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Post by GodzillaIsMyMonster on Sept 27, 2022 17:48:03 GMT -5
Was he not just the f***ing man?
Like... he looked like a killer. He played his role perfectly.
And he was kind of ahead of his time. He was the anti hero, face that's basically a heel before it was cool.
Watching Survivor Series 96, and hearing that crowd reject the over pushed HBK and cheer Sid is one of my favorite moments in WWE.
And it kept happening. Sid was ALWAYS over.
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Post by fw91 on Sept 27, 2022 17:50:19 GMT -5
And he has half the brain that we do!
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Post by GodzillaIsMyMonster on Sept 27, 2022 17:51:19 GMT -5
And he has half the brain that we do! People point to this... but dude was actually an awesome promo.
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Post by fw91 on Sept 27, 2022 17:52:11 GMT -5
And he has half the brain that we do! People point to this... but dude was actually an awesome promo. We’re live pal!
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Sept 27, 2022 17:57:25 GMT -5
If he had given a shit more often and been a little bit luckier with injuries, I really believe he could have been one of the best ever. The WWF run from mid 96 - mid 97 was great, then the injuries hit again and he never went back.
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Post by GodzillaIsMyMonster on Sept 27, 2022 17:59:20 GMT -5
I've said it before, but I truly believe if he came back to WWE right now and was just booked in squash matches, hitting choke slams, power bombs and cutting those INTENSE promos, he'd be the most over guy on the roster in 6 months.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Sept 27, 2022 18:04:24 GMT -5
Bro had some of the greatest big man promos of all time. Clunky bell to bell, he was no Vader or Taker, but damn Sid was charismatic. I was marking for him in 96.
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Post by sfvega on Sept 27, 2022 18:07:51 GMT -5
Sid was just the best. As a little Stinger in the early 90's, I was afraid Sid could rip Sting's arms off and beat him with them. As a HBK hater in the mid-90's, I rooted for exactly that to happen to Michaels. He's a lot like other top guys where you didn't have to change a whole lot in him being a heel or face; he was a believable badass either way.
It's funny that so many of the wrestlers of those days had their career derailed by drugs or alcohol or painkillers, and with Sid it was just softball.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Sept 27, 2022 18:18:58 GMT -5
Sid was just the best. As a little Stinger in the early 90's, I was afraid Sid could rip Sting's arms off and beat him with them. As a HBK hater in the mid-90's, I rooted for exactly that to happen to Michaels. He's a lot like other top guys where you didn't have to change a whole lot in him being a heel or face; he was a believable badass either way. It's funny that so many of the wrestlers of those days had their career derailed by drugs or alcohol or painkillers, and with Sid it was just softball. He also insisted on being a heel. He also wasn’t very observant. He told Sean Mooney on his old podcast he had no idea he main evented Mania 8 against Hogan. He said he thought it was a house show. Not sure why he thought this house show had 60,000 people, cameras, pre tapes, and WrestleMania banners everywhere, but he said it, not me.
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Post by XIII on Sept 27, 2022 18:54:41 GMT -5
SID was one of my guys back in the day. Used to love him running in and just destroying goobers in matches he had nothing to do with. Dude had some of the best presence in wrestling history. He wasn’t very good, but you just wanted to watch him and he was over everywhere he went.
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Post by JoDaNa1281 on Sept 27, 2022 19:07:29 GMT -5
I've always been a fan of Sid...whether he was Vicious, served Justice or was just plain Sycho!
He had a great look, was very charismatic & had a great, big man offense. Just entertaining to watch!
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Post by Push R Truth on Sept 27, 2022 19:11:13 GMT -5
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Sept 27, 2022 19:11:40 GMT -5
If he had given a shit more often and been a little bit luckier with injuries, I really believe he could have been one of the best ever. The WWF run from mid 96 - mid 97 was great, then the injuries hit again and he never went back. Oh I agree 100%. He tapped into something that in that run that was just magical. Though I do think his 99-00 WCW run was sneaky good.
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Post by edgestar on Sept 27, 2022 19:12:19 GMT -5
Sid was just the best. As a little Stinger in the early 90's, I was afraid Sid could rip Sting's arms off and beat him with them. As a HBK hater in the mid-90's, I rooted for exactly that to happen to Michaels. He's a lot like other top guys where you didn't have to change a whole lot in him being a heel or face; he was a believable badass either way. It's funny that so many of the wrestlers of those days had their career derailed by drugs or alcohol or painkillers, and with Sid it was just softball. He also insisted on being a heel. He also wasn’t very observant. He told Sean Mooney on his old podcast he had no idea he main evented Mania 8 against Hogan. He said he thought it was a house show. Not sure why he thought this house show had 60,000 people, cameras, pre tapes, and WrestleMania banners everywhere, but he said it, not me. The way I just scream laughed... 🤣
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Post by tirtefaa on Sept 27, 2022 19:25:57 GMT -5
One of my all time favorites. Thought he was amazing in 1996, and was the perfect person to dethrone Shawn of his little boyhood dream. Like yeah...you could have gotten a heel beat Shawn, but he was already getting booed, so a tweener Sid was just great. The Rumble loss really annoyed me especially since it hurt Sid. I know that WrestleMania 13 was thrown together last second, but considering Sid was leaning more heel at this point, I would have doubled down on Sid beating Shawn at the Rumble, had him win Final Four (subbing for Undertaker) by beating Vader or Hart, before losing to Taker at WrestleMania.
The guy had the ugliest powerbomb. Obviously, crisp looking moves are always valued, but Sid's powerbomb fit his persona.
I know people mention the "half brains" promo a lot, but again I have to stress it was WRITTEN to be like that, like...Sid didn't flub his line, it was part of the point of making him look stupid. That doesn't mean it wasn't bad television, but that wasn't on Sid, that was on the writing. As far as the "we're live, pal", yes he did mess up there, but what people don't understand is he recovered pretty well nonetheless.
Really frustrating that he isn't in the Hall of Fame yet. Like...I know WWE has played down his popularity in more recent years, but in WWF, he was by far more worth headlining over DiBiase, Nash and JBL. Definitely one of the most charismatic guys of my lifetime.
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Post by thegatewaydrug on Sept 27, 2022 19:42:23 GMT -5
Opinion: Sid was a better, upgraded in every possible way version of the Ultimate Warrior.
Not ring generals, interview dynamos nor the most reliable wrestlers, but simply magnetic talents you couldn't ignore. A certain "it" factor. In order words, Sid and Dingo Jim were the flashy architecture bound to crumble without a proper foundation.
Their shortcomings were getting in their own ways.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Sept 27, 2022 20:51:27 GMT -5
I’ve been watching Superstars from 1992 recently and had he stayed, I wonder what they would have done with Sid. Would there have been an uneasy alliance between him and Papa Shango and they would have feuded with The Warrior and Taker? Or were Sid and The Warrior meant to feud and Shango move into a program with The Undertaker? Sid and Taker had a match in the UK a week after WM8 but then Sid was gone and as Taker spent the next months doing nothing until Kamala came along, it might suggest that one of the above was the plan. It also would have helped to cover up that Papa Shango wasn’t the best in the ring and his huge push soon disappeared to the point he went from interfering in the Wrestlemania main event, to an a televised PPV win against Tito and ended with a 30 second Rumble appearance and again facing Tito at another PPV dark match, this time jobbing. That whole post-Hogan transition period is such a bizarre clusterf*** of what could have been with various big names leaving or getting their marching orders. Yet somehow amongst the chaos they managed to have one of their most successful PPVs ever.
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Sept 27, 2022 20:52:21 GMT -5
Opinion: Sid was a better, upgraded in every possible way version of the Ultimate Warrior. Not ring generals, interview dynamos nor the most reliable wrestlers, but simply magnetic talents you couldn't ignore. A certain "it" factor. In order words, Sid and Dingo Jim were the flashy architecture bound to crumble without a proper foundation. Their shortcomings were getting in their own ways. Vince saw the same thing. Sid stepped into the role when Warrior was suspended in 91 and 96, and Warrior stepped back into the role in 92.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2022 22:38:49 GMT -5
Sid just had an unexplainable charisma about him I haven't seen since.
Nash and Luger also had it.
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Post by GodzillaIsMyMonster on Sept 28, 2022 0:36:39 GMT -5
Sid just had an unexplainable charisma about him I haven't seen since. Nash and Luger also had it. To steal a line frequently used to describe Randy Orton, "Sid looks like if you built a wrestler from the ground up."
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