History YMMV / KevinNash

* GrowingTheBeard: His run as WWF Champion in 1995 is remembered for being... pretty poor. It's been noted he was the lowest paid WWF Champion because he was the lowest drawing. The highlight of which has to be Bret Hart taking it from him at the Survivor Series (well, that and his PWI Match of the Year with Wrestling/ShawnMichaels, credit for which mostly lays on Michaels.) However, after that, he started becoming a more interesting heel. He then jumped ship to WCW and with the nWo became the MagnificentBastard we know and love.

* VindicatedByHistory: While Nash used to be very disliked by the hardcore fandom for his "lazy" ringwork, backstage politicking, and MoneyDearBoy approach to wrestling, Nash tends to be viewed by them a lot more favorably nowadays. With so many wrestlers from his time having broken down bodies, being addicted to various drugs to deal with the pain they put themselves through, and dying prematurely, as well as the later revelations from Nash about [[https://twitter.com/RealKevinNash/status/1214637307883642883 how fucked up his legs actually were]], today's fans are a lot more respectful of Nash understanding his limits unlike so many other wrestlers and not pushing himself in the ring when he could still entertain most fans without doing so. Then with fans better understanding today just how underpaid wrestlers are relative to the revenue they generate and how much of a sham modern WWE contracts are (e.g. WWE can just cut contracted wrestlers at any time and only have to give them 90 days worth of pay instead of paying out the rest of the contract), most fans no longer gripe about Nash leveraging to get big guaranteed contracts, and even see it positively as Nash's efforts got all his fellow wrestlers paid more of their worth during the Monday Night Wars. It also helps that Nash is still a genuinely charismatic and funny guy who is very much self-aware, and that there has been no serious scandals involving Nash[[note]]Aside from an incident in late 2014 where he'd gotten into a physical altercation with his son Tristen. However, when news came out that Tristen attacked his mother (Nash's wife) and Nash only fought back to defend his wife, the incident did no damage to Nash's reputation.[[/note]], making him seem like a pretty good guy whose worst crime was being a bad booker.

*** This is actually incorrect, and constantly gets repeated because Nash himself always gets it wrong too: the limo incident happened a little over a year after the Fingerpoke. What scuttled the plans was Goldberg taking time off to film a movie and Nash and Hogan not wanting to job.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Big men are becoming passe in professional wrestling.[[note]]Wrestling TV ratings and attendance have dropped at about the same rate as the average size of the wrestlers over the last 20 years. Coincidence?[[/note]] And yeah, people are in a BrokenBase over Nash now. But back in the day, when he was actually booked well, he was an ice-cool who just came in and jackknifed your ass.

* FansPreferTheNewHim: In 2003 he famously lost a Hair vs Hair match against Chris Jericho, and had his hair messily cut off so he could have short hair in ''Film/ThePunisher''. Turns out Nash looked pretty good with short hair, and he had bleached it that week as well, so chopping it short already meant it looked better than ''that''.

-->'''[[http://www.ddtdigest.com/updates/1999053m.htm DDT:]]''' Hey, guess what's for sale on Website/EBay? The dartboard that Kevin Nash uses [[DecisionDarts to do the booking.]]

** “What a pittance!” [[note]]In a home-video-exclusive promo from Summerslam '94, Diesel, having just lost the Intercontinental Championship, angrily dismissed his Tag-Team Championship belt as this, tossing it aside to the floor. Both his unique choice of words and his flagrant disregard for one of WWF's highest titles made this clip infamous, especially after its rediscovery by [[WebVideo/OSWReview]].[[/note]]

** “What a pittance!”

** One courtesy of the ''Podcast/DrunkenPeasants'' podcast: "MID-90's [[PerverseSexualLust KEVIN]] [[ADateWithRosiePalms NAAAAASSSSSHHH!]]"

* GermansLoveDavidHasslehoff: Oz actually got over in Japan. It likely helps that by the time he made an excursion to Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling for a pair of shows, the Oz gimmick had dropped all of the campy theatrics that he debuted with, and so Japanese audiences were introduced to a very standard caped wrestler that fit right at home in that promotion. In 1992, when he had already adopted the significantly better-received Vinnie Vegas character in the States, he even brought the Oz gimmick back for another NJPW excursion.

* VindicatedByHistory: While Nash used to be very disliked by the hardcore fandom for his "lazy" ringwork, backstage politicking, and MoneyDearBoy approach to wrestling, Nash tends to be viewed by them a lot more favorably nowadays. With so many wrestlers from his time having broken down bodies, being addicted to various drugs to deal with the pain they put themselves through, and dying prematurely, as well as the later revelations from Nash about [[https://twitter.com/RealKevinNash/status/1214637307883642883 how fucked up his legs actually were]], today's fans are a lot more respectful of Nash understanding his limits unlike so many other wrestlers and not pushing himself in the ring when he could still entertain most fans without doing so. Then with fans better understanding today just how underpaid wrestlers are relative to the revenue they generate and how much of a sham modern WWE contracts are (e.g. WWE can just cut contracted wrestlers at any time and only have to give them 90 days worth of pay instead of paying out the rest of the contract), most fans no longer gripe about Nash leveraging to get big guaranteed contracts, and even see it positively as Nash's efforts got all his fellow wrestlers paid more of their worth during the Monday Night Wars. It also helps that Nash is still a genuinely charismatic and funny guy who is very much self-aware, and that there has been no serious scandals involving Nash[[note]]Aside from an incident in late 2014 where he'd gotten into a physical altercation with his son Tristen, who'd attacked his mother and Nash was just defending his wife.[[/note]], making him seem like a pretty good guy whose worst crime was being a bad booker.

** The "Summer of 1992." [[note]]A meme that originated from Website/FourChan, involving a poster off him admitting that he was sexually assaulted in the Summer of 1992. [[MemeAcknowledgment Nash himself acknowledged this]] on his "Kliq THIS" podcast.[[/note]]

** The "Summer of 1992."[[note]]A meme that originated from Website/FourChan, involving a poster off him admitting that he was sexually assaulted in the Summer of 1992. [[MemeAcknowledgment Nash himself acknowledged this]] on his "Kliq THIS" podcast.[[/note]]

* FansPreferTheNewHair: In 2003 he famously lost a Hair vs Hair match against Chris Jericho, and had his hair messily cut off so he could have short hair in ''Film/ThePunisher''. Turns out Nash looked pretty good with short hair, and he had bleached it that week as well, so chopping it short already meant it looked better than ''that''.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Kevin Nash is up there with Wrestling/HulkHogan, Wrestling/JeffJarrett and Wrestling/TripleH in terms of unpopularity with the internet fans e.g. smarks. Nash slightly moreso since, during his tenure as head booker for WCW, he single-handedly prevented people such as Wrestling/EddieGuerrero and Wrestling/ChrisBenoit from getting their deserved pushes and robbed that place blind, helping to kill it from the inside. Of course, he's still wildly popular. Mainly because Nash is, at the very least, charming and entertaining.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Big men are becoming passe in professional wrestling. And yeah, people are in a BrokenBase over Nash now. But back in the day, when he was actually booked well, he was an ice-cool who just came in and jackknifed your ass.

** Ending Wrestling/{{Goldberg}}'s winning streak; then eight days later there was the {{Fingerpoke of Doom}}.

* VindicatedByHistory: While Nash used to be very disliked by the hardcore fandom for his "lazy" ringwork, backstage politicking, and MoneyDearBoy approach to wrestling, Nash tends to be viewed by them a lot more favorably nowadays. With so many wrestlers from his time having broken down bodies, being addicted to various drugs to deal with the pain they put themselves through, and dying prematurely, as well as the later revelations from Nash about [[https://twitter.com/RealKevinNash/status/1214637307883642883 how fucked up his legs actually were]], today's fans are a lot more respectful of Nash understanding his limits unlike so many other wrestlers and not pushing himself in the ring when he could still entertain most fans without doing so. Then with fans better understanding today just how underpaid wrestlers are relative to the revenue they generate and how much of a sham modern WWE contracts are (e.g. WWE can just cut contracted wrestlers at any time and only have to give them 90 days worth of pay instead of paying out the rest of the contract), most fans no longer gripe about Nash leveraging to get big guaranteed contracts, and even see it positively as Nash's efforts got all his fellow wrestlers paid more of their worth during the Monday Night Wars. It also helps that Nash is still a genuinely charismatic and funny guy who is very much self-aware, and that there has been no serious scandals involving Nash[[note]]Aside from an incident in 2015 where he'd gotten into a physical altercation with his son, who was the aggressor.[[/note]], making him seem like a pretty good guy whose worst crime was being a bad booker.

* VindicatedByHistory: While Nash used to be very disliked by the hardcore fandom for his "lazy" ringwork, backstage politicking, and MoneyDearBoy approach to wrestling, Nash tends to be viewed by them a lot more favorably nowadays. With so many wrestlers from his time having broken down bodies, being addicted to various drugs to deal with the pain they put themselves through, and dying prematurely, as well as the later revelations from Nash about [[https://twitter.com/RealKevinNash/status/1214637307883642883 how fucked up his legs actually were]], today's fans are a lot more respectful of Nash understanding his limits unlike so many other wrestlers and not pushing himself in the ring when he could still entertain most fans without doing so. Then with fans better understanding today just how underpaid wrestlers are relative to the revenue they generate and how much of a sham modern WWE contracts are (e.g. WWE can just cut contracted wrestlers at any time and only have to give them 90 days worth of pay instead of paying out the rest of the contract), most fans no longer gripe about Nash leveraging to get big guaranteed contracts, and even see it positively as Nash's efforts got all his fellow wrestlers paid more of their worth during the Monday Night Wars. It also helps that Nash is still a genuinely charismatic and funny guy who is very much self-aware, and that there has been no serious scandals involving Nash, making him seem like a pretty good guy whose worst crime was being a bad booker.