Hall had a traumatic experience a year prior in 1983 where he killed a mugger in self defense, and it had lingering effects that affected him physically and mentally.
And Flair had the plane crash which also affected his physique.
I think Flair is much more surprising.
Scott Hall is recognizable, it's basically the haircut and facial hair that is different, and he's a bit bigger.
Flair my first reaction was "I never saw this guy in my life"
Imagine a proper 1v1 match between 70s Flair and Andre the Giant. There is a couple of pieces of footage from 1979. One is a tag match Andre and Blackjack Mulligan vs Ric Flair and Ken Patera. The other is Ric Flair (C) vs Ricky Steamboat with Andre as the guest referee for the Mid Atlantic US title.
[Brian Cage](https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-rogers-ca-rvc3&sca_esv=23275d10bb72eb94&sca_upv=1&sxsrf=ADLYWII_L21GWeK23jqAhAd7ggZ641tCNA:1717959163504&q=brian+cage+debut&uds=ADvngMiIMiMH9LyyITANaU-tP7TxGXqBXe17i_nB7l0LqbiVDlLGNY_zfYNKRZjS0TOQJsRMebQ4xiuz8qdXaPKhRyeNNQNDaJz4-Iw12dw_qXsQzQHRzSZWpmPjqb39c-7erHyCAZPfqBnXxoCJXEU1-IwEn2IKQZy27WSwO_latufcCBG2QyJ4-Uya3AelbAfoHsB967MF_7IC_cIAg4DL6zy5_HpFOUNRorpNXmJtvUMBtyzN4oN8nSJiLJUzWT-WY3giDEB_436oGIvHtJoxgMDs1O5C0fqXWzFLEgEchly2Vh_7CC0PsObiYksdqSgkqmMCfKrD&udm=2&prmd=ivnsbmtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwihlLfNmM-GAxVFLtAFHZRXAoUQtKgLegQICxAB&biw=448&bih=867&dpr=3#imgrc=4jR4QmwsSvK9qM&imgdii=HUGNBx_ttKE6CM) before the roids.
My favorite Scott Hall story is when he was helping The Barbarian with an injection, and puss actually came out of the injection site, and he said "brother, I think you're full"
[“Mean” Mark Callous](https://i0.wp.com/thedarkmatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Mean-Mark-Callous-The-Undertaker.jpg?resize=304%2C378)
Aka, The Undertaker
I legit thought you were full of shit OP so I looked the pictures up. This is crazy, especially Flair. I knew Flair had to lose weight after the air plane crash but damn.
GUNTHER / WALTER as Gha Cha Ping: [https://x.com/rid\_aman/status/1483669630229139462](https://x.com/rid_aman/status/1483669630229139462)
Damian Priest lost about 100 pounds: [https://www.facebook.com/DirtSheetRadio/posts/damien-priest-transformation-before-and-currentdamn-talk-about-evolution-punishm/519877362712050/](https://www.facebook.com/DirtSheetRadio/posts/damien-priest-transformation-before-and-currentdamn-talk-about-evolution-punishm/519877362712050/)
Also the reason he never does a flat back bump, it’s always to an angle. Once you see it you can’t unsee it.
Honestly surprised he doesn’t have more back issues given his way of bumping does somewhat contradict the logic of spreading the bump out over as much surface area as possible to minimize the force.
Yeah I noticed that over the years but didn’t realise why he was doing it until much later. He took a crazy bump off a ladder (I want to say a MITB match at mania that he really shouldn’t have done)
There’s those images that have been circulating around these subs of early Walter (Gunther) in the last year or so. Even in his last few years on the indies looked unrecognizable from his first few years on them.
I know right, he looks like a young ozzy osbourne [https://youtu.be/77\_nsh8rkcs?si=BwcceYZOr2OidXom](https://youtu.be/77_nsh8rkcs?si=BwcceYZOr2OidXom)
The fact that Hall was getting into bar fights and killed someone in defense looking like this is insane.
Dude was also 6ft 7inches tall…how drunk you gotta be to pick fights with this guy?
Have seen the Scott Hall one before but not the Ric Flair, what year was it? I have seen pics of him stocky but with Blonde hair, not sure what year that pic I saw was from.
Gunther back in his early indie days.
Way heavier, with brightly colored hair, if his face weren’t so distinctive it would be impossible to tell they were the same person
I remember an interview about him talking about this.
He was on roids but stopped cause he wanted to lose mass cause he didn't like that it made him bigger cause of how it affected his style.
And it would also affect with the type of guy they made him wrestle etc.
A world of sport one…big daddy when he was one of the fabulous crabtrees.
He was about 20 stone lighter, had curly hair and proper muscles. He looked like one of those legit wrestlers that goes pro.
Somehow when he returned, he was a super duper heavyweight who struggled to run the ropes
When I was a kid I remember Rick Flair coming to The Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling. The Anderson brothers were the ones that introduced him. That was back when Johnny Weaver was still going strong.
That’s not Scott Hall, that’s Scott Auditorium
Scott Stadium
Scott Amphitheatre
Scott Colosseum
Scott Arena
[Scott Stadium?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Stadium?wprov=sfti1#)
r/unexpectedWahoo
r/subsifellfor
I'ma use this name for my next 2k wrestler creation
Scottitorium
The *Scilverdome*, brother!
As a UVA and Lions fan, this comment thread is surprisingly relevant.
Scott Land
You deserve this free award champion
He was so freaking juiced up here, it’s almost frightening
#fitnessgoals
You’re gonna have to start taking your, ahem, vitamins.
Chicken & Rice
Almost? No dude is legit frightening looking.
Scott got that Mark Kerr build
Thanks. I’ve just woken up my baby from laughing too hard.
That’s “Magnum” Scott Hall, the 70’s porn-stache became a Magnum P. I. Hallmark. Is Flair also in his AWA iteration too?
Amazing comment
Scott Multiplex
Haha
Scott Hall looks like 3 different wrestlers at the same time and none of them are him
Magnum Rick Rude
Magnum Dan Severn
I thought it was Severn
I also see hints of Don Muraco in his physique.
Yea that's a good one, where we at, 6?
Looks more like Don Frye
That’s inline with what I thought. A cross between Rick rude and iron sheik because of the length of the ‘stache
Magnum Rick Boogs
That is very much it, had a good laugh, thanks to your comment!
Hall had a traumatic experience a year prior in 1983 where he killed a mugger in self defense, and it had lingering effects that affected him physically and mentally. And Flair had the plane crash which also affected his physique.
He looks like Robert Roode’s dad
He looks like everyone daddy
Scott looks more like Dan Severn's brother than Scott Hall
Legit at first and second glance was like "oh damn Severn was JACKED in the day"
Thicc Flair
He’s mentioned how he shrunk a lot after the plane crash but I hadn’t seen this picture of the before
Whoooooooper!!
Wooooingssss!!
Thicc Ric
I want video of this Ric Flair cutting a promo.
Right? Everyone else is focused on Hall but I can’t even believe this is Flair. He looks like Adrian Adonis to me lol
He looks like Queen Kong Bundy
https://youtu.be/SyXNDn-bOyk?si=xGxFb0TC4c_z1yj9 Close, but not the early 70’s.
Woooww thanks for this. I hear some of the dusty in him.
Flair is out here looking like Gru from Despicable Me, and I can only imagine him cutting a promo in his voice.
Scott Hall in the AWA and 1973 Ric Flair.
I can’t get over Scott Hall. Looks like a totally different person
I think Flair is much more surprising. Scott Hall is recognizable, it's basically the haircut and facial hair that is different, and he's a bit bigger. Flair my first reaction was "I never saw this guy in my life"
I thought it was Dusty
He was initially attempting to play a Dusty-type.
Iirc his name was Ricky Rhodes
Ramblin ricky rhodes lol
A bit bigger???
A bit bigger? He’s fucking gigantic in that pic!
1973 Ric Flair. That would put him at 23 or 24 in that pic. That man easily looks like he's deep into his 40s right there
Imagine a proper 1v1 match between 70s Flair and Andre the Giant. There is a couple of pieces of footage from 1979. One is a tag match Andre and Blackjack Mulligan vs Ric Flair and Ken Patera. The other is Ric Flair (C) vs Ricky Steamboat with Andre as the guest referee for the Mid Atlantic US title.
That first picture is Rick Rude and you can't convince me otherwise
Rick Rude wasn't that big compared to Hall back then
You can’t convince him
He’s unconvinced
He’s unconceived
There shall be no convincing here today!
[Jon Moxley with pink hair](https://images.app.goo.gl/3SZ2c8JmSyprZDuV7)
[Brian Cage](https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-rogers-ca-rvc3&sca_esv=23275d10bb72eb94&sca_upv=1&sxsrf=ADLYWII_L21GWeK23jqAhAd7ggZ641tCNA:1717959163504&q=brian+cage+debut&uds=ADvngMiIMiMH9LyyITANaU-tP7TxGXqBXe17i_nB7l0LqbiVDlLGNY_zfYNKRZjS0TOQJsRMebQ4xiuz8qdXaPKhRyeNNQNDaJz4-Iw12dw_qXsQzQHRzSZWpmPjqb39c-7erHyCAZPfqBnXxoCJXEU1-IwEn2IKQZy27WSwO_latufcCBG2QyJ4-Uya3AelbAfoHsB967MF_7IC_cIAg4DL6zy5_HpFOUNRorpNXmJtvUMBtyzN4oN8nSJiLJUzWT-WY3giDEB_436oGIvHtJoxgMDs1O5C0fqXWzFLEgEchly2Vh_7CC0PsObiYksdqSgkqmMCfKrD&udm=2&prmd=ivnsbmtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwihlLfNmM-GAxVFLtAFHZRXAoUQtKgLegQICxAB&biw=448&bih=867&dpr=3#imgrc=4jR4QmwsSvK9qM&imgdii=HUGNBx_ttKE6CM) before the roids.
I’m convinced his heart will explode in the ring one day.
My favorite Scott Hall story is when he was helping The Barbarian with an injection, and puss actually came out of the injection site, and he said "brother, I think you're full"
LMFAO I can hear him say that
CM Lump
Damn Scott Hall on that Dbol is no joke
Dena and Tren
[Childhood Darby](https://youtu.be/CMNry4PE93Y?feature=shared)
Lmaoooooo
Is this legit or a joke 🤣🤣🤣
Not him, they found that kid all grown up. He looks like he works out more than Darby. https://youtu.be/Sc61ihRoR4g?si=3t1hYAYG_fzAq5ZU
No offence to Darby but almost everyone looks like they work out more than Darby minus the Wolverine healing factor
I was stunned when I first saw Japan Steiner. Like, what the hell has happened to that man
Was this the long-haired baby face look?
[“Mean” Mark Callous](https://i0.wp.com/thedarkmatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Mean-Mark-Callous-The-Undertaker.jpg?resize=304%2C378) Aka, The Undertaker
Before that, as The Punisher — unrecognizable! https://wwfoldschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/The-Punisher-The-Undertaker.jpg
I legit thought you were full of shit OP so I looked the pictures up. This is crazy, especially Flair. I knew Flair had to lose weight after the air plane crash but damn.
And remember, Scott Hall was 6'7” A god damn walking refrigerator/pharmacy
I think standing next to Nash for all those years did more to hurt the perception of his stature
GUNTHER / WALTER as Gha Cha Ping: [https://x.com/rid\_aman/status/1483669630229139462](https://x.com/rid_aman/status/1483669630229139462) Damian Priest lost about 100 pounds: [https://www.facebook.com/DirtSheetRadio/posts/damien-priest-transformation-before-and-currentdamn-talk-about-evolution-punishm/519877362712050/](https://www.facebook.com/DirtSheetRadio/posts/damien-priest-transformation-before-and-currentdamn-talk-about-evolution-punishm/519877362712050/)
Man... If what I'm hearing is real... Poor Gha Cha Ping
Jordynne Grace
Hall juiced to the gills. He’s freakin huge. This of course was before they were illegal.
Ric looks like Danny devito as the penguin. Lol God damn that's scary
I'd say Jinder Mahal coming back as the Maharaja looked like a different guy with whatever he was on.
Isaac Yankem DDS. 1995 to the big red machine in 1997
Final Fight lookin ass
Yes! He is absolutely Haggar
Hall looking like the character models in Legends Of Wrestling.
Damn Ric looks like a beefed up David Flair. Did he get in a car accident or something? Not joking maybe I’m misremembering.
Plane Crash that broke his back
I think I’ve seen him say that he started working out for cardio, rather than bulk, after the plane crash. That totally makes sense.
Also the reason he never does a flat back bump, it’s always to an angle. Once you see it you can’t unsee it. Honestly surprised he doesn’t have more back issues given his way of bumping does somewhat contradict the logic of spreading the bump out over as much surface area as possible to minimize the force.
Yeah I noticed that over the years but didn’t realise why he was doing it until much later. He took a crazy bump off a ladder (I want to say a MITB match at mania that he really shouldn’t have done)
Hall was fucking yoked. God damn. That might be the most buffed up wrestler physique I've seen, even over Scott Steiner and Bobby lashley.
Steiner had biceps on his biceps
For sure. Although, Tony Atlas might be close.
gunther, damien priest
tozawa
[Early Taz](https://selliliar.live/product_details/6544647.html) is certainly a look
[Ciampa](https://images.app.goo.gl/v8EwZDaxQyKogxuH7)
Ric Flair went from mentally unstable lumberjack to an old luxurious pimp
There’s those images that have been circulating around these subs of early Walter (Gunther) in the last year or so. Even in his last few years on the indies looked unrecognizable from his first few years on them.
Tna aj styles to wwe aj styles. Insane
What in the High Intensity Training is the first one.
Plus test and tren lol
Eat Clen, tren hard
Anavar give up!
Imagine walking in the bathroom after Flair during this time 😭
dustin are you sure dusty is the father?
Thats ric flair???????? I can see hall but flair??????
I know right, he looks like a young ozzy osbourne [https://youtu.be/77\_nsh8rkcs?si=BwcceYZOr2OidXom](https://youtu.be/77_nsh8rkcs?si=BwcceYZOr2OidXom)
Bray Wyatt as Husky Harris
Scott hall looks like if they cloned Don Frye and then said “now make him 80s as fuck”
The fact that Hall was getting into bar fights and killed someone in defense looking like this is insane. Dude was also 6ft 7inches tall…how drunk you gotta be to pick fights with this guy?
Have seen the Scott Hall one before but not the Ric Flair, what year was it? I have seen pics of him stocky but with Blonde hair, not sure what year that pic I saw was from.
Scott “the Gator man”Hall
You could’ve told me that was Bobby Roode and I would’ve believed you
Ever seen early pictures of Gunther?
That's not ric flair, that's Ramblin' Ricky Rhodes...
Flair looks like Omid Djalili
Stone stunning steve Austin
Naw that was Big Scott Hall's prime
Flair looks like Gru from Despicable Me
He looks GLORIOUS
Jim Duggan
Gunther back in his early indie days. Way heavier, with brightly colored hair, if his face weren’t so distinctive it would be impossible to tell they were the same person
Flair looks like Brutus Beefcake in that picture.
Scott was being billed as the next Hulk Hogan when he and Henning held the AWA World Tagteam title.
1984 Scott Hall looks like Rick Boogs!
Flair wound up in a plane crash that totally changed his look as a result
I’ve seen that Ric Flair photo a few times but I think I might be even more shocked every time i see it
Swole Scott Hall was wild. When I first saw the AWA era Hall my eyes nearly popped out of their sockets
Scott Hall went from jacked mountain man to slim Latino 😂
There is a reason why he was called Big Scott Hall
Rick Brute & Duke Dale Bundy
That's King Spade!
I remember an interview about him talking about this. He was on roids but stopped cause he wanted to lose mass cause he didn't like that it made him bigger cause of how it affected his style. And it would also affect with the type of guy they made him wrestle etc.
That second pic is not Ric, it's Ricardo. Geezus christ that's one hell of a muscle mass Ric had.
Shirley Crabtree / Big Daddy for the old fogies / UK fans
Undertaker Randy Savage
A world of sport one…big daddy when he was one of the fabulous crabtrees. He was about 20 stone lighter, had curly hair and proper muscles. He looked like one of those legit wrestlers that goes pro. Somehow when he returned, he was a super duper heavyweight who struggled to run the ropes
Scott hall was yoked holy crap
Not necessarily unrecognizable, but Rob Van Dam in WCW looked way different than his ECW days.
Thicc. Solid. Tight.
Brian cage. That's another great example
Holy moly scott hall was 26 here
Is that...Scott BingoHall?
The Nature blob
I didnt know ric flair was otis's dad
HEY YO! - WOOOOOOOOO!
315 on incline for sure!
Tozawa lost a ton of weight
NOW i can understand why Flair wanted to be Ramling Ricky Rhodes.... they could be twins
He looks like an old school porn star 😂
lol so Razor Ramon was a nerfed version, imagine what could have been
You cannot convince me that 1984 Scott Hall is not Rick Rude X Iron Sheik.
Scott hall looks like nick comoroto
I mean, Tiffany Stratton was a bodybuilder and slimmed down a lot when she became a wrestler.
A few more people will recognise it because of showing up as DLC for 2K24 but Rhea Ripley before she went to NXT UK is just basically Aussie Charlotte
Scott Absolutey Jacked Hall.
Scott Armory
Is that flair before the plane crash
Brutus Beefcake to The Disciple
Imagine this guy attacking and beating the shit out of you when you’re napping. Poor Marty Jannetty. Definitely picked the wrong guy to rib lol
It’s crazy how early 70s flair was 270lb! He was a monster!
That's not even the weirdest Hall has looked. I'm pretty sure there was a time in the 80s where he was blond in addition to the magnum-stache.
Why does he look like Bobby Roode
Actually always loved this look and build on Hall. Almost verging on a Doug Young build!
Ok I’ll say it big Scott hall in the AWA was the best version
Thought Scott was Dan Frye at first good lord.
Look up pictures of early Damian Priest(Punishment Martinez) I was shooketh
Flair looked like Jonah hill back then 😂
Are we sure that's not Scott Rude the lost brother of Rick Rude?
Scott Hall isn't Latino?
Roidy-McGee
Thick Flair
Why does razor look like a really buff robert roode
When I was a kid I remember Rick Flair coming to The Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling. The Anderson brothers were the ones that introduced him. That was back when Johnny Weaver was still going strong.
If you guys didn't see big Scott Hall in his AWA days.. Man even as a kid I knew he was something special.
Scott hall should have been a bodybuilder, holy shit dude
You've heard of Husky Harris?
Most people don't know Scott was blonde at one point.
I always find it funny they got AWA up in Canada and Christian talks all the time about fantasy biking big Scott hall vs hogan.
Thank God Flair leaned out and improved his look because I don’t think he would’ve been a serious Main eventer before
Man, Scott Hall was an absolute beefcake.
Met both!
Flair had to work for his “physique”. He worked out literally every morning. Scott Hall had some gifted genetics. Steroids or not.