Fun big boy HOSS fight and definitely one of the best Sid matches we have (I guess your mileage will vary on the height of that particular bar). I know by late 1996 Sid would've been chopped many times by Flair and probably clobbered by a few Scott Steiner clotheslines, but I doubt he'd have experienced anything like Vader's soup bone punches. Vader really wellied him with those shots and Sid's own punches were not very good so I think Vader decided to hit him even harder. In disgust, perhaps. There was one clothesline that practically landed across the jaw and it sounds like a gunshot. Sid climbs the turnbuckles and leaps off with a crossbody and Vader catches him like Sid is a mere child. McMahon is a real fuddy duddy on commentary, constantly trying to course-correct every time Michaels and Lawler start shit-talking each other in between making comment about how BIG the guys in the ring are. They were having fun with it too but I guess Vince figured he needed to keep Michaels on a leash lest he says something outrageous. You know Lawler would've coaxed it out of him too. It's like when my mum used to take me to see my grandparents on my dad's side. They were very religious Irish Catholics and I was a terror of a child who was cursing like a sailor by about the age of four and every time we went there my ma left affronted. Sid slamming Vader with that much ease was a hell of a spot and for a second there they actually had me buying that he was going to powerbomb the big fella.
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