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  • Scott Hall Announced As 2014 WWE Hall Of Fame Inductee

    The WWE announced their final inductee into the 2014 Wrestling Hall Of Fame on Monday night. Scott Hall will join several other professional wrestlers including Jake The Snake and The Ultimate Warrior, on April 5, 2014 at the New Orleans Arena in New Orleans, Louisiana for the induction ceremony. The ceremony will air on the new WWE Network.

    Scott Hall wrestled in both the WWE and WCW. He was one of the original founders of the NWO and feuded with many popular wrestlers including Sting, Lex Luger and The Macho Man. He was a longtime friend and partner of Kevin Nash and wrestled under the name Razor Ramone throughout most of his career.

    Hall held the WWF Intercontinental Champion title four times during his career and was the WCW United States Heavyweight Champion twice. Hall wrestled for several different wrestling circuits between the early 80’s and 2010. He disappeared from the wrestling world in 2011.

    While Hall may have seemed confident and in control in the ring, he often struggled with drug and alcohol problems. He was arrested several times and his health began deteriorating. In 2013, former professional wrestler Diamond Dallas Page invited Hall to his home and offered to help him with his drug and alcohol problems. Hall agreed and has begun to turn his life around. Diamond Dallas Page also had a hand in helping Jake the Snake overcome his alcohol and drug abuse problems.

    Hall was often underrated as a wrestler and many of his fans felt that he was never given the chance to rise to the top and become a true main event star. Hall’s induction into the WWE Hall Of Fame will finally give him the recognition he deserves for his years of hard work and dedication to professional wrestling.

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  • Scott Hall Arrest: Drugs, Alcohol Played Part In Domestic Violence

    Professional wrestler Scott Hall, who was known in the ’90s as the villainous character Razor Ramon, was arrested on Friday after police were called to his Florida home on a domestic dispute call. His girlfriend, Lisa Howell, said Scott had been on a drinking binge for days and the two had an argument that escalated. She tried to leave, but the 6’7″ wrestler pulled her from her car by the throat. He was arrested after police found marks on Howell’s neck, but because he was so intoxicated he had to be taken to a local hospital to be checked out before police could book him.

    Hall has had run-ins with the law before, and drugs and alcohol have been an issue for him for years. Unfortunately, this incident led to someone being hurt. Howell has so far refused to press charges.

    WWE vice president of operations Stephanie McMahon says the company has spent thousands of dollars in an effort to get Hall clean, the most they have ever spent on anyone.

    Hall built a career in a time when drugs and excess were the norm in the industry. More than that, wrestling in those days was about taking absurd risks with the body, jumping off the top rope without a thought to what it might do to the joints later in life, bashing against the turnbuckle in a way that made wrestling look easy but which really took a toll on the guys who did it. It was a true balls-to-the-wall spectacle, and the industry saw a huge boom in popularity in the early ’90s because of the wild attitude surrounding it.

    Because of the soap-opera like dramatics that go along with it, wrestling is often not viewed as a “real” sport, but those who participate sacrifice their bodies in more ways than one; along with the residual pain that comes from taking hits every day comes the need to dull those aching bones, the inflamed joints. Drugs and alcohol become a way to go on with the show.

    Unfortunately, that also means dependence.

    “I tell my kids this, ‘I can’t tell you not to drink and do drugs, they are fun. It’s fun. They work,’” Hall said in an interview with ESPN. “But what sucks is when you want to quit and you can’t, and pretty soon you alienate or you hurt everyone around you. It’s a family disease and then you can’t keep a promise to anybody. What sucks the most is when you can’t even keep a promise to yourself.”

    While wrestling is still a dangerous occupation, the new generation of athletes aren’t quite so eager to put their bodies in the way of careless harm. Wrestling superstar Terry Bollea–or Hulk Hogan to most of you–says the attitude has definitely changed.

    “Wrestlers have been more educated, more up to speed,” said Hogan. “I mean before, back in the day, you’d have the match at Madison Square Garden, the Boston Garden, all the wrestlers would see each other down at the Marriott bar. Nowadays, all the guys go up and they go to the room and play video games, or go on their computer.”

    Hall, who was the subject of a brief documentary on ESPN last year, has been compared to Mickey Rourke’s character–Randy “The Ram” Robinson–in the 2008 film “The Wrestler“, and it’s true there is a striking similarity there. The hope is that Hall won’t come to the same fate Randy did.