10 WWE Returns That Came Out Of Nowhere

7. Kevin Nash

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Triple H remains close pals with Kevin Nash, so there's always a chance of Big Kev reappearing on our screens - in conjunction with Triple H.

CM Punk, in the summer of 2011, promised change, and threatened to leave WWE if such change was not forthcoming. By this time, an act like Nash wasn't something we needed a change from, because his knees were mummified, his quadriceps were more meme than muscle, and he wasn't actually there to get tired of. We needed a change from John Cena, the current and overexposed WWE Champion - not the worst-drawing WWF Champion of 1995, and, for that matter, of all time.

"Change...change...what changes...what do we change..." Vince McMahon may have thought to himself, the very second CM Punk signed his new deal, and in the process, relinquished any bargaining power. "We change gas. That's it. Bring back Diesel!"

Like, why the f*ck did Kevin Nash come back to feud with CM Punk? He wasn't medically cleared. He could barely, barely go by December, but only in a Methodical Triple H Match - and not the sort of lengthy, technical, near fall-driven match at which Punk excelled.

He came back, at SummerSlam, and "stuck the winner", having instructed himself to do so via a text message delivered from and to Triple H's phone.

"Do I have your attention now?" Triple H intimated, as he changed the Summer of Punk into a sh*tty, self-serving multiplayer Game.

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