RIP: Scott Hall
Professional Wrestling lost a legend today.
Scott Hall, passed away at the age of 63. This followed hip surgery, that resulted in a blood clot that generated three heart attacks. Hall was placed on life support, and was taken off by his family. He died hours later.
Hall began his wrestling career in 1984, and won his first major title a few years later, the AWA World Tag Team Title with Curt Hennig. After competing in WCW, Hall joined the WWF in 1992, debuting as Razor Ramon. Hall was instantly put in the upper card, feuding, and pinning Randy “Macho Man” Savage on multiple house shows. Turning face following an upset loss to the 1-2-3 Kid, Hall would dominate the Intercontinental Title, winning it four times, with his ladder match win at Wrestlemania X over Shawn Michaels peaking his run.
Hall kickstarted one of the greatest wrestling angles ever, when he interrupted a broadcast of Nitro in 1996. Followed by Kevin Nash, they would form the New World Order, the most powerful faction in WCW history. Hall would win the WCW World Tag Team Titles seven times and the United States Title twice, but behind the scenes, his alcohol and drug addictions were wreaking havoc in his personal life. His personal problems would eventually lead to his release in 2000.
The NWO was resurrected by the WWE in 2002, with Hall wrestling “Stone Cold” Steve Austin at Wrestlemania, but his issues resurfaced with the “Plane Ride from Hell”, and he was let go.
After years of issues, through the help of Diamond Dallas Page, Hall became clean and sober, and made multiple appearances for the WWE in reunion segments. Hall was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame twice, one as a single and with the New World Order.
We here at Notinhallofame.com would like to extend our condolences to the fans, friends and family of Scott Hall.
The New World Order named to the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2020
This was early.
We haven’t gotten to the Royal Rumble yet, and it has been announced that the New World Order will be entering the WWE Hall of Fame. The announcement came from ESPN. The Hall of Fame ceremony will take place on April 2, 2020, as part of the Wrestlemania 36 weekend.
While there were many members of the NWO, only Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, Hulk Hogan and Syxx (Sean Waltman) will be inducted.
The New World Order angle tipped the ratings war in favor of World Championship Wrestling for nearly two years. Scott Hall and Kevin Nash appeared on WCW television as “invaders” and at the 1996 Bash at the Beach Pay Per View, Hulk Hogan joined them and turned heel. That night, he declared his group as the “New World Order”, and it was the hottest angle that wrestling had seen in years. Sean Waltman, who had wrestled as the 1-2-3 Kid in the WWE, joined as the sixth member of the group (Syxx).
The four chosen members of the New World Order have already been inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. Hogan entered in 2005, Hall (as Razor Ramon) in 2014, Nash in 2015, and Waltman as a member of D-Generation-X last year. They join Ric Flair, Bret Hart and Booker T as two-time WWE Hall of Fame inductees.
At different times, the New World Order had The Giant (The Big Show), Ted DiBiase (inducted in 2010), Vincent (Virgil), NWO Sting, Elizabeth, Eric Bischoff, Buff Bagwell, Michael Wallstreet (Mike Rotundo), Bubba Rogers (The Big Boss Man, inducted posthumously in 2016), Scott Norton, Randy Savage (inducted posthumously in 2015), Konnan, Curt Hennig (inducted posthumously in 2007), Rick Rude (inducted posthumously in 2017), Louie Spicolli, Dusty Rhodes (inducted in 2007), Brian Adams, Scott Steiner, The Disciple (inducted as Brutus Beefcake in 2019), Stevie Ray (inducted with Booker T as Harlem Heat in 2019), Horace Hogan, Lex Luger, Sting (inducted in 2016), The Disco Inferno, Bret Hart (Inducted in 2006 and again in 2019 with Jim Neidhart in the Hart Foundation), Jeff Jarrett (inducted in 2018), The Harris Twins, Booker T (inducted in 2011 and again in 2019 with Stevie Ray in Harlem Heat), and Shawn Michaels (inducted in 2011 and again in 2019 with D-Generation X)
It is unlikely that any of those other members of the New World Order will be added.
The group extended into two factions (black and white & NWO Wolfpack), Japan and was reincarnated in the WWE.
We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to extend our congratulations to the four members of the New World order for this impending induction.
Scott Hall
Scott Hall may be another name in the discussion of “best wrestler never to win a World Championship”, though few would have thought based on his first eight years in the business that he would be World Championship material.