Profile of Sid Eudy on Famous Like Me

Sidney Ray Eudy (born December 16, 1960 in West Memphis, Arkansas) is an American professional wrestler most commonly known as Sid Vicious, but also as Sid Justice, Sycho Sid and simply Sid.

Career

Sid was a top prospect in the Memphis territory, and made his debut at the Mid-South Coliseum teaming with Austin Idol against two gritty face veterans and former AWA World champions: Jerry Lawler & Nick Bockwinkel.

Sid Eudy is not so much known for his wrestling ability as for his misadventures outside the ring. Sid is an extremely keen softball player and has been known in the past to take mysterious leaves of absence in order to play softball, sometimes during major feuds.

He is also famed for two extremely unusual fights with other wrestlers. In 1991, while he was working for the WWF, he bumped into WCW wrestler Brian Pillman. The two exchanged words and Pillman eventually challenged Sid to a fight. Sid left the bar and returned some minutes later threatening Pillman while brandishing a squeegee. He was duly laughed at by the entire bar. Fellow wrestler Mike Graham wrestled the squeegee from Sid and Sid backed down, claiming he didn't want to re-injure a bicep he had torn recently.

Earlier in WCW, Sid was part of the Four Horsemen in 1990 to 1991 with Flair, Anderson and Barry Windham. Ole Anderson was the manager. He was also half of "The Masters of the Power Bomb" with Vader, who feuded with Sting and Davey Boy Smith in 1993. When Sid first arrived in WCW in 1989, he was part of The Skyscrapers tag team with Dan Spivey but was replaced by "Mean" Mark Callous when he suffered a punctured lung.

In 1993, Sid was working with WCW and just two weeks away from winning the WCW World Heavyweight Championship at StarrCade '93, when during a tour in the United Kingdom, he had an argument in a hotel bar with Arn Anderson after Anderson overheard Sid insulting his friend Ric Flair. Sid later went up to Anderson's hotel room to settle the argument, which he did by (allegedly) hitting Anderson over the head with a hotel chair when he answered the door. Sid then brawled with Anderson inside the room and ended up stabbing Anderson over 20 times with a pair of safety scissors. Anderson was rushed to hospital and survived the incident, while Sid lost his World Title shot (which was given to Ric Flair instead) and was later fired after several wrestlers threatened to walk out if he wasn't. Sid has since apologised to Anderson for the incident and the pair are on speaking terms today.

After another run in the Memphis territory, now renamed the United States Wrestling Association, Sid returned to the WWF in 1995, first as another bodyguard for Shawn Michaels, and then as part of Ted DiBiase's Million Dollar Corporation stable. Eventually, he struck out on his own, beating Michaels for his first WWF World title. He later won it again, this time from Bret Hart. As Michaels' D-Generation X stable went on the rise, however, WWF could not find a role for Sid, who had suffered another injury, and let him go.

After spending the some time in ECW, Sid returned to WCW in 1999. In this particluar run, he would feud with such wrestlers as Kevin Nash and Scott Steiner, and would hold the WCW World Heavyweight Championship on two occasions. During the main event of the 2001 WCW PPV Sin, Sid slipped off the ropes and broke his left leg so badly (he suffered a double compound fracture) that, as of 2005, he is still walking with a cane and is therefore in semi-retirement. However, on June 14, 2004, he worked a match in the independent circuit in Canada for the Internet Wrestling Syndicate, teaming with Pierre Carl Ouellet to win a tag team battle royal.

Profile

• Height: 6'9" (205.7 cm)
• Weight: 303lbs (137.4 kg)
• Birthday: December 16, 1960
• Hometown: West Memphis, Arkansas
• Trained By: Tojo Yamamoto
• Professional Debut: 1987
• Previous Identities: Lord Humongous, The Vicious Warrior, The Millennium Man, Sid, Sid Vicious, Sid Justice, Psycho Sid
• Previous Manager(s): Harvey Wippleman, Ted DiBiase, Judge Jeff Jones, Ole Anderson, Col. Rob Parker, Sylvia Fuller, Gary Hart, Theodore Long
• Finishing/Signature Move(s): Powerbomb, Chokeslam

Championships/Accomplishments

World Championship Wrestling

• 2-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion
• 1-time WCW United States Heavyweight Champion

World Wrestling Federation

• 2-time WWF World Heavyweight Champion

National Wrestling Alliance

• 1-time NWA Southeast Heavyweight Champion
• 1-time NWA Southeast Continental Tag Team Championship (with Shane Douglas)

United States Wrestling Association

• 2-time USWA Heavyweight Champion

Pro Wrestling Illustrated

• PWI ranked him # 122 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003
• PWI Comeback of the Year Award (1996)

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