10 Crippling Times Wrestlers Worked Themselves Into A Shoot

3. Kevin Nash

Kevin Nash helped popularise the new narrative of the mid-to-late 1990s. He famously entered WCW in 1996 as himself—an agent operating for a hinted-at WWF takeover, before Vince McMahon and Jerry McDevitt threatened legal action.

Luxuriating in a moneyed and secure contract, Nash delighted in cutting very close to him to get himself over. He upset Arn Anderson in the fallout of the (admittedly hilarious) Four Horsemen dress-up skit of 1997, and later buried an entire generation of smaller, technically proficient wrestlers as “vanilla midgets”. Nash, not the likes of Dean Malenko, made the money—so it was suitably rich of him, and ironic of him, to b*tch and moan when The Rock turned the tables and stuck ‘em straight up his candy ass.

On the March 18, 2002, RAW, after Hulk Hogan himself turned a fading, black-and-white work into an excellent, red-and-yellow shoot, Nash appeared on stage. In the storyline, he was apoplectic. He was enraged.

He was prime fodder for The Rock to ridicule.

Shot down by a bigger, cooler star with s sharper wit, Nash, likely already upset by Hogan’s politicking, seethed as Rock said “Big Daddy Cool—more like Big Daddy B*tch!”

Nash was genuinely, hypocritically upset by this. In response, in a later shoot interview, he called Rock “gay” for not dating a Hollywood A-Lister following his divorce.

Taken to school, Nash could only manage a pathetic, schoolyard-level comeback.