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Post by Dyno on Aug 26, 2024 14:29:13 GMT -5
His son's posted a message on Facebook stating that he's passed away after a fight with Cancer.
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Post by Thumper Moore III on Aug 26, 2024 16:36:00 GMT -5
RIP indeed. Sid was never the best worker, but he was everything a 90’s wrestler should have been— a 6’9” monster with a bodybuilder physique, crazy intensity, great power move set, charisma for years. For me he’s most remembered for four things:
1. Doing his best to save the Shockmaster segment. Everybody else is trying to hold in laughter, while Sid grabs the mike and starts intensely screaming into the mike. The most professional guy on a stage that included Flair, Sting, Bulldog and Booker T.
2. The ‘92 Rumble that turned me against Hogan. Sid, over as anyone, eliminated Hulk clean as a whistle, then Hogan gets involved illegally and eliminates Sid. Somehow, Hogan was supposed to be the good guy, but 15 year old me knew better.
3. “I’ve got half the brain you do!” One of the best bad promos of all time, delivered with all the intensity and conviction we’d come to expect from Sid.
4. “TWENTY TWO?!? GOOOOALBEEERG!!!” I’m not convinced this was Sid intentionally being over the top funny, rather than him being told to really sell it, but my goodness was that a funny moment.
Sad to hear he had been fighting cancer for several years. No matter what the disease did to him, Sid still rules.
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Post by Dyno on Aug 26, 2024 16:53:31 GMT -5
4. “TWENTY TWO?!? GOOOOALBEEERG!!!” I’m not convinced this was Sid intentionally being over the top funny, rather than him being told to really sell it, but my goodness was that a funny moment.  |
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Post by Skullgore on Aug 26, 2024 18:07:33 GMT -5
He was one of my favorites as a kid. Also was the wrestler responsible for me realizing that Hulk Hogan is scum in the ‘92 Rumble. Cancer is a bitch and so is Hulk Hogan.
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Post by Duke Mongoose on Aug 27, 2024 11:23:57 GMT -5
My brother and I were discussing Sid just a day or so ago, which makes this news even more shocking.
For whatever reason, people just liked Sid. There was something about him, not least of which was the ramen noodle perm-mullet.
I can clearly remember his annual disappearance to go play softball in the 90s. RIP Master and Ruler of the World.
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Post by Papa Chopper on Aug 27, 2024 16:05:26 GMT -5
Sid had such a raw boned look....impressive as a face and intimidating as a heel. Could have been used significantly better than he was by Vince and Bischoff. I wonder if ECW could have gone the distance with him...had that company gone the distance itself.
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Post by Skullgore on Aug 27, 2024 18:31:25 GMT -5
Sid had such a raw boned look....impressive as a face and intimidating as a heel. Could have been used significantly better than he was by Vince and Bischoff. I wonder if ECW could have gone the distance with him...had that company gone the distance itself. I think Sid did plenty to earn the distrust of promoters. I also don’t think he’d be the guy he was if he just stayed in one place. Maybe he could have made more money if he did, but he wouldn’t have maintained the kind of aura he had. He certainly wouldn’t have been able to show up in a place like ECW and have the crowd get white hot for a squash match like he did. Making his hometown “wherever he damn well pleases” summed him up perfectly. The guy existed to show up, kick some asses, and move on before he ever had a chance to get stale. He wasn’t the worker they were, but that quality elevates him to the level of guys like Bruiser Brody and Vader. Bad ass guys who were the last outlaws remaining from the age of the territories. |
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Post by Red Pirate Rogers on Aug 27, 2024 22:12:05 GMT -5
He was one of my favorites as a kid. Also was the wrestler responsible for me realizing that Hulk Hogan is scum in the ‘92 Rumble. Cancer is a bitch and so is Hulk Hogan. Just adding to the praise of this moment in particular: I think when I'm going senile in the old folks home (or, more likely, wandering the desolate post-apocalyptic wasteland of the future) my final words may well be: "it's every man for himself...BIG BOY!!!" The '92 Rumble is maybe my favorite piece of wrestling story telling, and while Flair earns every bit of his flowers for it: Sid's presence and delivery there is a truly fabulous story beat...I think most of the time he seemed like a big, mad, monster, but when he was on, he was on. |
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Post by Dyno on Aug 28, 2024 16:06:01 GMT -5
Thinking of all the Rumbles since and all the ones before, especially nowadays when you get the surprises, for me the '92 Rumble remains the best one.
And the greatest Flair promo of all time after it.
From the story throughout. Heenan on comms. Hogan/Sid. Just brilliant.
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Post by Bayou Burl on Aug 29, 2024 8:57:12 GMT -5
One of only 5 men to main event both Mania and Starcade. Rip to the master and ruler of the world.
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