![]() ![]() He then quit and joined the WWF, where he became known as The Undertaker.īy the end of 1990 Dan Spivey and WCW worked out whatever differences that caused Spivey to leave in the spring and Spivey returned to WCW television. Callous decided to go on his own for a while but failed in a challenge to WCW United States Heavyweight Champion Lex Luger. The Road Warriors made short work of Callous and the Masked Skyscraper ending the feud and ending the Skyscrapers run of domination. Instead of cancelling the announced match the bookers turned to Mike Enos, who was working for the American Wrestling Association at the time, and put him under a mask as The Masked Skyscraper. ![]() Exactly why he left the federation so suddenly has never been stated. But big things never happened, in the days before the scheduled Chicago Street Fight at WrestleWar 1990 Dan Spivey suddenly left WCW leaving the bookers to scramble for a replacement. At this point in time no one had ever been able to physically dominate the Road Warriors, something that pointed that big things had been planned for the Skyscrapers. At Clash of the Champions X the Skyscrapers finally got the better of the Road Warriors, not in the match but afterwards when they beat the Road Warriors down. The New Skyscrapers immediately picked up the feud with the Road Warriors and kept on having inconclusive matches with them. With Vicious out of action Teddy Long brought in another tall (6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)) newcomer in the same mold as Sid Vicious and Dan Spivey and dubbed him ”Mean” Mark Callous. A match that was so hard hitting in fact that Sid Vicious suffered a punctured lung due to a broken rib. Shortly after Halloween Havoc the Skyscrapers faced the Steiner Brothers at Clash of the Champions IX in a hard hitting match. Spivey and Vicious were disqualified against the Road Warriors at Halloween Havoc 1989 but neither team looked like losers on the night. The two teams were very evenly matched in power and intensity creating a series of matches that did not favor one team over the other. The Skyscrapers quickly became involved in a feud with the Road Warriors, sparked by Teddy Long's actions while still a referee. Later in the night the Skyscrapers defeated The Dynamic Dudes ( Johnny Ace and Shane Douglas) due to their overwhelming size and power. The rules called for the two to fight each other but manager Teddy Long convinced them to shake hands and share the prize money before getting on the microphone and telling the crowd that what they had that the other tag teams didn't have was unity. ![]() The Skyscrapers’ first taste of success came at the 1989 Great American Bash PPV where they first co-won a Two-Ring King of the Hill Battle Royal with Sid being the survivor in one ring and Dan surviving in the other. Long paired 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) Dan Spivey with 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) Sid Vicious, two people who had recently signed with the promotion and gave them the name “The Skyscrapers” due to their height. In early 1989, Teddy Long was a referee for the National Wrestling Alliance, but due to a series of questionable calls, including one that cost the Road Warriors their world tag-team titles Teddy Long was fired and took up managing instead. The Skyscrapers (or just Skyscrapers ) were a professional wrestling tag team in World Championship Wrestling in 19 in three distinct forms with members ”Big” Sid Vicious, ”Dangerous” Dan Spivey, and "Mean" Mark Callous, with The Masked Skyscraper making a one night appearance. Professional wrestling tag team The Skyscrapers ![]()
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