10 WCW Stars Who Were Fired For Unprofessional Conduct
1. Nothing Good Happens After 2am
You can’t have an article about WCW and being fired for unprofessional conduct without featuring probably the most infamous shoot fight in wrestling short of the murder of ‘Bruiser’ Brody.
It’s not exactly the most pleasant of stories. During a UK tour in October 1993, Sid ‘Vicious’ Eudy and Martin ‘Arn Anderson’ Lunde were involved in an argument over drawing power in the business. Sid expressed the opinion that dinosaurs like Anderson and Flair needed to step aside for the industry’s new stars, while Anderson tended more to the viewpoint that Sid wasn’t fit to lace their boots, and had been an embarrassment as a member of the Four Horsemen.
Alcohol, lack of sleep and long travelling hours took their toll on this reasoned discourse, the upshot of which saw Sid standing outside Anderson’s hotel room at stupid o’clock in the morning carrying a broken chair leg. Let’s just say that he wasn’t about to prevail upon Anderson’s renowned carpentry skills.
Eudy claims that he had a moment of clarity and threw the chair leg aside… just as Arn opened the door, holding a small pair of scissors that he used to trim his beard. Seeing a huge, angry drunk man with crazytrain eyes standing before him, Anderson stabbed and asked questions later, piercing Sid’s hand, stomach and face. Sid lashed out, punching Anderson to the ground, and both men went for the fallen scissors. Eudy got there first.
2 Cold Scorpio takes up the tale, saying that he turned into the hotel corridor seconds later to see Sid savagely stabbing Anderson over and over, the air between them misted with blood. Pulling them apart, ambulances were called: Vader arrived on the scene and had to plug the hole in Sid’s belly with his finger.
It’s a mystery to this day how neither man faced criminal charges in England, but when word got back to the WCW office over it and it became clear that the majority of the roster would refuse to work with Eudy after this incident, he was released. He’d find work with the WWF under the name ‘Sycho Sid’ (sic), a clear reference to the stabbing incident, and, incredibly, would actually be rehired by WCW only six years later.