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Fangraphs shows his slider at a (really hot) 86 MPH, and the 89 (plus) pitch that you're remembering it calls his cut fastball. 
Sometimes "cutter" vs "slider" is a bit of a semantic debate... let's see.  His cutter averaged 89 MPH and the movement ... it cut gloveside 2 inches and rose (compared to vacuum) by 5 inches.  That's as against his fastball, which ran armside 2 inches and rose 8 inches.
2 inches gloveside, that's a whale of a lot of movement on a cut fastball, although since it didn't sink much more than his fastball I'd be inclined to classify it a super-cutter.
Pryor's 93 MPH slider cuts gloveside 3 inches and rolls off the table by 8-9 inches compared to his fastball.  Probably have to call those two different types of pitches, but that's a great catch on Brian Wilson.  I had no idea that he had such a great cutter.  That's the closest thing I've seen to Rivera's (and now Felix') cutter.
Of course, Brian Wilson was a fairly effective pitcher there for a while....