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Stats Real Name: Kevin Nash Previous Names(Gimmicks): Nitron, Master Blaster Steel, Oz, Vinnie Vegas, and Diesel Height: 6'11 Weight: 317 lbs Age: 4? Hometown: Scottsdale, AZ Years in Wrestling: 8 Titles: WWF World Championship (1, November 94 - November 95), WWF InterContinental Championship (1, May 94 - August 94), WWF World Tag Titles (2 w/ Shawn Michaels, August 94 - November 94, September 95), and nWo/WCW World Tag Team Titles (1 w/ Scot t Hall, October 96 - Present). Family: Wife: Tamara, Daughter: ???? Athletics: Played Basketball at the University of Tennessee in the late 70's, as well as in Europe. Movies/TV: Played Super Shredder in TMNT 2, and recently appeared as The Giant on the ABC sitcom, Sabrina the Teenage Witch. | ||||||||||||||||
| The Horrid Past | |||||||||||||||||
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Kevin Nash started his wrestling career, during the ending days of the old National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), Nash started out as the bodyguard for then Doom manager, "Woman" Nancy Sullivan. This though didn't last long, as Nash was for the first of many times is his NWA/WCW days poorly used. So after Woman "lost" managership of Doom, Nash disappeared, but would several months later reappear as Steel of the Master Blasters! The Master Blasters, were not utilized well during their tenure, though they did receive a WCW tag team title shot, the team was nothing more than fodder for World Wide Wrestling and WCW Pro TV tapings. Roughly six months later, the team was disbanded, an d Nash had nothing to do. Then one day, the American Dream Dusty Rhodes, one of WCW's top booker's took a look at Nash, and created a new gimmick. Nash would become a 7 foot tall wizard, named Oz. Oz made his debut at a May 1991 Clash of the Champions on TBS, with his hair dyed silver, wearing green tights and a green robe, and followed by a midget, Oz, easily defeated Johnny Rich, with moves later to be defined in other gimmicks as the "Snake Eyes" and "JackKnife." This gimmick didn't last long, so Kevin was given yet again another gimmick, this time that of Vinnie Vegas, a casino bouncer type. Donned in pink tights and vest, and managed by good friend Diamond Dallas Page, Nash had little success. Again he was being used for nothing more than house show and tv tapings use. In fact it was a house show at Chicago's UIC Pavilion, where I saw Nash as Vegas team with Mr. Hughes against Ron Simmons and Big Josh, in a match where Mr. Hughes had to be carted off, after suffering a mild stroke. The makings of a star Stuck in the hell hole of WCW mediocrity, Nash decided to move on, and was "discovered" by WWF head honcho Vince McMahon, McMahon saw the possibilities, in using a man of Nash's talents, so he signed Nash up, to become, Diesel! Nash first appeared in l ate 1993, as the bodyguard of former WWF Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels. Utilized to help HBK regain the IC belt from Marty Jannetty, Diesel grew into his own, in 1994, beginning at the Royal Rumble. After a great performance at RR94, Nash went on in the early spring to defeat Razor Ramon for the IC title. Things really began to go great for Kevin here, in June of 94, he got his first shot at the WWF World Title, as he took on then champ Bret Hart at the King of the Ring. The match showed Nash's true ability to incite the crowd, as he won the bout via disqualification, when Jim Neidhart interfered after Nash had just jackknifed Hart and was going for the win! From that moment on, you could tell Nash was gonna be something big! Big Daddy Cool Diesel would have the biggest year of his professional career in 1994, after the World Title match against Hart, Nash would start to regularly team with HBK in tag matches, eventually they would win the WWF Tag Team Titles the night before SummerSlam in Chicago. Defeating the Headshrinkers on a house show in Indianapolis, the duo would come to SummerSlam the next night, as Diesel defended his IC belt against Razor Ramon, who had former Chicago Bears great Walter Payton in his corner! With P ayton running interference for Ramon, and an untimed superkick by Michaels which connected on Diesel instead of Ramon, Razor regained the IC title. This would mark the beginning of the end for the team of Diesel and HBK. The end culminated at the Survivor Series event, where a team led by Michaels took on a team led by Ramon, with Diesel doing most of the owrk, eliminating most of Ramon's team, and then working over Ramon, HBK's ego got in the way, and he demanded to be tagged in. Diesel complied, tagged HBK in, but when Diesel stood Ramon up, prepping him for a HBK superkick, Michaels again missed and connected on Diesel. Furiating Diesel, HBK ran out of the arena, telling the world, that Diesel could have the tag belts, claiming that the team was over! It sure was, but this would turn out to be a great advantage to Diesel. For on that same card, Bob Backlund defeated and severely injured Bret Hart for the WWF title, with Hart unable to go the following sunday in the rematch at New York's famed Madison S quare Garden, Diesel stepped in, and in 6 seconds time, jackkinfed and pinned Backlund to become the WWF World Heavyweight Champion! As great 1994 was for Diesel, 1995 would be even better for the WWF, as it went through the "Year of the Diesel!" The WWF prospered by Diesel being their champion, as record sales in all facets were made by fans wanting to see Big Daddy Cool defend his go ld. Defending the title against such competitors as Bret Hart (Royal Rumble 95), Owen Hart, Bob Backlund, Jeff Jarrett, Jerry Lawler, Shawn Michaels (Wrestlemania 11), Sycho Sid (In Your House), Davey Boy Smith, King Mabel (SummerSlam 95), etc..., Diesel made his mark as one of the great WWF champs, holding the WWF title for 358 days, the longest reign of a WWF champ since Hulk Hogan's 2nd WWF title reign in 1989! But it would all end for Diesel at Survivor Series 95, when Bret Hart regained the WWF title , with a small package pin of Diesel, after Diesel was setting Hart up for a jackknife. The next night on WWF RAW, Diesel exclaimed, that he was coming to an end of being the corporate merchandising puppet of the WWF, and he was going back to being the Di esel who kicked butt at the 1994 Royal Rumble. And so came back the "old" Big Daddy Cool Diesel, he went on a rampage in what would wind up being his last few months if the WWF (more on that in a bit). Interefering in the Bret Hart/Undertaker title match at RR96, attacking Shawn Michaels at an MSG eve nt, and causing chaos throughout the federation, Diesel wasn't to be messed with. But alas things began to go downhill for BDC, a major loss to the Undertaker at Wrestlemania 12, and then a loss to HBK in a no holds barred match at an In Your House event, marred the end of Diesel's tenure in the WWF. For on May 19th, Nash appeared as Diesel for the final time in the World Wrestling Federation, losing to Shawn Michaels in a cage match. Following the match, the also departing Scott "Razor Ramon" Hall, along with Jean-Paul "Hunter Hearse Helmsley" Levesque, came down to ringside, in a non scripted moment, and embraced each other as the "Clique" was broken up, with the departure of Nash, Hall, as well as Sean "1-2-3 Kid" Waltman. But this would not be the la st time, Nash and Hall would be seen together...... | ||||||||||||||||
| A New Era in Wrestling� | |||||||||||||||||
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Two weeks after Scott Hall appeared on WCW's Monday Nitro, announcing "we are taking over..", he called out his good buddy, the "Big Man" Kevin Nash to confront WCW top dog Eric Bischoff. Stating that he along with Hall and one other guy, could take on three of the best WCW had to offer, Nash demanded a six man tag match. Bischoff told em they'd have to wait for the upcoming Great American Bash event to get their answer. Well when GAB came around, Bischoff announced to Nash and Hall, that they would in deed get there match, but when he refused to tell em, who they would be facing, Hall punched Bischoff in the stomach, and Kevin jackknifed him through the stage. From that moment on Nash and Hall solidified themselves as a force in WCW. At the next pay p er view, Bash at the Beach, the two were joined by Hollywood Hulk Hogan, and the forned the New World Order. The nWo as it would come to be commonly called, quickly took control of WCW, with takeovers of Monday Nitro, culminating in Nash and Hall attacki ng several WCW guys in the backlot of the Disney studios, and Nash slamming Rey Mysterio Jr. head first into a trailer. But that wasn't enough. by Halloween Havoc in October, Kevin Nash and Scott Hall seized control of the WCW World Tag Team Titles, by de feating Harlem Heat. Soon the nWo would totally control WCW when it recruited the same Eric Bischoff that Kevin jacked in June. With Bischoff in the fold, the nWo was secured for life. So secured that when the Outsiders (Nash & Hall) lost the now nWo/WCW Tag Titles to the Steiners at the nWo's first pay per view, Souled Out, Bischoff forced the Steiners the next monday on Nitro to return the belts to their rightful owners, for ya see, the Steiners got the pin, via a ref erre who was not part of the show. And when confusion and treason rang out in the nWo it was Kevin Nash who brought everyone together in his "State of the nWo" address. With peace ringing out in the nWo, Kevin Nash shall triumph in WCW for many years to come.........Just as soon as he becomes THE CHAMP | ||||||||||||||||
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