The Skyscrapers
professional wrestling tag team
The Skyscrapers (or just Skyscrapers) were a professional wrestling tag team in World Championship Wrestling in 1989 and 1990 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.
Career
Background
In early 1989, Theodore 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 he was fired and took up managing instead.
First incarnation
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 size.
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. 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. Later in the night the Skyscrapers defeated The Dynamic Dudes (Johnny Ace and Shane Douglas) due to their overwhelming size and power.
The Skyscrapers quickly became involved in a feud with the Road Warriors, sparked by Teddy Long's actions while still a referee. 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. Spivey and Vicious were disqualified against the Road Warriors at Halloween Havoc 1989 but neither team looked like losers on the night. Shortly after Halloween Havoc the Skyscrapers faced the Steiner Brothers at Clash of the Champions IX in a hard hitting match.
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