Emory Hale

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Emory Hail
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Ring name(s)	Emory Hale Lord Humongous The Machine Hail
Billed height	6 ft 9 in (206 cm)
Billed weight	350 lb (159 kg)
Born	December 13, 1969 St Petersburg, Florida
Died	January 28, 2006

Emory Hale (1969 December 13 - 2006 January 28) was a professional wrestler and bodyguard. He made appearances for World Championship Wrestling and the X Wrestling Federation. Emory Hale was brought in to WCW by Jimmy Hart to be the "Next Big Thing" in line for a Main Event program/angle with Hulk Hogan and also managed the big man. During Emory's WCW stint he was in line for somewhat of push which began with WCW running vignettes featuring the big man. Emory headlined WCW Saturday Night for a brief period and after his matches a Siren would go off and the words HALE WARNING would flash across the screen. After his retirement from wrestling, he was a bodyguard for Florida DJ, Bubba The Love Sponge. He died 2006 January 28 from kidney failure.

[edit] Trivia

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!.^{[citation needed]}