Sad news, overnight, that Scott Hall passed away.
He had developed blood clots, in hospital, following hip surgery, and the complications led to him having three heart attacks, and being placed on life support, which was switched off over the weekend.
He wasn't part of our Heritage years, but he was a major figure in Wrestling, in WWF/WWE/WCW/AWA, etc., and wrestled over here a number of times.
good find David .
I first remember him from the July 1988 edition of Pro Wrestling Illustrated, a story in Stu Saks column about how a fan sent him a poster of baseball player Darryl Strawberry who had (like Hall at the time) been unfaily labeled an underachiever - in Hall's case for not winning the AWA World title. Strawberry in 1988 had been finally hitting the batting averages that had been expected of him a few years earlier and the kid sent Scott the poster to encourage him to keep at winning a World title. The story was presumably fictitious and booking politics kept Scott Hall from any World title (and a promised trip to Disneyland for the presumably also fictitious child) but it made an impression on me when I was 14. I saw Scott Hall live as the Diamond Studd in Olympia in London December 1991 during WCW's first tour, jobbing for Sting.. Two years later I saw him as Razor at the NEC, distracting Shawn Michaels to a loss to Randy Savage. It's quite shocking how many sets of AWA World Tag Champions from the later years are both deceased - Patterson & Stevens, Gagne & Vachon, the Road Warriors, Buddy Rose & Doug Somers (and manager Sherri Martel) final champions The Trooper & Dave Peterson and now Curt Hennig & Scott Hall. (Mind you, there are only four AWA World Champions still alive - Rick Martel, Stan Hansen, Jerry Lawler and Larry Zybysko.) RIP Scott
Scott Hall was the only one i liked out of the group later known as "The Kliq" probably because i remembered him from his early days, like Powerlock i saw him wrestle for W.C.W on late night Tyne Tees TV. The rest of that clan came across as a***holes to me at least. A moustached Hall wrestled for Otto Wanz's C.W.A. during the late 1980s in the European tournaments where he was called "Texas Scott Hall." Sad news indeed.
He will be missed.....
I was lucky enough to see him on a WWF tour but first saw him in WCW as the Diamond Studd watching WCW in the early hours on Tyne Tees. As Saxon said he worked for almost every major promotion in the world and then some. He had his demons which he finally conquered in his later years. A big man with a big personality who knew how to work a crowd, and wrestle. RIP Scott Hall