10 WWE Superstars Who Sabotaged Their Own Careers
4. Never Run With Scissors
Huge, intense and apparently sculpted by a vengeful god from evil granite, Sid Eudy - variously nicknamed Sid Vicious, Sid Justice or Sycho Sid - was a wrestling promoter’s wet dream in his prime.
Yet that prime never really translated to true stardom: because Sid spent those years bouncing back and forth between WCW and the WWF, each company welcoming him with open arms only to lose him again a year or so later to the competition.
The temptation of a pay rise… his resentment over a failed drug test… that infamous, horrific fight with Arn Anderson overseas... by the time he won a world title it was 1996, the era of Shawn Michaels’ stranglehold on the WWF main event, and Sid’s time was long gone.
Booked as a transitional champion to give the Heartbreak Kid a hometown win at 1997’s Royal Rumble, he’d be asked to do a similar favour for the Undertaker at WrestleMania 13 only a few weeks later.
Taking time out to recuperate from nagging neck injuries, Sid wouldn’t rejoin the big leagues until summer 1999. Coaxed back to WCW, his next two world title victories came during the company’s worst creative crisis: the title was vacated six times in six months. The wins did nothing for him.
The following year, Sid suffered the compound fracture that ended his full time career. It’s arguable that, if he’d established himself as a proper star early on, Johnny Ace would never have dared suggest such a risky move in the first place.