He entered the WWE’s Corridor of Fame twice, as Razor Ramon and as a founding member of the New World Order.
Scott Corridor, the two-time WWE Corridor of Famer who famously ignited professional wrestling’s “Monday Night time Wars” within the Nineties by strolling in unannounced throughout a rival group’s marquee TV present, has died. He was 63.
Corridor was taken off life help Monday in a hospital in Marietta, Georgia, after he broke his hip in a fall in March and suffered a number of problems whereas in surgical procedure on Saturday. The WWE introduced his loss of life.
“My coronary heart is damaged and I’m so very fucking unhappy,” his longtime tag group companion Kevin Nash wrote on Instagram. “I really like Scott with all my coronary heart, however now I've to arrange my life with out him within the current. I’ve been blessed to have a good friend that took me at face worth and I him.”
Superb at being very evil within the ring, Corridor received the WWE Intercontinental title 4 occasions and WCW Tag Staff championships seven occasions (as “The Outsiders” with Nash), and in 1994 at WrestleMania X at Madison Sq. Backyard, he competed in an iconic ladder match in opposition to Shawn Michaels. Nevertheless, he by no means received the world title.
Throughout his 26 years as a wrestler, he additionally feuded with the likes of Sting, Lex Luger, “Macho Man” Randy Savage, Ric Aptitude and “Stone Chilly” Steve Austin.
After his retirement in 2010, Corridor was inducted into the WWE Corridor of Fame, first in 2014 as unhealthy man Razor Ramon (resplendent with gold chains, slicked-back hair and toothpick in mouth in an homage to Al Pacino’s Scarface character) after which in 2020 as a member of the villainous secure the New World Order (nWo).
Throughout Memorial Day weekend on the Could 27, 1996, episode of WCW Monday Nitro on TNT (owned by Ted Turner), the 6-foot-7 Corridor all of the sudden appeared striding by the group, getting into the ring unannounced to interrupt a match.
The followers instantly acknowledged him from Vince McMahon’s WWE, and Corridor advised them, “You folks know who I'm, however you don’t know why I’m right here.”
In actuality, Corridor had left his WWE contract two weeks earlier and signed on with World Championship Wrestling, however WCW govt vp Eric Bischoff got here up with the thought to have Corridor “invade” the WCW. Nash would quickly be a part of him, adopted by Hulk Hogan, who turned baddie because the trio grew to become the nWo.
Corridor would wrestle in additional than 1,500 matches throughout a number of organizations that additionally included the American Wrestling Alliance (1985-89), New Japan Wrestling (1990) and Whole Nonstop Motion (2002-08, 2010).
Corridor was born on Oct. 20, 1958, in St. Mary’s County, Maryland. Within the 2011 ESPN documentary The Wrestler, he famous his mother and father and grandparents have been alcoholics.
At age 25, whereas bartending at a strip membership, he was concerned in an altercation and charged with second-degree homicide. “A man pulled a gun on me, and I took it away from him and shot him, level clean with a .45 caliber,” he stated. The case was dismissed due to inadequate proof.
Corridor would additionally battle alcohol and drug issues all through his life — that was even integrated right into a controversial wrestling storyline at one level.
“When you’re a part of the WWE household, you’re a part of us endlessly,” chief model officer Stephanie McMahon stated within the documentary. “With out giving too many particulars, it’s within the six figures of how a lot cash we’ve spent sending Scott to rehab. It’s essentially the most amount of cash we’ve spent on anyone.”
In 2010, he had a defibrillator and pacemaker put in.
Corridor additionally suffered from congestive coronary heart failure, seizures and pneumonia and was arrested 4 occasions in Florida and charged with disorderly conduct, prison mischief and DUI. But he was beloved by the wrestling group, who hoped he might rebuild his life and win over his demons.
Hogan described Corridor as a “bodily phenom, after which so as to add the cool issue on prime of it and the charisma, he had all of it. He actually, actually had all of it.”
In his WWE Corridor of Fame speech in 2014, Corridor concluded by telling the cheering crowd that “laborious work pays off, desires come true, unhealthy occasions don’t final, however unhealthy guys do.”
Corridor was married thrice (twice to Dana Burgio) and had two kids, Cody and Cassidy.