Jim Cornette on The Passing Of Sid
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- From Episode 358 of the Jim Cornette's Drive Thru
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I had the privilege of meeting him shortly before COviD at a meet & and greet. I was next in line and they were getting our package ready. He overheard the attendant confirming I had a photo package for 2x-but informing them that my father wasn’t able to attend so it wouldn’t be necessary. When I got my turn he asked what my dad was up to and i had to explain that he had started treatment for his diagnosis since purchasing the package (full remission since then). Sid then asked that everyone be silent for a moment and led a prayer for my father. I’m not religious in the slightest, but I was taken back by how caring he was about me and my father (neither of which he had ever met or knew).
That's quite a story. I hate what's happened to Sid, but hearing about your dad is awesome.
That's awesome man is your dad doing better
And thats what a true man should do!
Not religious either. But damn, that hits hard.
That’s a great story. He certainly seemed to a good dude.
So many have said so many negative things about Sid over the years, but Conrad Thompson said something that made me think about some of those things in a completely different way. Conrad said that Sid loved softball, but that wasn't the real reason he always wanted softball season off. He took softball season off so he could spend time with his family and see his children grow up. He never became the gimmick, or let the business consume the way that so many top guys did. Sid got in, fed his family, and got out. He never wanted to be on the road 300 days a year and be a stranger to his kids. I admire that. I choose to remember him as a family man who never forgot who he was, and managed to make it to the top in far less time than most people do. If that is a negative, then nothing is positive.
This is what's up, well said. Rest easy big man.
Without stabbing Arn Anderson Sid wasnt that bad truly
@@Milwaukhehe
Arn did create the issue in the first place.
@@tanver1443 Arn and Sid both admitted they were in the wrong.
Oh, bullshit. He was lazy.
You are also forgetting the many indy promoters he would steal from.
Sid did things his own way and did things on his own terms, he lived how he wanted to. Total respect he earned it.
did you just steal this from Nash? Lol
@@tenorandrewowens haha dude was a legend think he got on with people like minded, would love to see what he was like at softball 🤙🏻
"Suddenly, I'm dominant"
Sid walking out at Survivor Series 96, as the heel, fist bumping the crowd before shouting "WHO'S THE MAN?!?" Is an underrated badass entrance
💯💯🔥💪🏾
Absolutely! If I recall correctly the commentary tried to talk over the pop too and then finally made a comment about him being over
He was actually a babyface there but turned heel by the end of the match and the crowd still cheered.
@@kenthegamerYeah,he caused old Jose Lothario to have a”Heart attack”and the people cheered.
Check out him VS Chris Cheti in ECW(I think it was Chris Cheti but I know it was ECW) He was fist bumping the shit out of the fans and at one point even starts blowing snot rockets on them lol
Sid was one of a kind. He felt and looked like a real monster, you thought he really was insane. He cut some of the best/worst promos of all time, but he held the world title in both WWF and WCW. There will never be another like him. RIP the Master and Ruler of the World.
Kick or be kickin
Man, even his botches were over. People loved the angry, confused, Master of the World 😂
@@Guillermo-m6s 22?!!
well said, spot on
I hated him as I kid but now that I am older I am thinking of at least growing and curling my hair.
Sid's "softball game" was Terry Funk's "sick horse". They just wanted to go home, but at least Sid was telling the truth.
@@HessenUK especially when you have leverage and money.
I missTterry and Sid like family members who passed away
Yup, Bruce Pritchard said this on his podcast last week.
He went home to be with family that was important to him
@@davidgi3 Occasionly, truth falls out of Prichard's mouth by accident.
He had the best wrestling names. Sid justice. Sid vicious sycho Sid
All his theme songs were bad ass too.
99' Sid in WCW was the best!
@@StayPuft80 it was Kane / Glenn Jacobs, not Sid.
Let's not forget Lord Humongus.
Dutch Mantell gave him the Sid Justice name.
Sid should be in the Hall of Fame.
I agree
Definitely
2 time WWE Champion 2 WCW Champion and 2 time WrestleMania Headliner yet wasn't inducted in the Hall of Fame when he was alive 😒
@@kingslayer2999People have been inducted for less. That's crazy!
With vince gone, 141% chance he gets in next year.
Sycho Sid was my favourite version. So satisfying seeing him beat Shawn Michaels for the WWF Championship at Survivor Series 1996 with the fans cheering him on. RIP big man.
“WHOSE THE MAN?”
@@shiningwizard202 "You're the man!"
Same here. Loved Sycho Sid and that survival series 96 main event. This coming from a huge Shawn Michaels fan lol.
Shawn’s run had been such a flop. He went from a cool to a boring babyface bringing an old man to the ring. That MSG crowd POPPED when Sid won. RIP Sid.
Sid’s greatest moment
My dad was a bouncer and bartender at the Crystal Palace nightclub in Atlanta in the 80s and 90s. Lots of wrestlers would come in there, of course, with WCW and GCW being out there. He's told me plenty of stories about wrestlers coming in there over the years having a good time or causing a ruckus, but one story he told me was about Sid walking in there like some sort of monster looking for Jake the Snake, who had been at the bar.
Jake had warned a few guys that Sid might show up looking for him, but nobody got to Jake in time to warn him when Sid came in and saw Jake over the crowd. My dad said the crowd parted like the Red Sea as he made his way across the floor. Pop told me you could hear the slap Sid delivered to Jake over the music. Said it sounded like a 22 round going off. Jake apparently hit the floor and slithered his ass out the back door while the bouncers tried to calm Sid down.
My dad's a tough bastard, but he always said that Sid was one of the most physically scary human beings he had ever been around or seen go off. "Unnerving" was the word he used.
May the Man, the Master, and the Ruler of the World rest in peace. I was always a fan.
Gem of a story man
Man, it would have been amazing seeing guys like Sid, John Tenta, Meng, Barbarian, the Steiners, etc. in early UFC.
Do you know why Sid was mad at Jake?
@@RobTheUndertaker not in the slightest.
@@oddmaddox thought I would ask if you did. I'm sure Jake had it coming.
Sid got himself over against two of the biggest politickers in the history of the business. Not the best worker, but according to Shawn and Bret, not the worst either. Didn’t matter either way. The “who’s the man” entrance at SS96 is legendary. RIP big man
Shawn and Bret worked well with him.
@@danthemancushecan they were both much more complimentary of him than they were other big stiffs. Sid wasn’t a mark for himself and knew how it worked.
@shiningwizard202 it worked perfectly. Shawn and Bret take the lead; they do the bumping and selling for the big man while he looks like a dominant monster.
Sid was always going to be over because he had probably the best look of any wrestler ever. He was imposing and his intensity made it hard to _not_ pay attention to him.
he was believeable and everything he did was believable in the ring thats the most important part of workrate for a big man to me let people bubp off of him he doesnt have to be shawn that wasnt his role
People forget how over Sid was. I remember Shawn Michael " I lost my smile " promo, people was chanting Sid name
Bret Hart wasn't LMAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣
He was over everywhere he went. Even in ECW the fans went nuts for him. Sid had charisma that very few others have.
I can't recall a time he was ever truly booed, the fans loved Sid no matter what he did. RIP
@@DLRX You only see a few of those in your life, Undertaker was the same and to some degree even Randy Orton as of late cuz of his RKO outta nowhere. I'd also put AJ Styles in there where it don't matter if he's baby or heel people cheer him
That was Moreno the fact that Michaels wasn't over and no one outside of Meltzer Mark's and Vince wanted to see a 5'7", 175lb vanilla midgets prance around the ring like a San Francisco Rainbow biker.
NWA Sid was the first guy I ever saw do the powerbomb when it meant something and it blew me away. RIP Big Man
Me too. I never saw anyone do the powerbomb or chokeslam before he did. I was in awe. This guy was big, muscular, scary looking, and had those moves. I legit was afraid for the guys he faced. I knew wrestling wasn't real even as a kid, but with Sid I wasn't sure.
Sid also one of the few wrestlers to have never had a bad theme song
Indeed.
Except the network dubbed theme for WCW
Sid was one of the few guys who were both WWF and WCW campion during the monday night war too
Now that I think about it he was the only one wasn't he?
Who were the others? Bret Hart is all that's coming to mind.
@@daleharris3809bret and big show
@@daleharris3809 From the debut of Nitro to Nitro ending we had Giant/Big Show, Diesel/Kevin Nash, Bret Hart, and Sid.
@@Scottish-Danny Giant/Big Show and Nash
Omg what happened to my car?! Goldberg where are you?! Goldberg!! Goldberg!! Goldberg!!
The best ending to a Monday Nitro ever
@kelvinberriankb hilarious because he put his all into such a ridiculous segment 🤣
Sid was involved in possibly the 2 most hilarious bits in wrestling history (The Shockmaster debut & Goldberg wrecking his car)
Three if you count half the man half the brain @@royjonzejr
Loved when wrestling ended their shows like that
His entrance in MSG against Shawn Michaels is a moment that still sticks out to me. Those fans LOVED him. Sid fist bumping as many fans as he could on his way to the ring and he was clearly loving every second of interacting with them. The word "aura" is used a lot now, but Sid had it. Never understood the hate he got, he just wasn't a mark and when the money wasn't right he had no qualms about dipping. Don't blame him one bit.
RIP Sid. Thanks for the memories
Sid and Vader, my two favorite big men. Both are gone now...😪
R.I.P.
Absolutely agreed! For me as a kid, they were the only heels that actually terrified me.
Fast forward, in 2014, I got to meet Vader. Leon was one of the nicest people I've ever met. Not nicest wrestlers I ever met; one of the nicest people.
In 2016, I finally got to meet Sid and he was the same exact way. Very humble, very friendly and very welcoming. Both were the complete opposite of the characters they played on TV.
They were both 2 huge truly scary guys!
Sid, Vader, Bam Bam Bigelow, and King Kong Bundy were my favorites, and sadly, all four are no longer with us. Jerry Blackwell was right up there as well, though.
I lived in the same town as Sid Eudy and bumped into him a few times. Marion, Arkansas isn't that big folks. He was always nice to me and he really liked chatting with my dad. I wasn't like super close, more of a "Hey how you doin'?" level but the folks around that area that did know him all pretty much agreed that Sid liked wrestling, and he loved the money, but he hated being on the road.
Sid was a big country boy. He liked being at home. Playing softball, doing yard work, selling farm supplies, and spending time with his family. If he could have wrestled in Memphis, and maybe somewhere close, and then spent the next 5 days at home he'd have been just as happy as can be from what I've heard. But, again, I wasn't a close friend. That's just what I've heard from folks in the area.
Exactly, sounds like him to the extent of his words in shoot interviews.
Sounds like a pretty damn good man. Priorities straight
Sid won.
He didn't get jacked around by promoters, he got over, and lived out his life giving back to his community and be surrounded by family.
Not many champions can say that.
Kevin Nash said that the wrestlers loved Sid. It was the office that hated him because he’d quit to go play softball. And who can really blame Sid for that? If you had the financial security to just work like 6 months at a time and then quit to go play softball, wouldn’t you do that too?
Yeah I think this is spot on. Also, from everything I hear, for a big man, Sid worked remarkably light. One of the main reasons Shaun and Sid was a program was because Shaun was tired of getting potatoed by Vader on a nightly basis. Sid wasn't the best in-ring technician, but you never heard of guys ever feeling unsafe working with him in any of these shoot interviews.
He was basically a main event attraction before the brock lesnars and others came!
Let me tell you what kind of guy Sid really is. Back in 2000, my younger brother (who was a HUGE WCW fan) was in the hospital with cancer. He was 11. They didn't know how long he had, but the outlook wasn't good. We tried to keep the reality from him, but he saw through us. Knowing he didn't have long, we were hoping to get a wrestler to visit him in the hospital.
Of everyone we tried to get to come out, Sid was the only one that was willing. He drove about 40 miles to the hospital. When he got there, he was awesome. But he was also very shy and not sure what to do. He whispered to me "does he know who I am? has he seen any of my matches? Im not sure what to do" and I told him "just do the usual Sid stuff and he'll love it!"...So Sid yelled at him, and grabbed him by the throat and ripped him off the hospital bed and chokeslammed him down onto the bed, breaking it in half.
My brother died of internal bleeding about an hour later. A good, clean death, a much better way to go in my opinion.
Obligatory "you had me in the first half, not gonna lie".
You got me pretty good.
Wtf?! 😅 playing with my emotions like that.
Reminds me of that Cyanide and Hapiness short 🤣
This is what we've been waiting for. R.I.P Big Sid
Ayyyyy synchronize youtubulators! Eat before you eat my friend !
Sid trying in vain to save that promo with the Shockmaster is what I remember him for.
Sid was such THE MAN that he was practically a freelance wrestler who put more time into his personal life OVER the wrestling business…and he still main evented two Wrestlemanias, a Starrcade and was always well respected.
Almost like a proto Brock. Guy who gets to barely work and do what he wants
@@katlynklassen809 Literally the dream life
Sid coming out looking like a total bad a$$ , fist bumping people is still one of the best simple entrances ever in wrestling 👊
Who's the Man?!?!
Sid took the part of independent contractor literally, not as just a way for promoters to save a buck.
Exactly
Yeah, and in this very clip Corny continues with the "Warrior was unreliable" narrative, when it was Vince and Bischoff's fault for screwing Warrior over.
@@quentinkaasa47I like Corny obviously but despite what he wants people to think today, he was always a hardcore company man at every promotion he worked at
As a wrestling fan I really never understood the hate Sid got. Dude just wasn’t a mark and when the paper wasn’t right he just went home n played softball.
Work rate smarks hate on him that's all
Yeah but he was getting hate online long before that clip went viral. Since the 90's people talked alot of shit about him tbh.@HessenUK
Because he was well known for no showing indy promoters and keeping the money.
Because sometimes he was put in situations where his weaknesses in the ring were massively exposed. You either put him in the ring with guys like Shawn Michaels or you put him in short Goldberg style matches.
Because he couldnt/didn't do shit
"On Sid Eudy "Sid Vicious"
"He was known as Psycho Sid Vicious to the world, but to our family, he was simply 'Popper,' the beloved grandfather.
Sid was diagnosed with congestive heart failure in 2016 and atrial fibrillation (better known as AFIB) around the same time. He was also given a pacemaker. In April 2021, he was diagnosed with stage 4 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which was linked to roundup weed killer.
Although he never told anyone about his fight against cancer, Sid lived his life to the fullest, attending the gym, boxing classes, making appearances for his fans, and of course t-ball games for the kids. He passed away peacefully in his bed, leaving behind a legacy of strength and determination. I've never met anyone with a fraction of the strength as my father he truly was one of a kind.
Thanks everyone for the uplifting words and love we definitely feel it we have received thousands of messages and are grateful for everyone of them. I don't have time to reply but I have read them all thank you thank you thank you!
Signed, Gunnar Eudy"
Sid wrestled the way he should wrestle and talked the way he should talk.
One of the all time greats. Dude was a badass before the attitude era. He could have fit into the 80s, 90s, 2000s wrestling. He transcended all the eras and could just walk out and fans would lose it. Not many people could do that. His "gimmick" was technically perfect. It didn't matter if he was a bad guy or a good guy, people went nuts for Sid. It was amazing.
I’m 37 and I remember absolutely LOVING Sid! I loved Hogan because I was a little kid and he appealed to kids, but Sid was COOL!
As a fan, Sid was guy that us "smarks" were supposed to hate, but we all loved. In the WWF, he got cheered against Hogan, and later HBK. And even the ECW crowd would go nuts for him everytime he came out.
RIP Sid.
Sid worked heel more often than not, and heels get over with smarks. Wasn't a maestro on the mic but dude can work for a badass big guy. I don't understand why we were supposed to hate him?
"Vince. I rather be a Big vicious heel" - Sid Vicious
@@HessenUKhim taking over Hogans role would've never worked
Never happened. Nash wasn't even there in 1991. 😂
He could never really be a heel, the fans loved him way too much. He could have attacked anyone, from any era-Hogan, Michaels, Taker, Stone Cold, Cena, Orton---the fans would always, and I mean always, cheer him. He was a true star that could never be hated. The closest thing would be an anti-hero type. But it was always, cool. Always admirable. You just wanted to like this huge badass dude, no matter what, and the more crazy psycho shit he did, the more you liked him.
People say he was a heel or supposed to be a heel. But, to me he was a baby face more so. Got great huge pops and fist bumps galore so I didn’t see him as a heel. Tweener maybe but definitely not a heel.
That was almost the time when the heels started to become cool.
I remember when Sid fought Shawn for the title at Survivor Series in 96, that MSG crowd was going crazy for him. They were cheering him all throughout the match and went apeshit when he won.
RIP Sid.
One thing i can say, Jim didn't change his opinion of Sid from previous clips. There are a lot of wrestlers/ people in the industry who paid tribute to him that in the past wasnt so kind. RIP SID!!!😞❤
Also, Kevin Nash always went to bat with Sid. All the clips I've seen from Kevin he had nothing but good things to say about him. The whole story about Vince wanting to give Sid 'Hulk's Boots' and riding him to a baby face, but then turns around and says he wants to be a big vicious heel lmao.
Still thinking of you today, big man. Thanks for the great memories. SS96 remains one of my favorite wrestling moments as a kid. Thanks, mate RIP xx
Someone has to have Softball Footage of Sid somewhere.
I'd buy that for a dollar.
It likely doesn’t exist because the entirety of playing was overblown by a factor of 100.
His powerbombs were smooth and his WCW Sid Vicious theme still slaps…thank you Sid
LOVED his WCW 'Metal Demon' theme
Slaps?!😂😂😂
@@DLRXthat's my favorite one too
Not the powebomb he gave Brian pilliman.
@@MitchClement-il6iq Brian wanted it like that. Brian was a high flyer, and therefore very flexible.
Sid was a bad ass... Skyscrapers, Sid Vicious, Sycho, Or Justice... didn't matter he was a scary ass heel. And then by 96 he was so over as a babyface.
As kid in the UK, the first time we saw the WWF, our brains could not compute that Sid was not the champion. We did not know Hogan and he wasn't on the TV much, and Sid just looked like he could destroy anyone.
I was a kid in the US, and we thought Hogan was lame. Everyone wanted to be Sid when we wrestled in the backyard.
Sid probably had the best look of any wrestler ever. He didn't have to do anything but stand there and it was still hard to take your eyes off him.
@@BiggieTrismegistus he was scary
I was a kid in the US and Hogan was not lame but Sid was waaay cooler.
RIP Sid 👊
Lord Humongous ironically isnt so different a character than Psycho Sid. He went basically his entire career with very little character development. He had IT & nailed it from day 1.
He was responsible for "killing" Hulkamania in his first run in the WWE.
He was the first "cool" heel in the WWF - sort of ushering in the attitude era.
He was able to have 2 world titles in both major promotions.
The only guy to main event WrestleMania again Hogan & Taker.
The only guy to sell the Shockmaster debut.
He was Scott Steiner on the mic before Scott Steiner.
Truly the Master & Ruler of the World
In the 80s & 90s we spoke so highly of him in the school yards. We considered him a top 10 guy back then.
I'm positive that, had he been more dedicated (and didn't try to kill Arn Anderson), he would have been the Hulk Hogan of the 90s.
He deserves a lot of props for how he stuck to kayfabe and sold The Shockmaster's debut.
WM main events for Sid: 2, for Flair: 0. The dude was the most over big man since Andre and Undertaker, and always drew money. Watch his short stint in ECW where the crowd is literally shit crazy for his appearances. RIP to one of the legends!
Flair didn't spend a lot of time in WWE in his prime. So his WM main event status is irrelevant.
I met Sid Eudy in 2019. Anyone who has met him either at a wrestling convention meet and greet or randomly outside doing his thing would tell you what a stand up guy he was. Genuinely one of the nicest guys from the wrestling business I ever had the pleasure of talking to.
RIP Sid, you truly were the master and ruler of the world.
I say sid had one of best wrestling careers on terms of “I do whatever the fuck I want” wise as he would always walk away & go play softball & wcw & wwf always came back calling. Sid was the real definition of “I don’t need wrestling. Wrestling needs me” rip sid.
Best look and most bad ass entrance. As a kid I was in awe of and terrified by him haha - he was over with every crowd.
One of my favorite Sid memories is when he came out on Monday night raw while Bret Hart was cutting a promo on how he was getting screwed and everyone knew it. Sid comes out and Bret Hart says you know it and Sid responds I don't know shit. Hilarious
I absolutely loved Sid, in every form and facet he performed. He elevated every match that he was in to the next level, and I never saw anyone be anything but awed by his presence. The greatest thing he ever did, as far as I'm concerned, was be that class act that lay down for Taker to have a true run as World Champion at WrestleMania 13 ... that was an incredible moment. A gaze that could make most grown men wet themselves, and a power bomb that made your spine cry just watching it. Rest in light, big man ... 💔
I first saw Sid as Lord Humongous in Continental Wrestling in Alabama in the 80's. . RIP SID.
Had to chance to meet him a month ago at The Gathering in Charlotte, NC. A super nice guy and even got to give him the fist bump he use to do. His size still amazed me and I’m no small man at 6’4 280 pounds he overshadowed me like I was 5 foot tall
You guys were at a gathering of Juggalos?
@@quentinkaasa47 no it wasn’t an ICP show it’s called The Gathering it was a wrestling meet and greet of wrestlers from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s
Back with vader upstairs as the masters of the powerbomb
sid was involved in alot of wrestlecrap. (ie. shockmaster, flattened car, tried to kill sting & bulldog with vader, half brian promo)
what he doesnt get credit for is he always stayed in character and never broke.
for example during the shockmaster debut, you can hear bulldog and harlem heat laughing and clowning ottman. meanwhile is still cowering in fear.
💯!
👏🏽
He tried to keep that Shockmaster segment on the rails and almost did so with sheer intensity alone.
Make it shorter: Sid was involved in WCW.
Brain*
He is the only man to wear the winged eagle version of the WWE Championship that isn't in the Hall of Fame. I understand he wanted to be inducted badly. It's disappointing he didn't live to experience it. RIP Sid Eudy.
Sid was the first wrestler that legit scared the crap out of me as a kid! He was taller than Hogan and legit sounded psychotic. A true villain.
Sid was a genuine nice guy. The fact that Arn Anderson forgave Sid and speaks highly of him today is a testament to how nice of a guy Sid was.
Why, didn't Arn stab Sid??
@@SaintRomulus-bi9kb No Sid stabbed Arn. Almost killed him.
@@SaintRomulus-bi9kb They stabbed each other.
@@christophercomitini8619no, Arn attached Sid, stabbed him in face and stomach before Sid got the scissors and
Attacked back. Don’t make up stories to protect Arn, he’s as guilty, if not more.
@@SaintRomulus-bi9kbyes he did, multiple times and first. Don’t let marks make up head cannon stories that aren’t true.
I recently watched ECW Guilty as Charged 1999. I completely forgot Sid debut that night in ECW. Hearing that crowd pop. Seeing Sid walk down to the ring like a greek god. Kicking ass only wearing a pair of jeans. Just being an absolute monster. That's how I will remember him. He was one of a kind and there will never be another one like him RIP Sid
The absolute worst guy to be ECW. And the marks threw babies into the air
I always thought it would be funny if Sid was actually truly awful at softball. Whiffing out, dropping easy plays.. but he just loved it so much and everybody was just too intimidated to cut him.
Haha that would be hilarious, the strike out king
“That’s another ground ball triple for Sid.. the infield just can’t seem to make the tag on 6’9”, 310lb Sid Eudy..”
Yes except for he was master and ruler of the world.
Whiffing out haha, sorry I’ve just never heard that before
Chris Nilan made the 1987 USA roster for the Canada Cup because no one was brave enough to tell him he was cut.
always liked Sid, my brother loved him. We were at Wrestlemania 13 and while he was happy for Undertaker he was sad to see Sid lose the title. and all accounts, he was a family man, did a lot with charity and was well liked. R,I,P Sid,
Were you guys the dorky family in the front row with those yellow shirts? 😄
@@quentinkaasa47 now we were much further up next to a guy who loved Ahmed Johnson said he was one of God's children and nation of cowards towards nod
@@adamandannaOh. 😄
Sid should be in the HOF!
Does it really matter if he's in that shit show or not?! WWE's HOF is a FUCKIN JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@SlicRic81 considering it was one of his last posts I would say it mattered to him
It would be great if they inducted him but he should have went in years ago. Loved Sycho Sid. I love listening to his shoot interviews probably more than anyone. He explains everything and is completely honest about things. He wasn’t some of these guys still trying to be in character and stuff. Very nice intelligent guy.
And the next video game
We love you sid rest easy big man
Had a leather vest as a kid because of Sid. RIP big man
Loved when Sid would call for the power bomb. ☝️☝️☝️
Softball was mostly for his kids and I can appreciate him with that
Sid said on an interview he left the wwf the first time because Ultimate Warrior was stiff in the ring and no sold his finisher at a house show
He could take wrestling or leave it. That's a healthy attitude to have.
Exactly, he’s admitted in shoots he didn’t grow up a mark and only got into it as a means to feed his family (when approached by the Poffos to get into the business).
(Sid's in-ring Pyro goes off)
S.I.D.: Suddenly I'm Dominant.
-Jim Ross
Was that before or after he became "cripple face"
Looking at the thumbnail it seems Sid hit softball Corny so hard he knocked one of the hinges of Corny’s glasses off.
Another Travis Heckel masterpiece, lol
Man Sid would have loved this thumbnail image. RIP to the Master of the world, WHO THE MAN, YOU THE MAN
He won 2 million on settlement can't believe u guys don't know that.
Brian right, I can't ever unthink that leg break Sid had when I think of him. Just brutal.
Ive never watched it again since its original airing
@prestonpfeiffer smh, I seen this happen a few times in them mma fights, visibly the worst injury ever.
At least Laurenitis gets to suffer humiliation as payback for even considering this spot.
Sid was the man! Vicious or Pyscho, the man was entertaining everytime! I watched him break his leg and it made my teenage self puke. Worst thing I'd seen a human do to their own apendage. Respect for the man and his legacy of bringing smiles to many.
"How many people sued WCW just because they knew they'd get some kind of settlement?"
Yeah, that would be all of them.
😂 I would've
I'm honestly surprised Jim didn't bring up the Mike Blackwell story. Still one of my favorite Sid stories ever told. The fact that the dude thought he could go into business for himself against Sid and Dan Spivey just blew my mind. He got what was coming to him, though.
😂
Every story involving Sid happened to be very entertaining.
I still look up that match if I need a laugh.
Teddy Long yelling, "Kick his zza!!" was the funniest part to me!!
@@colonelrobertsjr.7882 when Spivey winds up to hit Blackwell with a hard left, you can clearly hear Spivey call him a "fucker."
@@archeign7769 I felt that last punch thru my screen lol
They didn't mention it because it wouldn't paint Spivey in a bad light... Jim's hate for Spivey is obviously personal, Dan must've done something to humiliate him in front of the boys...
Softball Sid was his true name
You're gay
First TV taping that I went to as a kid was for WLW, with Sid as the main draw. Guy didn't disappoint, he was the only person anybody in that middle school gym wanted to see and at the end of the night, powerbombed everyone who was on the card.
He was one my favorite wrestlers ever
Over the years I've come to respect Sid's decision to not spend too much time in wrestling. He loved his family and spent as much time with them as he could. Could he have been the greatest wrestler of all time? Hell yes. The dude was over like rover everywhere he wrestled. As Jim said in the video. He got WWF fans to boo Hogan and cheer him. He could have been one of the biggest babyfaces of all time. He just loved his family more than being on the road all the time. How can you not respect that? RIP Master and ruler of the world. I'll never forget you for sure.
I still haven't processed this 😖
Apparently he initially refused to do the jump off the rope til the office pushed him.
It's true
Yeah mainly John lauranaitis
@@mrnicemam8523 Laurinites and co. shouldn't have pushed Sid to do that spot. but at the same time, the diving Big Boot was a crap idea. Sid used a double axe handle against the Undertaker at WM 13. Should've just that standard diving attack.
Can you blame him? He came off that second rope in WCW and snapped his leg when he landed. That shit was rough
@@davestephan3288 yeah i was just reading all this like....bro has the worst o.g leg snap in wrestling history.....tfffff
Sid wasn't like the Warrior. He may have been a d**k to some of the people he worked with, but at least you NEVER heard about Sid being a d**k to the fans. He was a cool dude. RIP.
I always remember the run from the Royal rumble to wrestle mania 8 where he was absolutely destroying everyone. Including beefcskes shop 😂😂👍
The match Sid had with Dr Death was so damn good for two big boys!! Even the crowd was invested.. R.I.P to both men…. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Where was that
Sid was the largest wrestler I ever saw in person. My friend was 6’4, 200+ and Sid made him look small.
“Stid” also never gets credit for keeping a straight face(barely) and saving the Shockmaster debacle by staying in character and getting his lines out 😂
Sid’s Pat Patterson story is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard.
More so him telling it than the actual content of the story.
"I got the big sum bitch in a waste lock"😂😂
I’m sure Pat watched lightening storms with many a dude in his life.
When HBK brought Sid as his bodyguard in 1995 on Raw (I was 12), I never will forget him walking towards the ring and he yelled into the camera, 'Who opened the gates of hell and let THIS MAN OUT?!'
Instant, lifelong fan. Sid was just awesome.
Hell yeah. lol
Can't believe there is not a single clip of Sid playing softball
As a wrestling fan I really never understood the hate Sid got. Dude just wasn’t a mark and when the paper wasn’t right he just went home n played softball.
Seems like ppl love Arn Anderson so hate that Arn got drunk n tried to stab Sid n caught n ass whooping n got poked with his own scissors.
My friends and I had signs that said "Sychos for Sid" and "We've Escaped" for a show that actually occurred near a state mental hospital in Pennsylvania.
As a child, Sid was the first wrestler who truly terrified me. He was a monster, who sold me on the faces vs heels better than anyone I had seen at the time.
Hopefully these guys heard the Conrad and JR podcast where they referred to softball as not seeing his family for a period of time and used softball as the euphemism for family time.
The man passed and you spend a whole show burying him
Shockmaster by far was the best by far. RIP Sid
The Blackwell beating is the best
Dude should’ve been in the HoF alone for trying to save that mess with a straight face.
"I don't care who you are, boy!"
RIP Sid. I just heard over the weekend that Sonny King and some lucha wrestler guy just recently passed away. My apologies for not knowing the lucha guy’s name. Bill Apter just recently posted a video about it on his RUclips channel. RIP Sonny King and RIP lucha guy.
@gothard5: Villano V. A member of the Rudo Lucha Libre Family known as The Villanos. Back in The WWWF days in his native Boston Sonny King was a popular Undercard Babyface. In The Seventies as a Heel Hype man in Florida he Managed Mr. Uganda (around the time of Idi Amin) and Erik The Red. Erik was scheduled one night to Wrestle Dusty Rhodes. A short while after Erik The Red's life was taken from him in a traffic accident.😔B.W.
...no, the long hair was the key for why he looked like a beast. He was the "anti-Hogan" visually.
Softball - family
He didnt always play, he wanted to be home with his family
I love that I immediately got the reference for the art before even listening.
Arguably the greatest physique in Professional Wrestling history.
When I was a kid I thought Sid looked just like Nuclear Man from Superman IV, and i fondly remember how scary that was as a kid to see him stare at the camera like he was looking at me. Then later in life he became one of my favorites. R.I.P to the Master and Ruler of the World.