First of all I would like to say that Big Sexy Kevin Nash has to be one of the all time greatest wrestlers. Ever since Kevin Nash started his wrestling career, during the ending days of the old National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), as Steel of the Master Blasters, he was poorly marketed during this gimmick as he was many times is his early NWA/WCW days. 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 from wcw took a look at Nash, and decided on 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 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. Managed by his friend Diamond Dallas Page.Then again Nash decided to move on, and was "discovered" by WWF head cheese Vince McMahon, McMahon saw the possibilities, in using a man of Nash's talents and size, so he signed Nash up, to become, Diesel Big Daddy Cool! Nash first appeared in late 1993, as the bodyguard of former WWF Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels. Used to help HBK regain the Inter Continential championship belt from Marty Jannetty, Diesel started to build a name for himself, in 1994, beginning at the Royal Rumble. Nash went on in the early spring to defeat Razor Ramon for the IC title. Things really began to go great for Kevin. 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 excite the crowd, as he won the bout by disqualification, 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 earlier show in Indianapolis, the duo would come to SummerSlam the next night, as Diesel defended his Inter Contintial belt against Razor Ramon, This would mark the beginning of the end for the team of Diesel and HBK. The end came at the Survivor Series main event, where a team led by Michaels took on a team led by Ramon, with Diesel doing most of the work, eliminating most of Ramon's team, and then working over Ramon, HBK's ego got in the way as usual, and he demanded to be tagged in. Diesel agreed &, tagged HBK in, but when Diesel stood Ramon up, for a HBK superkick, Michaels again missed and connected on Diesel. pissing off Diesel, HBK ran out of the arena, telling the world, that Diesel could have the tag belts, claiming that the team was over! but this would turn out to be a great advantage to Diesel. 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.
But then things began to go downhill for Nash, 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, 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, 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 last time, Nash and Hall would be seen together.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 it came around, Bischoff announced to Nash and Hall, that they would in deed get there match, but when he refused to tell them, 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 attacking several WCW guys.
Then in Late September Nash took some time off for Authroscopic knee surgery, when he returned the Giant called him out, the two were supposed to do battle at Starrcade 97, but when Nash was a no show, Hall took a Giant powerbomb for him, The Giant and Nash later did battle at Souled Out, where Nash dropped the Giant on his head with a failed powerbomb. This led to JJ Dyllon outlawing the powerbomb, but Nash could not be stopped, he continued to use the powerbomb match after match on Nitro and WCW Saturday Night racking up $400,000.00 in fines and eight nights in jail (as WCW portrays), During this time The Outsiders regained and three weeks later lost the WCW Tag team titles to the Steiner Brothers, Nash was supposedly suspended for a week for his "Fat Girls need lovin too" comment that same night. Then started yet another new era in wresting, the nWo Wolfpack The Red and Black Well at this point, WCW was getting their asses kicked on a weekly basis in ratings, they pay-per-views had buy rates competitive with Snicker bars, Goldberg couldnt draw flies as Champion, something had to give. So, in late November the groundwork was laid for yet another new era in wrestling. In that same time Hollywood Hogan announced his retirement from wrestling on the Tonight Show, Nash and Hall seemed to be patching things up, Nash even earned himself a title shot by winning the 60 man battle royal at World War 3, then at Starrcade Nash got his chance, Nash vs. Goldberg - WCW World Title Match, now of course it had to have a screw job ending being a main event in WCW, Hall interfered and zapped Goldberg with a cattle prod, leading to Nash jackifing Goldberg for the 1, 2, 3. Leaving Kevin as the WCW World Champion and leaving Goldberg defeated. Because of the unclean finish Nash decided to give Goldberg another shot at the January 4th Nitro live from the Georgia dome. However, Goldberg was arrested earlier in the show Nash then issued a challenge to none other than Hollywood Hogan. Nash fell to the canvas by Hollywood poking him! Hogan covered Nash for the win and the title, Nash, Hall, Pump, Hogan, and Buff all celebrated in the ring as Goldberg finally came back he was beat down classic nWo style, then Luger made a save for Goldberg, or did he? Hell no! He also joined the new nWo that night. after a while the nwo red and black started to fade away sting went back into hidding and lugar was gone for a while also Kevin Nash was about all that was left of the red and black. now Kevin Nash has been having issues with hogan acording to Kevin he is sick of taking Hogans crap. Where all of this is leading I dont know? But in my eyes Keving Nash is always coming out on top. I think he is a excellent wrestler and defintly earns the name Big Sexy!!
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