Goodbye Razor Ramon

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Former WWE star Scott Hall to be taken off life support, says nWo teammate Kevin Nash

Scott Hall’s family is preparing to say goodbye to the two-time WWE Hall of Famer after he reportedly was taken off life support. Wrestling star Shawn “X-Pac” Waltman said his fri…

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Former WWE star Scott Hall to be taken off life support, says nWo teammate Kevin Nash​

By KATE FELDMAN

Scott Hall’s family is preparing to say goodbye to the two-time WWE Hall of Famer.

The 63-year-old wrestler will be taken off life support as soon as his family is “in place,” former nWo teammate Kevin Nash revealed in a heartbreaking remembrance of his longtime friend.

“I’m going to lose the one person on this planet I’ve spent more of my life with than anyone else,” Nash wrote on Instagram early Monday morning.

“My heart is broken and I’m so very f--king sad. I love Scott with all my heart but now I have to prepare my life without him in the present. I’ve been blessed to have a friend that took me at face value and I him.”

Hall was put on life support over the weekend after suffering multiple heart attacks due to a blood clot that occurred after hip replacement surgery last week, according to wrestling blog PW Torch.

The Maryland native broke into wrestling as Razor Ramon, winning four Intercontinental Championship titles with WWF, which later became WWE. In May 1996, he left for WCW, where he and Nash formed The Outsiders, then added Hulk Hogan to became New World Order.

“When we jumped to WCW we didn’t care who liked or hated us. We had each other and with the smooth Barry Bloom we changed wrestling both in content and pay for those......a lot that disliked us. We were the ‘Outsiders’ but we had each other,” Nash wrote.

“Scott always felt he wasn’t worthy of the afterlife. Well God please have some gold plated toothpicks for my brother. My life was enriched with his take on life. He wasn’t perfect but as he always said ‘The last perfect person to walk the planet they nailed to a cross.’ As we prepare for life without him just remember there goes a great guy you ain’t going to see another one like him again. See Ya down the road Scott. I couldn’t love a human being any more than I do you.”

 

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Very sad. Not too many of the 80s wrestlers are around any more due mostly to steroid abuse. Poor Razor had the misfortune of developing a blood clot during hip surgery.

 

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Scott Hall, former WWE star and wrestling legend, dead at 63

Scott Hall left an indelible mark on the professional wrestling business. The legendary co-founder of the nWo died on Monday at the age of 63, after suffering several heart attacks over the weekend…

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Scott Hall, former WWE star and wrestling legend, dead at 63​

By Ryan Glasspiegel

Scott Hall left an indelible mark on the professional wrestling business.

The legendary co-founder of the nWo died on Monday at the age of 63, after suffering several heart attacks over the weekend following complications from hip surgery, WWE announced.

“WWE extends its condolences to Hall’s family, friends and fans,” the company said in a statement.

Hall came up through the regional territory system in the late 1980s and early 90s, wrestling for the NWA, Jim Crockett Promotions, the AWA and elsewhere.

He eventually got to the WWE (then the WWF) in 1992, and gained national prominence wrestling under the name Razor Ramon with a “bad guy” Cuban gimmick partially inspired by Al Pacino’s character from “Scarface”.

In a 2017 interview, Hall recalled that Vince McMahon originally pitched a military gimmick as Hall’s father had been in the Army, but Hall countered with the Razor Ramon gimmick — which had some similarities to his “Diamond Stud” persona from WCW — and McMahon signed off on it despite allegedly never having seen “Scarface”.

Hall got a quick push with the company and ultimately became the four-time Intercontinental champion, a title that has historically been won by wrestlers as a stepping stone to superstardom.

Perhaps the most significant moment in Hall’s initial WWF run was his ladder match with Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania X in 1994, which is considered by many observers of the business to be one of the greatest wrestling matches of all-time.





Hall was part of one of wrestling’s most infamous moments — the “Curtain Call” — when he, Michaels, Triple H and Kevin Nash broke kayfabe and hugged each other in the ring after a show at Madison Square Garden in May 1996 with Hall and Nash on the verge of making the jump to WCW .

On May 27, 1996 Hall would begin one of the most legendary angles in the history of pro wrestling, interrupting a random match on “WCW Monday Nitro” between The Mauler and Steve Doll and saying, “You people know who I am, but you don’t know why I’m here.”

Hall promised WCW commentators Bobby Heenan and Eric Bischoff — who, in the surreal world of wrestling, was also in charge of the show and signing Hall away from WWF — a war.

Nash followed Hall onto the program two weeks later, and they became known as The Outsiders. For the Bash at the Beach pay-per-view in the summer of 1996, they promised a mystery partner in their match against Randy “Macho Man” Savage, Sting and Lex Luger. The third man was Hulk Hogan, who to the astonishment of everyone in the audience had turned heel, and the New World Order was born.

The piping-hot nWo angle propelled Nitro to a 83 consecutive weeks of victory in the television ratings over the WWF’s “Monday Night Raw” during the fabled “Monday Night Wars.” It lasted until combination of ego, excess and the Time Warner-AOL merger on WCW’s side and cutting edge performances from wrestlers like “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, The Rock and a number of others during WWF’s “Attitude Era” turned the scales back.

Hall was respected by other wrestlers as having a great mind for the business. He planted the seed for Sting’s crow persona that led to a huge WCW angle between The Icon and the nWo in 1997. Hall was also a savvy political operator. He was a member of the infamous ‘kliq’ with Nash, Michaels, Triple H (Paul Levesque) and X-Pac (Sean Waltman), a group of close friends said to wield political clout backstage.

Hall, like many larger-than-life performers both inside and outside the wrestling industry in the 20th Century, lived a hard, fast lifestyle in his heyday. He publicly battled drug and alcohol addiction, and health issues that arose after the toll that substances and the pro wrestling business took on his body. Hall turned his life around in 2013 with the help of friend Diamond Dallas Page in 2013. He is two-time WWE Hall of Famer, having been inducted individually and later as a member of the nWo.

“He wasn’t perfect but as he always said ‘The last perfect person to walk the planet they nailed to a cross,'” his close friend Kevin Nash wrote on Instagram early Monday.

 

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Hard work pays off, dreams come true. Bad times don't last, but bad guys do.

 

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His life redemption story is marvelous. Credit to DDP. He helped forever change sports entertainment. Big influence without ever being world champ in any promotion. This is incredibly sad.

 

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"Hey yo!"

I remember Scott Hall as what is known as a white-meat babyface during his AWA days in the late 1980's. He and the late Curt Hennig were Tag Team Champions in the promotion for several months before they would both move on to bigger and better things.

I had forgotten about his Diamond Studd character in WCW, which is only notable because it apparently served as the template for his iconic Razor Ramon persona. Yet another example of Vince McMahon seeing talent and turning a non-descript performer into one of his biggest stars and ultimately into one of the biggest stars in the business.

The Bad Guy lived a hard life, much of it his own doing. As NYSG notes above, Scott had finally turned his life around with the help of Diamond Dallas Page, his former WCW manager, who has made a second career out of rehabbing and counseling former pro wrestlers going through tough times.

It's a shame Scott couldn't really enjoy that recently found sobriety.

Rest in peace, bad guy. Survey says, you were one of the greats.

 

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Hulk Hogan pays emotional tribute to Scott Hall: ‘Took care of me when I was down’

At his bar outside of Tampa, Fl., Hogan prayed for Hall and paid tribute to his loyal friendship.

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Hulk Hogan pays emotional tribute to Scott Hall: ‘Took care of me when I was down’​

By Ryan Glasspiegel




Hulk Hogan gave an emotional speech Monday in honor of his late friend Scott Hall, who died earlier in the day at the age of 63.

Hogan, Hall and Kevin Nash formed the iconic NWO at the Bash at the Beach in the summer of 1996, and remained close for over a quarter-century. At his Hogan’s Hangout bar, which is located outside Tampa, Fl., Hogan prayed for Hall and paid tribute to his loyal friendship.

“In Jesus’ name I pray, thank you God for taking care of my brother,” Hogan said.

“He took care of me when I was down and out. Everyone thought Hulkamania was dead. Scott Hall resurrected me. He put me back on the map. I love him so much I can’t even explain it to you.”

Hall suffered blood clots after complications from hip surgery, leading to three heart attacks and having to be placed on life support.

“He had a bunch of faults,” Hogan continued of Hall. “But he was a good guy. I just want to let everyone know here tonight that he’s in our thoughts and prayers.”

Hogan proceeded to reference a famous line from Hall’s WWE Hall of Fame induction speech.

“I had a real hard time getting my act together getting over here, but bad times don’t last … bad guys do,” he said.

“For the original bad guy that taught Hollywood how to be a bad guy, I’ve got nothing but love, for life.