On November 17, 1996, Sid Eudy ascended to his greatest peak, winning the WWF Championship at Madison Square Garden from Shawn Michaels.
After a decade of proclaiming himself the “Master” and the “Ruler” of the world, for a fleeting moment, it was realized at the famous arena as the company’s home market fanbase shifted allegiances. While his roots were in West Arkansas, the man billed from “Wherever he damn well pleases” was forever linked to New York City that evening.
Sid took on many forms and names whether as Vicious Warrior, Sid Vicious, Sid Justice, Sycho Sid, or any other variant but at his core there was a man named Sidney Raymond Eudy that kept his audience (and promoters) coming back for more.
His story began in 1960, born in West Memphis, Arkansas, and maintained his distinctive drawl to add a charm to his speaking with those ever-present Southern roots. Ironically, it was the Northeast part of the country that gravitated the most to Sid’s unique presentation and became his home-field advantage for several major moments throughout his career.
Growing up, he was a multi-sport athlete, attaching himself to anything with a bat, ball, or glove and applying his physical gifts. He flirted with a football career when he stated he tried out for the Memphis Showboats of the ill-fated USFL. The team experienced two seasons of play, highlighted by its 1985 season where it went to the league semi-finals and fell to the Oakland Invaders from its home stadium, the Liberty Bowl.
Football was not in the cards for Sid, who had a wife and a young child and was seeking a means to earn a living. The future wrestling star would find work in farming and would tell Sean Mooney in a 2018 interview that he was preparing to become a pilot.
At his core were some incredible genetics and it seemed inevitable that those gifts would open a door for him. He had a chance meeting with Randy Poffo a.k.a. Randy Savage at a gym, who as the son of a promoter, knew a star when he saw one and directed Sid toward Jerry Jarrett and the Continental territory out of Memphis.
Sid had a second child on the way, and as he described in the Mooney interview, “I don’t have the story like a lot of guys do. I never had the love for the business; it was really just to make money.”
That philosophy made it easy to dismiss Sid; however, it also gave Sid what few possessed, leverage and power. Sid knew his look was a commodity in his era and in an ecosystem that fell woefully short in rights for workers and talent, his greatest power was the ability to walk away and challenge a promoter to call his bluff. He pushed that button many times throughout his career and yet, would always be a phone call away from his next run in a top position and dictating his terms.
The launchpad for Sid was in 1987 in Memphis after training under territorial stalwart Tojo Yamamoto and donning the Lord Humongous character. Sid followed Mike Starks, who was a part-time wrestler, and others who assumed the hockey mask and played the character but Sid became the prominent figure attached to it.
The 26-year-old was tossed into the deep end teaming with Austin Idol against Nick Bockwinkel & Jerry Lawler in his first match on February 23, 1987.
While the Memphis run was brief, it was a crash course as Sid was thrown into a tag team with another promising wrestler named Shane Douglas and got the opportunity to work with veterans like Lawler, Bill Dundee, Tracy Smothers, Rocky Johnson, and Don Bass. It was a territory full of experienced individuals, hardened to the grind of weekly territorial shows, and an eye-opener to how Sid would approach the industry as a game of taking more from the promoters than they could take from you.
As Lord Humongous, he won the Southeastern heavyweight title on Christmas night in 1987 beating Danny Davis, and would be the final champion in its lineage. With Shane Douglas, the pair won the territory’s tag titles in the summer of 1988, which they never lost after Douglas left Memphis. It led to Sid wrestling as Sid Vicious in a singles capacity and becoming the CWA champion in December by beating Brian Lee for a one-month title reign before wrapping up in the territory.
His international break occurred in early 1989 as New Japan Pro Wrestling needed another foreigner months after the tragic death of Frank “Bruiser Brody” Goodish in Puerto Rico. Sid was brought over for a tour as Vicious Warrior with the instructions of studying tapes of Brody to prepare.
Sid challenged Tatsumi Fujinami for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship on the first night of the tour on February 22 at Sumo Hall, literally two years after Sid’s first match. It was baptism by fire as he put over Fujinami and worked the rest of the tour, including a match with Riki Choshu, and climaxing with a showdown against Antonio Inoki in Nagoya. It was Sid’s lone tour of Japan but the word was out on Sid and he caught the attention of World Championship Wrestling.
Sid credits Eddie Gilbert for the call to receive a tryout at WCW as Gilbert’s influence in the promotion grew.
In 1989, it was a period of flux for WCW as the company had just been sold to Turner Broadcasting, its long-time booker and babyface star Dusty Rhodes was gone, George Scott’s run as booker left a lot to be desired and while the promotion was putting on state-of-the-art matches, it was in a business decline as the WWF was soaring off the Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan program during the early months of the year.
A booking committee was installed and Sid was seen as a blue-chip prospect who checked off the main box in 1989, “Big”.
While still exceptionally green, the company knew how to camouflage with the rise of talents like Sting and Ultimate Warrior – both promotions were stacking the deck for the forthcoming decade and the heirs to Ric Flair and Hulk Hogan, respectively. Sid had that level of optimism and would be given chance after chance for the next ten years to prove those optimists incorrect.
Sid was put into a team with Dan Spivey as The Skyscrapers with Teddy Long as their manager, allowing the two to work short matches and destroy enhancement performers while Sid found his footing and they could find out what the ceiling was for the performer.
Ric Flair was working an injury angle after the attack by Terry Funk following his WrestleWar win against Ricky Steamboat, removing Flair from programming until his triumphant return at the Great American Bash in July to defend the NWA World Heavyweight Championship against Funk. The absence of Flair allowed other talents to be spotlighted and with the addition of a new show, Power Hour, Sid and Spivey made their debut on the show’s second episode destroying George South & Trent Knight in less than five minutes.
This new talent initiative also saw the introduction of The Ding Dongs with one of the worst introductions you could envision at Clash of the Champions in June. Here, an audibly embarrassed Jim Ross threw to Bob Caudle as he couldn’t even bring himself to call the highlights of the affair.
The Skyscrapers killed The Ding Dongs on an episode of WCW Pro in less than two minutes within a month of both team’s debuts. This preceded their larger “coming out party” at the Great American Bash pay-per-view, winning the $50,000 King of the Hill Battle Royal.
In November, Sid was taken out of action after breaking his rib during a match with The Steiner Brothers at Clash of the Champions in Troy, New York. The rib injury led to a more severe injury as he punctured his lung, requiring hospitalization and surgery, sidelining him until the spring of 1990. Spivey would wrestle alone for the next month before WCW decided to replace Sid with Mark Callous (Mark Calaway) in The Skyscrapers, which was the end of Sid’s tag run.
WCW was not giving up on Sid, rather placing him into the latest iteration of the Four Horsemen with Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Barry Windham, and Ole Anderson (who had also just been named the new booker). According to Sid, during his recovery, he was told to put back the weight he had lost after his lung surgery and during that recovery period, they learned of Sid being out and about playing softball which led to heat on Sid and the beginning of his favorite hobby conflicting with his pro wrestling obligations. Sid believed that their punishment was having him lose in 30 seconds to Lex Luger at the June 1990 edition of Clash of the Champions with a flash pin and Sid popping up and selling the loss with disbelief, however, the company had not soured on Sid at all.
Sid was seen as the “muscle” of this version of the Horsemen and became a blueprint for many future groups including the role Dave Bautista would assume more than a decade later when Evolution was formed.
He was built up to challenge Sting for the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship at Halloween Havoc in Chicago, which drew approximately 7,000 paid and a $115,000 gate with around 200,000 buys on pay-per-view, per the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. It was not a great match, highlighted by a phantom title switch where Sid pinned a disguised version of Sting, who was Barry Windham in the outfit, and the real Sting returned to the ring and pinned Sid.
While the show drew well by WCW’s standards in 1990, it was a reality check to the limitations Sid presented, especially in a company that had churned out some of the best wrestling matches in the country in its main events over the past years. In another era, Sid would have been the attraction that shows up one or two times a year for a big program modeled after Roughhouse Fargo, who was confined to a mental institution year-round but would come back periodically to vanquish the heels. In 1990, this wasn’t the model and throughout the next decade both WCW and WWF would try and get as much as they could out of this performer whose image leaped off of the 8 x 10s but the substance bell-to-bell was lacking by any charitable metric.
Sting and Sid were programmed on the road beyond Halloween Havoc before Sid would revert to the U.S. title scene and work with champion Lex Luger.
The greatest match he was ever involved with occurred at WrestleWar on February 24, 1991, as Sid teamed with Flair, Windham, and Larry Zbyszko against Sting, The Steiner Brothers & Brian Pillman in a War Games match, which was highly acclaimed but had an ugly finish. The War Games structure had a roof above the cages and when Sid lifted Pillman for a powerbomb, Pillman struck the roof and came down badly on his neck and was knocked out and sent to the hospital. Sid didn’t mince words in later interviews when he felt Pillman had been running his mouth and treated him with ill intent and didn’t protect Pillman during the powerbomb. The bad blood between them would boil over later that year in an infamous story that followed Sid for the rest of his career.
Removed from the WCW title picture, Sid’s deal with the company was coming due and he decided to kick the tires by contacting the WWF and gauging interest. To no surprise, Vince McMahon was very intrigued and willing to bring him in for a top role in the company. According to Sid, WCW made a big offer and he was set to remain with the company when McMahon made a last-ditch pitch to include a WrestleMania main event spot and Sid committed to jumping. However, he had time left on his deal and pushed to get out early.
From the Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
Vicious was under contract to WCW through September 5 on a $260,000 per year deal, and made it clear to anyone who would listen, that no matter what, on September 6 he was headed to WWF. However, he asked to get out of his contract early to start with WWF in June. When asked what it would take to keep him, he demanded a raise to $400,000 per year, which would make him the third highest paid wrestler in the company behind Flair and Luger, and ahead of Sting. He also asked for two months off every summer. He had already gotten the nickname Softball Sid, when the previous year, after suffering a collapsed lung taking one of Scott Steiner’s unique moves (that Steiner quit doing afterwards), he was booked to be in corners at house shows, but no showed the dates, and instead was playing in a softball league at his home in West Memphis, AR. WCW also sent WWF a nasty legal letter claiming they were tampering with contract personnel.
Vicious also complained that he was being asked to do jobs for Sting and Luger, and in the dressing room, was spouting off that he’d done more jobs than Tim Horner. A week later, Vicious agreed to a new WCW contract for three-years at $350,000 per year, plus PPV bonuses that would put him well over his $400,000 asking price. Vicious verbally agreed to the deal. Then, when presented the contract, Vicious said that he’d been promised the main event at Wrestlemania in 1992 at the Hoosier Dome. Rather than have an unhappy camper on his hands, Jim Herd agreed to let Vicious out of his contract provided he put El Gigante over in a stretcher match at the May 19 PPV.
Concerned that he might not lose to El Gigante at SuperBrawl, Sid wasn’t even put on the road for the month before the event. He showed up at SuperBrawl, lost in two minutes, and walked out.
Sid was rebranded from Sid Vicious to Sid Justice with vignettes beginning to air and arriving on the July 20 episode of Superstars as a babyface. He was named the referee for the “Match Made in Hell” at SummerSlam with Hulk Hogan & Ultimate Warrior vs. Sgt. Slaughter, Col. Mustafa & General Adnan. Sid’s version is that he was told he would only have to work television and pay-per-views until WrestleMania and then would start working house shows but after Warrior’s post-SummerSlam exit, Sid assumed Warrior’s spot on the road and working with The Undertaker. The house show run included Casket Matches in multiple markets with Sid winning all of them just months before The Undertaker would beat Hulk Hogan for his short title reign.
Sid encountered a biceps injury in October wrestling Jake Roberts and would sideline him for the rest of 1991. Days after the injury, a legendary story occurred when both the WWF and WCW crews happened to be in Atlanta where both were running shows at The Omni. Sid, who was injured days prior, ended up in a bar with several WCW talents, including Brian Pillman, and began bragging about his role in WWF and depending on the source, denigrating his ex-colleagues. Pillman was not one to stand down from a larger foe and had the existing problems with Sid from WrestleWar. Sid enlisted the backup in the form of a squeegee and while the incident did not escalate to blows, it did become a story that always followed Sid and his odd choice for protection.
Sid returned to action in January in time for the Royal Rumble where the WWF Championship would be awarded to the winner of the 30-man battle royal and came down to Ric Flair, Sid Justice, and Hulk Hogan. Justice eliminated Hogan, who grabbed Sid by the arm from the floor and Flair threw Sid over from behind to become champion. The show was in Albany, New York, and they erupted when Sid eliminated Hogan, whom the fanbase had become tired of. This led to the company cleaning up the audio in post-production to present a more favorable reaction to Hogan.
Sid has always claimed that Hogan threw a fit backstage with Sid threatening to quit the company that night due to the politics while also knowing he had a door open in WCW.
The company had cracked down on the rampant steroid use that was easily apparent by the eye test in the years prior and came months after Dr. George Zahorian’s trial and as WWF was under the public eye regarding its performers and how clean they were. Before WrestleMania 8, Sid failed a drug test but was allowed to wrestle at the big show and the subsequent European tour.
April 5, 1992, saw WrestleMania staged at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis with the company in rapid transition. It was promoted around the idea that it could be Hulk Hogan’s last match as he headlined his eighth consecutive ‘Mania with Sid as the opponent. The ending was a mess as Papa Shango (Charles Wright) was late to the ring to break up the cover and forced Sid to kick out of Hogan’s leg drop on his own. The match ended in a disqualification with Justice and Shango attacking Hogan, and Ultimate Warrior returned to save Hogan.
Sid worked for the next month before he quit the company after working with Warrior on several live events and not being happy with the way the matches were structured. It was reported that week by the Wrestling Observer that it was a case of Sid quitting and WWF suspending/firing him for missing scheduled dates after he stormed out of a show in Boston.
Within weeks of WrestleMania, both its main eventers were gone, and the company braced for a plateau in business.
Unlike WCW, the WWF wasn’t going to just free Sid of his contract and he had to wait approximately one year before turning up in WCW. While Sid stated he made his agreement with Kip Frey, by the time he arrived, Frey was gone and Bill Watts was in charge.
Once again, Sid was walking into a top heel role alongside Big Van Vader for a summer program of matches involving Sting & Davey Boy Smith. The four headlined the July 18, 1993, Beach Blast event in Biloxi.
Sid began angling for a behind-the-scenes role and included the recruitment of Kane & Kole, who would change names to Stevie Ray & Booker T. as “Harlem Heat”. The duo teamed with Sid & Vader in War Games at Fall Brawl, losing to Sting, Davey Boy Smith, Dustin Rhodes & The Shockmaster where the angle introducing Fred Ottman’s newest character overshadowed anything else involving the feud.
Sid’s run was gaining steam and was poised for a big year in 1994 when his tenure with WCW came to a halt after a horrifying incident during an overseas tour.
It was the early hours of October 27, and the crew was stationed in Blackburn, England and words were exchanged between Sid and Arn Anderson with the common sentiment that Anderson was sticking up for his close friend Ric Flair, who Sid was badmouthing. The two dispersed to their rooms but the issue was not put to bed as Sid ripped off the arm of a chair and confronted Anderson at his door and a brawl ensued. The belief was that Anderson grabbed a pair of nearby scissors to defend against Sid, who took hold of the weapon and repeatedly stabbed Anderson, although Sid was stabbed too. Neither man was charged but Sid’s tenure at the company was done after just agreeing to a $600,000 per year deal over four years.
Sid would maintain that the company offered to keep him on board if he accepted a lower salary and forgo a recent raise, but he declined and left. The fact that Sid was scheduled to headline and win the WCW Championship at Starrcade in two months and still parted ways while keeping Anderson was a sign of how they viewed the incident, although Anderson did receive a suspension.
It generated bad publicity for WCW and in another era, this would be a massive story, and no doubt, any company opting to work with Sid again would be raked over the coals.
In his place, Ric Flair took the spot at Starrcade, beating Vader in his hometown of Charlotte and capping off a memorable night for WCW, who made the best of a terrible scenario.
The next year was the first where Sid did not wrestle for a national promotion but spent the back half of the year working for the USWA and feuding with Jerry Lawler for the Unified World Heavyweight title.
Sid also wrestled a one-off with Herb Abrams’ UWF in October against Dr. Death Steve Williams for the promotion’s title on a pay-per-view that tanked.
The USWA run set the stage for his national return in early 1995 as the bodyguard for Shawn Michaels in the lead-up to WrestleMania 11. Now known as “Sycho Sid”, he held the role previously played by Kevin Nash and culminated with a memorable angle where Sid attacked Michaels the night after WrestleMania, setting Michaels into his first singles babyface run in the WWF. It propelled Sid into the top heel spot and a feud with Nash over the WWF Championship through July.
The matches left a lot to be desired even by the standards of the time, which were well below par. The natural pairing of Sid and Michaels was penciled in for SummerSlam in Pittsburgh but a combination of Sid battling an injury and the company wanting to spruce up the card, they pulled the chute on Sid. Razor Ramon was inserted as Michaels’ opponent in a ladder match and a rematch of one of the company’s most famous matches. Instead, Sid would challenge the winner the next night on Raw in Canton, Ohio.
After Sid’s most active year of his career, the injury bug continued and a neck injury would take him out in early 1996.
The call came in June as the company was in a panic after the latest blow-up with the Ultimate Warrior where he had missed advertised dates and was removed from the In Your House pay-per-view in July. Sid flew to Stamford to tape a segment with Shawn Michaels and Ahmed Johnson to reveal himself as the mystery replacement to face Vader, Owen Hart & British Bulldog at the pay-per-view.
This kicked off Sid’s most successful run and was in discussion for the WWF Championship. The candidates were Vader and Sid and history shows who was chosen. Sid won the championship at the Survivor Series in front of 16,266 paid and a gate of $529,522. The story was similar with the Northeastern crowd attaching itself to Sid and fully embracing the new champion and rejecting Michaels.
It was never a long-term play as WWF, experiencing a business decline, had booked the Alamodome in San Antonio for the Royal Rumble and felt Michaels chasing the title was a stronger hook in his hometown. Sid lost the title and it was believed he would revert to his old spot while Michaels was earmarked for a rematch with Bret Hart at WrestleMania 13.
Michaels would be diagnosed with a debilitating knee injury and told by his doctor he could never wrestle again. In reality, he very much had a knee injury, but it was a treatable one for an athlete, but Michaels did believe his career was over. He opted to relinquish the championship rather than do another match. After putting the title on Bret Hart for 24 hours, the company doubled down on size and had Sid regain it on Raw setting up a WrestleMania main event between Sid and The Undertaker.
That year’s WrestleMania was the worst-performing in the franchise’s history with a paltry 237,000 buys but historically, a significant event as it was the night that Steve Austin ascended from upper mid-card talent to breakout star in many people’s eyes, including the company. Sid and The Undertaker is not the legacy of that show, but it would represent Sid’s final night as champion and essentially, his swan song with the company.
That spring, he was involved in a terrible car wreck involving fellow wrestlers Flash Funk, Doug Furnas, and Phil Lafon. Sid had already been dealing with constant neck issues and the latest setback would precipitate his release from the company and would not wrestle for the company again until a one-off fifteen years later.
The business exploded during this era with both companies on fire in 1998 and while it was an arms race to secure talent and bolster its star power, Sid was on the outs that year, confined to independent dates and it seemed inevitable he would receive that call despite a checkered track record. The call came but was from the unlikely landing spot of ECW.
Paul Heyman and Sid reached an agreement where Sid showed up at the Guilty as Charged pay-per-view in January 1999 to destroy John Kronus after being revealed by Judge Jeff Jones. It was an indicative lesson of perception and reality as Sid represented everything “cartoonish” that the fanbase in ECW was taught to reject and yet when a big star from the national companies walked out, the arena exploded and treated him like a superstar. Amazingly, Sid stuck around for a few months but disappeared only to pop up at WCW’s Great American Bash pay-per-view to attack champion Kevin Nash and once again step into a main event position.
While the “never say never” adage is tired, Sid returning to WCW was a shock given the incident with Arn Anderson and yet, both were standing in the ring together during an episode of Monday Nitro. While not part of an angle or focused on by the announcers, when the segment ends and they are about to throw to break, Anderson can be seen visibly speaking with Sid and the two men shake hands.
Sid worked in a top-heel position, paired with Randy Savage, and would win the United States Championship from Chris Benoit in September. Then, Sid was inserted into a program with Bill Goldberg where Sid did a bastardized version of The Streak, which was comical in presentation. He lost matches on the road, and choke slams were counted as wins but the surprise was that two limited performers ended up having a decent match at Halloween Havoc in October through the usage of blood and overachieved given the expectations for the two.
Sid found himself in the middle of a contentious power struggle as Vince Russo was sent home in January 2000, refusing to take part in a committee set-up and leaving Kevin Sullivan to assume power with a new booking regime. A near mutiny occurred among talent including Chris Benoit, who wanted nothing to do with a Sullivan-led creative staff but the company attempted to quell Benoit by having him beat Sid at the Souled Out event and putting the WCW Championship on Benoit. The gesture failed to tip the scales and Benoit wanted out of the company alongside Perry Saturn, Eddy Guerrero, Dean Malenko, Konnan & Shane Douglas. The match was orchestrated with an “out” as Sid had his foot underneath the rope as an insurance policy.
Benoit would never appear on WCW programming again and the title was vacant and would be placed on Sid. Under the Sullivan-led group, Sid became its top babyface during a dismal period for WCW with Brad Siegel orchestrating a return for Vince Russo & Eric Bischoff in April and a famous “reboot” episode of Nitro.
Russo and Bischoff kicked off the show and its New Blood vs. Millionaire’s Club story with a segment with Russo and Bischoff “shooting” on talent. In an eye opener for anyone watching, Bischoff walked up the stage to try and emasculate Sid by stripping him of the WCW title and made a crack, “What’s the matter Sid, can’t find your scissors?”, there was zero reaction from the crowd for the “edgy line” as Mark Madden screams, “Wow”. It was so cringeworthy as Bischoff repeated the line as if the audience didn’t hear it. It was a perfect example of the disconnect between its audience and programming its material for such a small percentage that would understand such a reference.
An injury caused Sid to miss the Russo & Bischoff period as he was stripped of the title that night on Nitro and would not resurface until late 2000 for a feud with Scott Steiner. Sid became one of the few talents to headline both WrestleMania and Starrcade – seven years after he was supposed to headline the major WCW event with Vader.
While the company’s days were numbered and a potential sale to Fusient Media was in the works, WCW trudged along with a pay-per-view called Sin in January 2001. The legacy of that show is a horrifying leg break by Sid as he leaped off the second turnbuckle in a main event four-way match involving Scott Steiner, Jeff Jarrett, and Road Warrior Animal. Sid’s leg snapped grotesquely as they rushed to the finish and was effectively the end of Sid’s career as a full-time performer. Years later, Sid would maintain that agent John Laurinaitis suggested the spot.
Sid was under a guaranteed deal with WCW when it went out of business, and we’ll never know if WWE would have opened its doors for Sid yet again. The leg injury made it a moot point as he was in no shape to compete and was now 40 years old.
Few expected to hear about a Sid comeback, much less one that would be staged in Quebec for the IWS group, but it happened in June 2004. Entering the arena to a rabid response alongside partner PCO to Marilyn Manson’s “This is the New Shit”, Sid wrestled 3 ½ years after snapping his leg in a tag team battle royal. Among the talents participating in the match was a 19-year-old aspiring talent who wrestled as “Big Larry” but would assume greater fame as El Generico, and even more, as Sami Zayn.
Sid had eyes on a WWE comeback later in the decade and spoke of his hopes to return in interviews, but it never materialized. He was never called for the WWE Hall of Fame, DVD projects, or reunion episodes and it was never known why didn’t qualify as one of the company’s promoted legends.
Out of the blue, he received that call in June 2012 for a cameo appearance on Raw to squash Heath Slater in Fort Wayne, Indiana but there was no follow-up or bridge for future projects with Sid. He would never be seen in a national setting again.
As much as we’ve been celebrating how damn cool Sid was on TV, I was excited to share a story about Sid Eudy being a decent person. pic.twitter.com/hQ2tOznHX6
— “Tom”. (@NotThatTomGreen) August 28, 2024
Sid went out quietly, reverting to life as a grandfather while being diagnosed with congestive heart failure eight years ago and having a pacemaker installed. In April 2021, he was hit with more bad news as he learned he had stage four non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
On Monday, August 26, son Gunnar posted a message to Facebook alerting the world that his father had passed at the age of 63.
He is survived by his wife Sabrina, sons Gunnar & Frank, and his grandchildren.
The career of Sid is indicative of a time and place in the industry where looks were at a premium and size was a commodity that would earn you chance after chance. To his supporters, Sid could have been an even bigger star and only scratched the surface, and to his detractors, he massively overachieved on a limited skill set and could not be relied on.
Perhaps the best description for Sid was advice that Jerry Jarrett provided the talent early in his career, “When you think you’re overexaggerating, you probably aren’t exaggerating enough.”
No level of exaggeration could encapsulate the career of Sid Eudy.
Notes:
– Wrestling Observer Newsletter archives
– Wrestling in the Garden, Volume 2: 1940-2019
– Sid Eudy Shoot Interview on The Hannibal TV
