St. Mary’s County, MD- Former professional wrestler Scott Oliver Hall, aka Razor Ramon died today after being taken off life-support by his family. Hall was hospitalized after falling and breaking his hip. After Hall underwent hip surgery, a blood clot was dislodged, resulting in Hall suffering three heart attacks on March 12, after which he was put on life support in Wellstar Kennestone Hospital in Marietta, Georgia.
Hall was born in St. Mary’s County on October 20, 1958. His family was in the military and moved almost once per year. He attended High School in Germany. During his mid-teens, his family returned to the US, and the future star graduated with a pre-medical degree from St. Mary’s College in Maryland. It was in college that he became interested in wrestling and started training for it.
Hall started his wrestling career in the National Wrestling Alliance, before moving on to the American Wrestling Alliance. He joined ECE in 1989 before making the move to WWE(known as WWF at the time). Hall jumped between several wrestling programs for years before finally rejoining WWE in 1992. Hall joined the World Wrestling Federation later that month, as Razor Ramon, a shady and stylish Cuban American bully from Miami. The character was modeled after the characters Tony Montana and Manny Ribera from the 1983 film Scarface.
Hall was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2014 as an individual wrestler. he would be indicted a second time in 2020 as a member of the New World Order(nWo with Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, and Sean Waltman.
Hall was married and divorced twice and has three children. His son Cody is also a professional wrestler. Hall has also appeared in several TV shows and movies.