WWE Hall of Famer Kevin Nash was the latest guest on Jim Ross’ Ross Report podcast and commented on a few topics related to WWE Chairman Vince McMahon.
Nash, a former WWE Champion who was Vince McMahon’s top star in the mid-1990’s when he wrestled as Diesel, has a unique perspective of Vince and how his mind works. During the discussion with Jim Ross, Nash commented on rumors of an XFL reboot and what Vince McMahon told him about the downside of today’s generation of Superstars.
Rumors of an XFL Reboot:
With Vince McMahon recently selling over $100 million of WWE stock and a new McMahon-backed entity Alpha Entertainment filing for several XFL-related trademarks, there’s been a lot of speculation that Vince is looking to get back into the football business in some capacity. Knowing how fiercely competitive Vince can be and the embarrassment surrounding the XFL’s initial run, Kevin Nash wouldn’t be surprised if there was some validity to the rumors.
“Vince doesn’t like to have a black mark anywhere on his dossier,” Nash said. “At the beginning [of the XFL], the numbers were great, and it wasn’t the right place at the right time.”
Vince McMahon’s Opinion of the Current Roster:
“I remember one time I was talking to Vince – it wasn’t the last WrestleMania, I think it was the one before – and I just asked him how things were,” Nash said.
“And he goes, ‘The thing that’s changed more than anything, [is] back when you broke in here in the fed, it was a shark tank. Like, everybody went after that top prize, and it was a battle. Now, [wrestlers] wait for him to come around with a sword and anoint them.’ It’s just not the same anymore.”
Considering Vince McMahon’s penchant for ruthless aggression, – it sounds like Vince might prefer the good old days of talent “grabbing the brass ring” and not waiting for it to be given to them.
– WWE Hall of Famer Kevin Nash will be donating his brain and spinal card to the CTE Center at Boston University and the Concussion Legacy Foundation after his death. Nash spoke with Michael Rothstein of ESPN.com this week about the decision.
“Chris Nowinski started the program, and I’ve had several concussions throughout my life and had scans done and stuff and knew that somewhere down the line, I’ve already had short-term memory problems,” Nash said. “I decided to go ahead. The only way you can diagnose this is after you’re dead.”
Former WWE Superstar Chris Nowinski said, “It’s so powerful when icons like Kevin Nash are willing to pledge their brain for research and talk about it publicly. Brain donation is really driving our growing knowledge of CTE and the long-term effects of brain trauma. And so I’m hoping that we solve this problem before Kevin’s time comes, but Kevin announcing this means that other families are aware that this research is important and that if they lose somebody, they may think of the concussion legacy foundation.”
– Cruiserweight Superstar Noam Dar underwent successful knee surgery in Orlando on Thursday, according to WWE.com. Darr recently suffered a “bucket handle tear” of his left meniscus and underwent an MRI prior to Monday’s RAW. According to Darr, he will most likely be out of action for around 5 months.
– NJPW high flyer Will Ospreay released this list of wrestlers he hopes to work with for the first time in 2018.
– WWE Hall Of Famer Kevin Nash underwent a right knee replacement surgery earlier this week. Nash posted the following photos and revealed it took more than 20 staples to close him up:
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– Jinder Mahal was gifted a custom ring jacket by designer Narendra Kumar to wear for his match against Triple H tomorrow at the WWE Supershow live event in New Delhi, India. Mahal Tweeted out the following photo:
Former WWE and WCW World Champion Kevin Nash recently made an appearance on Sean Waltman’s (a.k.a. X-Pac) podcast, X-Pack 12360, to talk about a variety of professional wrestling topics. Nash discussed why he had heat with former WCW President Eric Bischoff after his initial run with the promotion, and Bischoff pitching him the idea for the N.W.O. You can check out the highlights here:
Having heat with Bischoff after leaving WCW, following his first stint with the company:
“He and I didn’t have a relationship, in fact, I actually had heat with him. I was trying to get out of my contract when I was Vinnie Vegas and he said to me that I had talent and that he was going to try and take over this place and that I should stick around; of course I didn’t believe he would take it over,” Nash said.
“He told me that he had heat with me because I told him that I would stick around but then requested for my release the next day, so he told me he was disappointed in me because I told him that I was staying, but I told him, you were an announcer, it wasn’t like you were the boss. It’s one thing to lie to the boss, but I was just trying to get out of the office alive, and go use the fax machine down the hall to get my release.”
Bischoff pitching him the NWO idea:
“It was actually Eric’s idea. Eric pitched it to me. He came out to Scottsdale, Arizona and pitched the idea,” Nash explained. “I remember them doing something similar in Japan but it wasn’t that big of a deal; it was effective but it wasn’t to what the nWo became, so I said okay. I mean, all I am knowing is that I am getting guaranteed money and it’s a lot. For the first time in my life, I am actually going to be able to budget my money because I knew exactly what I was receiving before coming in.”
You can listen to Nash’s full interview on the X-Pack 12360 show by clicking here.
WWE Hall Of Famer Kevin Nash recently joined former WWE Superstar Sean Waltman’s (a.k.a. X-Pac) podcast, X-Pac 12360, to talk about a variety of professional wrestling topics. Nash discussed his 2011 return to WWE in which it seemed as though he would be feuding with CM Punk – put the pair never had a match. Nash returned at the 2011 SummerSlam pay-per-view (PPV) and attacked Punk, allowing Alberto Del Rio to cash in his Money In the Bank briefcase to win the WWE Title. The Following night on RAW, Punk cut a promo on Nash that seemed to rub the WWE Legend the wrong way:
“I don’t know if Punk wanted [the match] to happen. To me, when I came back, I never had been there when I was handed a script where here was my script and I had to follow it,” Nash said.
“I’m reading the script and in the script he is burying me and I have no rebuttal, and you know, Paul [Triple H] is one of my best friends on earth, and anything that you do, like the old Kevin Nash would say–because in my mind, when I read that, and if you remember the scenario, the scenario was that I came down and stuck Punk and Del Rio came down and took the Money in the Bank and took his belt, so he comes out the next Monday and cuts this promo, laugh out loud that he heard I was dead, click, click, click your knees.
“Then I thought to myself, let me get this straight, I cost you the title, and you are going to do stand-up comedy and bury me because I’m old?”
Punk used a ton of personal insults on Nash; discussing things such as his age, referencing Nash calling Eddie Guerrero a “Vanilla midget,” saying it’s not 1997 anymore, and many more. Nash was so enraged by this that he actually contemplated going backstage and physically confronting Punk:
“First thing in my mind was, because he told me that this isn’t 1997 anymore and I’m the guy that called Eddie Guerrero a Vanilla Midget; and I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, number one thank God it’s not 1997 because if it was 1997 right now you would be out with the marks in the crowd and not standing here because we didn’t allow the marks to wrestle back then,” Nash said.
“Number two, I am old, so you have two options; either you go in the back—I’ll give you three, you go in the back and call it a day, second, you wait for me to get up there and apologize to me, or third, off script let’s see what you got. I would have loved to have seen what he would have done if I just went up and bear clawed him right to the face; but Paul was the boss.”
WWE Hall Of Famer Kevin Nash recently sat down with Former DX Member Sean Waltman for Waltman’s X-Pac 1-2-360 podcast. During the course of it, the duo discussed a number of controversial topics which have been in talks recently such as The Young Bucks using Too Sweet gesture and more. Below are some of the highlights from the podcast:
Kevin on working with Samoa Joe and Bobby Roode:
“I think I was instrumental teaching them just how to chain wrestle. There was so much talent there, there really was a ton of talent. It reminded me a lot of when we all came to WCW. There was Eddie, Dragon, Benoit, Juventud, Rey -they had so much young good talent and we had the nucleus of older veteran guys to hold them down, cause that’s what you do. I always thought Joe was special and immediately when he got to NXT, I thought he would be a perfect opponent for Brock Lesnar; that it would be a real good match up. Roode was always really solid, I am surprise it took him so long to get into the fold of WWE.”
Nash on Young Bucks using the Too Sweet gesture:
“You [Waltman] created that, that’s your hand signal. You’re the one that came in and told the rest of us…so if anybody should get credit for that hand gesture, it’s you. You showed it to “The Kliq”, it’s our inside hand gesture; so if they want to call it “Too Sweet” that’s fine. I mean I am sure someone created the peace sign, you’re not gonna get intellectual rights on that…It keeps us alive.”
Sean on the Enzo Amore and Neville situation:
“I think they (WWE) should have left it on Enzo a little longer. When they put the championship on him…he’s done really well with it. I think people are watching more. Has there ever been a cruiserweight title match main event RAW ever? No. Some people may not like Enzo, but let’s give credit where it’s due.”
Waltman on Sami Zayn’s heel turn:
“Crazy thing, It might have been 6 months ago, maybe not that long ago…I was like, they aren’t doing much with Sami Zayn. It’s a crying shame because he’s one of the best talents they (WWE) has. So, I got on my phone, texted Hunter: you should turn Sami Zayn heel. You would not believe how he crapped on that idea. I mean, he thought I was a complete moron for suggesting that (laughs).”
Kevin Nash recently posted that he is set for surgery due to a meniscus tear. The surgery will take place on Tuesday and it will mark the 32nd time he has gone under the knife.
Facing my 32nd surgery.Few return after 10. Today's my quad injury anniversary. Fuck it guess you better drive a steak in my heart. pic.twitter.com/cXJcAZxipo
Edge makes fun of Great Balls of Fire PPV name and logo
On the latest episode of E&C’s Pod of Awesomeness, Edge and Christian broke down tonight’s Great Balls of Fire PPV. During the discussion, Edge decided to give his thoughts on the Great Balls of Fire PPV name and it’s interesting looking logo. Here is what Edge said about Great Balls of Fire:
“Before we go any further for how stoked I am for Joe vs. Brock, I gotta mention again this pay-per-view name is just brutal. I mean, come on. It’s a great song, I’m a fan of Jerry Lee Lewis, I appreciate everything he did, dancing on pianos, setting them on fire, he was a trendsetter, he was a groundbreaker; that song was from the 50s, I don’t know if it needs to be the name of a pay-per-view. I picture just flaming testicles now when I hear that. And then when you see the logo for it it just looks like flaming testicles.”
UK promotion Insane Championship Wrestling (ICW) has revealed Kevin Nash as the special guest Commissioner for their upcoming Fear & Loathing X event in Scotland.
ICW is arguably the biggest promotion in the UK, last year’s Fear & Loathing event took place at the SSE Hydro Glasgow in front of over 6,000 fans and featured Finn Balor as the guest Commissioner.
Check out the free match that ICW has released between Kurt Angle and homegrown star Joe Coffey for a taste of the ICW style.
– The New York Post is the latest mainstream media outlet to pick up the story of JBL allegedly bullying Mauro Ranallo out of WWE. The article questions how long WWE can ignore the scandal before taking disciplinary action against JBL.
WWE legend Kevin Nash gave his thoughts on the JBL situation on Thursday morning. Nash defends JBL as ‘thoughtful’ and ‘intelligent’ while curiously saying, “Don’t be a bitch.”
@JCLayfield Saw a few stories about JBL being a bully . One of the most intelligent performers just is man that expects the men to be men
Nikki Bella was recently interviewed by TMZ Sports and revealed that she didn’t believe that Cena would propose to her at Wrestlemania 33. Bella also stated that she will not be having children because Cena does not want them.
Kevin Nash appeared on the Comedy Central series Detroiters last night. Nash played Big Hank Cramblin, an advertising executive who was recently released from an insane asylum. Detroiters airs Tuesday nights on Comedy Central.
If this photo has you curious. Check out the @Detroiters on Comedy Central @ 10 :30 tonight. Guy in the middle looks familiar pic.twitter.com/15UqHt9Ce2
Kevin Nash revealed on Instagram that he’s undergoing surgery for a torn rotator cuff, a detached rotator cuff, a torn bicep and a torn labrum.
“Just got my MRI back, torn rotator cuff one detached, torn long head right bicept,torn labrum. Going for surgery 31. Thought I’d grind a little bone on bone and get a pump today. Read on @therock the other day instead of why me? Try me! Shits on right shoulder.”
Slaw is a parody of the horror franchise Saw and it is looking like it will be finally be released. The film was originally announced in July of 2015 but little has been heard of it since. Recently, Green Apple Entertainment acquired the film and stated in a press release today that they plan on releasing Slaw later this year. Below is the only video I could find of the film. As you can see in the trailer, Kevin Nash is in the film. Luke Gallows and other Bullet Club members also appear in the film. There was a screening of Slaw last year and some reviews came out. Cody Hamman of JoBlo gave Slaw a 6 out of 10. Hamman stated “if you like wrestlers and staggeringly dopey jokes, Slaw is out there for you”.
The WWE released a new video of The Resurrection of Gavin Stone with Shawn Michaelson their YouTube account.
The WWE Hall of Famer was advertised to appear for DREAMWAVE Wrestling on Saturday in La Salle, Illinois, but was a no-show. Following this, DREAMWAVE Wrestling CEO Jay Repsel sent out a tweet asking for someone to check on Hall’s whereabouts. According to Repsel, Hall is not returning his calls or texts after failing to board a flight to the event.
Hall was advertised to appear alongside Shawn Michaels, Kevin Nash and Sean Waltman at the event. Ultimately, only HBK and Nash appeared as Waltman also wasn’t able to make it for undisclosed reasons. Waltman, however, sent out an apology on Twitter and has agreed to appear at a show in December.
Former WWE and WCW Champion Kevin Nash was recently a guest on Vince Russo’s Podcast One show. When Nash, who is currently retired, was asked about if he would ever return to wrestling he had two specific scenarios in mind. One scenario was if WWE ever forms a new NWO stable, and the other scenario was if he returns as Diesel to play Dolph Ziggler’s bodyguard.
Nash went into detail about what he’d like to do as “Dolph Ziggler’s Diesel.” Nash says that Ziggler should be treated as a heel instead of a face, and that he wouldn’t have to say a word because he feels Ziggler can cut a good promo. Nash says Ziggler’s character, as a heel, could use Diesel for when he wrestles physically larger competitors, like Baron Corbin.
Nash made his WWE debut as Diesel back in 1993 when he was acting as Shawn Michaels’ bodyguard, and draws several similarities between Michaels and Ziggler.
“He does the same thing Shawn Michaels did,” Nash said of Ziggler. “He takes every bump and beating, and usually they beat him. But to me, his in-ring work is as good as anyone’s in the business right now. He works so hard.”
You can listen to to the entire podcast with Nash and Russo here.
Former World Heavyweight Champion Kevin Nash recently spoke to Sports Illustrated about current events in WWE. The Hall of Famer talked about Roman Reigns being suspended for failing a drug test, which has reportedly gotten Reigns major heat with WWE Chairman Vince McMahon. Nash believes that despite this being a bad time for Reigns, he will go on to be a major star.
“Every time I talk to him, he seems like a really well-adjusted, very nice gentleman,” Nash said. “I think he’s got a great look, I think he’s very athletic, I think things will work out for him. It’s just a bad time for him right now, but he’ll be a big star for that company.”
With last Thursday marking the 20-year anniversary of the formation of the New World Order in WCW, Nash was asked about The Club using their “too sweet” hand gesture on TV. Nash also took the opportunity to address what he feels is mishandling of AJ Styles, Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows by the WWE creative team.
“If you’re over enough to use that, and the people don’t sh– on you, you’re over. I don’t mind it at all,” Nash said. “I just didn’t like them bringing in Doc and Anderson, then having that six-man elimination match [against Roman Reigns and The Uso’s]. There is no reason to beat those two guys coming in the door. You’re missing heel talent, and you’re going to beat these two guys? But they corrected it. It’s almost like, ‘No one can get over you except us,’ even though you were over someplace else. They make the reference to AJ like he was a Japan guy–he was a TNA guy. He was in Japan for like a year. And the thing is, he’s tearing the TV up.”
– Wrestling data analyst Chris Harrington dug into this week’s RAW viewership numbers and found an interesting (troubling) fact about this week’s 3rd hour. Monday’s RAW averaged 3.255 million viewers, with the following hourly breakdown:
Hour 1: 3.371 million
Hour 2: 3.490 million
Hour 3: 2.903 million
Harrington notes that the 3rd hour drop in viewership (578,000 viewers) is the 2nd largest loss in viewership for the final hour of RAW in over 90 weeks. For a much more in-depth look at which Superstars’ “Hour 3” matches have lost the most viewers over time, check out Harrington’s latest #Wrestlenomics article over at Indeedwrestling.blogspot.com.
– Kliq members Shawn Michaels and Kevin Nash visited Triple H at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando on Tuesday. Nash called it an “unbelievable facility” and noted that he saw some great looking talent training there.
– NXT star Tucker Knight recently spoke with The Portland Tribune and commented on the spectacle that is WWE:
“Seeing any athlete doing things the vast majority of society is incapable of doing, that’s just intriguing. Then, with WWE, you combine it with this grandiose production, the fireworks, and it’s even more.”
– Tonight’s new Table for 3 on the WWE Network features Kliq members Scott Hall, Kevin Nash and Sean Waltman.
– Wednesday’s new Table For 3 on the WWE Network will feature Scott Hall, Kevin Nash and Sean Waltman.
– WWE Games just released this video of WWE stars talking about some of their biggest matches at the WWE HOF last month:
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– Daniel Bryan continues to work out and get back in good physical shape, fueling the rumors that he’s looking to get back in the ring. He posted this video to Instagram today:
– WWE Hall of Famer Kevin Nash got a lot of heat on Twitter yesterday with this photo showing support for United States Presidential candidate Donald Trump:
Kevin Nash has announced that he will donate his brain and spinal cord to the CTE Center at Boston University and the Concussion Legacy Foundation after he passes away. The WWE Hall of Famer broke the news on ESPN.com, along with comments from former WWE star Chris Nowinski.
“Chris Nowinski started the program, and I’ve had several concussions throughout my life and had scans done and stuff and knew that somewhere down the line, I’ve already had short-term memory problems,” Nash told Michael Rothstein of ESPN.com. “I decided to go ahead. The only way you can diagnose this is after you’re dead.”
Chris Nowinski, co-founder of the CTE Center, said he hopes Nash’s announcement inspires other athletes and their families to do the same.
“It’s so powerful when icons like Kevin Nash are willing to pledge their brain for research and talk about it publicly,” said Nowinski. “Brain donation is really driving our growing knowledge of CTE and the long-term effects of brain trauma. And so I’m hoping that we solve this problem before Kevin’s time comes but Kevin announcing this means that other families are aware that this research is important and that if they lose somebody, they may think of the concussion legacy foundation.”
At a couple different points tonight, the official WWE Games Twitter account tweeted these animated GIFs to hype Tuesday’s release of the Hall of Fame downloadable content pack for WWE 2K16, which is out this Tuesday:
It was already known that 1991 versions of Ric Flair and Tatsumi Fujinami plus a relevant match replay mode were in the Hall of Fame pack, but they had two matches that year. It seemed like it made more sense for 2K to base it off their match from Superbrawl in St. Petersburg, Florida, but from the above footage, it looks like they didn’t. Instead, 2K picked the OTHER Flair-Fujinami match, from the NJPW Tokyo Dome show that year, which is known as both WCW Japan Supershow and NJPW Starrcade ’91 In The Tokyo Dome. So that means that the arena that comes in the pack is an ersatz Tokyo Dome, faithfully recreated by 2K Sports. They can’t call it that (and I don’t believe WWE games ever name real venues), but 2K does a great job with the presentation of the arenas and this should be no exception.
Here’s the full lineup for the DLC pack, which, if this is any indication, should also include at least two more WCW arenas and some early ’90s WWF arenas along with period appropriate versions of the wrestlers:
“Macho Man” Randy Savage vs. Jake “The Snake” Roberts
Rikishi vs. The Rock
Alundra Blayze vs. Paige
Larry Zbyszko and Arn Anderson vs. Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat and Dustin Rhodes
Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Ric Flair
The Bushwhackers (Butch Miller and Luke Williams) vs. The Natural Disasters (Typhoon and Earthquake)
The Outsiders (Kevin Nash and Scott Hall) vs. Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray)
Kevin Nash has a new aspiration in sports entertainment: To be a manager. In an interview with Mick Foley’s daughter Noelle to promote his new Wolfpac action figure at RingsideCollectibles.com, Nash revealed who he would like to manage if he returned to WWE.
“I would like to do it as a manager,” Nash said of a potential comeback, “and maybe bring [a new] nWo stable in.”
On the subject of the nWo, and with the WWE Hall of Fame ceremony coming up, Nash also discussed who from the group should be inducted.
“I think it should be the original four… it was basically Hulk [Hogan], Scott [Hall], X-Pac and myself,” said the former WWF World Champion. “Hulk didn’t work house shows, so the only presence we had for the first 8 or 9 months — [1-2-3] Kid was a Cruiserweight, so he’d go out and work a match — then Scott and I would tag. So of the nWo [members] that were working house shows, [it was just] the three of us. I think that if they are going to put the nWo in as a collective group, then it should be us four.”
WWE Hall Of Famer Kevin Nash recently spoke with Sports Illustrated’s “Extra Mustard” blog to talk about a number of topics. Below are some of the highlights.
Focusing on his acting career:
“I take every role, whether it’s a line or more, and try to make it my own. All these people talk about the secret to acting. To me, it’s once you find the character, like Engleheart in ‘The Longest Yard.’ I could turn that character on morning, noon, and night. That’s the key–finding the character.”
“I’ve had a career in wrestling, and this is the next area where I’m determined to be successful. You have to be realistic and know that you’re just going to be a character actor. You’re not going to be a lead, you’re not going to be doing romantic comedies, but there is plenty of work out there.”
Still being amazed by The Undertaker:
“There’s a reason why, right now, Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson are out touring. People want the drama. When guys are kicking out of 450-f—— moonsaults on one-and-a-half, what’s the false finish? There are so few storytellers left, but ‘Taker can go out there and tell a story.”
One more WWE run:
“I have one more run. I’m started to get things fixed. I’m getting my shoulder fixed, I’m getting my neck fixed. I miss it, so never say never.”
Late Saturday night, a photo of a nude woman appeared on the Twitter feed of Kevin Nash. The WWE Hall of Famer addressed the matter in a tweet this afternoon.
It's been brought to my attention my Twitter account was hacked. My apologies to anyone that was offended.
The image in question features a brunette woman posing naked on a bed and taking a photo of herself with her buttocks displayed. While the photo has been deleted, it remains visible on WWE.com’s profile page on Nash since his Twitter feed is embedded.
Nash was in the United Kingdom this weekend for the Blackpool Comic Con.
