Former WWE champion Sid Eudy, also known as "Sycho Sid," died at the age of 63 after battling cancer, his son announced on Monday. "I am deeply saddened to share that my father, Sid Eudy ...

Sid Eudy, a main event-level wrestling star in the 1990s and early 2000s who performed under the names Sid Justice, Sycho Sid and Sid Vicious, has died, according to his son. He was 63.

In 1978, Sid Vicious was racing towards total destruction and had been for a while. Some would say he’s been precarious his whole life, as the British punk idol never once had a normal or easy life.

(Photo by Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix via Getty Images) As Sid Justice, Eudy became the first person from Arkansas to headline Wrestlemania after taking on Hulk Hogan in the main event in 1992.

The career of John Simon Ritchie (he died as Simon John Beverley, but was known to the world as Sid Vicious) mirrors a cultural change that saw the hippies swept aside by the street rats.