Scott Corridor left an indelible mark on the skilled wrestling enterprise.
The legendary co-founder of the nWo died on Monday on the age of 63, after struggling a number of coronary heart assaults over the weekend following issues from hip surgical procedure, WWE introduced.
“WWE extends its condolences to Corridor’s household, mates and followers,” the corporate stated in an announcement.
Corridor got here up by the regional territory system within the late Eighties and early 90s, wrestling for the NWA, Jim Crockett Promotions, the AWA and elsewhere.
He finally acquired to the WWE (then the WWF) in 1992, and gained nationwide prominence wrestling beneath the identify Razor Ramon with a “unhealthy man” Cuban gimmick partially impressed by Al Pacino’s character from “Scarface”.
In a 2017 interview, Corridor recalled that Vince McMahon initially pitched a navy gimmick as Corridor’s father had been within the Military, however Corridor countered with the Razor Ramon gimmick — which had some similarities to his “Diamond Stud” persona from WCW — and McMahon signed off on it regardless of allegedly by no means having seen “Scarface”.
Corridor acquired a fast push with the corporate and finally turned the four-time Intercontinental champion, a title that has traditionally been received by wrestlers as a stepping stone to superstardom.
Maybe probably the most important second in Corridor’s preliminary WWF run was his ladder match with Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania X in 1994, which is taken into account by many observers of the enterprise to be one of many best wrestling matches of all-time.
Corridor was a part of one in every of wrestling’s most notorious moments — the “Curtain Name” — when he, Michaels, Triple H and Kevin Nash broke kayfabe and hugged one another within the ring after a present at Madison Sq. Backyard in Could 1996 with Corridor and Nash on the verge of creating the bounce to WCW .
On Could 27, 1996 Corridor would start one of the vital legendary angles within the historical past of professional wrestling, interrupting a random match on “WCW Monday Nitro” between The Mauler and Steve Doll and saying, “You individuals know who I'm, however you don’t know why I’m right here.”
Corridor promised WCW commentators Bobby Heenan and Eric Bischoff — who, within the surreal world of wrestling, was additionally accountable for the present and signing Corridor away from WWF — a conflict.
Nash adopted Corridor onto this system two weeks later, and so they turned often known as The Outsiders. For the Bash on the Seaside pay-per-view in the summertime of 1996, they promised a thriller associate of their match in opposition to Randy “Macho Man” Savage, Sting and Lex Luger. The third man was Hulk Hogan, who to the astonishment of everybody within the viewers had turned heel, and the New World Order was born.
The piping-hot nWo angle propelled Nitro to a 83 consecutive weeks of victory within the tv rankings over the WWF’s “Monday Night time Uncooked” through the fabled “Monday Night time Wars.” It lasted till mixture of ego, extra and the Time Warner-AOL merger on WCW’s aspect and leading edge performances from wrestlers like “Stone Chilly” Steve Austin, The Rock and quite a lot of others throughout WWF’s “Angle Period” turned the scales again.
Corridor was revered by different wrestlers as having a fantastic thoughts for the enterprise. He planted the seed for Sting’s crow persona that led to an enormous WCW angle between The Icon and the nWo in 1997. Corridor was additionally a savvy political operator. He was a member of the notorious ‘kliq’ with Nash, Michaels, Triple H (Paul Levesque) and X-Pac (Sean Waltman), a gaggle of shut mates stated to wield political clout backstage.
Corridor, like many larger-than-life performers each inside and out of doors the wrestling business within the twentieth Century, lived a tough, quick way of life in his heyday. He publicly battled drug and alcohol habit, and well being points that arose after the toll that substances and the professional wrestling enterprise took on his physique. Corridor turned his life round in 2013 with the assistance of good friend Diamond Dallas Web page in 2013. He's two-time WWE Corridor of Famer, having been inducted individually and later as a member of the nWo.
“He wasn’t excellent however as he all the time stated ‘The final excellent individual to stroll the planet they nailed to a cross,'” his shut good friend Kevin Nash wrote on Instagram early Monday.
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