10 Wrestlers Who Could Have Been Franchise Players For WWE

Scott Hall has had an up and down career, but few could touch him when he was at his best. Hall was the perfect combination of charisma, look, size, and wrestling ability, and he had the perfect gimmick as Razor Ramon.

A cool, cocksure Cuban-American villain, Razor was a tremendous heel in WWE’s upper-midcard scene, and found a permanent residency in the Intercontinental Title picture. His WrestleMania X ladder match remains one of the most lauded WWE matches of all-time, and by 1996, Ramon was earmarked as a future main eventer, and a guy who’d play a huge role in WWE’s fortunes for years to come.

It turns out that Hall did have a big impact on WWE’s fortunes, but not in the way Vince McMahon had imagined. He jumped ship to WCW in May 1996, and after being joined by Kevin Nash a few weeks later, Hall was at the heart of an angle that’d change the wrestling business forever: the New World Order.

The nWo kickstarted WCW’s success in the Monday Night Wars, and WWE was left struggling as Ted Turner’s company bettered them in the ratings for 84 consecutive weeks. Sadly, Hall’s demons slowly overcame him, and he wasn’t able to completely break his self-destructive pattern until years later.

The Bad Guy is largely responsible for derailing his own career, but who knows where he’d be if he and Nash hadn’t jumped to WCW. Both men were being set up as WWE’s next big main eventers, but Hall was always the more dynamic worker of the two. Had he stayed with McMahon’s company, there’s every chance Hall would be considered among the industry’s all-time greats, rather than one of its biggest also-rans.