Former WWE star Scott Hall, founding member of nWo, dead at 63
Scott Hall, the wrestling star who revitalized the industry when he formed the nWo with Kevin Nash and Hulk Hogan, died Monday. He was 63.
“WWE extends its condolences to Hall’s family, friends and fans,” the company said in a statement confirming his death Monday night. Hall had been taken off life support earlier Monday.
The Maryland native had been in critical condition since suffering multiple heart attacks due to a blood clot that occurred after a hip replacement surgery, according to wrestling blog PW Torch.
After spending years in relative obscurity, including a run in Ted Turner’s WCW as “The Diamond Studd,” Hall launched into notoriety in the WWF (now WWE) in 1992 as Cuban bad guy Razor Ramon, winning the WWF Intercontinental Championship four times.
In May 1996, he jumped back to WCW, where he partnered with fellow WWF star Kevin Nash as The Outsiders, an invading tag team. Two months later, Hulk Hogan joined the pair and formed the New World Order, or nWo, one of the most popular and influential stables in wrestling history.
Hall remained a major star in WCW throughout the late-1990s, both as a tag team and singles performer. He briefly reunited with Hogan and Nash as the nWo in the WWF in 2002, and wrestled in smaller promotions and internationally until 2010.
He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as Razor Ramon in 2014 and again in 2020 as a member of the nWo.
Throughout his career, Hall publicly struggled with drug and alcohol abuse issues. In October 2010, while in rehab, he was given a defibrillator and had a pacemaker implanted in his chest, and was soon after diagnosed with epilepsy.
“I’m going to lose the one person on this planet I’ve spent more of my life with than anyone else,” Nash wrote on Instagram shortly before his death.
“My heart is broken and I’m so very f—king sad. I love Scott with all my heart but now I have to prepare my life without him in the present. I’ve been blessed to have a friend that took me at face value and I him.”
