10 Reasons Kevin Nash Deserves To Be In The WWE Hall Of Fame
2. He Held The WWE Championship For Nearly A Year
Very rarely do WWE Superstars hold the WWE Championship for more than a few months. CM Punks 434-day reign at the top of the mountain was such a big deal because it NEVER happens. Between December of 1994 and November of 1995, Kevin Nash (as Diesel) held the WWF Championship for 358 days. He was the man. Diesel worked the house shows, made talk-show and radio appearances, main evented all nine pay-per-views, and briefly managed to win the WWF World Tag Team Championship with Shawn Michaels. To give you an example of his dominance as champion; he was able to walk in and out of WrestleMania XI with the title around his waist when he defeated Shawn Michaels who earned his shot by going wire-to-wire in The Royal Rumble. Before WrestleMania XI, only twice had the WWE Champion walked in with the belt, defended it, and retained.
Eric Delgado has been writing about professional wrestling for five years and has been involved in the professional wrestling business as a performer for ten. He is also the former host of Steel Cage Radio and has an irrational love for The Ryback.
