Wrestler’s Career Ended With A Televised Injury

Professional wrestler Sid Vicious, a star on the peak of the WrestleMania period of the early Nineteen Nineties whose profession ended with a horrific (and televised) leg harm, has died after battling most cancers for a number of years. He was 63.

His dying was introduced on social media by son Gunnar Eudy.

“He was a person of power, kindness, and love, and his presence will probably be vastly missed,” Gunnar Eudy wrote about Vicious, who additionally glided by the ring names Lord Humungous, Vicious Warrior, Sid Justice and Sycho Sid however was born Sidney Raymond Eudy on December 6, 1960.

Taking his most enduring ring title from the doomed punk rocker and Intercourse Pistols bassist who died in 1979, Eudy started wrestling in 1987, rising to nationwide prominence two years later when he joined World Championship Wrestling. Transferring over to the WWE in 1991 as Sid Justice, Eudy entered right into a infamous feud with Hogan a 12 months later.

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Within the early to mid-Nineteen Nineties, Eudy was among the many headliners for the favored WrestleMania occasions. Successful numerous world championships for each the WWE and WCW, Eudy additionally took half in 1997 on Monday Night time Uncooked.

Eudy’s grappling profession got here to a stomach-churning finish in what stays one of many ghastliest moments in televised wrestling historical past: Throughout a pay-per-view match in January 2001, Eudy jumped off a turnbuckle and landed badly, his left leg snapped and dangling at a grotesque angle, bones poking by way of his pores and skin.

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A long time later, Eudy would keep in mind the life-changing harm in a TV interview, saying that he was nonetheless recuperating from a shoulder harm when he was satisfied by a WCW govt to return and carry out the rope soar. Though Eudy agreed to the return, the stunt, he mentioned, “was one thing I didn’t need to do and I wasn’t snug doing.”

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Plans for a memorial service are pending.

Eudy is survived by spouse Sabrina Paige and sons Gunnar and Frank.