Scott Oliver Hall (born October 20, 1958) is an
American professional wrestler. In the course of his career, which
has spanned three decades, Hall has wrestled for the
American Wrestling
Association (AWA), the
National Wrestling Alliance
(NWA),
Total Nonstop
Action Wrestling (TNA),
World Class Championship
Wrestling (WCCW),
World
Championship Wrestling (WCW),
Extreme Championship
Wrestling (ECW), and the
World Wrestling Federation
(WWF).
Among other accolades, Hall is a two-time
world
champion (a
former
WWC Universal
Heavyweight Champion and
former
USWA Unified
World Heavyweight Champion—although the latter's status as a
legitimate world title is disputed),
four-time WWF Intercontinental
Champion,
two-time WCW United States Heavyweight
Champion,
former WCW World Television
Champion,
seven-time WCW World Tag Team Champion
(six times with
Kevin Nash, once with
The Giant), and
former
AWA World Tag Team
Champion (with
Curt Hennig), as well
as the winner of the
1997
WCW World War 3 battle royal. Hall
is also notable as one of the three original members of the
New World
Order.
Professional wrestling career
Early career / National Wrestling Alliance (1984–1985)
Hall began his career in 1984 in
Championship Wrestling from
Florida (CWF) and soon began a
feud with
Dusty Rhodes. Scott Hall and his
workout buddy Dan Spivey were trained in Florida mainly by Dusty
Rhodes but also received training from Rick Martel and Barry
Windham. When it was time for the team's debut Dusty Rhodes made a
deal with Jim Crockett for the two to work in Crockett's territory
based out of Charlotte, North Carolina. While wrestling for
Jim Crockett Promotions as
part of the
National
Wrestling Alliance (NWA) in 1984 and 1985, Hall formed a
tag team with
Dan
Spivey, known as American Starship ("Starship Coyote" and
"Starship Eagle", respectively). Spivey and Hall made their debut
as a masked tag-team called American Starship with Spivey being
called Eagle and Hall being dubbed Coyote. With their furry boots,
massive stature, bright masks and Hulk Hogan-esque t-shirt ripping
routine the two men were easy to spot on any card. Initially,
American Starship worked only sporadically. At first they were
booked so sparingly that the two were given a job for the Charlotte
Orioles (which Jim Crockett owned at the time) as part of the
ground crew[2]. When the two men did get into the ring it was with
little success, the highlight of their stay in Crockett's Mid
Atlantic Championship Wrestling was being defeated by Arn and Ole
Anderson when the rookies challenged for the NWA National Tag Team
Championship. After working in MACW the duo joined Bob Geigel's NWA
Central States territory based in Kansas City in 1985. The duo had
a shot at the NWA Central States Tag Team Champions Marty Jannetty
and "Bulldog" Bob Brown but did not manage to win the titles.
Spivey’s stay in the Central States territory was short lived,
according to Scott Hall Spivey did not like Kansas City. [2] Spivey
returned to the Carolinas and the recently redubbed "Jim Crockett
Promotions" where he worked as "American Starship" Eagle as a
jobber. Hall however stayed and got a big push and gained the
respect of several big names including Nick Bockwinkel and Larry
Zbyszko who went to a time limit draw with a rookie Hall, and he
also develped a relationship with Curt Hennig.
American Wrestling Association (1985–1989)
Hall next moved on to the
American Wrestling
Association (AWA) in 1985, where he was named "Magnum" Scott
Hall and later "Big" Scott Hall, and was
pushed as a
babyface wrestler.
Verne Gagne, the owner and promoter of the AWA,
tried to push another younger superstar to the same heights as
Hulk Hogan following Hogan's departure to
Vince McMahon's
World Wrestling Federation
(WWF). Gagne went so far as to have Hall grow a
handlebar moustache and use mannerisms
and moves similar to Hogan.
Hall eventually formed a tag team with fellow future-superstar
Curt Hennig, and together they defeated
"Gorgeous" Jimmy Garvin and
"Mr. Electricity" Steve Regal for the
AWA World Tag Team
Championship on January 18, 1986. Referred to as the "Perfect
Combination" by
Pro
Wrestling Illustrated, the team gained victories over
"Playboy" Buddy Rose and
"Pretty Boy" Doug Somers,
Konga the Barbarian and
Boris Zhukov, and
Bill and
Scott
Irwin. They eventually
drop the belts to
Rose and Somers by
countout on May 17, due to
interference by
Colonel DeBeers.
After losing the title, Hall and Hennig soon parted ways, with the
AWA pushing Hall into matches for the
AWA World Heavyweight
Championship with
Stan Hansen and
Rick Martel. After unsuccessful attempts
at singles gold and the eventual loss of his momentum in the AWA,
Hall moved on to the NWA in 1989.
NWA, WCW, and WWC (1989–1991)
Hall was brought in, under his real name, to the National Wrestling
Alliance's
World
Championship Wrestling (WCW) territory by
Jim Ross in 1989, when the NWA was beginning to
focus on developing new, young superstars such as
Brian Pillman and
Sid
Vicious. His first and only
pay-per-view appearance during this time was at
The Great American Bash:
The Glory Days, which saw Hall participate (unsuccessfully) in
a
King of the Hill
battle royal. Hall made little impact during this run and soon
after he began
jobbing
regularly, after which he went on hiatus.
Hall made a brief stint in 1991 in the
Puerto Rican promotion
World Wrestling Council (WWC). On
March 3, he defeated
Miguel
Pérez, Jr. for the
WWC Caribbean Heavyweight
Championship, holding it for one month before losing the title
to Super Medic III on April 20.
World Championship Wrestling 1991–1992)
The Diamond Studd
Hall returned to the NWA in 1991, although by then the region was
known as
World Championship
Wrestling (WCW). He was named The Diamond Studd, whose
gimmick was similar
to
Ravishing Rick Rude's with the added
element of a monster big man heel, and he was
managed by
Diamond Dallas Page. He
squashed Tommy Rich in his debut on the June 14 edition of
Clash of the Champions, and he defeated
Tom Zenk at
The Great American Bash.
He received a significant
push in his early days with
WCW, but by the end of 1991 this began to fade, starting with the
September 2 edition of
Clash
of the Champions, where Studd was defeated by
Ron Simmons. At
Halloween Havoc: Chamber of Horrors,
the team of Studd,
Abdullah the
Butcher,
Cactus Jack, and
Big Van Vader lost to
Sting,
El Gigante, and the
Steiner Brothers (
Rick and
Scott).
On the November 19 edition of
Clash of the
Champions, Studd lost to Zenk in a rematch from The Great
American Bash.
In 1992, he formed short-lived tag teams with
Vinnie Vegas and
Scotty
Flamingo during his time in the
Diamond Mine stable, while also
teaming with members of
Paul E. Dangerously's
Dangerous Alliance. The idea of adding
him to the Dangerous Alliance fell through, however, and he left
WCW shortly after.
World Wrestling Federation (1992–1996)
Razor Ramon
Hall
signed a contract with the World Wrestling Federation
(WWF) in 1992 and his character evolved from Scott Hall to that of
Razor Ramon, a Cuban American from
Miami
. The Latino-heel persona was modeled after
Tony Montana and Manny Ray (
Al Pacino and
Steven
Bauer's characters from the
movie
Scarface). Hall's
nickname (The Bad Guy) and catchphrase ("Say hello to The Bad Guy")
derive from quotes from the movie; "Say hello to my little friend"
and "Say goodnight to the bad guy". Later in his career, Hall
claimed he pitched the idea of a
Scarface-like character
during a meeting with
Vince McMahon
and
Pat Patterson, as a
joke.
Hall
quoted lines with a Cuban accent and gave ideas for vignettes (also
inspired by the movie) that would involve Hall recreating several
scenes, such as Ramon driving around South
Florida
in a convertible with a leopard-skin
interior. Although his pitch was taken right from the film,
Hall claims McMahon and Patterson were nevertheless floored by the
ideas and called Hall a "genius." Hall later learned that neither
McMahon nor Patterson had ever seen or heard of the movie; thus,
they believed that Hall was coming up with the ideas right then and
there.
Hall's WWF debut was preceded by his vignettes, with his in-ring
debut coming on the August 8, 1992 edition of
Superstars, defeating local
jobber Paul Van Dow with his finishing move, the
Razor's Edge (Hall had used the
finisher in his run in WCW). Early on, Ramon would wear large gold
chain necklaces to the ring; upon handing them to an attendant at
ringside he would threaten "Something happens to this, something
gonna happen to you."
Hall's first major
angle began on the
September 14 edition of
Prime Time Wrestling, where
Ramon interfered in a
WWF
Championship match between the champion
Randy Savage and the challenger
Ric Flair. Ramon helped Flair win the title after
attacking Savage on the floor. As a result, Ramon and Savage
started a
feud with
each other, which then went on to include the
Ultimate Warrior after Warrior saved
Savage from a post-match beating by Ramon. Ramon and Flair were
scheduled to face the Ultimate Maniacs (Savage and Warrior) at the
Survivor Series, however
Warrior was fired from the WWF prior to the event and was replaced
by Flair's executive consultant,
Mr.
Perfect, who had made a
face turn. At Survivor
Series, Ramon and Flair went on to lose to Savage and Perfect after
being disqualified by the referee for constantly double-teaming
their opponents.
WWF Champion
Bret Hart was scheduled to
defend his title against the Ultimate Warrior at the
Royal Rumble, but the Warrior's
departure from the WWF left Hart without a challenger, and Razor
Ramon replaced him. During the feud, Ramon continued his heel
persona by disrespecting Hart and the
Hart wrestling family. Like his
previous attempts to win the
AWA Championship in the
late 1980s, Ramon was unable to defeat Hart at the Royal Rumble,
submitting to the
Sharpshooter. Ramon
won a 16-man
battle royal the
following month after
Giant González—who was not a
participant in the match—entered the ring and eliminated
Tatanka and
El
Matador. Ramon made his
WrestleMania debut at
WrestleMania IX, defeating former WWF
Champion
Bob Backlund with a
roll-up.
Ramon defeated
Tito Santana to qualify
for the
King of the Ring
tournament in 1993, but lost in the quarterfinals to the eventual
tournament winner and the man he lost to at the Royal Rumble, Bret
Hart. On the May 17 edition of
Monday Night
Raw he had an upset loss to
jobber "The Lightning Kid" (who would later gain the
nickname the "1-2-3 Kid" following the upset). As a result, a small
feud between himself and the 1-2-3 Kid began; it carried with him
into the King of the Ring tournament; and it also began a slow face
turn for Ramon, who had gained both respect for The Kid and support
from the crowd.
Ted DiBiase, however,
did not show respect for Ramon and instead began making fun of
Ramon for losing to such a small jobber. Ramon's face turn was
solidified after helping the 1-2-3 Kid defeat DiBiase. The feud
culminated in a match at
SummerSlam, where Ramon defeated DiBiase
in DiBiase's final WWF match before going to Japan.
Intercontinental Champion (1993–1996)
On the October 4, 1993 edition of
Monday Night Raw, a
20-man
battle
royal for the vacant
WWF Intercontinental
Championship was held; the last two participants would face
other the following week for the title. Ramon and
Rick Martel were the final two. The next week on
Raw, Ramon came out on top following a Razor's Edge to win
the vacant Intercontinental Championship. Ramon would go on to have
successful defenses against the likes of Martel and
Irwin R. Schyster
(IRS). At
Survivor Series,
Ramon teamed with
Marty Jannetty,
Randy Savage, and the 1-2-3 Kid to take
on the team of Martel, IRS,
Adam Bomb,
and
Diesel. Razor, captaining his team,
went on to eliminate the opposing captain, IRS, after scoring a pin
following a Razor's Edge. Although he was later eliminated from the
match after being counted out when IRS hit him with his briefcase,
Razor's team went on to win the match, beginning a feud between the
two captains. Ramon's feud with IRS culminated at
Royal Rumble where he defeated IRS to
retain the Intercontinental title following the Razor's Edge.
At the same time, Ramon was in the early stages of a feud with
Shawn Michaels over who had the real
claim to the Intercontinental champion. Michaels had been stripped
of the title months before due to "inactivity" (he was actually on
suspension at that time), but began appearing on television with
his own version of the belt, claiming he had never been beaten for
it. Their feud was showcased with Ramon defending the
Intercontinental Championship against Michaels in a
ladder match at
WrestleMania X, where Ramon retained the
championship after retrieving both belts. This match was voted
Pro Wrestling
Illustrated's
Match of
the Year in 1994. It was also the first WWF match to receive a
five star rating from
Dave Meltzer of the
Wrestling Observer
Newsletter. On WWE.com, this match is rated as the #5
match in the top 22 matches in WrestleMania history. Ramon
continued to feud with Michaels and his
bodyguard Diesel and on the April 30 edition of
Superstars, he dropped the Intercontinental Championship
to Diesel after interference from Michaels.
Ramon would then go on to defeat
Kwang to
qualify for the
King of the
Ring tournament in 1994. At King of the Ring, he defeated
Bam Bam Bigelow in the quarterfinals
of the tournament and Irwin R. Schyster in the semifinals, before a
loss in the finals of the tournament to his old rival Bret Hart's
younger brother,
Owen. At
SummerSlam, Ramon (with
Walter Payton in his corner) defeated Diesel
to win his second WWF Intercontinental Championship after Shawn
Michaels accidentally hit Diesel with
Sweet
Chin Music. At
Survivor
Series, he captained a team dubbed "The Bad Guys" consisting of
himself, the 1-2-3 Kid,
Davey Boy
Smith, and
The Headshrinkers
(
Fatu and
Samu) against The Teamsters (Shawn Michaels,
Diesel, Owen Hart,
Jim Neidhart, and
Jeff Jarrett). Ramon ended up as the
sole survivor of the match and by the end of 1994, he began a feud
with Jeff Jarrett which led into the next year.
At the
Royal Rumble in 1995,
Ramon lost the Intercontinental Championship to Jarrett, although
the match ended in controversial fashion; Jarrett had originally
won the match by count-out, but demanded that the match be
restarted so he could win the title. Jarrett then pinned the
champion with a small package. He faced Jarrett in a rematch for
the Intercontinental Championship at
WrestleMania XI. Ramon won the match by
disqualification after Jarrett's
assistant The Roadie interfered; thus, Jarrett
retained the title as a title cannot change hands by count-out or
disqualification. Ramon later defeated Jarrett and Roadie at
In Your House 1 in a
handicap
match. On May 16, Razor qualified for the
King of the Ring tournament by
defeating
Jacob Blu. He later
defeated Jarrett in a ladder match on May 19, 1995 at a
live event to win his third WWF Intercontinental
Championship. At that time, this was a record because Ramon was the
first man to hold the Intercontinental title
three times. Three
days later on May 22, he lost the title back to Jarrett. and on
June 9, Ramon suffered a rib injury during a ladder match rematch
against Jarrett. During this time, he formed a team with
Savio Vega, and Vega defeated Irwin R. Schyster
in the
Free for All match at the
pay-per-view to fill Razor's vacancy.
Razor managed Vega throughout the tournament, who ultimately lost
to
Mabel in the finals.
Razor and Vega lost to
Men on a
Mission (Mabel and
Mo)
at
In Your House 2: The
Lumberjacks, and a
Tag Team Championship
match against
Owen Hart and
Yokozuna on the August 7 edition of
Raw. Razor
received an Intercontinental title ladder match against the new
champion Shawn Michaels at
SummerSlam, in what was considered to be
their WrestleMania X rematch. Razor went on to lose the match
against Michaels, and then started a feud with
Dean Douglas. Ramon defeated Douglas at
In Your
House 4 for the Intercontinental Championship. Michaels had
just forfeited the title to Douglas.
In early 1996, Ramon started a feud with newcomer
Goldust, leading to an Intercontinental title
match at the
Royal Rumble. Ramon
lost the title to Goldust after Ramon's former partner the 1-2-3
Kid (who had previously made a heel turn) cost him the match. He
became a member of the WWF's off-stage
The
Kliq which consisted of
Kevin Nash
(Diesel),
Paul Levesque (Hunter Hearst
Helmsley),
Michael Hickenbottom
(Shawn Michaels), and
Sean Waltman
(1-2-3 Kid). Razor was originally scheduled to face Goldust in a
rematch for the title at
WrestleMania
XII, but had been suspended by the WWF in the weeks prior due
to drug abuse. He was not seen on WWF television again until
April's
In
Your House 7 where he jobbed to
Vader. Hall was also a participant in the
MSG
Incident. As Hall and fellow Kliq member Kevin Nash were
departing for WCW, the pair along with Hickenbottom and Levesque
broke
kayfabe, celebrating and embracing in
the ring together.
World Championship Wrestling (1996–2000)
The Outsiders and the New World Order (1996–1997)
Hall's first appearance on May 27, 1996 on WCW television after
leaving the WWF was an unannounced
interview where he appeared
from the crowd in street clothes, claiming to be "an outsider." He
was then joined in the following weeks by
Kevin Nash, the two claiming they were going to
undertake a hostile takeover of WCW. The angle directly paralleled
the real-life competition between WCW and the WWF. At the following
pay-per-view,
Bash at the Beach, Nash and Hall
known as The Outsiders, along with a mystery partner, took on
Sting,
Lex
Luger, and
Randy Savage. The
mystery partner turned out to be
Hulk
Hogan, and the three formed the New World Order (nWo). The
stable
stormed WCW, enlisting such stars as
Syxx (Kliq member Sean Waltman),
The Giant, and
Buff
Bagwell.
Hall and Nash closed out 1996 with victories over Sting and Lex
Luger at
Hog Wild, and WCW's
WarGames match at
Fall Brawl. They defeated
Harlem Heat (
Booker
T and
Stevie Ray) at
Halloween Havoc for their first
WCW World Tag Team
Championship. They successfully defended the titles against
The Nasty Boys (
Brian Knobbs and
Jerry
Sags) and
Faces of Fear (
The Barbarian and
Meng) at
World
War 3, and then again defeated the Faces of Fear at
Starrcade. The duo would hold the WCW World
Tag Team title from February 24, 1997 to October 13, 1997, often
feuding with the
Steiner Brothers
(
Rick and
Scott), Lex Luger and the Giant, and the
Four
Horsemen. Since
Eric Bischoff was
a member of the nWo, he used his power to return the title to the
Outsiders on a technicality whenever they lost them. The Outsiders
would also use the
Freebird Rule to defend
their title. With Nash and Syxx out with injuries, Hall used the
last quarter of 1997 to focus on singles wrestling. Hall was
defeated by Luger in a grudge match at
Halloween Havoc via submission with
Larry Zbyszko serving as the guest
referee. One of Hall's greatest achievements in WCW was winning the
60 man
battle royal at
World War 3
1997 earning a shot at the
WCW World Heavyweight
Championship.
On the January 12, 1998 edition of
Nitro, Hall and Nash defeated the
Steiner Brothers for their second WCW World Tag Team Championship.
Hall eventually wrestled Larry Zbyszko at
Souled Out but lost by disqualification. The
Outsiders lost the tag title back to the Steiners on the February 9
edition of
Nitro. At
SuperBrawl VIII, the Outsiders
won their third WCW World Tag Team Championship by defeating the
Steiner Brothers. At
Uncensored,
Hall got his title shot against Sting for the World Heavyweight
Championship as a result of winning World War 3, and lost the
match, despite interference from
Dusty Rhodes. He would then be taken
off TV for a short while in early 1998 in a show of power by WCW
President Eric Bischoff as a way to keep Hall and Nash in check.
While Hall was absent, the nWo split into two warring factions.
Still one half of the tag team champions with Kevin Nash, the
thought was that Hall would return alongside his friend in the nWo
Wolfpac.
nWo Hollywood (1998)
At
Slamboree, Hall returned to team
with Kevin Nash in a title defense against Sting and The Giant. In
a
swerve,
Hall turned on Nash, costing them the title and jumping sides to
align himself with Hulk Hogan in
nWo Hollywood. On the July 6 edition of
Nitro, a
returning Scott Hall was handpicked by Hogan to wrestle
United States Champion
Bill Goldberg. Hall lost the match,
setting the stage for Hogan to be defeated later that night by
Goldberg for the World Heavyweight Championship. Hogan publicly
blamed Hall for the loss and Hall was seen as a weak link by the
rest of the nWo, especially
Scott
Steiner.
On July 13, Hogan challenged Hall to a match on
Nitro.
Hall accepted the challenge and it looked like Hall had finally
gotten sick of being ordered around by Hogan and his lackeys.
However, Nash interfered during the match. As he was about to
Jacknife Powerbomb Hogan
and regain Hall as his friend, Hall viciously attacked Nash,
proving his allegiance to Hogan and nWo Hollywood. In the following
weeks, Hall mocked Nash calling himself "Medium Sexy (later "Super
Sexy"), the Nash Killer." On the July 20 edition of
Nitro,
Hall won his fourth WCW World Tag Team Championship with The Giant,
as they defeated Sting and Nash due to outside interference from
Bret Hart, who was in the midst of a rivalry with Sting at the
time. This title reign would come to an end at
Halloween Havoc, when Rick Steiner
defeated The Giant and Scott Steiner (who replaced Hall) to claim
the title even after partner
Buff
Bagwell turned on him.
Scott Hall's character became out of control and would bring
alcohol to the ring, and his behavior on TV mirrored his real-life
problems with drugs and alcohol. This had him once "vomit" on Eric
Bischoff, and in another
vignette, Kevin Nash
along with WolfPac members
Konnan and
Lex Luger, followed Hall to a local bar
where Hall and Nash had a physical confrontation. On October 7,
Hall's ex-wife Dana wrote an open letter "to anyone who cares". In
the letter, she admonished World Championship Wrestling and Eric
Bischoff for not only failing to rehabilitate him but coming to the
point where they were exploiting, humiliating, and even enabling
him to continue his self-destructive behavior. She accused WCW of
allowing Hall to perform while
under the influence, and taking
advantage of his real addictions to drugs and alcohol for profit
and ratings. She called the angle "deplorable, disgusting, and
inexcusable". She pleaded with WCW to discontinue the controversial
angle for the sake of Hall's two children, whom she said he had no
relationship with. She ended the letter by making a desperate plea
to everyone to help Scott see his problems and "put himself in
God's hands". She said Hall remained a very sick man and his
addictions had destroyed his marriage, his future, and his
children's future.
Hall and Nash eventually faced each other on October 25 at
Halloween Havoc. After hitting Hall
with two Jackknife Powerbombs, Nash left the ring and lost the
match by count-out in what was seen as an act of mercy. Hall was
then ousted by nWo Hollywood after Steiner took control in Hogan's
absence in late 1998. He then referred to himself as the Lone Wolf.
On November 30, 1998, Hall needed a tag partner to face the team of
Steiner and
Horace Hogan. Initially,
Hall said he would do it alone, but Kevin Nash came to the entrance
and told Hall he would tag with him. Together the team, formerly
known as the Outsiders, won the match. At
Starrcade, Hall disguised himself as a
security staff member and used a
stun gun on WCW Champion Goldberg during
his title match with Kevin Nash. Having not seen the interference,
Kevin Nash jackknifed and covered Goldberg to become the WCW
Champion and break Goldberg's winning streak.
nWo Reunion, United States Champion and World Television
Champion (1999–2000)
It seemed Nash and Hall were seeing eye to eye again, and it all
came to a head in January 1999 when the two
nWo factions rejoined. Scott Hall
feuded with Goldberg and faced him in a "Ladder Taser match" on
January 19 at
Souled Out. Hall lost
the match when Goldberg used the taser gun on Hall. At
SuperBrawl IX, Hall defeated
Roddy Piper for the
WCW United States Heavyweight
Championship. Shortly after, Hall suffered a foot injury
forcing him to forfeit the title. Hall would not be seen again
until October 1999 when he and Kevin Nash began sitting at ringside
during WCW television, proclaiming that "the band was getting back
together." On the November 8 edition of
Nitro, Hall
defeated Goldberg, Bret Hart, and
Sid
Vicious in a Texas Tornado
ladder
match to win his second United States Heavyweight Championship.
Two weeks later at
Mayhem, he
defeated
Rick Steiner by forfeit to win
the
WCW World
Television Championship, therefore becoming a double champion.
He successfully defended both titles against
Booker T later that same night.
Hall, however, vacated the TV title by throwing it into a trash can
eight days later on
Nitro. Hall's U.S. title was soon
stripped due to a knee injury and awarded to
Chris Benoit. Hall and Nash would eventually
team up to defeat Bret Hart and Bill Goldberg on the December 13
edition of
Nitro for their sixth WCW World Tag Team
Championship as a team. Yet soon afterwards, Hall's personal
problems arose again and the tag team title was stripped from the
Outsiders. After the nWo returned in December 1999, Hall soon
joined teammates Kevin Nash, Bret Hart, Jeff Jarrett, and Scott
Steiner in what was coined "
nWo 2000."
As 2000 came along, Scott Hall got involved in a feud with WCW
World Heavyweight Champion Sid Vicious and nWo teammate Jeff
Jarrett for the WCW title. Sid pinned Hall in a match also
involving Jarrett at
SuperBrawl on February 20. This
pay-per-view appearance was Scott Hall's last, and it ended his
stint in WCW. In total, Hall won seven World Tag Team
Championships, one World Television Championship and two United
States Heavyweight Championships.
Extreme Championship Wrestling / New Japan Pro Wrestling
(2000)
Hall wrestled in
Extreme
Championship Wrestling (ECW) for a brief period. He wrestled
two non-televised matches (one against Big Sal, the other against
Justin Credible) on November 10 and 11.
He then wrestled in Japan and also did some independent shows in
the United States. When he was in
New Japan Pro Wrestling, he was a
part of nWo Japan/Team 2000/ArisTrisT usually tagging with
Masahiro Chono, fellow WCW alumni
Scott Norton or
Super J/Black Scorpion/nWo Sting. The
highlights of his stay in New Japan, however, were only defeats: a
loss to
All Japan Pro
Wrestling (AJPW)
Triple Crown
champion
Keiji Mutoh (the match was
booked by New Japan, but AJPW Wada officiated) and a loss to
then-rookie
Hiroshi Tanahashi, who
was trying to break out into the heavyweight division.
Return to the World Wrestling Federation (2002)
Hall then returned to the World Wrestling Federation and reunited
with Kevin Nash and Hulk Hogan to repackage the
nWo in
February. He started a feud
with
Stone Cold Steve Austin
and they fought each other in a match at
WrestleMania X8 which Austin won. On the
March 25 edition of
Raw, Hall was
draft to the Raw
brand as a result of the Brand
Extension, where he feuded with
Bradshaw, culminating in a match at
Backlash which Hall won. Hall then continued
his feud with Austin before being released from his WWF contract
due to personal issues stemming from a child-custody dispute with
his wife and an airline altercation.
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2002–2005)
Hall worked for
Total
Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) periodically between 2002 and
2005. He was on TNA's debut pay-per-view and later teamed up with
Syxx-Pac when he made his debut in the
promotion. Hall had three matches for the
International Wrestling
Association (IWA) in
Puerto Rico in
April 2003. On February 24, 2004, the Outsiders briefly reunited
for
Ultimate Pro Wrestling's
fifth anniversary show where they lost to
Tom
Howard and
Christopher
Daniels. They also had a match in Japan in May 2004 where they
lost to
Naoya Ogawa and
Shinya Hashimoto. Hall disappeared until
late 2004, when he made his return alongside the debut of Kevin
Nash, and both signed and were offered contracts as TNA prepared
for their first monthly pay-per-view,
Victory Road. Hall joined Nash and Jeff
Jarrett in the Kings of Wrestling, a stable similar to the nWo. The
Kings of Wrestling lost to
Randy
Savage,
Jeff Hardy, and
A.J. Styles at
Turning Point on December 5.
Hall lost to
Jeff Hardy at
Final Resolution on January 16, 2005
in his final TNA match of this stint.
World Wrestling Council (2007)
On July
13, Hall made his return to wrestling for the World Wrestling Council (WWC) as
Razor Ramon, albeit while wearing WolfPac themed
attire, in the main event of the WWC Anniversary tour at the José Miguel
Agrelot Coliseum
in San Juan against Carlito. Hall was defeated after
Gran Apollo interfered on
Carlito's behalf. The next night, Hall won his 2nd World
Championship, the
WWC Universal Heavyweight
Championship when he defeated Carlito and then-champion Apollo
in a Three-Way Dance match in the main event of the evening. On
August 4 and September 23, Hall successfully defended the title
against
Eddie Colón, Carlito's
younger brother. On October 27, he again retained the title at
WWC's
Halloween Wrestling Xtravaganza by defeating
Carlito's cousin Orlando "Fireblaze" Colon. In this match, Scott
was managed by his friend Rico Casanova.
Scott Hall
no-showed his
scheduled appearances in Puerto Rico for WWC where he was scheduled
to wrestle on December 14 in Ponce and December 15 in Caguas. Hall
arrived late to the island Friday which is the reason why he missed
the Ponce event. Although Hall was on the island on Saturday, he
was affected emotionally by several family issues that had occurred
earlier in the week and was unable to compete.
Return to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2007)
On the November 1 edition of
Impact!, it was predicted by Kevin Nash
that Scott Hall would be Sting's mystery partner at
Genesis. On the November 8 edition of
Impact!, Hall made his return to major American pro
wrestling television, rebuffing the advances of
Kurt Angle's wife,
Karen, and then battling Kurt in his dressing
room. Hall stated that he was in TNA solely to confront Nash. Hall
asked Nash why he was not there to help him in his troubled past,
and Nash responded that it was a result of his own nonstop partying
and risk of losing his family. Hall then claimed that all was
forgiven and the two embraced in the ring. He also revealed that he
was not Sting's mystery partner. The reunited Outsiders and
Samoa Joe then began a feud with the
Angle Alliance. They were to compete
together at
Turning Point,
but Hall no-showed the event. Hall and Nash were set to challenge
for the TNA Tag Team title at
Final Resolution, but Hall
"had other plans", so Samoa Joe subbed for him at the event;
although, it is unsure whether Hall's appearance was actually
planned, or if it was only a scripted announcement.
Juggalo Championship Wrestling (2007–present)
Hall made his
Juggalo
Championship Wrestling (JCW) debut on August 12, 2007 at
Bloodymania, losing to the
JCW Heavyweight
Champion Corporal
Robinson. In the match, Hall took his first ever
bump on
thumbtacks.
On October 6, 2007, Corporal Robinson, Scott Hall, and
Violent J formed the Juggalo World Order (JWO)
at
Evansville Invasion. At that years
Hallowicked
After Party, on October 31,
Shaggy 2
Dope was introduced as a member of the group. After the main
event of the night,
special guest
referee Nosawa ripped off his
referee shirt to reveal that he too was a member of the JWO. At
Bloodymania II, Kevin Nash
teamed with Scott Hall and proclaimed himself a member of the
group. The 2008
Hallowicked After Party saw the JWO induct
its newest member,
2 Tuff Tony.
On November 9, the Juggalo World Order (Scott Hall, Shaggy 2 Dope,
Violent J, 2 Tuff Tony, and Corporal Robinson) "invaded" Total
Nonstop Action Wrestling's
Turning
Point PPV by purchasing front row tickets to the event. They
proceeded to promote their faction by flashing their JWO jerseys,
before being removed from the building. The group expressed
interest in "invading" WWE at its 2009
Royal Rumble PPV, but were unable due to
filming commitments for
Big Money
Rustlas in Los Angeles. They have also shown interest in
"invading"
Ring Of Honor and
Ultimate Fighting
Championship.
Scott Hall teamed with Kevin Nash at Great Lakes Championship
Wrestling on the 21st of March 2009 and faced The New Age Outlaws,
in what was the first match pitting the nWo vs. DX. Nash walked out
on Hall, setting up a grudge match between the two that was
scheduled for June. That match never happened. Hall and Nash were
supposed to team together at JCW's Bloodymania as part of team jWo
with the ICP, but Nash was replaced with Sid Justice because of the
Outsider split. Hall later defeated Sid in a singles match on
August 22. Hall has wrestled Sid in various independent promotions
throughout the latter portion of 2009.
Personal life
Hall married Dana Lee Burgio in 1990. Their marriage became rocky
as Hall had many infidelities during his WCW stint, especially
during trips abroad. Hall's other personal issues included drug and
alcohol abuse, in addition to
DUI and
sexual harassment arrests and lawsuits. The couple divorced in
1998, remarried in 1999, then divorced permanently in 2001. He has
two children, a son, Cody Taylor (born in 1991), and a daughter,
Cassidy (born in 1994).
Hall had also been dating TNT president Brad Siegel's niece, Emily
Sherman, during his divorce. He ended the relationship when they
had an argument after one of Hall's ex-girlfriends had approached
him during WCW's tour of Germany. The argument allegedly also
involved a food fight and a confrontation between Sherman and Hall
the next day at the airport upon Hall's return to the United
States.
On October 10, 2008, Hall was arrested during a
roast of the
Iron
Sheik held at a
Crowne Plaza hotel
in New Jersey, in which comedian Jimmy Graham joked,
"After The
Sheik and Hacksaw Jim [Duggan] got caught sniffing coke in the parking lot, his career fell faster than
Owen Hart." An enraged Hall charged
at Graham and knocked down a podium, then grabbed the microphone
from Graham and yelled about how he was disrespecting Hart. Graham
described the incident on his MySpace page, adding that he loved
Hart as a wrestler and a man and believed Hart would have laughed
at the joke. He also claimed that Hall was drunk at the time of the
attack.
In wrestling
- Nicknames
- "Texas Scott"
- "Space Coyote"
- "Big" Scott Hall
- "The Bad Guy"
- "The Cowboy"
- "The Gator"
- "The Lone Wolf"
- "Mr. Last Call"
- "Magnum" Scott Hall
- "The Swaggering Cuban"
- "The Cuban Assassin"
- "The Cool Kid"
- "The Lone Wolf" (WCW)
- "Medium Sexy The Nash Slayer" (During his feud with Kevin
Nash)
- "Super Sexy"
- "The Medium Sized Mang"
- Entrance
themes
- "Bad Boy" By Jim Johnston (1992-1996)
- "Rockhouse" by J.Hart and J.Helm
(used while a part of the New World Order)
(1996-1998,1999-2000,2002)
- "WolfPac theme" (1998,1999,2000)
- "Marvelous Me" By Dale Oliver (2004-2005,2007)
- "Ready Or Not" By The Fugees
Championships and accomplishments
- Hardcore Wrestling Association
- HWA Intercontinental Championship (1 time, current)
References
- Hall and Hennig released - News, Notes, and Quotes
- Scott Hall and Curt Hennig lose contracts - Brief Article |
Wrestling Digest
- "The arrest, however, has served as a backdrop to a
much more serious situation involving the 44-year-old Hall, ex-wife
Dana, and their two children, Cody, 11, and Cassidy, 7."
- He mentions this in RF Video's interview with him.
- Scott Hall arrested for attack Retrieved on
October 11 2008
- Graham explains joke Retrieved on October 12,
2008
- Finishing Moves List (do a text search for
Hallbuster)
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