10 Best Wrestling Threats Of All Time
5. Hard As Nailz
Without context, the Nailz gimmick is one confined as quickly to the early-1990s bargain bin as his character was to the prison cell he stewed in all those years. But there's some broadly logical rationale for his rage and his intended redemption.
There were blurred lines with Nailz. Was he innocent? Had he escaped, or been released? Was he telling the truth about The Big Boss Man's alleged brutality? Was his violent side proof positive that the system had failed him, rather than providing a place of rehabilitation?
Of course, WWE weren't exactly asking these big questions, and Nailz wasn't really offering answers. What he was providing was the most realistic take on a cartoon-era tale in the form of the physical and verbal assaults he dished out to his former oppressor before their 'Nightstick On A Pole' Survivor Series payoff.
After delivering one of the scariest beatdowns the company had ever produced on arrival, Nailz saved his most cutting remarks for his final salvo. Promising revenge for the abuse he suggested had been commonplace during his incarceration, the convict had dark plans for the legal and lethal weapon, and none of them allowed the Boss Man to leave on his own steam.
Survivor Series 1992 was regrettably Nailz' last hurrah with WWE after a backstage blow-up with Vince McMahon over pay saw him out on his a*se. The way he was talking, it was destined to be somebody's final destination.