10 Times WWE Used Disgusting Tactics To Get Heat (Part 2)

False Advertising (1996)

When WWE lost Kevin ‘Diesel’ Nash and Scott ‘Razor Ramon’ Hall to WCW in 1996, many fans made the switch to the Turner show with them. WCW was vibrant and exciting, the place to see all of your favourites from the past, the present and indeed the future.

Vince McMahon decided to counter that as only he can. One day he woke up and decided that it was not Hall and Nash who were the stars, it was the characters they portrayed, Diesel and Razor, who were the stars. He owned the rights to those so he would just have someone else play them.

Of course, WWE then advertised that Razor Ramon and Diesel were returning, giving the impression that it was the original characters. It was a cheap trick to generate ratings.

McMahon forced hatchet man Jim Ross to be the fall guy, having him introduce the new/old pair on Raw. Glenn ‘Kane’ Jacobs played Diesel, with journeyman Rick Bognor donning the Razor garb.

Predictably the crowd turned on the cheap facsimilies immediately, rejecting them entirely. McMahon had been dead wrong – Diesel and Razor were not the stars, Nash and Hall were.

Of course, everyone else on the planet already knew that.

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