Hall would wrestle in more than 1,500 matches across multiple organizations that also included the American Wrestling Alliance (1985-89), New Japan Wrestling (1990) and Total Nonstop Action (2002-08, 2010). Nash would soon join him, followed by Hulk Hogan, who turned baddie as the trio became the nWo. In reality, Hall had left his WWE contract two weeks earlier and signed on with World Championship Wrestling, but WCW executive vp Eric Bischoff came up with the idea to have Hall “invade” the WCW. The fans immediately recognized him from Vince McMahon’s WWE, and Hall told them, “You people know who I am, but you don’t know why I’m here.” However, he never won the world title.ĭuring his 26 years as a wrestler, he also feuded with the likes of Sting, Lex Luger, “Macho Man” Randy Savage, Ric Flair and “Stone Cold” Steve Austin.Īfter his retirement in 2010, Hall was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, first in 2014 as bad guy Razor Ramon (resplendent with gold chains, slicked-back hair and toothpick in mouth in an homage to Al Pacino’s Scarface character) and then in 2020 as a member of the villainous stable the New World Order (nWo).ĭuring Memorial Day weekend on the May 27, 1996, episode of WCW Monday Nitro on TNT (owned by Ted Turner), the 6-foot-7 Hall suddenly appeared striding through the crowd, entering the ring unannounced to interrupt a match. First of all, I have a defibrillator in my chest, which it’s not a good idea for me zapped on live TV.A post shared by Kevin Nash good at being very evil in the ring, Hall won the WWE Intercontinental title four times and WCW Tag Team championships seven times (as “The Outsiders” with Nash), and in 1994 at WrestleMania X at Madison Square Garden, he competed in an iconic ladder match against Shawn Michaels. WWE announced his in-ring retirement as the interview was airing. Haitch confirmed that this means his final match is behind him (the 53 year old’s last outing is now a 2019 house show tag match in Tokyo with Shinsuke Nakamura against Robert Roode & Samoa Joe). It doesn’t make you any less driven for the things that you do, but it certainly makes you appreciate the things you have more - your friends, your family.”

I don’t know if they understood the consequences of it, but there’s moments in there when they’re putting you out for stuff and you think, ‘Is this it? Do you wake from this?’ That’s tough to swallow, And makes you think differently. Suddenly, I come home and I’m a little bit sick, and their dad, who’s strong, always, suddenly is in the hospital. “We have three young girls : 15, 13, and 11. When they tell you it’s 99%, it gets real. I was nose diving, and sort of at the one-yard line of where you need to be, or where you don’t want to be, really, for your family and your future. By the next morning, as they figured that out in the evening, by the next morning as they were sending me in to get an MRI done, and about to go in for a heart cath, my ejection fracture was down to 12. “So by the time I got to the emergency room, my ejection fracture had gone down to 22. I got a quick text message saying, ‘Don’t take time, pack a bag real quick, head to the emergency room.

Basically, the way your heart pumps out, 55 to 65 percent of your ejection fracture is a good number. “So they followed up on it, did an EKG and echo.

It was coming from the viral pneumonia, but I had fluid in my lungs, I had some fluid around my heart. My wife saw some blood and stuff that I was coughing up, and went and got checked.

My lungs were inflamed, and as the next couple days went on after I got home it got increasingly worse. While suffering from pneumonia, doctors discovered his heart was failing: In an interview with officially announces his retirement from in-ring competition.

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