10 Times Wrestlers Told You They Were FINISHED

5. Razor Ramon (1996)

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When Scott Hall passed away, it was remarked upon just how cool the man was even during what's consensus considered the least coolest period in the history of the industry.

Razor Ramon sparkled not just because he always wore gold, but because he was at very least a film star rather than a cartoon character. Hall might have stolen liberally from the silver screen, but in a promotion ran by a man with no cultural frame of reference and a fanbase that didn't care about the plagiarism, he was diamond sharp years removed from playing a Diamond Studd.

At least he was until a loss to Vader at In Your House: Good Friends, Better Enemies. He neither looked nor particularly felt much like 'The Bad Guy', and he was tacitly telling fans that it was time to get used to that. A scalp for the 'Mastadon' and nothing much more on the night, Ramon was seeing out his dates fresh off a WrestleMania suspension absence he felt was cynically motivated by his impending departure.

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