10 Wrestlers Who Got Smaller To Get Bigger

8. Scott Hall

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There are a few prerequisites for a wrestler to earn the sobriquet 'Big'. Firstly, they need to have little to zero personality, precluding their promotion on that basis, and secondly, well, they need to be big. As far as Verne Gagne was concerned, that was all he needed to make a 6'7" rookie from Maryland the company's natural replacement for Hulk Hogan, following the Hulkster's departure to WWE in 1983. The Tom Selleck-inspired mustachioed Magnum moniker was already taken in Jim Crockett Promotions, and so a man by the name 'Big' Scott Hall started dominating AWA rings.

Despite repeating Hogan's mannerisms, the colourless Hall could repeat none of his success. Simply being as big as of the industry's biggest icon wasn't enough, and Hall soon realised he'd need more than physique to make a mark. By the time he wound up in WWE in 1992, via Atlanta, the former Diamond Studd, whilst still huge by normal standards, was no longer worthy of the 'big' adjective. It didn't matter: the charisma of his fresh 'Razor Ramon' character was enough to finally make him a star.

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