)
Major Titles
- 2 time WCW World Champion
- 1 time WCW United States Champion
- 2 time WWF World Champion
Where Are They Now: Sid has recently stated in radio interviews that he’s retraining to get back into the ring, and has said he’s talked with Vince McMahon about one possible last run.
Did Ya Know: At the end of their WrestleMania VIII match, Sid actually kicked out of Hulk Hogan’s legdrop. Papa Shango was supposed to cause outside interference, but he was late in getting to the ring.
SID SID SID
TOO LOW LOW LOW.
Come on hes top 15 AT LEAST!
I'm shocked Slappy only had him at number 2.
His shoot interviews are quality. Very Hoganesque, he's very delusional in the sense that he really thinks hes one of the biggest money drawers ever, and his description of the Arn Anderson-scissors incident is one of the best things I have ever heard in a shoot.
This must be in the same league as the Harry Potter thing.
AND FUCKING VIRGIL IS IN HERE AGAIN
Sid is awesome! I had him top ten. I'm a sucker for monster heels (as was evident with my high Vader ranking) and he was one of the best. He NEEDS to make one last run.
It's a fake entry.
It's hard not to love this nut, he's awesome.
Fuck you, nigga.
-DA VERGE
OMG! OMG! OMG!
If he's a gimmick he gets booted for Shaft
Was it Sid that shat himself?
I am the master...AND THE RULER...of the world!!!
Sid is #27? Scissor me timbers!
SID SID SID I HAD AT NUMBER FIVE FIVE FIVE
I was never a fan of Sid. I hated his whacked out promos, the fact he was so immobile that all his matches consisted of him standing still as his opponents would have to bounce off him and the fact he had a (undeserved) attitude problem.
But today I've kinda warmed up to the guy and it takes a special kind of guy to train hard to get back into the ring after what should have been a career ending injury and I hope he gets one last run in the WWE because of it.
ONLY 27? NPP HAS LET ME DOWN ONCE AGAIN.
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To make up for this tragedy, here is the Sid X-mas card I made for Photoshoping Phaggotz back in the day.
Yup, I've always wondered if it was DiBiase's fault for being a crap manager/talker or if WWF just dropped the ball for making all of DiBiase's cronies into jobbers. Don't get me wrong, I love DiBiase - the WRESTLER, and not only was he a great worker, but a great talker as well, but he seemed like a shell of his former self when he became manager.
I was actuality sad when 1-2-3 Kid, Kama and Tatanka joined the Corporation because I actuality liked those guys and even as a dumb mark I knew that joining the Corporation meant that you're going to turn into a jobber.
Why in the hell did you like Kama?
I know it's an odd choice, but I did and I still think Kama could've been successful if WWF pushed him. Kama would've been a way better choice to win the KOTR and main event Summerslam against Diesel over Mabel.
Also Charles Wright lost at least a 100lbs and actuality put effort into his matches to justify his shoot fighting gimmick (hell, he even carried Undertaker to a decent match!)
I actually really enjoyed his Kama run too. I was a huge Papa Shango mark back in the day, so that probably has something to do with it. The Kama gimmick would do well now in today's world with MMA being so popular.
I think when that gimmick tanked he should have started mocking other wrestlers and changed his them to Kama Chameleon.
Yup I agree. I loved the shoot fighting gimmick too. I didn't have the Internet at the time so I was unaware that Kama and Shango were the same person. I was hoping Shamrock would do the shoot fighting gimmick when he first came to the WWF, but sadly WWF just treated him as just another wrestler.
Yeah massive fail on Shamrock. You sign (at the time) the most famous American shootfighter, and then have him wrestle like just another guy. Oh but with an anklelock!
I liked Shamrock and I thought he seriously was going to come in and choke people out. I was sad when no such thing occured.
I looked on wiki, shockingly they don't C nor D this.
You looked on wiki, that's a start.
Sid did shit himself according to Undertaker in a radio interview around that time. I think it was during a houseshow match after UT bodyslammed him.
I remember a story where Andre shit himself. Can't remember about Sid though.
False Urban Legend.
Sorry to make you all wait with anticipation
station, but next entry won't come until Tuesday. Shit's come up tonight and tomorrow is Alberta election day (yay!).The wait for Norman Smiley will be much sweeter now.
That's what I heard too.
I also heard that the whole Sid shitting himself is a urban legend, but who cares, it's too funny to ignore.
Andre definitely shat himself. It was a match in Mexico between WWF and death.
You mean a match between his time in WWF and his death, or an actual match with WWF in one corner and death in the other?
Sid is fucking awesome. In a certain sense. I always thought that he should have mostly stuck to tag-teams where he just sat in the corner and his smaller, more talented partner got killed, then tagged in Sid who just power bombed the shit out of everybody. I've always been a mark for him.
The match where he took the belt from HBK is a fucking @@@@@ classic. One of my favourite matches of all time.
I love Sid in ECW
[ame="http://youtube.com/watch?v=EQK_VzkTvhU"]YouTube - Sid Vicious vs John Kronus Guilty As Charged 1999[/ame]
He was the only few big men to be accepted by that ECW crowd correct?
SID SID SID
I have quoted the above text as it reflects my feelings as well.
HE HITS AN OLD MAN WITH A TV CAMERA AND THE CROWD CHEERS LIKE NUTS!
I think SID is the only "shitty wrestler" that has ever been popular with the smark fans.
He shows up in ROH they would go nuts.
On that note GLACIER, Demolition and One Man Gang were at Chikaras Kings of Trios. They even did the full Glacier intro.
Sid is great, but wasnt on my list.
SHAKIRA is shite. I say this without ever watching one of their shows.
CP Munk and Colt Cabunny fart in your general direction.
Wasn't 911 accepted in the ECW fan circle jerks? I remember seeing him named in the "PEOPLE PAUL HEYMAN HAS MADE INTO STARS EVEN THOUGH THEY SUCKED" lists.
The ECW fans were fickle. They would put down the big stars from The Big Two, but if ECW ever signed them, the fans would go nuts.
ECW fans aren't capable of stocking the shelves at Target.
WHERE IS #26?
I could post a benders Aussie music thing if you want?
Who?
Robelgordos Musical Exchange, Ive got one I forgot about and just remembered!
Thats it, I'm gonna go post it.
Don't you dare.
In your face Tucho!
What a piece of shit this thing is.
wheres the new one? wheres tucho?
It's going along much faster than Inside Pulse's ever did.
YRD goes to the effort of taking on a project involving 50 front page articles, he has a break for a few days, and you ungrateful pricks who have done nothing but contribute negativity to the front page get on his case about it. This is why we can't have nice things!
Oh Bender.
Bemnders right, and this is also why we shouldnt have rushed so quickly through the previous articles.
I'll just LOL to the negatives.
The station has been a gong-show this week, as everybody is sick and I'm in doing the morning show. Hopefully I'll have some time to jump on the 'pooter at home after today. Number one will now be held off until August 20th!
And maybe kept Vern's original list.
We really need a credibility gained emoticon.
That would break NPP.
we need it yet we would never use it.
You have to apply to Alan. He's the only one who can raise credibility.
Slappy can also do that.