[1993-10-24-WCW Halloween Havoc] Sting vs Sid Vicious

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Sting vs Sid Vicious - WCW Halloween Havoc 1993

Not much has really changed in three years. Yes this is not for the World Title, but men’s aesthetic has not really changed. Sid has shown significant improvement in the ring in 1993 and it continues here. Thing begins Sting’s descent into the midcard as Flair gets pushed in Sid’s stead and Hogan comes in next summer. Sid in classic Sid fashion can’t last more than 6 months in a place and is out within a week due to the Scissors incident with Arn Anderson. His Horsemen run from 90-91 is his longest run. I still want to watch the Flair match from this run but I was would say his 93 run, then Skyscrapers, then Horsemen then WWF Sid Justice is my current Sid order.

I don’t really have much to say about this match. This is about the most average 90s American Main Event style match you can imagine. It is a significant improvement over their terrible 1990 match  but still average. Sid is a lot better here. The bumping and feeding is great early. The way he splays on the railing to feed kicks is great. This is also probably his best heat segment of his career so far. Starts off with that killer choke slam. He is a top 5 Chokeslam. I thought the shoves into the corner and the lumbering blows mixed in with the Colonel’s cheap shots were good. Unfortunately he did run out of things to do so here comes the chinlocks and two bearhugs. Oh well! Sting hulks up. Drives his face into the mat. A couple of Stinger Splashes. In the mayhem, the Colonel trips Sid and holds his foot down. Sid is pissed. Sting O’Connor Roll to win. 
 

Presumably, this would set up Sid’s face turn and title victory at Starrcade instead Sid would spend 1994 in Memphis and not make his major promotion return until 1995 in WWF. Other notes Sid called himself Psycho Sid in his promo. The winner of this match would be the Franchise of WCW, a perfectly nebulous title to try to add stakes to this match third from the top. WCW was pretty stacked with Sting, Sid, Vader, Flair, Rude as established guys and Cactus, Dustin and Austin on the come up. Sid and Rude would be gone soon and Hogan would change everything forever soon. Average match.