Scott Corridor aka Razor Ramon speaks throughout the WWE Corridor of Fame induction ceremony on the Smoothie King Middle in New Orleans on April 5, 2014. (Jonathan Bachman/AP Photos for WWE)
Scott Corridor, skilled wrestling’s “Unhealthy Man” who revolutionized the trade as a founding member of the New World Order faction, has died. He was 63.
WWE introduced his dying Monday evening and aired a tribute video on its flagship “Uncooked” program. Corridor, who additionally wrestled for WWE as Razor Ramon, was a two-time inductee into the corporate’s Corridor of Fame. His longtime good friend and fellow NWO member Kevin Nash wrote on social media that Corridor was taken off life help on Monday following problems from hip alternative surgical procedure.
Former WWE and WCW star Sean Waltman tweeted Monday, “ He’s gone.”
Corridor battled alcohol abuse for years and chronicled his a long time of substance points in an 2011 ESPN documentary through which he stated, “I ought to have been useless 100 occasions.”
The wrestling world mourned Corridor and a few WWE stars paid tribute to his mannerisms and catchphrases on “Uncooked.”
“Scott Corridor was a towering determine amongst his contemporaries — a legend inside and out of doors the ring,” WWE Corridor of Famer Mick Foley tweeted.
Within the ring, few skilled wrestlers oozed machismo fairly just like the “Unhealthy Man.” Corridor labored his means up by way of a number of wrestling territories within the Eighties earlier than he caught his massive break in 1992 when he signed with the then-World Wrestling Federation. He was named Razor Ramon, a knockoff of characters from “Scarface” that he molded into certainly one of wrestling’s cool heels.
Together with his dripping moist hair, scruff and omnipresent toothpick, Ramon affected a Cuban accent and rapidly rose to main-event standing with matches towards Bret Hart, Diesel and the 1-2-3 Child. He gained a number of championships throughout his five-year run and defeated Shawn Michaels in a landmark ladder match at WrestleMania in 1994. It earned match-of-the-year honours from Professional Wrestling Illustrated.
With promotional rival World Championship Wrestling nipping at WWE’s spot for prime wrestling firm within the Nineties, Ted Turner’s firm began making massive contract presents to a number of the greatest stars within the trade. WWE and WCW had by no means acknowledged one another on TV till the rivalry escalated by way of what turned often called the “Monday Night time Wars,” pitting Vince McMahon’s “Uncooked” towards Ted Turner’s “Nitro.”
Corridor made his greatest splash when he signed with WCW and made a shock entrance by way of the group on a Might 27, 1996 episode of “Nitro.” Earlier than the web completely pulled again the curtain on the trade, Corridor’s announcement — “ You already know who I'm. However you don’t know why I’m right here," — had followers actually believing WWE had invaded WCW.
Corridor was quickly joined by former WWE star Kevin Nash, the “Outsiders” who claimed they had been despatched for a hostile takeover of WCW. The angle gained mainstream consideration in July 1996 when their claims of a 3rd man to assist them lead the invasion turned out to be Hulk Hogan. Hogan turned a foul man and the trio fashioned the villainous New World Order, serving to WCW defeat WWE within the scores for 83 straight weeks.
Corridor later returned to WWE and wrestled in different promotions, however his profession was reduce quick by medication and alcohol and a number of journeys to rehabilitation.
“I inform my children this, ‘I can’t let you know to not drink and do medication, they're enjoyable. It’s enjoyable. They work,’” Corridor stated within the documentary. “However what sucks is whenever you wish to stop and you may’t, and fairly quickly you alienate otherwise you damage everybody round you.”
Corridor was inducted into the WWE Corridor of Fame twice, as soon as for his Razor Ramon character and as soon as as a part of the NWO secure.
His 2014 speech when he went in as Razor Ramon has been wildly quoted by wrestlers and followers of the trade since information of his situation broke over the weekend.
“Onerous work pays off,” Corridor stated. “Desires come true. Unhealthy occasions don’t final. However unhealthy guys do.”
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