10 Coolest Wrestlers Of All Time

8. Razor Ramon

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Razor Ramon's theme, 'Bad Guy', was an aural strut, with its clattering badass drumbeat, a louche guitar line and a sun-soaked synth sequence straight from the sands of Miami beach.

The man for whom it was written was equally as cool - a rare instance of the real-life performer believably pulling off a larger-than-life gimmick. Decked out in gold chains and a waistcoat, Razor was a bully; he'd remove his toothpick, arguably wrestling's cheapest, safest but most effective heel prop ever, and launch it into the face of his opponents. Scott Hall also possessed the immense frame to elevate the schtick into proper main event territory. As promoted, Razor oozed machismo. He also oozed in-ring quality, and lifted the entire Tony Montana package from register to regalia. Plagiarism is usually the antithesis of cool - but Razor made it cool because the man behind the gimmick, Scott Hall, oozed it.

"I got no education. Who needs it?" Razor asked during his introductory vignette. His anti-geek credentials were the perfect antidote to the forced "stay in school!" PSA phenomenon of the early 1990s.

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