Kevin Nash, he is one interesting dude in the wrestling space, an absolute hero. And yes, right about 10 years ago, I did ask him for an interview and he told me to fuck off. Excuse my language, but I tell you, it made my day because it was so quintessentially Kevin Nash. He was also pivotal to the wrestling scene in the 90s, if you don't know, without him, who the flub knows where professional wrestling would be today. And yes, of course, his career did get cursed by a bunch of injuries, which did turn into a little bit of a meme, but that shouldn't take away from what he did do within that squared circle, which of course is what we're going to talk about today. Now, have you never seen our best off series before, we essentially take Brett Hart's method, which he did talk about in his autobiography, where you look at promos, you look at ring skills, and you take presentation and look and you rate them out of 10. I believe he used Hulk Hogan as an experiment for this. And it was like three out of 10 for in-ring skills. Then look was 10 out of 10 and promos are 10 out of 10. But that's what we're going to get into today with Kevin Nash, but I always like to throw my caveat in there. Anybody that has made it to the WW, the AW, the AW, or like Big Sexy did,

change the game, They deserve all the plaudits in the world. So some bald idiot just throwing a random number on the end of things, it doesn't really mean anything, but it's still fun to talk about. Saying that though, this list has been put together by committee, so it's everybody's thoughts from what culture being thrown into the pot.

And yes, we start with presentation.

And bless Kevin Nash, because the first time he did break on the scene, he was Oz in WCW, and then he was Vinnie Vegas. These were not good gimmicks at all, but it wasn't his fault. I mean, Oz especially was given to him by Dusty Rhodes, who must have watched the movie wizard on anti-on drugs. I don't know how this came out of his brain, but at least Kevin Nash had the balls to do it. Really, though, it's when he shed all of this and became diesel in the WWE, or of course, Kevin Nash himself in WCW, because even though he did have the nickname in the World Wrestling Federation, he was just Kevin Nash, and that's how he got over, and that's why people thought he was so cool.

And as always, look at the guy. He must be a legit seven feet. I met him once. I've already talked about. The dude is so massive, and he was good looking, and he had cool hair. I mean, if you were starting a wrestling promotion tomorrow, you'd probably want someone that looks like Kevin Nash. He also had his finger on the pulse because he loved gritty realism. Go back and watch those black and white

NWO promos when they do first air. It's hard to get your head around it now, but looking at them with your eyes, you're like, this doesn't feel like pro wrestling, dare I say it, this feels pretty badass. And there's no other sort of WWF hokeyness that was going around in 1996 if you're an adult who could watch wrestling go

oh well maybe I'll get into this I mean the NWO4 life thing was basically taken from Ice Cube and he was

just the epitome of cool and he knew how to be sarcastic and he knew how to be a badass there are only

a few people in wrestling history that can go from being a right goof to all of a sudden whooping your

butt and Kevin Nash was one of those guys and once, do you know why he was able to get away with it? I'm just going to repeat it, man. He looked like this. He's also a big fan of the facial expression, something which I think has an understated art in sports entertainment. Just go and watch it when he was in the background of somebody else's promos. He will react to everything, which means in many ways he's still part of the biff. He also took the click gesture of sticking your fingers together and made that something that's still apparent in 2006. And yes, look at the black and white NWO, look at the Wolfpack NWO. There are so many times when he did sort of move into a different group or shift lanes and he came up with something that was just pretty dead cool. And yeah, sure, Vince Oman kind of did wreck this after he made Kevin Ash world champion in the mid-nights because he was so desperate to have a new Hulk Hogan, he started to book Kevin Nash like Hulk Hogan, but nobody wanted to see Diesel sell and be like, oh my gosh, what am I going to do? We just wanted to see him destroy people, which was what he was doing, and then he won the title. We took that way. Didn't make any sense. I just want to double down the fact that he is massive once again, which does help you in professional wrestling. But even if you do want to bring theme music into this, which of course is a massive part of your presentation, well, this is mostly New World Order related again, but the black and white theme, the red and black theme, it just worked every single time. I think you've got to give them an 8.5 out of 10. Once again, you are brand new to professional wrestling. It's just a gift to be able to look like this and Kevin Nash knew how to get the most out of it. So yeah, 8.5 out 10 could probably be a night.

Which is when we move on to promos and of course every single time Kevin Nash in a microphone in his hand, he was more than solid. I don't mean that disparagingly, but he was also the kind of guy that brought in the idea of a cool heel. Go again watch WCW in 1996 and 1997. fans absolutely love Kevin Nash, even if he was feeling with a baby

face, because people just like the guy. He even held the mic in an original way, and actually

we did a whole video about that once and how that can actually make you stand out from

the pack. And yes, sometimes he could be involved in controversial angles. Go and watch his

promo work where he does run down the four horsemen.

Now, there was some sad people after the fact, which you never want in wrestling at the same time.

We didn't know that at the time. It's pretty funny.

I think Kevin Nash would also admit, though, given that he spent most of his career with Scott Hall,

that Scott Hall was the better talker. I actually mean that in a positive way, because he could go crazy here and there, whereas Kevin Nash was always a little bit understated, but I think that is a massive plus, but once again, because it was all on Hall and Nash, I don't think we talked about it enough. I mean, he absolutely had his own star, and I would say the two together actually accentuated the other one. They were more than a sum of their parts. And the only issue, when it does come to Kevin Nash is talking, is that a lot of people always referenced that promo. He did cover WCW where he got the verb wrong. But listen, we all make mistakes. I can barely get through a day. Once again though, he was just so damn reliable and no promoter on the planet would be like, oh my gosh, we've got to send Kevin Nash to the ring to do a promo because you knew he was always going to, at very least, hit a double. So I'm going to give him a 7.5 out of 10. And the only reason it's not an 8 is because if I told you to tell me the most memorable Kevin Nash promo, but once more, he was a steady Eddie as aside from a, I can't believe he just threw that out there. but I mean that as a bigger posit as I could.

In terms of bringing every single thing together under one roof, Kevin Nash could basically do it all. As I have just thrown a seven in there as well, I want to underline. We're not talking about a video game seven. I know I say this on every single video. But in video games, if you say seven, for some reason that's average. I am saying seven, as in close to eight and potentially close to nine, it's meant to be good.

So what about being in the ring? Well, Kevin Nash would be the first guy to tell you that he's not bumping unless he is getting paid. And I do not think that is something to beat him with. Look at how many people come out the other side of resting totally broken. I think the idea should be that you do get the most miles out of it as you can. That's exactly what Big Kef did.

Carrying on down that lane as well, Kevin Nash totally understood how to play the big man, or be the big man, I should say. That wasn't the right verbiage at all. Go look at his sidewalk slam, which is one of the best in the business. Go look at his choke slam that is vastly underrated. and of course he had the jackknife power bomb, where he would take

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