Tributes have been paid to WWE star Scott ‘Razor Ramon’ Hall, who has died at the age of 63.
World Wrestling Entertainment tweeted to say it was “saddened” to learn of his death, after reports of his failing health emerged over the weekend.
His friend and former wrestling partner Kevin Nash said Monday that Scott’s life support would be “discontinued” once his family was “in place.”
“I have to prepare my life without him in the present,” Kevin wrote on Monday.
“I have been lucky to have a friend who took me literally and I him.”
Scott, 63, emerged in the 1990s alongside the likes of Hulk Hogan and Sean ‘X-Pac’ Waltman.
He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2014.
After falling and breaking his hip in early March, he underwent hip replacement surgery but suffered complications due to a blood clot, according to the PW Torch pro wrestling website.
Following news of his death, wrestling stars past and present paid tribute to Scott.
Triple H, a 14-time world champion, wrote that he would see Scott ‘later’.
Mick Foley wrote that Scott had been “a legend inside and outside the ring”.
Shane McMahon wrote that he was “perhaps the best that ever performed in the ring.”
Before news of Scott’s death broke, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson tweeted to say: “We need to get the ‘bad guy’ back in the game” – a reference to Scott’s 2014 Hall of Fame speech.
Scott Hall’s career spans three decades from 1984 until he retired in 2016.
He signed with WWE, then known as the World Wrestling Federation, in 1992 and began wrestling under the ring name Razor Ramon.
His nickname became ‘The Bad Guy’ and his catchphrase “Say hello to The Bad Guy” was inspired by a line from Al Pacino’s character Tony Montana in Scarface.
He left the WWF in 1996 and joined rival promoter World Championship Wrestling (WCW), where he became a founding member of the New World Order alongside Hulk Hogan and Kevin Nash.
During his career, Scott won many titles, including the WWF Intercontinental Championship four times, two WCW United States Heavyweight Champions, one WCW World Television Championship, and nine WCW World Tag Team Championships.
He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2014 and again as a member of the NWO in 2020.
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