Controversial, not because of the decision itself, but because of the circumstances surrounding it, the story of how Sid Vicious lost his job at WCW is fairly bloody harrowing. During a tour of the UK in October 1993, Sid Vicious Eudy and Martin Arn Anderson Lunde came to blows in the hallway of their Blackburn hotel in the worst possible way. The WCW roster had endured a nine hour plane journey, followed by three hours bus travel, and had then wrestled the show, leaping straight back into the bus to drive for another ten or so hours. They were exhausted and bored, and with little food available but plenty of beer, drunk as you like. Whats so bad about being drunk? Ask a glass of water and then ask Arn Anderson. Matters between Sid and Arn (they sound like a northern variety act) became heated when the question of drawing power in the business reared its ugly head. The story goes that Sid offered the considered thesis that old men like Ric Flair needed to step out of the way for the younger, hungrier guys to get to the main event, and Arn countered with the rather inflammatory point that Sid hadnt been a true Horseman, and wasnt fit to lace Tully Blanchards boots. Beer was then thrown by both sides of the debate. That should have been the end of it, but Sid, fuming, decided to visit Arns hotel room in the middle of the night armed with a chair leg to beat him over the head with. In turn, Arn brandished a pair of scissors, and proceeded to stab Sid in the face, hands and stomach. Punching Anderson to the ground, Sid managed to get to the fallen scissors first. Eye witness Too Cold Scorpio says that he turned the corner into the hall to see both men covered in blood, Sid stabbing and kicking Anderson over and over and over with the scissors, and ran over to separate them. Vader also arrived on the scene, and helped Sid stop the bleeding by jamming his thumb into the hole in his belly. How either man managed to get away with no charges being filed by anyone is a complete mystery. When word leaked back to WCW of the horrific incident, several wrestlers made it very clear that they wouldnt work with Sid after this, and he was quietly released. The WWF would later rehire him under the name Sycho Sid, a subtle reference to the Blackburn scissor fight. Bizarrely, WCW would actually rehire Sid in 1999: after Anderson had retired as a performer, but while he was still working for the company.
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