Saying Goodbye to Psycho Sid, & Sid Vicious ... (SID EUDY, PROFESSIONAL WRESTLER)

2024-09-09

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Saying Goodbye to Psycho Sid & Sid ViciousSid Eudy, the professional wrestler known variously as Sid Justice, Sid Vicious and Sycho Sid, who rose to fame in the 1990s, died on Monday. He was 63. The cause was cancer, his son Gunnar Eudy wrote on Facebook. He did not say where his father died. Eudy, who won multiple championships, was one of his generation’s “most imposing and terrifying competitors,” World Wrestling Entertainment said ...

Saying Goodbye to Psycho Sid & Sid Vicious

Sid Eudy, the professional wrestler known variously as Sid Justice, Sid Vicious and Sycho Sid, who rose to fame in the 1990s, died on Monday. He was 63.

The cause was cancer, his son Gunnar Eudy wrote on Facebook. He did not say where his father died.

Eudy, who won multiple championships, was one of his generation’s “most imposing and terrifying competitors,” World Wrestling Entertainment said in a statement. Listed at 6-foot-9 and 317 pounds, he was one of the biggest of what are known in the industry as big men, who often play supporting roles because they don’t perform the high-flying moves that thrill fans.

Eudy was a very big man who became a star in his own right. He headlined Wrestlemania twice and became champion of both the World Wrestling Federation, as it was then known, and its 1990s rival, World Championship Wrestling, a rare trifecta.

He entered the world of pro wrestling in 1987 and two years later, calling himself Sid Vicious after the Sex Pistols’ notorious bassist, signed with W.C.W., which at the time was an upstart circuit.

In 2001, during a televised pay-per-view W.C.W. championship match, viewers watched Eudy injure his leg after he jumped off the rope and accidentally landed badly, snapping his left leg at an unnatural angle.

The injury effectively ended his career as a major pro wrestling star, as he himself acknowledged. “With my injury,” he said in a 2023 interview, “I feel I came up short with solidifying myself as one of the top 10, 15 money-drawers in the business.”

He considered retiring. But, after a long period of recuperation, Eudy — who had previously returned from injuries more than once — resumed wrestling in 2004, on smaller circuits. He returned to W.W.E. in the summer of 2012, as part of the observation of the 1,000th episode of the organization’s TV series “Raw.”

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