I almost didn’t make it past the opening section of this E:60 piece on former WWE wrestler Scott Hall. Blame the horrendous pitch section, where for some reason we get to see E:60 reporters pretend to talk about the story in a manner so stupid and reptilian you keep waiting for them to begin eating whole bowls of fresh houseflies on camera. “It’s fake, but this story is real.” They actually say that, and it sort of kills a small part of you even if you know it’s coming.
Scott Hall’s E:60 Piece Is Your New Anti-Drug
Make it past that, though. Force it if necessary. The remaining 17 and a half minutes is a legitimately harrowing survey of the long trail of wreckage that is Scott Hall’s life at this point. It is hard to watch, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t.
The first five minutes is bad enough, and that’s well before you get the very real discomfort of Scott Hall, known as Razor Ramon in his WWE heyday, being helped into the ring to stumble through an appearance while in the midst of what was later diagnosed as a drug overdose. It is bad, and yet so much worse than you can imagine.
The Wrestler was a documentary, and Scott Hall getting letters from his children begging him to sober up is your new anti-drug. There’s a lot to have nightmares over here: Hall standing behind a rack of prescription pills that keep his heart from succumbing to congestive heart failure, his now-grown son weeping talking about keeping him alive a day at a time, or the man himself openly wondering what purpose there is to being alive.
(This is all after Hall describes shooting a man in the head and killing him in a barfight before he started wrestling. Manslaughter qualifies as a tidy, minor detail in a story this convoluted and insane.)
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