It was announced today that Sid Eudy will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.

Competing throughout the late 1980s to the early 2000s, Sid Eudy wrestled mainly in WWE and WCW, where he won numerous titles and headlined many pay-per-view events.

Gaining national prominence as one-half of the Skyscrapers (with Danny Spivey), the then-named Sid Vicious joined the Four Horsemen. With a look that seemed like it came from a monster movie.  In an era of big men, no other wrestler had a more imposing physique and facial look than Vicious, and of course, Vince McMahon wanted him for the WWE.  McMahon signed him in the summer of 1991, and while he headlined Wrestlemania VIII (wrestling as Sid Justice) in a disqualification loss to Hulk Hogan, he was gone less than a month later.

Sid returned to WCW, but that too was brief, as a scheduled push against WCW World Champion Vader was cut short when he attacked Arn Anderson with a pair of scissors.  That would have caused every promotion in the world to ban him, but a man who looked like Sid was money.  The WWE called him back in 1995, and 16 months later, he got hot and defeated Shawn Michaels at the 1996 Survivor Series for the WWF World Heavyweight Title.  He lost it back to Michaels at the ’97 Royal Rumble, but beat Bret Hart for his second title weeks later.  This led to Sid’s second WrestleMania main event, this time against the Undertaker, where he lost the belt.  Weeks later, he was gone again.

Sid returned to WCW in 1999, winning the WCW World Heavyweight Title, but in the first pay-per-view of 2001, he attempted a second rope kick, and when he landed on his other leg, it snapped both the tibia and fibula so badly that the injury was too graphic to replay afterward.  He rarely wrestled afterward, though he did come back to squash Heath Slater on Monday Night Raw in 2012. 

He passed away in 2024 due to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.  He was 63.

Sid joins Stephanie McMahon, A.J. Styles, Demolition, and Dennis Rodman in the Class of 2026.

Following WrestleMania, we will start updating our WWE Notinhalloffame Hall of Fame list.

We at Notinhalloffame would like to congratulate Sid Eudy’s family on this upcoming honor.