Lord Humungous is a professional wrestling character, also known as a "gimmick," that was originally introduced in Memphis' Continental Wrestling Association (CWA) in 1984. The character became a recurring gimmick in the CWA but was also used in other promotions after the CWA closed.
The character was based on a gang leader called "the Humungus" or at times "Lord Humungus" from the 1981 movie Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. Based on the character "the Humungus" from Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior movie, Lord Humungous would always wear a Hockey mask that would cover his entire face as well as ring gear that resembled the post-apocalyptic world of the movie.
At that time, Lord Humongous was introduced to the public with an official music video “War Machine” by KISS, which became his entrance theme.
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior Poster
The Many Faces Behind the Mask
Since Lord Humongous always wears a Hockey mask it allowed promoters to replace the man under the mask without having to publicly acknowledge that it was someone else playing the part.
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The character has been played by a number of wrestlers including Jeff Van Camp Sr., Sid Vicious, Barry Buchanan and Sid's son Gunnar Eudy.
- Mike Stark
- Jeff Van Camp Sr.
- Sid Vicious
- Barry Buchanan
- Gunnar Eudy
- Scott Hall
Mike Stark: The Original Lord Humungous
The original Lord Humongous was portrayed by Mike Stark, who was tall and physically impressive like the character in the movie. Stark only played Lord Humungous for the first couple of months of 1984 before he was replaced by Jeff Van Camp under the mask without the CWA revealing that it was a different man playing the part.
Sid Vicious and Gunnar Eudy
One such wrestler was Sid Eudy, who played Lord Humongous in 1987. In 2009 Sid's son Gunnar Eudy, a rookie with an impressive physique, played the same part his father did 22 years earlier.
Sidney Raymond Eudy (December 16, 1960 - August 26, 2024) was an American professional wrestler, best known for his tenures in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW), wrestling under the ring names Sid Justice, Sid Vicious, and Sycho Sid.
Eudy wrestled in a number of promotions, most notably the Continental Wrestling Association (CWA) and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), en route to being signed by WCW in 1989 under the name of Sid Vicious.
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Sid Vicious
Scott Hall
Scott Hall wrestled as Lord Humongous in PWF out of Florida in 1989.
WWE remembers Sid Eudy
CWA Debut and Feud with Jerry Lawler
The character was introduced as manager Jimmy Hart's latest "Monster heel" to challenge the Continental Wrestling Association's (CWA) dominant face Jerry "the King" Lawler. The original Lord Humongous was portrayed by Mike Stark, chosen for his impressive physique
The CWA reused the Lord Humongous ring character for some young wrestlers who had a very muscular physique.
Sid Vicious's Career Highlights
There, Sid was part of The Skyscrapers tag team with Dan Spivey, then part of the Four Horsemen in 1990 to 1991 with Ric Flair, Arn Anderson and Barry Windham. In the summer of 1991, Eudy jumped to the WWF and adopted the ring name Sid Justice, going on to main event WrestleMania VIII against Hulk Hogan in April 1992. However, Eudy abruptly quit the promotion later that spring following disagreements with management, and he returned to WCW at Slamboree in May 1993.
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Five months later, Eudy was involved in an infamous real-life altercation with Arn Anderson, which led to his immediate termination from WCW. After a run at United States Wrestling Association (USWA), where he won the Unified World Heavyweight Championship twice, Eudy returned as Sycho Sid to WWF in 1995, first as a bodyguard for Shawn Michaels, and then as part of Ted DiBiase's Million Dollar Corporation stable.
He then won the WWF Championship in 1996 by beating Michaels, where notably he was wildly cheered on by the crowd despite being a heel character. He later won it again, this time from Bret Hart, in 1997, after which he headlined the WrestleMania 13 pay-per-view.
Sid Vicious returned to WCW in 1999 where he feuded with Kevin Nash and Scott Steiner and then became United States Heavyweight champion. He headlined Starrcade 2000 and that year beat Nash on two occasions to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship.
During the main event of the 2001 Sin pay-per-view, Sid jumped from the ropes and broke his left leg, suffering a double compound fracture which forced him to retire from professional wrestling. He returned to the WWE in 2012 in two appearances as Sycho Sid as part of WWE Raw 1000.
Eudy entered wrestling after an encounter with Randy Savage and his brother Lanny Poffo. After he was trained by Tojo Yamamoto, Eudy made his debut as he teamed with Austin Idol and wrestled the team of Nick Bockwinkel and Jerry Lawler. He began his career in Continental Championship Wrestling (CCW) in 1987 under the masked wrestler persona Lord Humungous.
On Christmas Day 1987, Sid won the NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Championship (Northern Division). He competed in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he challenged Tatsumi Fujinami for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship under the name Vicious Warrior, but was unable to win the title.
In 1989, Eudy signed with World Championship Wrestling and retained his Sid Vicious ring name. He made his televised debut in WCW by defeating DeWayne Bruce on the June 17, 1989, episode of Pro.
The Skyscrapers and Four Horsemen
Originally slated as a singles wrestler, Eudy was eventually paired with Danny Spivey to form The Skyscrapers, and were managed by Teddy Long. The Skyscrapers feuded with The Road Warriors and The Steiner Brothers. During that time, he incorporated the Powerbomb as his finishing move.
After his recovery, Eudy was introduced on the May 11, 1990, edition of NWA Power Hour as the newest member of Ric Flair's Four Horsemen. Sid was the "muscle" of the group and initially brought in to counter-act the strength of RoboCop at Capital Combat.
His first televised match back was a 26-second loss to Lex Luger on June 13 at Clash of the Champions XI after the referee performed a fast three count. As one of the Horsemen, Eudy feuded with Paul Orndorff and the Junkyard Dog.
He attacked NWA World Heavyweight Champion Sting following the champion's title match at Clash of the Champions XII in September, setting up his first feud as a singles wrestler. On October 27 at Halloween Havoc, a fake Sting (Barry Windham), in collusion with Sid, let Sid pin him after switching places with the real Sting for Sid to win the belt.
Sid's association with the Horsemen became tenuous following this episode, and he began a quasi-face run on November 20, when he defeated The Nightstalker at Clash of the Champions XIII: Thanksgiving Thunder. On December 16, The Skyscrapers had a short-lived reunion when Sid and former partner Spivey defeated Big Cat and The Motor City Madman at Starrcade.
Following this match, Eudy made an abrupt return to heel status, squashing Joey Maggs at Clash of the Champions XIV: Dixie Dynamite on January 30, 1991. He returned to full-fledged Horsemen activity and participated in the WarGames match on February 24 at WrestleWar.
WWF Debut as Sid Justice
Despite a huge contract offer and a promise of a world championship run, Eudy announced his intentions to leave WCW. At a Superstars taping on May 28, 1991, Eudy made his WWF debut in an untelevised segment, attacking The Mountie following Mountie's open offer.
On the June 8 episode of Prime Time Wrestling, vignettes began airing promoting his WWF debut and introducing him as Sid Justice. Sid made his debut on WWF television on the July 20 episode of Superstars.
On August 26 at SummerSlam, he served as the guest referee in a handicap match pitting The Ultimate Warrior and the WWF Champion Hulk Hogan against The Triangle of Terror (Sgt. Slaughter, Col. Mustafa, and Gen. Adnan).
Sid competed for the vacant WWF Championship in the Royal Rumble match on January 19, 1992. Sid entered at No. 29 and was among the final four wrestlers, along with Hogan, Randy Savage, and Ric Flair, before he eliminated both Savage and then Hogan, leaving himself and Flair in the ring.
Hogan, who was still at ringside after being eliminated, grabbed Sid's arm and tried to pull him over the top rope, giving Flair the chance to grab Sid's legs and throw him out to win the match and become the new WWF Champion.
Less than a week later, on the January 25 episode of Superstars, WWF President Jack Tunney held a press conference to determine Flair's opponent at WrestleMania VIII. Before Tunney revealed his decision, Sid stood up as if Tunney called his name. Yet to Sid's annoyance, Tunney chose Hogan, giving a menacing glance in Hogan's direction and calling Tunney's decision "bogus".
Sid later apologized to Hogan and teamed up with him to face The Undertaker and Flair on Saturday Night's Main Event XXX. During the match, after he double clotheslined Undertaker and Flair, Hogan reached to Sid for a tag. Sid refused and walked out of the match, turning heel in the process.
On the February 23 episode of Wrestling Challenge, Sid appeared as a guest on Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake's "The Barber Shop". Knowing that Hulk Hogan (Beefcake's long-time real-life friend) was not in the arena, Sid threatened Beefcake and chased him off the set before destroying the Barber Shop with a chair.
Later that night, Hogan was scheduled to battle Sid (and not WWF Champion Ric Flair) at WrestleMania VIII. Sid acquired Harvey Wippleman as his manager and began a post-match gimmick where he would further (kayfabe) injure his defeated opponents with one or more powerbombs, and sometimes-after the defeated wrestler placed on a stretcher-following it up by grabbing the stretcher and running it into a fixture, such as a ring post or guardrail.
Departure from WWF and Return to WCW
Prior to his WrestleMania match with Hogan, Sid failed a drug test. He was allowed to do the match and then went on their European tour, after which he was told he was going to serve his suspension.
At WrestleMania VIII on April 5, Sid lost to Hogan by disqualification when Wippleman jumped into the ring to get involved. After WrestleMania, Sid was about to embark on a feud with The Ultimate Warrior, the story being that Sid was angry at the Warrior for saving Hogan at WrestleMania VIII.
Eudy wrestled Warrior at two house shows, both of which Warrior won by disqualification. After wrestling Warrior in Boston, Massachusetts on April 26, Eudy quit the company due to disagreements with the Warrior and WWF management in particular about the outcome of his match with Warrior; Eudy took issue with the fact that Warrior was booked to kick out of his powerbomb, feeling it rendered his finishing maneuver useless.
Eudy also cited unhappiness with his pay as a reason for quitting, as WWF paid the wrestlers a percentage of the live gates as opposed to guaranteed money like WCW, and the WWF house show crowds were shrinking at the time, leading to smaller gates and smaller payoffs for the talent. There were also claims made by the WWF that Eudy refused to take drug tests, which Eudy denied.
On May 23, 1993, Eudy, now back under the Sid Vicious ring name, returned to WCW as a mystery competitor of Col. Robert Parker against Van Hammer at Slamboree. That summer, he teamed with Big Van Vader and reignited his feud with Sting.
After this, Sid turned face and was scheduled to challenge then WCW World Heavyweight Champion Vader at Starrcade and win the title. However, Sid's WCW contract was terminated following an altercation with Marty Lunde, better known as Arn Anderson, during an October 1993 tour of Europe.
According to Sid, the argument started at a hotel bar following a house show in Blackburn, England, after Eudy made disparaging remarks about Ric Flair, one of Lunde's closest friends. Eudy and Lunde began an argument, which led to Lunde throwing beer in Sid's face and threatening him with a broken glass mug.
Everyone was sent to their rooms by security, but an enraged Eudy came to Lunde's room and attacked him with a broken off chair leg, leading to Lunde's retaliation with a pair of scissors. Eudy received four stab wounds and Anderson received 20, losing a pint and a half of blood in the process.
The fight was broken up by fellow wrestler 2 Cold Scorpio, who was credited with saving Lunde's life. Neither man pressed charges against the other, and British police declined to do so since both men would soon be leaving the country.
USWA and Return to WWF as Sycho Sid
After his departure from WCW, Sid moved to the United States Wrestling Association (USWA) in Memphis, where he began feuding with old rival Jerry Lawler. On July 16, 1994, he won the promotion's Unified World Heavyweight Championship by forfeit when Lawler, who had been attacked and injured by Sid earlier in the card, could not appear for the scheduled match.
While Lawler was able to defeat Eudy in non-title matches, Sid was able to retain his title in several championship defenses through screwjobs initiated by The Spellbinder, his ally at the time. Sid also participated in the UWF Blackjack Brawl on September 23, 1994, challenging "Dr. Death" Steve Williams for the UWF World Heavyweight Championship.
On February 6, 1995, Lawler won the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship back from Sid. On the February 20, 1995, episode of Raw Eudy-now under the moniker "Psycho Sid" (later changed to "Sycho Sid")-entered the WWF as the bodyguard of Shawn Michaels.
Along with Jenny McCarthy, Sid accompanied Michaels to ringside for Michaels's WWF Championship match against then-champion and Michaels's former bodyguard, Diesel, at WrestleMania XI. Michaels had hit his signature Superkick, but Sid stood on the ring apron and distracted referee Earl Hebner, allowing Diesel time to recover and pin Michaels after a Jackknife Powerbomb to win the match and retain his title.
The next night on Raw, Michaels expressed dissatisfaction with Sid's interference and gave him the night off for his rematch against Diesel. Two weeks later on the April 17 episode of Raw, Ted DiBiase introduced Sid as the "crown jewel" of the Million Dollar Corporation.