In the late evening of March 14, 2022, the wrestling world lost one of its best and baddest men, as the legendary Scott Hall, a.k.a. «Razor Ramon,» sadly passed away at the age of 63.
The veteran performer is a two-time WWE Hall of Famer, inducted on both his own merits and those of the immortal, influential and infamous wrestling faction known as the New World Order (nWo). He was a four-time WWE Intercontinental Champion and pioneered the popular «Ladder Match» gimmick alongside fellow multi-time Hall of Famer «The Heartbreak Kid» Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania X in 1994.
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Hall's passing comes at the end of a long struggle for survival. After having suffered multiple heart attacks over the weekend due to complications from a blood clot during recent hip surgery in Marietta, Georgia, the Hall of Famer was placed on life support, and then shortly afterwards was taken off of it at the behest of his immediate family. While Hall battled valiantly for several hours, he finally passed on around 8:00 PM, EST on March 14. He leaves behind a legacy of being one of the most influential wrestlers of the pre-Attitude Era (1992-1996) as not only one of WWE's top heels «The Bad Guy» Razor Ramon (a pastiche of Tony Montana of Scarface) and a member of the infamous backstage group «The Kliq,» but a crucial signing by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the period's later years that would herald the arrival of the legendary «nWo» faction with Hall, Kevin Nash and «Hollywood» Hulk Hogan, and trigger WWE's Attitude Era, bringing about a complete cultural shift in the genre of professional wrestling, with companies targeting younger live and TV audiences by producing more edgy
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