Sid Vicious as WCW Champion in 1993-94 urban myth

[cjh]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCW_Disney_tapings

Also in 1993, several weeks of syndicated programming was taped with Sid Vicious as WCW World Heavyweight Champion. Sid was scheduled to defeat Vader at Starrcade '93, and the material taped would have begun airing in early 1994. However, Sid was fired several weeks before the PPV for engaging in a hotel room brawl with Arn Anderson during a tour of the United Kingdom. In choosing to have Ric Flair win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship instead, WCW was forced to post-produce or scrap the material taped with Sid as champion.

Anyone know how this untrue story got started?  The Worldwide tapings held not long after Sid was fired started airing on TV a month before Starrcade.  www.thehistoryofwwe.com/worldwide93.htm

[BorneAgain]

There were loads of various wrestling rumors/claims on the internet in the mid to late 90s that just ended up being taken as gospel after being repeated so many times. The Disney tapings story seems like such a classic WCW blunder (especially from the time period) its not hard to see why so many believed it.

[johnnyk9]

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