robbutler01
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RIP Sid
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Post by robbutler01 on Aug 27, 2024 2:13:59 GMT -5
Another huge name gone waaay too soon. Such a great and imposing force. His nwa squash matches were insane and his wwf debut in 91 was cool. Glad he got runs with the belts as if u were drawing a plan for a monster heel he would be it! Gutted.
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Old Zeke
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Post by Old Zeke on Aug 27, 2024 2:17:30 GMT -5
AwwwwwwâŠ.this sucks. I loved Sid. Me and my brother quote him, I kid you not, like 5 times a week haha. To the point I forget they even originated with Sid, we just say the stuff all the time at this point. Itâs nice to see just how many people post nice things when guys like this pass, I wish the wrestlers could have a bonus day after theyâre gone to see all this and just how beloved they were. It bothers me that he wanted to be in the HOF and wonât get to see it. It should have happened 100 times already. Sid was always entertaining. View AttachmentMe and my brother are the same, and have been for as long as I can remember. "I DON'T KNOW S**T CRYBABY!", "GOLDBERG! WHY ME?! WHY MEEEEEEEE?!" and "JUSTICE...will be served." are the three quotes we use the most.
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Ohtimate Wahriah
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Post by Ohtimate Wahriah on Aug 27, 2024 7:25:37 GMT -5
AwwwwwwâŠ.this sucks. I loved Sid. Me and my brother quote him, I kid you not, like 5 times a week haha. To the point I forget they even originated with Sid, we just say the stuff all the time at this point. Itâs nice to see just how many people post nice things when guys like this pass, I wish the wrestlers could have a bonus day after theyâre gone to see all this and just how beloved they were. It bothers me that he wanted to be in the HOF and wonât get to see it. It should have happened 100 times already. Sid was always entertaining. View AttachmentMe and my brother are the same, and have been for as long as I can remember. "I DON'T KNOW S**T CRYBABY!", "GOLDBERG! WHY ME?! WHY MEEEEEEEE?!" and "JUSTICE...will be served." are the three quotes we use the most. Haha, thatâs awesome. We usually will say the âI donât know Sh*t crybabyâ, weâll say â I LOVE ITâ like he does in the promo for WrestleMania 8 when he dumps the guy off the stretcher lol, we say âI donât give a DAMNâ the way he does in the interview before his match with Hogan. Itâs all the way he says it, omg, we quote him all the time haha. âahhhhh curse you, ahhhhhhh CURSE you Hulk Hogan and every HULK -A - MANIAC!â âYeaâŠ.oh yeaâŠI smell a Powerbombâ anytime somebody is taking too long in self checkout
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Post by Ohtimate Wahriah on Aug 27, 2024 7:35:02 GMT -5
There is no debate about him being in the Hall of Fame, his WWF career alone should have had him in already 2 X WWF Champion Main event in two WrestleManias Main event in a Royal Rumble, Survivor Series, King of the Ring and if you get technical about it, he was part of the main event of SummerSlam 91! A silly statistic he has too but still a big one is I believe he is the first person to kick out of Hogans leg drop. And one of only 10 guys to hold the WWF & WCW world championships. Every name on that list is either in the Hall of Fame or most certainly will be. (The only guys not in it are Rock & Jericho, and SID actually was champion in both companies unlike them who won it in WWF during the Invasion angle) You can really take Angle, Rock & Jericho off that list and say heâs one of 7 guys to legit hold both titles.
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Post by The Brain on Aug 27, 2024 20:29:35 GMT -5
This guy never fails with these great tributes
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Post by ASR (therockisback) on Aug 27, 2024 20:40:26 GMT -5
There is no debate about him being in the Hall of Fame, his WWF career alone should have had him in already 2 X WWF Champion Main event in two WrestleManias Main event in a Royal Rumble, Survivor Series, King of the Ring and if you get technical about it, he was part of the main event of SummerSlam 91! A silly statistic he has too but still a big one is I believe he is the first person to kick out of Hogans leg drop. And one of only 10 guys to hold the WWF & WCW world championships. Every name on that list is either in the Hall of Fame or most certainly will be. (The only guys not in it are Rock & Jericho, and SID actually was champion in both companies unlike them who won it in WWF during the Invasion angle) You can really take Angle, Rock & Jericho off that list and say heâs one of 7 guys to legit hold both titles. He should have gotten in easily over the last 5-10 years...HOF is long overdue
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RIP Sid
Aug 27, 2024 20:41:09 GMT -5
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Post by ASR (therockisback) on Aug 27, 2024 20:41:09 GMT -5
There is no debate about him being in the Hall of Fame, his WWF career alone should have had him in already 2 X WWF Champion Main event in two WrestleManias Main event in a Royal Rumble, Survivor Series, King of the Ring and if you get technical about it, he was part of the main event of SummerSlam 91! What a run.
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Post by hbkjason on Aug 27, 2024 23:32:34 GMT -5
There is no debate about him being in the Hall of Fame, his WWF career alone should have had him in already 2 X WWF Champion Main event in two WrestleManias Main event in a Royal Rumble, Survivor Series, King of the Ring and if you get technical about it, he was part of the main event of SummerSlam 91! A silly statistic he has too but still a big one is I believe he is the first person to kick out of Hogans leg drop. And one of only 10 guys to hold the WWF & WCW world championships. Every name on that list is either in the Hall of Fame or most certainly will be. (The only guys not in it are Rock & Jericho, and SID actually was champion in both companies unlike them who won it in WWF during the Invasion angle) You can really take Angle, Rock & Jericho off that list and say heâs one of 7 guys to legit hold both titles. Great bit of trivia, I never even thought of that! Makes him even more Hall of Fame worthy, really weird he is not already in it to be honest and while it will be great if he does go in, it is also a bit bittersweet as the big man deserved to go in while alive.
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Post by hbkjason on Aug 28, 2024 3:13:07 GMT -5
You know the more i think about it, the more this one really bums me out, Sid was a huge part of my childhood. I saw him wrestle The Undertaker at the 1992 European Rampage event in April of 92, it must have been one of his last shows he did for the WWF after WrestleMania. He put on one hell of a show and it was awesome to see him live, I only saw Sid live a couple of times, but he really did have an aura about him that you just cannot teach.
Even though he was long gone by the time it came out, his Hasbro was a real favorite of mine and one of the ones I was most excited to get when that ad appeared in the WWF magazine. Even his Galoob was a top guy of mine. Actually, I hardly ever mixed Galoobs with my Habros (I was a weird OCD kid) however, some would make the cross over and Sid in his black singlet was one of them, he would often team up with Demolition as a kind of enforcer for them. However, when playing with my Galoobs, it was the Sid in pink that I would use the most.
I also had this awesome Sid Justice t-shirt that I wore the hell out of in 1992, all the way up to WrestleMania I was pulling for Sid to beat Hulk Hogan. I actually told a funny story a while back about an artist at a camp drawing my portrait and completely butchering that Sid Justice t-shirt so bad that he looked like Bobby Heenan when he dressed in drag.
While I can see how someone may not be a fan of his in ring work, I think that he had an intensity and as I said "aura" about him that did make him very captivating for many people, myself included.
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Post by PJ on Aug 28, 2024 7:39:04 GMT -5
As a wrestler I loved the guy. Back in the day I felt he was the most intimidating looking wrestler on my TV.
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Post by cordless2016 on Aug 28, 2024 9:03:22 GMT -5
Sidâs WCW PowerSlam figure was one of my favorite toys as a kid. The power bomb feature was great and I had him taking out other wrestlers left and right.
I feel like heâs fallen into the same boat as Lex Luger where the WWE has ignored him for so long that modern fans forget just how over he was in the 90s. And unlike Luger, Sid was a WWF Champion and main evented two Wrestlemanias. Hell, he made cheering a heel âcoolâ months before Austin started getting over.
Sid in the HOF is long overdue and itâs sad that if it ever comes, he wonât be there for it.
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Old Zeke
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Post by Old Zeke on Aug 28, 2024 11:28:56 GMT -5
You know the more i think about it, the more this one really bums me out, Sid was a huge part of my childhood. I saw him wrestle The Undertaker at the 1992 European Rampage event in April of 92, it must have been one of his last shows he did for the WWF after WrestleMania. He put on one hell of a show and it was awesome to see him live, I only saw Sid live a couple of times, but he really did have an aura about him that you just cannot teach. Even though he was long gone by the time it came out, his Hasbro was a real favorite of mine and one of the ones I was most excited to get when that ad appeared in the WWF magazine. Even his Galoob was a top guy of mine. Actually, I hardly ever mixed Galoobs with my Habros (I was a weird OCD kid) however, some would make the cross over and Sid in his black singlet was one of them, he would often team up with Demolition as a kind of enforcer for them. However, when playing with my Galoobs, it was the Sid in pink that I would use the most. I also had this awesome Sid Justice t-shirt that I wore the hell out of in 1992, all the way up to WrestleMania I was pulling for Sid to beat Hulk Hogan. I actually told a funny story a while back about an artist at a camp drawing my portrait and completely butchering that Sid Justice t-shirt so bad that he looked like Bobby Heenan when he dressed in drag. While I can see how someone may not be a fan of his in ring work, I think that he had an intensity and as I said "aura" about him that did make him very captivating for many people, myself included. Because of this post, I decided to check out Cagematch to see how many shows he worked after WM VIII before leaving WWF. Looks like he did 14(!) shows in total. That's mad - I always thought he left right after WM.
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Post by The Brain on Aug 28, 2024 11:59:46 GMT -5
Sidâs WCW PowerSlam figure was one of my favorite toys as a kid. The power bomb feature was great and I had him taking out other wrestlers left and right. I feel like heâs fallen into the same boat as Lex Luger where the WWE has ignored him for so long that modern fans forget just how over he was in the 90s. And unlike Luger, Sid was a WWF Champion and main evented two Wrestlemanias. Hell, he made cheering a heel âcoolâ months before Austin started getting over. Sid in the HOF is long overdue and itâs sad that if it ever comes, he wonât be there for it. Still got this MOC. Awesome fig
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Post by JokerFC on Aug 28, 2024 13:27:02 GMT -5
Sidâs WCW PowerSlam figure was one of my favorite toys as a kid. The power bomb feature was great and I had him taking out other wrestlers left and right. I feel like heâs fallen into the same boat as Lex Luger where the WWE has ignored him for so long that modern fans forget just how over he was in the 90s. And unlike Luger, Sid was a WWF Champion and main evented two Wrestlemanias. Hell, he made cheering a heel âcoolâ months before Austin started getting over. Sid in the HOF is long overdue and itâs sad that if it ever comes, he wonât be there for it. Still got this MOC. Awesome fig was one of my faves too...I really enjoyed his Hasbro as well.
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Post by PJ on Aug 28, 2024 14:24:15 GMT -5
Sidâs WCW PowerSlam figure was one of my favorite toys as a kid. The power bomb feature was great and I had him taking out other wrestlers left and right. I feel like heâs fallen into the same boat as Lex Luger where the WWE has ignored him for so long that modern fans forget just how over he was in the 90s. And unlike Luger, Sid was a WWF Champion and main evented two Wrestlemanias. Hell, he made cheering a heel âcoolâ months before Austin started getting over. Sid in the HOF is long overdue and itâs sad that if it ever comes, he wonât be there for it. Still got this MOC. Awesome fig That was a great figure. I turned mine into a Mattel version early on after Mattel took over. But that was a fantastic figure for sure.
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Zincdust
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RIP Sid
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Post by Zincdust on Aug 28, 2024 16:42:12 GMT -5
Such a bummer. I only got to see him live and in-person once, that being the main event of a Nitro in Boise. The match was Hulk/Sting/Goldberg VS. Sid/Nash/R.Steiner. Such an amazing physical specimen, for sure. And he was always guaranteed entertainment (and for not always the reasons he intended), if for no other reason, just the mere presence of him.
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RIP Sid
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Post by tmnt316 on Aug 28, 2024 17:19:19 GMT -5
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RIP Sid
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Post by sinfony on Aug 29, 2024 12:17:48 GMT -5
RIP Sid. He had a great look and really portrayed the loose cannon persona brilliantly. In-ring, I can't say that he could offer much at all and I'd struggle to name an excellent match that he ever had, but he did have a strong aura about him that always made you at least interested in the match. Like the Ultimate Warrior, his indifference to the wrestling profession lead him to rather sabotage his own career with his unreliability and contentedness to simply sit at home too often, but like Warrior he also left a lot of exciting memories along the way. I wouldn't get too hung up about him being/not being in any HOF. That stuff's purely political, no different to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ignoring umpteen bands that sold millions just to add some random virtue-signalling act. Sid will always be remembered by anyone who watched 90s wrestling.
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Post by The Brain on Aug 30, 2024 12:37:56 GMT -5
Memphis billboard
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Old Zeke
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RIP Sid
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Post by Old Zeke on Aug 30, 2024 12:44:33 GMT -5
That's such a nice tribute. I need to check out some of Sid's USWA stuff. Any recommendations where to start, Brain?
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