One MIND-BLOWING Secret From EVERY Month Of The WWE Attitude Era
6. November 2000 | You What, Chico?
According to the November 6 issue of the Observer, Scott Hall was “hinting to friends” that he was going to make a shock return to the WWF under the Razor Ramon gimmick.
The report does not specify whether Hall actually held talks with the WWF, but you’d have to imagine that the answer was no. The WWF didn’t want to even sign Kevin Nash on a hypothetical basis, with business going so well, and Hall had an equally disruptive reputation within wrestling in addition to alcohol issues that, sadly, rendered him almost completely unreliable.
This fanciful return to the WWF didn’t happen, of course, but perhaps whichever source relayed this information misinterpreted Hall’s allusions - because Hall did in fact mount a comeback just days after the issue was mailed out. Hall worked two dates for ECW - just two - and yet he was so cool that his awesome entrance, backed to Fugees’ moody cover of ‘Ready Or Not’, still makes Reddit threads to this day. So this feels like a “nothing in it” rumour for a traditionally quiet period of the wrestling calendar - but the WWF could have done something great were they ever to reintroduce the Razor Ramon character.
You hear the tyres squeal. That laid-back drum track follows. The beautiful synth line. Rick Bognar strolls out to a booming chorus of groans. He does his Razor Ramon impression, but for the purpose of the bit, it’s even worse - and then the music hits again, double pop, Scott Hall comes out and kicks his ass.