10 Wrestlers Who Had No Business Being In The Ring
1. Scott Hall
In the interest of decency, the actual footage of Scott Hall's appearance at a Fall River, Massachusetts Top Ropw Promotions indie show in 2011 will not be linked here.
It was exploitative and gross even by the standards of an ar*ehole shindie promoter who doesn't give a single sh*t about anything but money. Hall wasn't just in "no condition" to perform. This happened, all too often, in wrestling's rancid history: a performer who can just about do something approaching a job is marched out there to do it. Hall, his face twisted in a sour grimace, eyes all but closed, only knew how to throw up the Wolfpac sign. He couldn't walk out there under his power; he had to be carried.
When he got to the ring, he had to lounge against the ropes because he was a man who desperately needed rest and rehabilitation.
It was another sad chapter in Hall's career, and to their eternal shame, WCW wrote one of them. Deep in the throes of alcoholism, his troubles were adapted onscreen in 1998 under the "controversy creates cash" directive.
In this case, it didn't; the supposed slack-jawed rasslin' fan had far more moral scruples than the smiling embodiment of sinister corporate America that promoted it.