Kevin Nash and Sean Oliver previewed WWE Crown Jewel on the latest "Kliq This" podcast. As usual, some stories were mixed into the podcast, including the one about Scott Hall (Razor Ramon) not wanting to work with Dustin Rhodes (Goldust) in 1996.
As the story goes, the feud kicked off and they were set to have a match at WrestleMania 12 in Anaheim, California. Hall was said to be uncomfortable with working with Goldust and then plans changed with Roddy Piper stepping in for the match at WrestleMania.
Kevin Nash talked about the reason Scott Hall felt uncomfortable working with Goldust in WWE:
"He was very uncomfortable," Nash said. "They did the Goldust angle. He unzips his singlet, Goldust the character does, and there's a heart, and on the heart, it says Razor. Scott's son, Cody, was like five years old when that angle played. He came home and Cody said, 'Dad, why does that mean?'" Nash continued, "Scott, who wasn’t a homophobe, told Vince, he goes, ‘If I have to go home and explain this to my kid’, because you can't just say, 'Oh, well, you know, some men.’ I mean, you have to go into that whole, you know, and so Scott just said, 'I don't feel comfortable doing it.' That's all it was. It wasn't that Scott was a homophobe. Scott just didn't want to teach his five year old kid about homosexuality where now it’s a different world.”
Hall was on the original WrestleMania 12 posters but because his angle with Goldust was scrapped, he was left off the card. This was also during the time when he was on his way out of WWE as he was about to jump to WCW.
If you use any portion of the quotes from this article please credit Kliq This TV with a h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription.
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