8 Questions Only WWE Kayfabe Era Children Would Understand
5. What If He Goes After The Fans?
The last wrestler to terrify me as a youngster was a freshly turned Sid Justice, also charmingly known as Sycho and Vicious. Even when I knew something was up with characters like Undertaker and Papa Shango, Sid came off as a legit suffering machine. For two months in 1992, I had nightmares of being a jobber on Superstars and getting powerbombed into a pre-pubescent grave. He was the first wrestler to make me fear for literally everyone in his vicinity. Whenever Sid walked out, ringside fans would have seemed just as safe had an escaped Bengal tiger on peyote burst through the curtain. So what if, I wondered, Sid lashed out? What if he started chokeslamming fans up and down the ramp after some crowd sign made him snap at a Sudbury show with no Hulkster in sight? This was a man who would squash two jobbers simultaneously (trained fighters, mind you) was the staff on hand equipped to subdue him? Was there even that much stopping power in the building? Fortunately, I never had to get my answer
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