10 Wrestlers WWE Immediately Regretted Hiring

4. Scott Hall

His nWo buddy Kevin Nash is elsewhere on this list, but it would kind of be remiss of us to not include Scott Hall's 2002 re-hiring as something WWE had sharpish regrets about.

Bringing in Nash, Hall, and Hulk Hogan at that point in time was viewed as a risk both in a real-life sense and also in how the trio's arrival was depicted in WWE storylines. Vince McMahon was bringing in the New World Order to poison the WWE - and in Scott Hall, McMahon clearly got a very real dose of the controversy for which he was seeking.

The nWo arrived in WWE at February 2002's No Way Out PPV, and Hall would find himself swiftly fired by the company just over two months later.

It was soon far too apparent to WWE higher-ups that Hall's well publicised demons were still present - as shown by The Bad Guy's extremely drunk behaviour on the infamous Plane Ride From Hell. And it was just a matter of days after this flight back from the UK that Scott Hall's WWE contract was terminated due to ongoing substance abuse issues.

Authored by Andrew Pollard

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First Posted On: 19th Feb 2020

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