Scott Hall Says Bullying Can’t Be Tolerated in Wrestling

Scott Hall appeared on the Pro Wrestling Illustrated Podcast for a new interview promoting an appearance for Fight the World Wrestling in Deer Park, New York. You can listen to the podcast below and check out some highlights:

On the recent discussion around bullying backstage in WWE: “Obviously, I’m against bullying, but it does happen. The business has changed so much since I came in it. When I came in, there wasn’t a bunch of women wrestlers. There was maybe one or two who came in a couple months a year. Now in the locker room, there’s women. It’s much more politically correct than it was when I started. So I think the bullying stuff -— that’s not tolerated anywhere. So it certainly can’t be tolerated in the wrestling business.”

On ribbing: “Everybody’s going to have their own tolerance toward ribbing, or bullying or whatever. If somebody’s more sensitive, then you can’t rib them as much . . . The whole thing is you don’t rub guys you don’t like. You rib guys you do like. And then you’re there for them to rib back. A lot of times on the road, the grind is so much that we’d just try to amuse ourselves by doing stuff like that.”

On mean-spirited ribs being out of bounds: “It’s like when you find out a guy’s room number then you go down to the bar and buy drinks for everybody and then you go, ‘Hey, just charge the drinks to my room,’ and put his room number down. To me, that’s funny. I might charge a bunch of drinks to your room, but I’m not going to steal your passport.”