Ex-WWE Star Scott Hall On Life Support After Three Heart Attacks

Former wresting world champion Scott Hall is on life support in following a series of heart attacks over the weekend, days after he underwent hip replacement surgery.
Hall, 63, is at the Wellstar Kennestone Hospital in Marietta, near his home in Atlanta.
The hall-of-famer had three heart attacks on Saturday after a hip replacement surgery resulted in a blood clots last week, according to wrestling newsletter .
Hall got his start in the mid-1980s with the now-defunct American Wrestling Association. He rose to prominence with the WWE under the ring name Razor Ramon.
He then left for the now-defunct World Championship Wrestling, where he founded the New World Order group along with fellow wrestlers Kevin Nash and Hulk Hogan. He retired in 2010.
Hall abused alcohol and prescription pills during the height of his fame and has previously said he's attended 12 rehabilitation centers.
Retired wrestler Scott Hall, 63, is on life support after having three heart attacks Saturday night following a hip surgery last week. Above, Hall at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015
Using the ring name Razor Ramon, he won two WWE world championships and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2014. Above, Hall at Wrestlemania X8 in 2002
Hall (second from right) was a part of the New World Order group along with fellow wrestlers Kevin Nash (second from left) and Hulk Hogan (not pictured). Above, the 2014 WWE Hall of Fame induction in New Orleans
Some wrestlers took to social media to wish Hall a speedy recovery.
'Really hoping Scott Hall pulls through. Razor Ramon my first hero,' wrote wrestler Ashton Smith, 33.
Hall was born in Maryland in 1958 to a military family.
'We moved every year for the first 15 years (of my life),' Hall said in 2016, according to the . 
'I can't even name the bases in order of where we lived. It got to the point where I just wouldn't even unpack stuff. I'd leave my toys and stuff in a box and just kind of live out of boxes.'
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He became interested in wrestling in his 20s, saying he was attracted to the lifestyle of entertaining at night and having your days free.
He allegedly stopped getting royalty checks when he left the WWE for rival WCW, though the WWE and CEO Vince McMahon still paid for his drug rehabilitation.
'Vince took it personally when I left, to the point where I didn't get royalties,' he said. 

Wrestlers Ashton Smith and Diamond Dallas Page wished Hall a speedy recovery on Twitter
Hall is on life support at Wellstar Kennestone Hospital in Marietta, near his home in Atlanta
Hall was born in Maryland in 1958 to a military family. Above, Hall in 2015
'He still was showing me love. He wasn't going to give me money that I could do bad things with was what it came down to. "I'll pay for your hospital, I pay for your rehab, I'm not sending you money that you might go buy booze or drugs with," was what it came down to.'
He said he didn't start drinking until his mid-30s, when he was told that other wrestlers thought he was 'stuck up' because he didn't party with his colleagues after matches.
That led to more drinking and, eventually, the pill Halcion, a benzodiazepine derivative used to treat severe insomnia.
'I was in Winnipeg, with a group of the guys when I took my first pill,' he said.
Hall struggled with substance abuse during his time in the WWE and other wrestling promotions. Above, Hall in the ring with Stone Cold Steve Austin at Wrestlemania X8
'I was sitting down, I was the youngest guy in the room and the most inexperienced guy, so I'm sitting on the floor at a big party in the hotel. And in that hotel in Winnipeg, there was a strip club in the lobby of the hotel. 
'So everybody else is drinking and https://kellerrobin883.shutterfly.com/22 when people get drinking, they start laughing at stuff that's not really funny and stuff like that so I said, "I'm just going to wander on down to the bar, see you guys later." I had taken the pill a half hour before. When I stood up, it was like whoa, I felt it ... and I liked it," he said. 
His addiction was even incorporated into his storylines in the ring by the late 1990s.
'I should've been dead a hundred times,' Hall said. 'So there's got to be a purpose. I do believe that things happen for a reason and nothing happens by accident and I guess there is a message here. I'm slowly getting more comfortable with telling people (about my struggles).'
The two-time world champion returned to the WW





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