100 Best Wrestling Moves EVER
54. Scott Hall | Fall Away Slam
News flash: Scott Hall was a deceptively big dude. Hanging around with an even bigger lad like Kevin Nash for most of his career tricked some into thinking the ex-Razor Ramon was mid-sized. No, he was massive. Realising that all over again makes some of his matches against Bret Hart, Ted DiBiase, The 1-2-3 Kid, Jeff Jarrett, Diesel, Goldberg and others even more impressive.
'Big' Scott Hall hit his fall away slam on pretty much all of 'em, and he did so with ease.
There's something appealing about a move like this. Seeing one wrestler manhandle another, and hold him comfortably without the need for kicking legs ('you're not going anywhere!') or screaming, before dumping him overhead and doing the hand slap taunt after a job well done is rather cool. Hall was the best at it. His fall away was little more than a rudimentary back bump for him, but it looked killer for those taking the other half of the move.
They'd spin over Scott's head and land on their back (ideally) in a heap. Those who wanted to make things seem a little fancier might tumble again so they reached the ropes and did that weirdly-sweet 'fly caught in a spider's web' sell after landing awkwardly. That'd be juxtaposed with Hall casually showing out to the audience and acting like he'd done something as basic as taking the bins out.
Variations on the theme include a fall away slam from the middle turnbuckle, which always looks mighty. It speaks volumes about Razor's size and power that even his ground-based original matched that sort of fall.