| Cody Hall | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Hall in 2019 | |
| Birth name | Cody Taylor Hall |
| Born | (1991-05-31)May 31, 1991 (age 33)[1] Chuluota, Florida, U.S.[1] |
| Parent | Scott Hall (father) |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Cody Hall Psycho Clown[2] |
| Billed height | 6 ft 10 in (208 cm)[1] |
| Billed weight | 268 lb (122 kg)[1] |
| Billed from | Chuluota, Florida |
| Debut | July 14, 2012[1] |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  United States |
| Service |  United States Air Force |
| Unit | 460th Security Forces Squadron |
Cody Taylor Hall (born May 31, 1991)[1] is a retired American professional wrestler. He is best known for working forNew Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he was a former member of theBullet Club stable. Hall is a second generation wrestler, as the son of the lateScott Hall.[3]
Hall was born toScott Hall and Dana Lee Burgio in 1991 and has a sister, Cassidy. He considers fellow professional wrestlersKevin Nash andSean Waltman as uncles due to thembeing close friends of his father.[3]
Hall was a member of the United States Air Force and served an active duty service commitment with the 460th Security Forces Squadron atBuckley Air Force Base in Colorado. Hall departed to become a professional wrestler.[4]
Hall began to train as a professional wrestler in 2010 with his father, as he wanted to follow in his footsteps.[3] Hall's first match took place on July 14, 2012, in Belleview Pro Wrestling, defeating Josh Hess.[5] In the following years, Hall worked in various promotions, usually in tag matches with Kevin Nash or Sean Waltman, both Scott Hall's friends. On November 15, 2014, at Superstars of Wrestling 2, Hall won the Superstars of Wrestling Championship after defeating Tim Zbyszko in a ladder match.[6] In 2014, Hall won the Georgia Heavyweight Championship from Southern Fried Championship Wrestling.
In January 2015, Hall began training at theNew Japan Pro-Wrestling dojo.[7] On January 5 atNew Year Dash!!, Hall debuted asBullet Club's personal "young boy" trainee.[7] Hall made his NJPW in-ring debut on February 2, teaming with his stablematesDoc Gallows,Karl Anderson,Kenny Omega andYujiro Takahashi in a ten-man tag team main event, where they were defeated byCaptain New Japan,Hirooki Goto,Katsuyori Shibata,Ryusuke Taguchi andHiroshi Tanahashi, who pinned him for the win.[8] As is usually the case with "young boys" in Japan, Hall would lose many of his first matches with NJPW, and often be pinned in multi-man tag matches, but achieved his first victory on April 29 atWrestling Hinokuni in a tag team match, where he and Yujiro Takahashi defeated Captain New Japan andSatoshi Kojima. Hall, however, was not involved in the finish of the match.[9] Over the next year, Hall mainly worked tag team matches with his Bullet Club stablemates, while also becoming an enforcer forThe Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson).[10] Hall scored his first win himself on April 2, 2016, when he submitted rookieHirai Kawato in a singles match.[11] Hall was injured later that month atInvasion Attack 2016,[12] and remained sidelined until January 2017, when his profile was quietly removed from NJPW's roster page, signaling his departure from the promotion.
On March 13, 2017, the JapanesePro Wrestling Noah promotion announced that Hall would start working regularly for the promotion on April 11.[13] The following month, Hall teamed with Randy Reign in the2017 Global Tag League, finishing with a record of four wins and three losses, failing to advance to the finals.[14] During the tournament, Hall and Reign defeated eventual tournament winners and reigningGHC Tag Team ChampionsMaybach Taniguchi andNaomichi Marufuji, making them the number one contenders to Taniguchi and Marufuji.[15] Hall and Reign received their title shot on June 4, but were defeated by Taniguchi and Marufuji.[16] On October 1, Hall unsuccessfully challengedEli Drake for theGFW Global Championship.[17]
On February 24, 2019, Cody wrestled his final match for Noah.[18]
In 2019, Cody Hall began to work for the JapaneseDDT Pro-Wrestling promotion. However, he left the promotion after making an anti-Asian "yellow fever" joke on Twitter about theCOVID-19 pandemic.[19]
On December 4, 2020,Major League Wrestling announced that Hall had been signed to the company, however, he was released from his contract.[20]
In 2023,Kevin Nash gave an update about Hall's condition, saying that his neck was broken in Japan and he is currently trying to piece his life together since his career-ending surgery and the loss of his father the year before.[21][22]
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