Sunday, August 05, 2007

[News Update] Psycho Sid Vicious' Comments on Return to WWE

Former WWE and WCW World Champion, and current LCW legend, Sid Vicious talked about a return to the WWE in a recent interview with The Ottawa Sun.
From OttawaSun.com:

Sid Eudy is a wrestling legend, medical marvel and softball's Barry Bonds, all rolled into one.

If you've seen the widely watched video (check out youtube.com) of the wrestler we've loved/hated as Sycho Sid, Sid Vicious and Sid Justice ... with his leg snapping back into a position no leg is meant to contort into ... well, you'd never guess he'd still be wrestling.

But 47-year-old Sid, who as a softball player "never counted the homers unless they went off the light tower," is not only back in the ring, he wants to make one last run in WWE.

"This business needs me as bad as I need the business," he says over the phone. "I've got a helluva gimmick that's guaranteed to make them money. It would be the greatest comeback in not just wrestling, but in sports history.

Nobody has ever come back from a compound fracture two inches above the ankle."

The injury to Sid, a four-time world champ, came in a 2001 match against Scott Steiner. It came after WCW folks asked him to try a move he wanted no part of.

"Johnny Ace says, 'Why don't you try a flying knee off the second rope.' It was a stupid move. I said I didn't want to do it, but they said it was written in my contract. I came back three months early for the match. I still hadn't recovered from shoulder surgery. I couldn't hold my belt up ... I couldn't pull my wallet out of my pants. A knee off the second rope? I think a rake of the eyes would have had the same effect.

"I wasn't told the truth by my doctors for a long time. Finally, one doctor told me I may never walk again."