Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Sept 13, 2007 23:19:55 GMT -5
I think Hall should be on a creative team, somewhere. WWE or TNA.
When he came to WWF in 1992, he sat in Vince McMahon's office right next to his old buddy Curt Hennig (who arranged a meeting, trying to help get Hall a job). Vince talked on and on about how he pictured Hall as an Army guy, ala Cpl. Kirschner...
Hall said if Vince wanted him to play G.I. Joe, he'd be the best G.I. Joe he could be. But then he started impersonating Scarface, which cracked Vince up (even though Vince hadn't seen the movie yet), and he wanted to be called "Razor" because he was a big fan of the boxer Razor Ruddick. During the meeting, Hall went to take a piss in the Titan offices, and asked Tito Santana for a good last name that began with "R", to go with "Razor". Tito said "Ramon", and Hall walked back to Vince's office, finished plotting out one of the great WWF characters of all-time, and got hired on the spot.
When Scott Hall came to WCW in 1996, he thought Sting's face-painted surfer gimmick was getting outdated and lame. To be nice, he told Sting he thought he'd look pretty sweet as The Crow. 11 years later, Sting still looks like that. Plus, Hall, Bischoff, and Terry Taylor were the main creative influences on the Outsiders invasion angle/early NWO.
So there's two of the best gimmicks of the 1990s (and one of the best angles), and Scott Hall helped come up with all of them. From his PWTorch shoot, he had some pretty definitive ideas of what should and shouldn't work anymore in today's wrestling, and I think most of us would agree with the ideas.
Seems like a really smart dude, and seems to hate the cheesy side of wrestling (Razor Ramon & Crow Sting are kinda cheesy by today's standards, but they were two of the coolest things around in their own time). Hearing him in that one shoot, he's still a fan and watches it, but some of the stupid crap out there today pisses him off. Seems like a good guy to have in the writing room while your creative team is sitting around laughing at their own terrible ideas that won't work.
