Welcome to the busted open after dark podcast. I'm your host Tommy Dreamer. Before I break down

the go-home episode of Bashing Berlin, I have to talk about the life and career and the passing of Sid Eudy.

This is the busted Open Podcast.

This is hard.

It's hard for me.

It's hard for the nation. It's hard for wrestling fans, right?

Because how do we process this? This is somebody that we grew up watching or someone that we thought was just this amazing indestructible

force and then you hear that he passes away.

It's also hard for me because I have to talk about someone's passing where I it's hard to process it right?

I lost Kevin Sullivan recently.

It was just the passing of Terry Funk for one year and it's

that's the harder part of life is when you have to talk or deal with the passing

of someone that you know you you watched on television or

also if you knew somebody as the person.

W. W. did a nice package on Sid.

So I guess I would just kind of have to break this down.

Excuse me, first as the fan.

When Sid first burst upon the scene, man you knew this guy was going to be something because of what his size.

In the industry at that time

Sid was perhaps one of the biggest wrestlers out there. He could move. He was he was

trained by Togne Amamoto, who had been in Memphis,

he was trained by Togo Yamamoto, who had trained a lot of guys,

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