Scott Hall, professional wrestler. THR.
Very good at being very evil in the ring, Hall won the WWE Intercontinental title four times and WCW Tag Team championships seven times (as “The Outsiders” with Nash), and in 1994 at WrestleMania X at Madison Square Garden, he competed in an iconic ladder match against Shawn Michaels. However, he never won the world title.
During his 26 years as a wrestler, he also feuded with the likes of Sting, Lex Luger, “Macho Man” Randy Savage, Ric Flair and “Stone Cold” Steve Austin.
After his retirement in 2010, Hall was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, first in 2014 as bad guy Razor Ramon (resplendent with gold chains, slicked-back hair and toothpick in mouth in an homage to Al Pacino’s Scarface character) and then in 2020 as a member of the villainous stable the New World Order (nWo).
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A while back, YouTube decided to feed me a lot of older, smaller-circuit wrestling shows – one of which was an early Scott Hall appearance in Minneapolis as part of the AWA.
Very tall. Fairly muscular, compared to a lot of the older talent.
And a long curly light-brown mullet, with mustache, as was the style at the time. IIRC, the story was he was a Florida ex-con come up to make money rasslin’.
Same batch of videos also had very early Mark (Mean Mark Callous/Undertaker) Calaway, Sid Vicious as the Lord Humungous (a role taken by multiple wrestlers over the years), and the one that got me watching the old VHS rips, Kerry von Erich (RIP many years ago).
I still miss the weekday reruns of World Class Championship Wrestling from the Dallas Sportatorium – I’d get home from school just in time to to catch WCCW, monster truck/tractor pull/swampbuggies, and the Mickey Thompson Off-Road Grand Prix – all on either ESPN or USA (which had a lot of sports content back in tha day).