Wrestleview is gloomy to report that former WCW and WWE Celebrity Sid Vicious (actual identify Sidney Raymond Eudy) has handed away, after dropping a battle with most cancers. He was 63.
The information was first broke by Sid’s son Gunnar Eudy on fb.
Vicious can be survived by his spouse Sabrina Paige, whom he married in 1983.
Wrestleview sends its condolences to the household, mates and followers of Sid Vicious throughout this troublesome and unhappy time.
Vicious was skilled by Tojo Yamamoto. He started his skilled wrestling profession in 1997 in Continental Championship Wrestling below a masks, going by the in-ring identify of Lord Humungous. Eudy then had a really transient run in the Texas primarily based World Class Championship Wrestling, the place he adopted the in-ring names of Sid Vicious, which he took from the punk rock musician of the identical identify who performed bass for the Intercourse Pistols.
He’s most notable for his time in WCW from 1989 to 1991 as a part of the Skyscrapers with “Harmful” Dan Spivey and part of the 4 Horseman. After leaving WCW, Vicious signed a contract with the WWE/F. He went below the in-ring identify of Sid Justice. He voluntarily give up the corporate in 1992 after inventive variations.
Vicious returned again to WCW in 1993 and would depart a 12 months later for the USWA, the place he spend one-year earlier than returning to WWE/F in 1995. After leaving the corporate once more in 1997, he wrestling in Mexico and the impartial scene, earlier than returning to WCW in 1999.
On January 14, 2001, at WCW’s Sin pay-per-view in Indianapolis, Indiana Sid confronted Scott Steiner, Jeff Jarrett and Highway Warrior Animal in a 4 Corners match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. In the course of the match, Sid suffered a close to career-ending harm. Vicious suffered a leg fracture following leaping from the second turnbuckle in try to present a giant boot to Steiner. He landed awkwardly on his left leg, inflicting it to snap each the tibia and fibula, with one of many bones breaking by his pores and skin and his foot rotating at 90 levels anti-clockwise. The footage was too graphic for a lot of tv stations to re-air. Nonetheless, WCW replayed it on Nitro the next evening.
On the time, WCW govt John Laurinaitis it was reported that he had felt Vicious wanted to broaden his wrestling strikes and urged he strive the transfer regardless of the “unwillingness” of Vicious. The harm put Vicious out of motion indefinitely. He went by an in depth quantity of rehabilitation following the harm.
On the June 25, 2012, episode of WWE Monday Evening Uncooked, Vicious made his return to the corporate as Sycho Sid the place he defeated Heath Slater in a match that was a part of the construct as much as the one thousandth episode of Uncooked.
On August 5, 2017, Vicious ended up wrestling the final match of his profession, defeating Paul Rosenberg in Ottawa, Ontario for Nice North Wrestling.
He’s a two-time WCW World Champion and a one-time WCW United States Champion and a two-time WWE/F Champion.
As well as, to WCW and WWE/F, Vicious held titles within the USWA, CCW, NWA Northeastern and Southeastern Championship Wrestling. He additionally wrestled for ECW.
