Scott Hall

The wrestling world lost one of the best of the bad with the passing of Two-Time WWE Hall of Famer Scott Hall, a.k.a. Razor Ramon.

He is a true legend in the business, and one of the greatest to have never held a World Championship. The "nWo" would find its way to WWE television following the collapse of WCW in 2001, but Hall would be released shortly afterwards in 2002 due to drunken misconduct. He leaves behind a legacy of being one of the most influential wrestlers of the pre-Attitude Era (1992-1996) as not only one of WWE's top heels "The Bad Guy" Razor Ramon (a pastiche of Tony Montana of Scarface) and a member of the infamous backstage group "The Kliq," but a crucial signing by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the period's later years that would herald the arrival of the legendary "nWo" faction with Hall, Kevin Nash and "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan, and trigger WWE's Attitude Era, bringing about a complete cultural shift in the genre of professional wrestling, with companies targeting younger live and TV audiences by producing more edgy and risqué content.

Called a “hugely influential superstar” by World Wrestling Entertainment, he was also a founding member of the villainous New World Order with Kevin Nash ...

“And it was a powerful thing to me, whether I was the hated villain or the beloved hero. “A guy pulled a gun on me, and I took it away from him and shot him,” he said in 2011, recalling what he said was a fight over a woman. Outside the ring, Mr. Hall struggled with drug and alcohol abuse and went to rehab at least a dozen times, according to a 2017 interview. Mr. Hall rejoined World Championship Wrestling in 1996 as a heel, or villain, under his given name. He was known for his slick black hair and the gold chains he wore around his neck, outside as well as inside the ring. Scott Hall was born into a military family on Oct. 20, 1958. Mr. Hall had suffered complications of hip replacement surgery this month, according to Pro Wrestling Torch, a site that has covered the wrestling world for more than 30 years. You know, you’re going to fall.’ He said, ‘Try to fall forward.’” I was a kid.” That was something that I’ve always treasured.” Mr. Hall was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as Razor Ramon in 2014 and again in 2020 as a member of the New World Order. “My dad used to tell me: ‘You’re going to slip.