ESPN’s E:60 Put Attention to a Suffering WWE Legend: Scott Hall0 comments

By y2t
Posted on 20 Oct 2011 at 5:23am

The ongoing tragedy that is Scott Hall’s health and addiction problems has get the attention of one of the world’s top sports media, ESPN. Entitled “The Wrestler”, the segment featured friends and family of Hall, including Kevin Nash , Sean “X-Pac” Waltman , Hulk Hogan , Dana Hall and Stephanie McMahon . ESPN’s E:60 series look at the rise and fall of one of professional wrestling’s biggest talents. “There’s got to be some reason that I’m still here,” Hall told “E:60,” aired a story about him Wednesday. “I should have been dead 100 times. I should have been dead 100 times.”

In his prime, in the early 1990s, Scott Hall was one of professional wrestling’s biggest names and most infamous wrestler standing with the likes of Randy Savage, Bret Hart and Hulk Hogan. Now, at age 52, Hall takes about a dozen pills daily to deal with anxiety and pain because he now is battling against alcohol and drug abuse that has crippled his family life and resulted in sad public appearances. WWE’s Executive Vice President of Creative Development and Operations, Stephanie McMahon, that more money has been spent on trying to rehabilitate Hall than anyone else the WWE has tried to assist for related addictions according to the article at ESPN.com.

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