10. Scott Hall & Kevin Nash jump from WWF to WCW (1996)
Shortly before WrestleMania XII, both Kevin Nash and Scott Hall, who played Razor Ramon and Diesel, agreed to return to World Championship Wrestling, as part of WCW President Eric Bischoff‘s drive to lure employees from the WWF to WCW with the offer of lucrative contracts. Hall had been suspended by the WWF due to his drug use in 1996.
He returned to WWF television at April’s In Your House 7, where he lost to Vader, and which would be Hall’s last WWF television appearance before leaving the company. Hall and Nash were also involved in “The MSG Curtain Call Incident”.
Because they were departing for WCW, the pair (along with HBK and Triple H) broke “character” by celebrating and embracing in the ring together, though the characters they portrayed were supposed to be enemies. Nash and Hall debuted in WCW as “The Outsiders” in 1996.
In the storyline, Hall led an invasion, appearing on WCW programming and insinuating that he was doing so under orders from his WWF employers, and warning that he would soon be joined by others. He was joined by former WWF Champion Kevin Nash two weeks later.
Without Hall and Nash, there would have been no Hollywood Hogan, and no New World Order.
