ESPN E:60 feature on Scott Hall

[Dpantherman]

[tarheelpride]

He had so much potential. Loved his Razor Ramon persona

[PantherBrew]

Hey, yo.

[Wanderlai]

Hey, mang...its me the bad guy...thumps toothpick in someone's face...

[tarheelpride]

Bump

Here's the video if anyone's interested in watching it. Very good

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:7124904

[Hotsauce]

Really good watch. I wish they could have made it into a full length film because Scott Hall is not the only fuked up wrestler out there!

[Black]

Does anyone have a different link to the full eighteen minute segment? I started watching it, but I had to leave, and when I came back, it said that the video was no longer available.

He certainly doesn't seem to be oozing machismo anymore.

[Dpantherman]

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=7124904

[Black]

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=7124904

That's the one that says the video is no longer available for me.

[liljah8303]

So sad. Esp his last match. He was definitely an icon in his day. I used to he a big fan of wrestling back in its hayday, and this is just sad.

[tarheelpride]

also embedded below:

[Reapuh]

Damn...I was totally unaware he had it like this....:(

Would really be something if his son could make it big..

[Zaximus]

How depressing, and sad. You know, it's one thing to talk about how "Razor is on dope now" and all this, laugh at him being drunk at shows (not as bad as that last show, I mean some years ago). But sitting here watching that, man, puts things in a new perspective. Dude aged like 50 years in 20 years it seems. That stuff grabs you and doesn't let go.

I had a hard time sitting there watching Bishoff and Steph McMahon and all them act like they are so great and didn't know this stuff happens, yeah right, they sat along for the ride all those years.

[YourManInAmsterdam]

It may have been taken somewhat out of context, but I did take some exception to Eric Bischoff's quote that, 'Wresting isn't killing Scott Hall, Scott Hall is killing Scott Hall.'

In essence, this is true. But Hall came into the business and carried out the biggest part of his career when the business fostered drug use. They threw these guys out there to work for (relatively) low wages, to destroy themselves physically (working over 300 shows a year in many cases), driving themselves from town to town, working with all kinds of injuries (including head trauma). All of this going on, of course, without proper health care or support.

Even the guys that weren't party animals could easily find themselves in a cycle of drug abuse that usually included painkillers, amphetamines, steroids, and countless others. Short of the McMahons' intervention (which who can tell how much of that is true), what else do we expect to happen to some of these guys?

As best as I can tell, Bischoff's reign in WCW only continued that trend. So of course he'd want to deflect any criticism. In fact, unless the guy is a total robot, I imagine that Bisch probably carries a lot of guilt with him deep down.