Maybe this is being viewed as an after-the-fact dream match, but if you look at the WCW and WWF rosters in 1998-2000, two guys stand out extremely connected main-eventers who were smartasses on the mic and had great hair. And those are just the superficial comparisons between Kevin Nash and Triple H. Both men held their promotions world championship four times during that two-year period and had varying amounts of influence in how storylines were developed for them. Nash faded in and out as a booker, while Triple H (who wasnt yet in the McMahon clan) certainly had the boss ear on many decisions (see the Montreal Screwjob). Both men were wisecracking performers who had become permanent top-shelf talent. And of course, both were good friends with each other and participated in the MSG Incident years earlier. Kliq members had a tendency to rise to the occasion when pitted against each other. They would put on solid, sometimes spectacular matches against each other, and a rising star in Triple H (hard to remember a time when that was the case) and established main-eventer like Nash could have done really well. A feud could have been booked around the MSG Incident and how Triple H was punished for everyones actions, setting his career back somewhat. Fans would finally get a Nash-Triple H feud, but the 2003 pairing was a shadow of what could have been. Triple H was mired in a period where he seemingly put himself over everyone at the expense of good judgment, and Nash was well on the downswing of his in-ring career, hardly the dream match it would have been five years earlier.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.
