Vicious Leg Break
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Background
After disappearing for a number of months in 2000 Sid Vicious showed up late in the year as the challenger to Scott Steiner's the WCW Champion. Though failing to capture the championship at Starrcade, he managed to earn himself another shot at the title for the following year.
Leg break in the ring
Eudy would be scheduled to face Steiner once again at the main event of the 2001 WCW pay-per-view Sin. Prior to the match, members of WCW management felt that Eudy needed to broaden his arsenal of wrestling moves and suggested that he try an aerial maneuver despite his unwillingness. During the match, Eudy consequently suffered a leg fracture when it snapped following his leap from the middle turnbuckle in an attempted professional wrestling move called theBig Boot.
The fracture, caught on video, was deemed too graphic by many TV stations.[1] Eudy broke his left leg in half, snapping the both tibia and fibula in his leg with at least one of the bones breaking through the skin.[2]
Aftermath of injury
After the injury, Sid pondered retiring from wrestling for good. "I had about a year left on my contract, and I was thinking back then prior to hurting my leg what was I going to do as far as wrapping up my career. The only thing I really wanted to do was ideally go out in a big pay per view, like a Wrestlemania or something like that main event, leave like that, and not come back again. It would really be the retirement match."[3]
The injury forced a plot change in the 2001 SuperBrawl Revenge event, causing the Nitro lineup to change. The main event was supposed to be Kevin Nash, Dallas Page and Sid against Scott Steiner, Jeff Jarrett and Road Warrior Animal but was rewritten to Kevin Nash vs. Scott Steiner.
Sid later sued WCW claiming that he was made to jump off the top rope against his objections.[3]
