15 Things We Learned From Scott Hall On Steve Austin Show Part 2
13. What He Learned In Puerto Rico
Hall credits his early success in WWE with some of the knowledge he gained while working in Puerto Rico, which for a while had one of the healthiest territories in the business running large baseball stadiums. He said that he would study tapes of Carlos Colon and his matches with Bruiser Brody and Stan Hansen, not for the moves but the psychology of working an angle. He talks about what a violent society Puerto Rico is and that to get over there you had to be a bad*ss. Scott remembers how thought out his push was in Puerto Rico, with him going over every babyface in the region on his way to working with Colon himself.
"The first time I put him over was in a bullrope match. He touched the four corners, he never pinned me and he never bumped me. I started thinking 'I get it. I'm going to kill everybody until I get to you, then I'm going to kill you in an angle. And then you've got to buy the job back. You've got to buy the bumps."
He said the formula worked because Carlos was happy and the arenas were full.
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