Emory Hale (December 13, 1969 – January 28, 2006) was as a professional wrestler with World Championship Wrestling in 1998, and then going to theX Wrestling Federation. He was brought into WCW by Jimmy Hart to be the next "big thing," in line for a main event. His WCW matches were highlighted by flashing the "Hail" warning, as his "birth" name was Emory Hail. He was known in WCW for his jumping piledrivers called "Hail's Bell".
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Emory Hale (December 13, 1969 – January 28, 2006) was as a professional wrestler with World Championship Wrestling in 1998, and then going to theX Wrestling Federation. He was brought into WCW by Jimmy Hart to be the next "big thing," in line for a main event. His WCW matches were highlighted by flashing the "Hail" warning, as his "birth" name was Emory Hail. He was known in WCW for his jumping piledrivers called "Hail's Bell".
His masked persona, "The Machine," was taken directly from the Nicolas Cage movie 8MM, in which the character was a masked sadist in snuff films. Jeremy Borash acknowledged the inspiration for the character on WCW Live!. He only worked one match under the gimmick against Diamond Dallas Page which was universally panned and referred to in the book The Death of WCW.
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