The Skyscrapers

The Skyscrapers were a professional wrestling tag team in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1989 and 1990 in two distinct forms with members Sid Vicious, "Dangerous" Dan Spivey, "Mean" Mark Callous with The Masked Skyscraper making a one night appearance.
==History==
In early 1989 Teddy Long was a referee for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) but due to a series of questionable calls, including one that cost The Road Warriors (Hawk & Animal) the NWA World Tag Team Championship, Teddy Long was fired and took up managing instead. Long paired Dan Spivey with Sid Vicious, two people who had recently signed with WCW and gave them the name The Skyscrapers; mainly because both men were so tall. 
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 had them share the prize money instead. Later in the night the Skyscrapers defeated The Dynamic Dudes (Johnny Ace & 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 did not look like losers on the night. Shortly after Halloween Havoc the Skyscrapers faced the Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner) at Clash of the Champions IX in a hard hitting match. A match that was so hard hitting in fact that Sid Vicious suffered a punctured lung due to a broke rib.
With Vicious out of action Teddy Long brought in another tall newcomer in the same mold as Sid Vicious and Dan Spivey and dubbed him "Mean" Mark Callous. The New Skyscrapers immediately picked up the feud with the Road Warriors and kept on having inconclusive matches with them. 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.
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. The Skyscrapers were scheduled for a Chicago Street Fight at WrestleWar 1990 but Dan Spivey suddenly left WCW leaving the bookers to scramble for a replacement
Exactly why he left so suddenly has never been stated. Instead of cancelling the announced match the booking committee decided to bring in a masked man called "The Masked Skyscraper" (in reality he was half of AWA World Tag Team Champions The Destruction Crew Mike Enos). The Road Warriors made short work of Callous and the Masked Skyscraper ending the feud and ending the Skyscrapers' run of domination.
By the end of 1990 Dan Spivey and the WCW worked out whatever differences that caused Spivey to leave in the spring and Spivey returned to WCW television. The original Skyscrapers briefly reunited at Starrcade 1990 as Spivey and Vicious took on and beat The Big Cat and the Motor City Madman. The Skyscrapers disbanded when Sid joined the Four Horsemen while Dan and Mark focused on singles careers.
==In wrestling==
*Finishing moves
**Double Power Bomb
*Manager
**Teddy Long
==External links==
* Profile
Category:1989 debuts
Category:1990 disbandments
Category:World Championship Wrestling teams and stables