(WTVY) – Sid Eudy, a professional wrestler whose career spanned nearly 30 years and achieved multiple accolades in some of the biggest organizations in the business, passed away on Monday. He was 63-years-old.
Sid’s son Gunnar Eudy announced his father’s death on Facebook Monday afternoon after a yearslong cancer battle.
“He was a man of strength, kindness and love, and his presence will be greatly missed,” Gunnar said.
Eudy got his start in the business when he joined Continental Championship Wrestling (CCW)/Continental Wrestling Federation (CWF) in 1987, wrestling under a mask as Lord Humungous, a character also famously donned by Jeff Van Camp Sr. during his own time in the Southeastern United States professional wrestling scene. As Lord Humungous, Eudy would wrestle for CCW/CWF in Dothan and across the rest of the Alabama from 1988 to 1990.
Eudy would go on to compete in New Japan Pro Wrestling and later in the Von Erick’s World Class Championship Wrestling, the latter of which being where he would adopt the Sid Vicious name, taking it from the Sex Pistols’ bassist of the same name.
He would carry the Sid Vicious name into the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW), where he would make a bigger name for himself including being inducted as a member of the Four Horsemen by Ric Flair. During this time, Vicious would wrestle several times in Alabama, including in matches for the NWA World Heavyweight Title at a Montgomery house show against Sting in 1990 and for the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship against Lex Luger on an episode of WCW Worldwide in January 1991 at the Dothan Civic Center.
Eudy would take his talents to Vince McMahon’s World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in 1991, adopting the name Sid Justice during the brief stint before a short return to WCW in 1993, a stint in United States Wrestling Association from 1994 to 1996, and a return to WWF in 1995 where he would become Sycho Sid and later win the WWF Championship two times.
He would wrestle in a few different locations after recovering from a neck injury that forced him to leave the WWF again in 1997 and ultimately landed back in WCW in 1999, winning the United States and World Heavyweight Championships during his return to the company before an unfortunate leg injury forced him into a then-retirement in 2001. He would later recover and return to the ring in 2004 and wrestle until his actual retirement in 2017.
Upon his passing on Monday, the WWE paid tribute to Eudy on their social media pages and website, saying “his influence can still be seen in wrestling rings around the world.”
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