Sid Eudy, identified underneath his wrestling ringnames Sid Vicious, Sid Justice and Sycho Sid, has died at 63 following a battle with most cancers. The information was introduced by his son, Gunnar Eudy, on Monday.

Eudy started wrestling in 1987, working in numerous territories and for New Japan Professional Wrestling earlier than signing with World Championship Wrestling in 1989 underneath his adopted title Sid Vicious, which was immediately impressed by the Intercourse Pistols bassist of the identical title.

At 6-foot-9, Eudy was an amazing bodily presence and has usually been famous as having a pure charisma due to his distinctive look. His dimension led to him working in a WCW tag group with 6-foot-7 Dan Spivey as The Skyscrapers till Eudy was injured and changed by Mark Callous, the person who would go on to turn out to be The Undertaker within the WWF/WWE.

Eudy would discover himself a short member of the enduring 4 Horsemen steady earlier than departing WCW for the WWF as Sid Justice in 1991. Eudy wouldn’t stick across the WWF for lengthy earlier than being launched, re-signing with WCW and being launched from WCW after an notorious real-life struggle with Arn Anderson.

Eudy returned to the WWF in 1995 and was rebranded Sycho Sid in 1996. Throughout that run, Eudy would twice win the WWF world championship. That WWF run ended after one in every of Eudy’s many accidents that required surgical procedure.

After recovering from neck surgical procedure, Eudy wrestled numerous impartial dates earlier than a 1999 stint with ECW the place he was introduced in as a dominant drive who hardly ever was requested to do greater than powerbomb opponents, however his charisma made him a star as soon as once more with a troublesome ECW crowd.

Eudy’s ultimate notable run got here with WCW, returning to the promotion in 1999. He went on to win the US championship in addition to the WCW world championship twice. In 2001, Eudy suffered a grotesque damage on the reside broadcast of the Sin pay-per-view when he snapped his tibia and fibula after leaping from the second rope.

Eudy would make just a few wrestling appearances after the damage however by no means resumed full-time motion.