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10. 1992 | One Of The Most Famous WWE Matches Ever Might Not Have Happened
On May 17, 1993, one of the shortest and most famous WWE matches ever took place on Monday Night Raw.
Scott ‘Razor Ramon’ Hall took on the 123 Kid, a half-familiar enhancement talent. It was only ever going to be a very quick and emphatic squash match - maintenance booking to remind fans of Razor’s star power. For 95% of its duration, that’s precisely what it was. And it was a shockingly brutal squash match by the standards of the time, too; Razor’s slaps and chops were vile, the Kid’s bumping terrifying in its distance and impact. But then, infamously, the Kid capitalised on Razor’s complacency to beat him with a spectacular moonsault press. This one match launched the career of Sean Waltman, and, on a wider level, opened the WWF to the possibility of using smaller, slender wrestlers in a more serious capacity. The match almost didn’t happen, in that Waltman and Hall almost passed one another by. Per the May 11 Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Waltman, working as the Lightning Kid, won a dark match against Bob Cook at a Center Stage taping. This took place on May 11; Hall agreed terms with the WWF days afterwards.
Waltman was such a great talent and such an ideal opponent to make any wrestler look even bigger than they were that the WWF positioned him as a litmus test. Waltman was so good that, if you had a bad match against him, you were worthless. WCW didn’t think he was good; he didn’t get a gig.
In another interesting note, the match might not have happened as Razor Ramon Vs. The 123 Kid. That is because, per the May 25 Observer, Hall had told his friends in the WCW locker room that he was going to work a gimmick in the Fed based on ‘the Fonz’ from ‘Happy Days’. Imagine that! Maybe they’d have done a bit where Hall walked out, but his entrance theme would only have played when he punched a jukebox.
Ayyyyy!