History Wrestling / KevinNash

** The Millionaires' Club, with Wrestling/HulkHogan, Wrestling/RicFlair, Wrestling/{{Sting}}, Diamond Dallas Page, Sid Vicious, Lex Luger, [[Characters/WWEDivas Elizabeth]], [[Characters/WCWFemaleTalent Kimberly Page]] and [=Kronik=].

* TheNicknamer: Nash once referred to Benoit, Guerrero, Perry Saturn, and Wrestling/DeanMalenko as the "Vanilla Midgets", due to their short size (by pro wrestling standards) and their lack of charisma.

* OldShame: His previous gimmicks from WCW, Vinnie Vegas, and [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Oz]].

* TheNicknamer: Nash once referred to Benoit, Guerrero, Perry Saturn, and Dean Malenko as the "Vanilla Midgets", due to their short size (by pro wrestling standards) and their lack of charisma.

'''Kevin Nash''', also known as Diesel, was once one of the most well-known names in wrestling. Nowadays he tends to fade in and out of the spotlight. Not a particularly technical performer, he was more known for his [[SquashMatch squash matches]] and later [[WagTheDirector his backstage power.]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Nash The Other Wiki]] has a more detailed account of his career, as usual.

!!'''Tropes associated with Kevin Nash:'''

** BadassBeard
* BashBrothers: With all members of TheKliq at different times, but ''especially'' with ScottHall.

* BodyguardBetrayal: To ShawnMichaels in 1994, as part of a HeelFaceTurn.
* DidntSeeThatComing: He Jackknives CMPunk at SummerSlam 2011.
* EpicFail: While working as a booker in WCW, Nash believed that the actual wrestling on pro wrestling was passe, and decided to prove it by having the first hour of Nitro contain all pretaped segments and ''absolutely no matches''. The end result was a 2.9 hourly rating - the only time ratings would dip below 3 during the MondayNightWars. [[note]]To make it worse, there actually were matches for the live audience. They were even taped. They just had the segments edited in over top of them during the live broadcast.[[/note]]

-->-- ''ChrisJericho, {{WWE Raw}}, 25 June 2005''

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With ScottHall, for something approaching eighteen years.

* NewWorldOrder: One of the founding members.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: See SmallNameBigEgo and SpotlightStealingSquad below. While there is a lot of blame to go around for Literature/TheDeathOfWCW, Nash was one of the people who helped to create the kind of atmosphere where guys such as Wrestling/ChrisJericho, Wrestling/EddieGuerrero, and Wrestling/ChrisBenoit felt frustrated at being held back so that people like Nash and Wrestling/HulkHogan could have more television time and championships. This finally led to those guys, [[AndZoidberg and others]], leaving WCW and heading for Wrestling/{{WWE}}. [[AndThatsTerrible That was bad]] for WCW. It didn't end up too badly for ''ChrisJericho''; he made a name for himself in WCW and ECW, but it was in WWE that he really became a star.

** ItWillNeverCatchOn: As head booker in WCW, Nash felt that WCW's Cruserweights, like ChrisJericho, ChrisBenoit, EddieGuerrero, and ReyMysterioJr, would never be considered credible Main Eventers.

* PutOnABus: Following his loss to TripleH at TLC.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot / WhatCouldHaveBeen: In a [[http://www.411mania.com/wrestling/news/230698/Kevin-Nash-Reveals-Why-His-Match-With-CM-Punk-Didn%5C%5Ct-Happen.htm recent interview]], Nash explains that the reason he and CMPunk never wrestled, and why the [[FanNickname "Summer of Punk II"]] subsequently fell flat, is that WWE's wellness program did a in-depth medical history because of his father's death of a heart attack at age 36. Turns out Nash was taking cardiovascular medication (Plavix, to be exact), couldn't be cleared to compete due to the risk of being off it for an extended period, and Triple H had to be shunted into the feud in Nash's place, which Kevin admits didn't make a whole lot of sense. He also gave an idea of how the storyline ''should'' have gone, with a slight jab at the abrupt change in plans, i.e. Sending the text to himself:

* RedBaron: After beating [[TheBigShow The Giant]], he dubbed himself "Big Sexy, The Giant Killer". Later shortened to just "Big Sexy".

* SmallNameBigEgo: Nash has historically done just about anything he could to get out of [[{{Jobber}} jobbing]] cleanly whenever possible. This unwillingness to put other wrestlers over has not always been well-received.

* TrueCompanions: TheKliq.

* MemeticMutation: OW MY F*CKING QUAD

** BadassLonghair

* BodyguardBetrayal: To ShawnMichaels in 1996, as part of a HeelFaceTurn.

* NeverLiveItDown: The aforementioned FingerpokeOfDoom, his politicking in WCW, and, of course, coining the term "Vanilla Midgets." For more on that, read NiceJobBreakingItHero.

'''Kevin Nash''', also known as Diesel, was once one of the most well-known names in wrestling. Nowadays he tends to fade in and out of the spotlight. Not a particularly technical performer, he was more known for his [[SquashMatch squash matches]] and later [[RunningTheAsylum his backstage power.]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Nash The Other Wiki]] has a more detailed account of his career, as usual.

'''KevinNash''', also known as Diesel, was once one of the most well-known names in wrestling. Nowadays he tends to fade in and out of the spotlight. Not a particularly technical performer, he was more known for his [[SquashMatch squash matches]] and later [[RunningTheAsylum his backstage power.]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Nash The Other Wiki]] has a more detailed account of his career, as usual.

'''Wrestling/KevinNash''', also known as Diesel, was once one of the most well-known names in wrestling. Nowadays he tends to fade in and out of the spotlight. Not a particularly technical performer, he was more known for his [[SquashMatch squash matches]] and later [[RunningTheAsylum his backstage power.]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Nash The Other Wiki]] has a more detailed account of his career, as usual.

* DidntSeeThatComing: He Jackknives CMPunk at [=SummerSlam=] 2011.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: See SmallNameBigEgo and SpotlightStealingSquad below. While there is a lot of blame to go around for Literature/TheDeathOfWCW, Nash was one of the people who helped to create the kind of atmosphere where guys such as ChrisJericho, EddieGuerrero, and ChrisBenoit felt frustrated at being held back so that people like Nash and HulkHogan could have more television time and championships. This finally led to those guys, [[AndZoidberg and others]], leaving WCW and heading for Wrestling/{{WWE}}. [[AndThatsTerrible That was bad]] for WCW. It didn't end up too badly for ''ChrisJericho''; he made a name for himself in WCW and ECW, but it was in WWE that he really became a star.
** He's also gotten called out for it by CMPunk, among other people.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: See SmallNameBigEgo and SpotlightStealingSquad below. While there is a lot of blame to go around for TheDeathOfWCW, Nash was one of the people who helped to create the kind of atmosphere where guys such as ChrisJericho, EddieGuerrero, and ChrisBenoit felt frustrated at being held back so that people like Nash and HulkHogan could have more television time and championships. This finally led to those guys, [[AndZoidberg and others]], leaving WCW and heading for Wrestling/{{WWE}}. [[AndThatsTerrible That was bad]] for WCW. It didn't end up too badly for ''ChrisJericho''; he made a name for himself in WCW and ECW, but it was in WWE that he really became a star.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot / WhatCouldHaveBeen: In a [[http://www.411mania.com/wrestling/news/230698/Kevin-Nash-Reveals-Why-His-Match-With-CM-Punk-Didn%5C%5Ct-Happen.htm recent interview]], Nash explains that the reason he and CMPunk never wrestled, and why the [[FanNickname "Summer of Punk II"]] subsequently fell flat, is that WWE's wellness program did a in-depth medical history because of his father's death of a heart attack at age 36. Turns out Nash was taking cardiovascular medication, couldn't be cleared to compete due to the risk of being off it for an extended period, and Triple H had to be shunted into the feud in Nash's place, which Kevin admits didn't make a whole lot of sense. He also gave an idea of how the storyline ''should'' have gone, with a slight jab at the abrupt change in plans, i.e. Sending the text to himself:

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: See SmallNameBigEgo and SpotlightStealingSquad below. While there is a lot of blame to go around for TheDeathOfWCW, Nash was one of the people who helped to create the kind of atmosphere where guys such as ChrisJericho, EddieGuerrero, and ChrisBenoit felt frustrated at being held back so that people like Nash and HulkHogan could have more television time and championships. This finally led to those guys, [[AndZoidberg and others]], leaving WCW and heading for {{WWE}}. [[AndThatsTerrible That was bad]] for WCW. It didn't end up too badly for ''ChrisJericho''; he made a name for himself in WCW and ECW, but it was in WWE that he really became a star.

** ItWillNeverCatchOn: As head booker in WCW, Nash felt that WCW's Cruserweights, like ChrisJericho, ChrisBenoit, EddieGuerrero, and ReyMysterioJr, would never be considered credible Main Eventers.

* RedBaron: After beating [[TheBigShow The Giant]], he dubbed himself "Big Sexy, The Giant Killer". Later shortened to just "Big Sexy".

'''Kevin Nash''', also known as Diesel, was once one of the most well-known names in wrestling. Nowadays he tends to fade in and out of the spotlight. Not a particularly technical performer, he was more known for his [[SquashMatch squash matches]] and later [[RunningTheAsylum his backstage power.]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Nash The Other Wiki]] has a more detailed account of his career, as usual.

--> '''Nash''': "It would have been Johnny [Laurinaitis]. It would have been Johnny trying to end around and me trying to say that Paul had changed because he was a blue blood now and he wasn't Clique. He was in the McMahon threshold. We were going to get a Johnny Ace clique of guys to try to take over control of the company, that's when Vince would have gotten fired, and then we would have been after Paul and try to take control of the company. You know, [[TakeThat good storyline]]."