History Wrestling / ScottHall

''[[CatchPhrase Hey, yo!]]''

* HopelessWithTech: In 2013, Hall got a hip replacement. One of the nurses at the hospital was a wrestling fan who told Hall that he followed him on Website/{{Twitter}}. In fact, the "Scott Hall" that the nurse followed was an impostor, because at that time, Hall had no idea what Website/{{Facebook}} or Twitter were, and had never used the internet or even touched a computer in his entire life. This was averted in his later years, when he maintained an online presence including Website/YouTube videos and UsefulNotes/XBox Live.

* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: Razor Ramon was derived from the 1983 ''Film/{{Scarface}}'' movie, and the character was clearly supposed to be one of the criminals released from UsefulNotes/{{Cuba}}'s jails and dumped on Miami's shores in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariel_boatlift Mariel boatlift]].

* BashBrothers: With Kevin Nash, for something going on two decades. They came to WCW as a TagTeam known as "The Outsiders", and the two would later become founding members of the nWo. When Kevin Nash broke away from Hogan and Bischoff's nWo Hollywood to form

* PoirotSpeak: As Razor Ramon.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Downplayed as Razor Ramon was a very successful wrestler and one of the bright spots of the Wrestling/WWENewGenerationEra but nobody could predict that an upper-midcarder like Hall would be the one to kickstart the [[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder second wrestling boom.]]

* UnderwearOfPower: In both the WWF and WCW, Scott would wear a underwear bearing his name or the name of the group he was a member of as part of his wrestling attire.

* AlliterativeName: As Razor Ramon.

** Everyone in WCW as part of the nWo.
* BashBrothers: With Kevin Nash, for something going on two decades.

* BigBrotherMentor: To the 1-2-3 Kid.

* EvenTheGuysWantHim: One storyline with Wrestling/{{Goldust}}.

* UnderwearOfPower

* TheAlcoholic: In spite of his love for the character and the wrestling business, he couldn't come within three feet of alcohol without risking a relapse. Wrestling/{{WCW}} [[RealLifeWritesThePlot even]] [[DudeNotFunny made it part of]] [[{{Kayfabe}} his character]] as "Last Call" Scott Hall; nobody was amused and his ex-wife even wrote a letter to WCW complaining about it. WWE did not set up a match for Kevin Nash for ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} X-8'' as a precaution, since in the event that Hall somehow screwed up and got fired at any time before the show, they would just be able to plug Nash into Hall's place as Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin's opponent. (Note: Hall DID eventually screw up and get fired, but it was [[Wrestling/PlaneRideFromHell a month later]].) He even missed Wrestling/ShawnMichaels's Hall of Fame Induction because it wasn't a dry party, and he still fell off the wagon that weekend when he worked an independent show in Boston. Since 2012, however, [[Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage DDP]] has been helping Hall and [[Wrestling/JakeRoberts Jake "The Snake" Roberts]] to the point where they were able to get completely clean. For the rest of his life, despite the occasional relapse, Hall managed to keep himself under control.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: By 2013, Hall managed to regain control of his life. He spent the last nine years of his life rebuilding his familial relationships, ultimately succeeding. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame ''twice'' (once as himself, once as part of the [=nWo=]), and although he died at the relatively young age of 63, it was of natural causes (heart failure due to a blood clot dislodged during hip replacement surgery), not from his history of substance abuse as so many feared would be the case and surrounded by his friends and family.

* TheAlcoholic: In spite of his love for the character and the wrestling business, he couldn't come within three feet of alcohol without risking a relapse. Wrestling/{{WCW}} [[RealLifeWritesThePlot even]] [[DudeNotFunny made it part of]] [[{{Kayfabe}} his character]] as "Last Call" Scott Hall; nobody was amused and his ex-wife even wrote a letter to WCW complaining about it. WWE did not set up a match for Kevin Nash for ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} X-8'' as a precaution, since in the event that Hall somehow screwed up and got fired at any time before the show, they would just be able to plug Nash into Hall's place as Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin's opponent. (Note: Hall DID eventually screw up and get fired, but it was [[Wrestling/PlaneTripFromHell a month later]].) He even missed Wrestling/ShawnMichaels's Hall of Fame Induction because it wasn't a dry party, and he still fell off the wagon that weekend when he worked an independent show in Boston. Since 2012, however, [[Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage DDP]] has been helping Hall and [[Wrestling/JakeRoberts Jake "The Snake" Roberts]] to the point where they were able to get completely clean. For the rest of his life, despite the occasional relapse, Hall managed to keep himself under control.

A performer of no small skill, Hall remains over with fans today who remember him as a lovably douchey heel. But those pops come with a price tag. Hall is infamous for no-showing events, his rap sheet is bigger than his arm, and most of his career has been spent drying out instead of working, to the point where WWE (which foots the bill for any current or former contracted employees who enter rehab) has spent more on Hall's detox than any other performer. These off-screen issues -- which were notoriously turned into an angle during Hall's [[PutOnABusToHell last lap]] in WCW -- reduced one of the industry's most promising talents into one of its biggest cautionary tales.

* TheAlcoholic: In spite of his love for the character and the wrestling business, he can't come within three feet of alcohol without risking a relapse. Wrestling/{{WCW}} [[RealLifeWritesThePlot even]] [[DudeNotFunny made it part of]] [[{{Kayfabe}} his character]] as "Last Call" Scott Hall; nobody was amused and his ex-wife even wrote a letter to WCW complaining about it. WWE did not set up a match for Kevin Nash for ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} X-8'' as a precaution, since in the event that Hall somehow screwed up and got fired at any time before the show, they would just be able to plug Nash into Hall's place as Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin's opponent. (Note: Hall DID eventually screw up and get fired, but it was [[http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/columns/wwe/tripfromhell.html a month later]].) He even missed Wrestling/ShawnMichaels's Hall of Fame Induction because it wasn't a dry party, and he still fell off the wagon that weekend when he worked an independent show in Boston. Since 2012, however, [[Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage DDP]] has been helping Hall and [[Wrestling/JakeRoberts Jake "The Snake" Roberts]] to the point where they were able to get completely clean. For the rest of his life, despite the occasional relapse, Hall managed to keep himself under control.

** Of himself. Early in his WCW run as one half of the Outsiders, he could not use the Razor Ramon gimmick for copyright reasons, so he simply used his real name and continued to talk, act, and even dress like Razor Ramon. So much so that he was named personally as one of the several reasons that the WWE threatened legal action during the early days of the nWo storyline.
** nWo's presence in Japan of course led to him having one in ''Videogame/FireProWrestling''.

* CoolOldGuy: Has settled into this role with the younger talent at NXT, imparting wisdom and advice.

* DrivesLikeCrazy: According to Hall, he must have flipped five or more caddies in his WCW days, including two in the same day.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: By 2013, Hall managed to regain control of his life. He spent the last nine years of his life rebuilding his familial relationships, ultimately succeeding. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame ''twice'' (once as himself, once as part of the [=nWo=]), and although he died at the relatively young age of 63, it was of natural causes (heart failure due to a blood clot dislodged during hip-replacement surgery), not from his history of substance abuse as so many feared would be the case and surrounded by his friends and family.

* FinishingMove: The Razor's Edge/Outsider's Edge, a crucifix powerbomb. As the Diamond Studd, he called it the Diamond Death Drop. Earlier, he used a top rope bulldog called the "Hallbuster."

* HopelessWithTech: In 2013, Hall got a hip replacement. One of the nurses at the hospital was a wrestling fan who told Hall that he followed him on Twitter. In fact, the "Scott Hall" that the nurse followed was an impostor, because at that time, Hall had no idea what Facebook or Twitter were, and had never used the internet or even touched a computer in his entire life. This was averted in his later years, when he maintained an online presence including Website/YouTube videos and UsefulNotes/XBox Live.

** Fortunately inverted when he got clean. He lost most of his excess weight, got his tan (not to mention his old swagger) back, and aside from his hair now being a [[SilverFox distinguished silver]], he looks much like the Razor of old.

* ItRunsInTheFamily: In his own words, he comes from a "long line of hard drinking rednecks", in that both his parents and grandparents were all alcoholics. This obviously continued with him but, thankfully, neither of his children have become drinkers, much to Scott's relief.

* LostInCharacter: He had a real life OralFixation to toothpicks until DDP cured him of the habit. That tells you everything you need to know. Hall is as addicted to the high of being "Razor Ramon" as he is to alcohol. That's an unfortunate side-effect of the old territory system, when wrestlers never dropped character and occasionally got lost in kayfabe. Hopefully, Scott will prove stronger than Razor.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In 1983 he shot and killed a man outside a nightclub and was prosecuted for second-degree murder. He was released due to lack of evidence, but, as he admitted in an ESPN documentary interview decades later, the incident has haunted him his entire life.

* OralFixation: Used to chew on a toothpick during his promos. Sadly, his alcoholism could be a part of his oral fixation.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Ultimately, the reason he kept pulling a check was because his old Kliq buddies were running WCW (and later TNA, if we're being honest). That aside, he's said to be the least malicious member of the group: He's actually claimed in interviews that he declined from holding the World Title in both major companies during the Monday Night War, and Kevin Nash has cited that whenever Scott worked with Wrestling/JeffHardy during Jeff's {{jobber}} days he always gave Jeff little bits of offense[[note]]something that was virtually unheard of in those days[[/note]] because he felt Jeff was a special talent.

* SoreLoser: Known to attack the victor of any match he's in to ''spitefully'' retaliate for any upsetting and unexpected loss he suffers.

** On the June 18, 1998 episode of ''Thunder'', [[Wrestling/BigShow The Giant]] was billed as "Big Tobacco;" basically Hall with a cigarette instead of a toothpick. Yes, [[http://www.ddtdigest.com/updates/1998063t.htm that happened.]]

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Made a comment about how good looking luchadors such as Rey Mysterio Jr. and Juventud Guerrera were when he saw them unmasked. Word got to management, which led to angles where the luchadors would end up being unmasked. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone He would feel guilty about it afterwards]].

* EarnYourHappyEnding: By 2013, Hall managed to regain control of his life. He spent the last nine years of his life rebuilding his familial relationships, ultimately succeeding. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame ''twice'' (once as himself, once as part of the [=nWo=]), and although he died at the relatively young age of 63, it was of natural causes (heart failure due to a blood clot dislodged during hip-replacement surgery), not from his history of substance abuse as so many feared would be the case.

* WrestlingFamily: He's mentoring his son Cody to become a wrestler. Recently, Cody spent some time as a member of the Wrestling/BulletClub in Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling.

* TheAlcoholic: In spite of his love for the character and the wrestling business, he can't come within three feet of alcohol without risking a relapse. Wrestling/{{WCW}} [[RealLifeWritesThePlot even]] [[DudeNotFunny made it part of]] [[{{Kayfabe}} his character]] as "Last Call" Scott Hall; nobody was amused and his ex-wife even wrote a letter to WCW complaining about it. WWE did not set up a match for Kevin Nash for ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} X-8'' as a precaution, since in the event that Hall somehow screwed up and got fired at any time before the show, they would just be able to plug Nash into Hall's place as Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin's opponent. (Note: Hall DID eventually screw up and get fired, but it was [[http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/columns/wwe/tripfromhell.html a month later]].) He even missed Wrestling/ShawnMichaels's Hall of Fame Induction because it wasn't a dry party, and he still fell off the wagon that weekend when he worked an independent show in Boston. Since 2012, however, [[Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage DDP]] has been helping Hall and [[Wrestling/JakeRoberts Jake "The Snake" Roberts]] to the point where they were able to get completely clean. While Scott unfortunately still relapses every now and then, he's generally able to come back strong again afterward.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: As of 2013, he's clean from drugs and alcohol for the first time in years, he's rebuilding his relationships with his children, regaining his life and reputation, and his general health is the best it's been for years, but it's been a long, hard road with a lot of pain along the way.

* TheAlcoholic: In spite of his love for the character and the wrestling business, he can't come within three feet of alcohol without risking a relapse. Wrestling/{{WCW}} [[RealLifeWritesThePlot even]] [[DudeNotFunny made it part of]] [[{{Kayfabe}} his character]] as "Last Call" Scott Hall; nobody was amused and his ex-wife even wrote a letter to WCW complaining about it. WWE did not set up a match for Kevin Nash for ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} X-8'' as a precaution, since in the event that Hall somehow screwed up and got fired at any time before the show, they would just be able to plug Nash into Hall's place as Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin's opponent. (Note: Hall DID eventually screw up and get fired, but, it was [[http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/columns/wwe/tripfromhell.html a month later]].) He even missed Wrestling/ShawnMichaels's Hall of Fame Induction because it wasn't a dry party, and he still fell off the wagon that weekend when he worked an independent show in Boston. Since 2012, however, [[Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage DDP]] has been helping Hall and [[Wrestling/JakeRoberts Jake "The Snake" Roberts]] to the point where they were able to get completely clean. While Scott unfortunately still relapses every now and then, he's generally able to come back strong again afterward.

** (as Razor Ramon): Shawn Michaels, Wrestling/JeffJarrett, Wrestling/{{Goldust}}

** Of himself. Early in his WCW run as one half of the Outsiders, he could not use the Razor Ramon gimmick for copyright reasons, so he simply used his real name and continued to talk, act and even dress like Razor Ramon. So much so that he was named personally as one of the several reasons the WWE threatened legal action during the early days of the nWo storyline.

* CardCarryingVillain: Who [[ThrewMyBikeOnTheRoof pushes a little kid in a fountain?]] The Bad Guy, that's who.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: As of 2013, he's clean from drugs and alcohol for the first time in years, he's rebuilding his relationships with his children, regaining his life and reputation and his general health is the best it's been for years, but it's been a long, hard road with a lot of pain along the way.

** An impression of Al Pacino as Tony Montana in ''Film/{{Scarface|1983}}'', complete with a bad Cuban Accent, by way of Dana Carvey (though for some reason, Razor Ramon looked and acted more like Manny than Tony Montana). The funniest part, is that he showed up for his (then) WWF audition, and was explicitly doing a ''Scarface'' impression to show he can "do characters". Wrestling/VinceMcMahon, having literally never seen or been fully aware of the movie, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint thought Scott was doing an original concept]] and thought it was brilliant. A bit of tweaking and name-brainstorming, and Razor Ramon was born.
** Razor Ramon derisively called Wrestling/CarlitoColon "mini razor". While it is true ''was'' basically a smaller Razor Ramon when he first debuted in WWE, he had became a little more by the time they met. Also a little ironic when you consider Razor [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor used to encourage people to be more like him.]]

* HopelessWithTech: In 2013, Hall got a hip replacement. One of the nurses at the hospital was a wrestling fan who told Hall that he followed him on Twitter. In fact, the "Scott Hall" the nurse followed was an impostor, because at that time, Hall had no idea what Facebook or Twitter were, and had never used the internet or even touched a computer in his entire life. This was averted in his later years, when he maintained an online presence including Website/YouTube videos and UsefulNotes/XBox Live.

** Fortunately inverted when he got clean. He lost most of his excess weight, got his tan(not to mention his old swagger) back, and aside from his hair now being a [[SilverFox distinguished silver]], he looks much like the Razor of old.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He retained much of the same mannerisms he had as a heel long into his face turn. It's probably the reason his face turn was so successful, despite the fact that anti-heroes were very rare in pre-Attitude Era WWF.

* PartsUnknown (as The Diamond Studd): "The Diamond Mine"

** (in TNA): The Kings of Wrestling, with Nash and Jeff Jarrett; and The Band, a recycling of the nWo concept with Nash, Sean Waltman and Eric Young.

** with Wrestling/CurtHennig in the AWA.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Made a comment about how good looking luchadors such as Rey Mysterio Jr. and Juventud Guerrera were when he saw them unmasked. Word got to management which led to angles where the luchadors would end up being unmasked. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone He would feel guilty about it afterwards]].
* VerbalTic: While as Razor Ramon, and sometimes during WCW, he tended to end most of his sentences with either "chico" or "mang". This carried over for a few months when he moved to WCW and used his own (decidedly non-Latino) name. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhFhg08rGMY&feature=related Just check out this promo for an example.]]

Scott Oliver Hall (October 20, 1958 - March 14, 2022) was an American {{professional wrestl|ing}}er best known in the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] as '''Razor Ramon''' and (more famously) in Wrestling/{{WCW}} under as one of "The Outsiders" (alongside real-life friends Wrestling/HulkHogan and Wrestling/KevinNash), which formed the basis for the wrestling supergroup the Wrestling/NewWorldOrder in 1996. After WCW's demise, he had brief runs in both WWE (as part of the reborn [=nWo=]) and [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] (with fellow [[Wrestling/TheKliq Kliq]] members Nash and [[Wrestling/SeanWaltman Sean "X-Pac" Waltman]]).

[[caption-width-right:298: ''"Hard work pays off. Dreams come true. Bad times don't last, but bad guys '''''do!'''''"'']]

* HopelessWithTech: In 2013, Hall got a hip replacement. One of the nurses at the hospital was a wrestling fan who told Hall that he followed him on Twitter. In fact, the "Scott Hall" the nurse followed was an impostor, because at that time, Hall had no idea what Facebook or Twitter were, and had never used the internet or even touched a computer in his entire life. Nowadays this is averted, and he maintains an online presence including Website/YouTube videos and UsefulNotes/XBox Live.

[[caption-width-right:298: Hall in TheNineties. Before things got [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/badhall_2306.jpg worse.]][[http://www.wwe.com/f/photo/image/2014/04/HOF14_Photo_124.jpg But then started getting better again]]]]

->''"Hard work pays off. Dreams come true. Bad times don't last, but bad guys '''''do!'''''"''

Things looked up for Hall, though -- in February 2013, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MIjTXHkEYg he sought help from]] Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage, who previously worked miracles for the likes of Wrestling/JakeRoberts, and remained sober for the rest of his life. Thanks to Indiegogo, [[http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/we-can-rebuild-him he underwent hip surgery in April 2013]] and was well on the way to getting a new lease on life.