scott hall biography
Scott Oliver Hall (born October 20, 1958) is an American retired professional wrestler. He is known for his work with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) as Razor Ramon and with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) under his real name.
Hall began his career in 1984, before rising to prominence after signing with the WWF in May 1992, assuming the name Razor Ramon. While within the company,
he won the WWF Intercontinental Championship four times. He departed the company in May 1996, and subsequently defected to WCW, where he became a founding member of the New World Order (nWo) faction, along with Hulk Hogan and Kevin Nash.
In the company, he became a two-time WCW United States Heavyweight Champion, a one-time WCW World Television Champion, and a nine-time WCW World Tag Team Champion.
He left WCW in February 2000, and returned to the WWF (later renamed WWE) for a short stint in 2002. He spent the rest of his career wrestling for various promotions,
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such as Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA),
where he held the TNA World Tag Team Championship once, with Kevin Nash and Eric Young.(scott hall biography )
Although he never won a world championship in a major promotion, Hall is nonetheless a two-time world champion,
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as he has held the WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship and the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship. (scott hall biography )
He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as a singles competitor in 2014, and again as a member of the nWo in 2020.
Personal life/ scott hall wife/ scott hall family
Hall married Dana Lee Burgio in 1990. They divorced in 1998 due to Hall’s drug use.They remarried in 1999 and divorced again in 2001. He has a son (Cody Taylor, born 1991) and a daughter (Cassidy Lee, born March 27, 1995).
Personal life/ scott hall wife/ scott hall family
Hall married his second wife Jessica Hart, in 2006. The marriage lasted for only a year when they divorced in 2007.(scott hall biography )
Criminal history
In 1983, Hall was charged with second degree murder after shooting a man with his own gun (after wrestling it away from him) in an altercation outside of a nightclub in Orlando, Florida. According to Hall, this was done in self-defense.
The charges were dropped due to lack of evidence. In a 2011 interview for ESPN, Hall said he is unable to forget the incident.(scott hall biography )
In 1998, Hall was also arrested for groping a 56-year-old woman outside a hotel in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
On October 10, 2008, Hall was arrested during a roast of The Iron Sheik, held at a Crowne Plaza hotel in New Jersey. A comedian, Jimmy Graham, had joked,
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“After The Sheik and Hacksaw Jim Duggan got caught snorting 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 him and yelled about how the joke was disrespectful to Hart(who died on May 23, 1999, due to injuries sustained after a fall from the rafters of Kemper Arena in Kansas City,
Graham described the incident on his MySpace page, claiming Hall was drunk at the time of the attack.
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Hall was arrested on May 14, 2010, and charged with disorderly conduct and resisting a police officer.
Police were called to the Hitching Post Bar in Chuluota, Florida, after Hall (who had been “drinking heavily”, according to the police report),
“became aggressive”. When they arrived, they found Hall yelling and cursing at independent professional wrestling personalities and bar staff. Hall was told he was not allowed to return to the establishment. In his police statement,
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Hall described himself as an unemployed professional wrestler, despite having a job with TNA Wrestling (who would release him a month later).(scott hall biography )
On April 6, 2012, Hall was arrested in Chuluota, Florida, at around 9:30 p.m., by deputies of the Seminole County Sheriff’s office.
The arrest was later reported to be for a domestic disturbance involving his girlfriend, Lisa Howell. (scott hall biography )
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Hall allegedly choked Howell while he was drunk. He was taken to a hospital in Seminole County to be medically cleared prior to being taken to a drunk tank.
Hall denied the choking allegations.The prosecutor dropped the charges, citing insufficient evidence.(scott hall biography )]
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Hall’s problems with drugs and alcohol were made public in the late 1990s and were incorporated into a controversial WCW storyline. While the storyline was playing out, (scott hall biography )
\Hall was legitimately arrested for keying a limousine (vandalizing its painted surface by scratching it with a key) while intoxicated outside of a night club in Orlando, Florida, causing $2,000 in damages.[142]
After his release from TNA in 2010, Hall checked into rehab paid for by WWE.[143] Hall checked out of the rehab facility in early October 2010.[144] Weeks after he checked into rehab,
Hall had both a defibrillator and a pacemaker implanted in his chest.[145] He was hospitalized twice in 2010 for double pneumonia (affecting both lungs).
During this time, Hall started having seizures and was soon diagnosed with epilepsy, resulting in him requiring to take eleven different medications on a daily basis to treat his heart and seizure problems.[147]
On April 6, 2011, Hall was reportedly taken to the hospital due to a seizure.[147] Hall’s representative, Geena Anac, said Hall was in the hospital that night to be treated for extremely low blood pressure,
and that Hall visits his doctor on a regular basis while recovering from double pneumonia, for blood work and checkups.(scott hall biography )
Three days later, TMZ reported Hall had been taken to a hospital, treated for cardiac issues and remained in the hospital for three days. According to medical reports, Hall was being treated after overdosing on both opioids and benzodiazepines.(scott hall biography )
Longtime friend Kevin Nash claims Hall’s substance abuse stems from posttraumatic stress disorder.[149] On October 20, 2011, ESPN’s E:60 featured a documentary detailing Hall’s experience with drugs and
It included interviews with several of Hall’s family members (including his ex-wife and his son, Cody),
as well as several prominent figures and close friends from the wrestling industry (including Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, Sean Waltman, Eric Bischoff, and Stephanie McMahon).(scott hall biography )
In early 2013, former professional wrestler Diamond Dallas Page invited Hall into his home in order for Hall to stay sober and “rebuild his life from the ground up…
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physically, mentally, professionally, and spiritually.” Page also initiated a fundraising drive, which raised nearly $110,000
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($30,000 over their $80,000 goal) to pay for hip replacement surgery and dental work for Hall.(scott hall biography )
In March 2022, Hall was hospitalized after falling and breaking his hip.[151] After Hall underwent hip surgery, a blood clot was dislodged, resulting in Hall suffering three heart attacks on March 12,
after-which he was put on life support in Wellstar Kennstone Hospital in Marietta, Georgia.[152] According to Kevin Nash, Hall will be removed from life support when Hall’s “family is in place”.(scott hall biography )
Scott Hall, pulling for you my friend.
Stay strong!
We need the “bad guy” back in the game 💪🏾🙏🏾— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) March 13, 2022
According to New York Post, 63-year-old Hall underwent hip replacement surgery last week but suffered serious complications due to a loose blood clot.
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The surgery took place after Hall suffered a broken hip. He is admitted to Wellstar Kennestone Hospital in Marietta, Georgia.
Hall was one of the biggest performers in the WWE universe (formerly WWF) in early 1990s. Together with Nash, he formed the Outsiders and won the rating wars.
Hall retired from professional wrestling in 2010. A number of former wrestlers and Hall’s colleagues have posted messages on social media, wishing Hall a speedy recovery.
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“Scott Hall, pulling for you my friend. Stay strong! We need the “bad guy” back in the game,” tweeted Dwayne Johnson, who wrestled as The (scott hall biography )
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Scott Hall started his career in 1984 with National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). He joined WWF in 1992 as Razor Ramon and won the Intercontinental Championship three times.He was inducted in WWE Hall of Fame in 2014.
