A “Master of the Powerbomb” and one of several men to have held both the WWF and
WCW World Heavyweight Championships.  Vicious has always been an avid softball player.  
His 205-day reign as USWA Unified World Champion was the longest reign in that
organization’s history.  Jerry Lawler held the belt more thn 40-times.

 Vicious made his professional debut in 1987 and competed as Lord Humongous.  He
teamed with Shane Douglas to capture the Continental Tag Team Title in July ’88 at
Birmingham, Alabama.  Vicious traveled to Memphis and won the CWA Heavyweight Title on
December 10, 1988 from Brian Lee.  In ’89, he signed a deal with the National Wrestling
Alliance.  Sid formed an alliance with manager, Teddy Long and former Varsity Club alumni,
Dan Spivey.  The tag team they put together was known as the “Skyscrapers.”  

 Their team was not only intimidating, but a strong contender to the NWA World Tag Title.  
Vicious and Spivey both won separate battle-royals on July 23, 1989 in Baltimore at the
Great American Bash.  Instead of battling each other in the finals for the $50,000 purse, the
two split the prize.  Also on that card, The Skyscrapers beat the young Dynamic Dudes,
Shane Douglas and Johnny Ace.  The World Tag Team Title was being passed between the
Midnight Express and the Fabulous Freebirds.  Eventually, Rick and Scott Steiner would be
up in the mix of things along with one of the most dominate tag teams of the last decade, the
Road Warriors.  The Skyscrapers met the Warriors at the Halloween Havoc show on October
28th in Philadelphia and lost by disqualification.

 During the early part of the winter, Vicious suffered a serious lung injury.  It was a punctured
lung.  NWA Officials were forced to replace the Skyscrapers with the Samoan Swat Team for
the “Iron Team” Competition at Starrcade in Atlanta on December 13th.  Vicious would be out
of action for several months.  Teddy Long signed “Mean” Mark Callous to replace Vicious in
the Skyscrapers.  The team eventually broke up.

 Vicious returned in the summer of 1990.  He joined the Four Horsemen along with Ric Flair,
Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson and Barry Windham.  It was one of the smartest moves of his
short career.  With the jump into the spotlight came title matches.  He wrestled Lex Luger for
the NWA U.S. Heavyweight Belt on June 13th in Charleston at the McAllister Fieldhouse.  He
lost by pinfall.  The following month at the Great American Bash in Baltimore, Flair had an
important NWA World Title defense against Sting.  Several stipulations were assigned to
prevent the Horsemen from interfering.  Mainly, the Dudes with Attitudes were allowed to
surround the ring.  When it was time for the Horsemen to run out, they were blocked.  Sting
eventually took the NWA Title.

 On the undercard, Vicious teamed with Windham and Arn Anderson in a losing effort
against El Gigante, Junkyard Dog and Paul Orndorff.  They were disqualified.  Vicious took
the driver’s seat and challenged Sting for the World Title on October 27th at Halloween
Havoc.  The two battled away from the ring at one point, and disappeared from the sight of
all.  When they returned, a somewhat taller Sting battled Vicious.  They returned to the ring
and Vicious got the pinfall, capturing the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.  Before the
celebration could continue, the real Sting stumbled out from the back with rope tied around
his wrist.  The match continued and Sting got the pin.  The fake Sting was none other than
Barry Windham.  It was another Horsemen attempt to regain the World Belt.  The ploy failed.

 Vicious reunited with Spivey for Starrcade in St. Louis on December 16th.  The Skyscrapers
were back…at least for one night.  They got an easy win over the Big Cat and the Motor City
Madman in a little over than a minute.  Vicious remained a member of the Horsemen.  Flair’s
attempt to use the “Black Scorpion” gimmick to regain the NWA World Belt failed later in the
evening.  Anderson and Windham also failed in their attempt to take the NWA World Tag
Team Title from the members of Doom.  In January, Flair did regain the title in East
Rutherford, New Jersey.  Vicious, Flair, Windham and Larry Zbyszko, subbing for Anderson,
teamed up at WrestleWar in Phoenix for War Games.

 War Games had always been a Horsemen event and the February 24, 1991 edition was no
different.  Their opponents were the popular team of Brian Pillman, Sting and the Steiner
Brothers.  Vicious hit Pillman with two powerbombs and knocked him out.  The referee called
the match immediately.  El Gigante ran out from the back, picked Pillman up and carried him
from the cage.  Vicious’ maneuver put Pillman’s head threw the top of the cage before
slamming him to the mat.  It had a devastating effect.  The Horsemen were winners.  Vicious
entered a feud with the seven-foot El Gigante.  The two matched-up against each other in St.
Petersburg on May 19th during SuperBrawl.  It was a special stretcher match.  Vicious lost
after being hit with a claw.

 Sid left WCW for the World Wrestling Federation and became known as “Sid Justice.”
Justice was his first task as he was signed to referee the huge Hulk Hogan-Ultimate Warrior
match against Sergeant Slaughter, Colonel Mustafa and General Adnan in the main event of
SummerSlam.  It was a tough job, but someone had to do it.  Sid was the man.

 The WWF fans immediately took to Justice.  On August 26, 1991, SummerSlam was held at
the famous Madison Square Garden in New York City.  Hogan pinned Slaughter for the
handicap tag team match victory.  Afterwards, Justice celebrated with the “Hulkster” in the
ring.  The Warrior left and decided not to particiate in the post-match party.  On October 7th
in Orlando, Justice suffered an arm injury during a match against Jake Roberts.  He would
return in time for the Royal Rumble on January 19, 1992.

 Justice’s timing was perfect.  The WWF World Heavyweight Title was declared vacant and
the winner of the Rumble was going to be declared the new champion.  His luck continued as
he drew number 29.  Ric Flair, who had joined the WWF several months earlier, and Hogan
were both in the ring when Justice arrived.  Hogan was eliminated, but he returned to have
some words with Sid.  Flair ran up behind Justice and threw him over the top rope.  Flair
captured the title, but a Hogan-Justice feud was in the air.  Neither man seemed interested in
the World Title at that point.

 On the 27th in Lubbock, Justice walked out on Hogan during a tag team bout.  Sid turned
against the fans and a feud against Hogan began.  He took Harvey Wippleman as his
manager.  Justice teamed with Ric Flair on March 7th in Chicago and lost to I-C Champion,
Roddy Piper and Hogan.  He lost to Hogan by disqualification after Wippleman interfered on
April 5th at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis at WrestleMania VIII.  Papa Shango joined
Justice and the two double-teamed Hogan.  Coming to the ring to make the save was former
WWF Champion, The Ultimate Warrior.  The trio of Wippleman, Justice and Shango all ran off.

 Rumors circulated that Justice had originally been signed to lose the match against Hogan,
but did not follow the storyline.  That Wippleman acted on the dime and caused Justice’s
disqualification.  The questions were there, but all alleged.  Sid was seemingly gone from the
WWF after the event.

 When his contract expired, he returned to World Championship Wrestling and Sid Vicious
was reborn.  He joined forces with the WCW World Champion, Big Van Vader in July 1993.  
He also took Colonel Robert Parker as his manager.  During the Beach Blast pay-per-view on
July 18th, the duo matched up against Davey Boy Smith and Sting.  Smith pinned Vader to
cop a win.  Vader and Vicious were known as the “Masters of the Powerbomb.”

 On September 19th in Houston, Vicious participated in War Games along with Vader and
the members of Harlem Heat.  Sting led the other team, along with Smith, Dustin Rhodes and
Shockmaster.  Vicious’ team lost.  In an anniversary match of their 1990 Halloween Havoc
lock-up, Vicious and Sting tied up on October 24th in New Orleans before an estimated 6,000
fans.  A similar result.  Sting pinned him.

 He went to Great Britain after the event for a tour of Europe.  A real life argument broke out
between Vicious and a former partner in the Four Horsemen, Arn Anderson, on October 28th
in Blackburn.  Vicious and Anderson both suffered stab wounds, and a pair of scissors were
involved.  The duo were rushed to a local hospital for immediate treatment.  Vicious was
erased from WCW World Title contention and lost his shot at champion, Big Van Vader in
December at Starrcade.  He left the promotion.

 After recuperating, Sid returned to Memphis.  He won his first World Title on July 16th at the
Mid-South Coliseum.  Vicious beat Jerry Lawler by forfeit and captured the Unified World
Belt.  Lawler had been injured and unable to wrestle.  Vicious dropped the belt to Lawler on
February 6, 1995 in Memphis.  His reign was the longest in USWA History.

 Vicious returned to the WWF as “Psycho Sid.” He made his debut as Shawn Michaels’
bodyguard on February 27th on Raw.  He challenged for the WWF World Title, held by
Diesel.  Sid got a pay-per-view main event shot against the champ on May 14th at the initial
In Your House.  He lost by disqualification when Tatanka interfered.  Vicious and Tatanka
made a pact and teamed up against Diesel and Bam Bam Bigelow at the 1995 King of the
Ring in Philadelphia.  The two heels lost.  The WWF scheduled Vicious for a second straight
“In Your House” World Title shot.  On July 23rd, he wrestled Diesel at the Municipal
Auditorium in Nashville, for the belt.  The match was a special lumberjack bout.  Vicious was
pinned.

 Due to injury, he spent some time on the sidelines.  He returned to feud with Henry
Godwinn.  Vicious beat him on September 24th at In Your House III.  Vicious lost on October
22nd before the next In Your House show.  At the Survivor Series on Sunday, November 19,
1995 in Landover, Vicious teamed with Shawn Michaels, Davey Boy Smith and Ahmed
Johnson.  Their opponents were Owen Hart, Razor Ramon, Yokozuna and Dean Douglas.  
He was eliminated second, pinned by Ramon.

 During a live edition of Monday Night Raw on November 20, 1995, Vicious powerbombed
former tag champ, Marty Jannetty onto the ringside floor.  He wrestled Jannetty on December
4th on Raw to a no contest when there were several interferences.  Vicious aligned himself
with Ted DiBiase and the 1-2-3 Kid.  He teamed with the Kid at In Your House V on December
17th against Ramon and Marty Jannetty.  Again, Vicious was pinned by Ramon.  He fell out of
action only to return to the WWF in the summer.  He teamed with Shawn Michaels and Ahmed
Johnson in a loss to Vader, Owen Hart and Davey Boy Smith on July 21, 1996 in Vancouver.  
Vicious traveled back to Memphis and won his second USWA Unified World Title from Jerry
Lawler on August 30th at the Mid-South Coliseum.  He dropped the belt back to Lawler on the
2nd of September in Memphis.  

 Vicious focused his attention on Shawn Michaels and the WWF World Title.  On November
17th in New York City, Vicious captured the WWF World Heavyweight Title from Michaels
during the Survivor Series pay-per-view.  It was his biggest accomplishment to date.  After
years of traveling through the major two organizations in North America, Sid Vicious had
finally captured the top gold.  At In Your House XII on December 15, 1996 in West Palm
Beach, Florida, Vicious pinned Bret “Hitman” Hart to retain his World Title.  He attacked a
camera man during Hart’s match with Vader on January 6, 1997.  Vicious then went to the
back and punched Jose Lothario’s son, Pete.  It didn’t stop there.  Vicious powerbombed the
19-year old through a table, drawing the ire of Shawn Michaels and the young man’s father.  
He escaped before there could be any revenge inflicted.  

 Michaels was given a title shot at the Royal Rumble on January 19th in his hometown of San
Antonio.  Vicious lost the World Title by pin, much to the delight of the fans and the
Lotharios.  In Beyreuth, Germany, Vicious beat Owen Hart on February 28, 1997 at
Oberfrankenhalle.  The night after Hart captured the WWF Gold, Vicious beat him for his
second World Title.  It was February 17, 1997 and during a live edition of Raw in Nashville at
the Memorial Coliseum.  He went into WrestleMania XIII as the defending champ.  The
Undertaker challenged Vicious on March 23rd in Chicago at the Rosemont Horizon.  Vicious
was pinned after 21:19 and lost the belt.

 Vicious teamed with a pair of wrestlers he once tagged against in the NWA.  On Sunday,
June 8th at the King of the Ring, Sid teamed with the Legion of Doom, Hawk and Animal
against the Hart Foundation, Owen Hart, Jim Neidhart and Davey Boy Smith.  Hart pinned
Vicious to win the bout.  Vicious was injured in an automobile accident later in the month.  His
sciatic nerve was giving him problems and doctors predicted that he would be out for a
prolonged amount of time.  He later left the promotion and dropped out of sight.

 Vicious returned to WCW on June 13, 1999 in Baltimore, appearing during Randy Savage’s
WCW World Title shot against Kevin Nash.  He powerbombed Nash, giving him the
disqualification victory.  Vicious and Nash, who later captured the WCW World Title, went to a
no contest on July 5, 1999 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.  Vicious teamed with Randy
Savage at Bash at the Beach in Sunrise, Florida against Nash and Sting on July 11th.  The
winner was going to receive the World Title.  Savage pinned Nash for the belt.

 Vicious beat Sting by pinfall on August 14th in Sturgis at Rally and Races.  He joined a host
of main event wrestlers playing a part in the main event of Fall Brawl ’99 in Winston-Salem,
North Carolina.  Vicious, Lex Luger, Bret Hart and Dallas Page all got involved in Hulk Hogan’
s match with Sting.  Sting took the World Title and seemingly, Vicious became the number
one contender for his pinfall victory over him at the last pay-per-view.  There was another
reason why Vicious was the second man in WCW.  Earlier in the night, he pinned Chris
Benoit to win the United States Heavyweight Title.

 During the Fall, Vicious became known as “Y2S” and began an undefeated streak
reminiscent to Goldberg’s in 1997-98.  Goldberg beat Vicious for the U.S. Title on October
24th in Las Vegas during the Halloween Havoc show.  The referee stopped the match due to
a cut that Vicious had suffered and the amount of blood he was losing.  Vicious was beaten
by Goldberg in a special “I Quit” match at Mayhem in Toronto.  He lost a powerbomb match at
Starrcade to Kevin Nash.

 Vicious wrestled Benoit for the vacant WCW World Heavyweight Title in Cincinnati on
January 16, 2000 at Souled Out.  Arn Anderson, former Horsemen and the man he brawled
with in Europe in 1993, was brought in to be the special assigned referee.  An estimated
14,000 fans witnessed Benoit beat Vicious for the championship.  The next night, the WCW
World Title was again declared vacant when Benoit refused to appear.  Vicious remained one
of the top contenders.

 On January 24th in Los Angeles, Vicious beat Kevin Nash and won his first WCW World
Title.  After ten years in the hunt for the NWA/WCW World Title, Vicious had finally achieved
the honor.  He also became the eighth man in history to have held both the WCW and WWF
World Titles.  The next night during a Thunder Taping in Las Vegas, Nash, the WCW
Commissioner, stripped Vicious of the World Title and announced himself as the new
champion.  Vicious beat Nash and Ron Harris in a three-way cage match and captured his
second WCW Title.

 On February 14th during Nitro, Vicious was matched up against Jeff Jarrett by Nash,
invoking more of his Commissioner powers, in a non-title match.  Later in the night, it was
decided that Jarrett’s United States Title would be on the line.  Many fans predicted that by
the end of the evening, Sid would be wearing two of the top championships in the
organization around his waist.  Vicious ended up getting pinned after an interference from
Don and Ron Harris and the famous guitar.  The pinfall earned Jarrett the top position in line
for the WCW Belt in the three-way match scheduled for the pay-per-view on the 20th in San
Francisco.  Vicious would be facing not only Jarrett in defense of his World Crown, but also
Scott Hall, a former U.S. Champion.  Vicious pinned Hall to retain his championship.  At
Uncensored on March 19th in Miami, Vicious wrestled Jarrett for the World Title.  He won by
pinfall to retain his crown.  Things were about to seriously change.

 On April 10, 2000 in Denver, Colorado, Vicious appeared with the championship belt before
a group of wrestlers in the ring, claiming to be a new faction in WCW.  The “New Blood,” led
by Eric Bischoff and Vince Russo, had been formed.  The two promoters verbally bashed
many of the organization’s veteran wrestlers, including Vicious.  Then, it was announced that
they were declaring all of the belts vacant, including the one held by Sid Vicious.  He dropped
the belt in front of Bischoff, after taking a face-to-face lashing.  Later, Vicious wrestled Sting.  
He was chokeslammed by The Wall through a table after powerbombing Sting and lost by
countout.  Vicious left the business.  There was no question that the April 2000 actions of
Bischoff and Russo effected him the most.  He was the World Champion and a week later, he
had nothing.

 Vicious was brought out by Ric Flair as a surprise for Scott Steiner on Monday, November
27, 2000.  He was announced as the challenger for the World Title at Starrcade.  Vicious was
arrested by Lincoln, Nebraska Police early in the December 4th Nitro after a scheme by Mike
Sanders, the WCW Commissioner, panned out.  Vicious had gone to the ring and
chokeslammed Oklahoma for making erroneous comments.  The fans cheered Vicious for his
actions.

 Starrcade was held on December 17th in Washington DC at the MCI Center.  Vicious locked
up with Steiner for the World Title in the main event.  He was forced to pass out while locked
in the Steiner Recliner after over ten-minutes of wrestling.  Vicious entered a four-way match
at Sin in January 2001 for the WCW Title.  Among the other participants were Jeff Jarrett,
Steiner and a mystery opponent, who later turned out to be Road Warrior Animal.  The three
opposing wrestlers focused their attention on Sid and he was beaten.  Vicious suffered a
serious ankle injury in the bout, which would keep him out of the ring for up to nine months.

 WCW was sold to WWFE in March 2001 and many were left to speculate where Vicious
would turn up after his recovery allowed him back.    In August 2001, news of his
advancement in minor league AA baseball was reported.  If Sid Vicious were to return to the
WWF, there was no question he would alter the course of history as he had done some many
times in his career.

TITLE HISTORY:

 -Co-holder of the Continental Tag Team Title (1988) w/ Shane Douglas
 -CWA Heavyweight Title (1988) defeated Brian Lee
 -A two-time USWA Unified World Heavyweight Champion
         -Defeated Jerry Lawler (1994)
         -Defeated Jerry Lawler (1996)
 -A two-time WWF World Heavyweight Champion
         -Defeated Shawn Michaels (1996)
         -Defeated Bret Hart (1997)
 -WCW United States Heavyweight Title (1999) defeated Chris Benoit
 -A two-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion
         -Defeated Kevin Nash (2000)
         -Defeated Kevin Nash and Ron Harris (2000)




Research by Tim Hornbaker
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