10 Worst Ever Wrestling Retirements

3. Kevin Nash (WCW Superbrawl Revenge)

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Like Bill Goldberg a month earlier, Kevin Nash's final night in WCW started with a storyline and ended with the real life collapse of a multi-million dollar organisation.

Having feuded with just about everybody else (and each other) multiple times before the complete closure of the company in March 2001, Kevin Nash and Scott Steiner engaged in an awful unannounced 2-out-of-3 falls 'Loser Leaves WCW' match to main event the last ever Superbrawl pay-per-view in February.

Ric Flair's 'Magnificent Seven' stable had already worked on chasing out several top babyfaces such as Goldberg and Sid Vicious presumably for a big payoff in the future, but fantasy became reality as the heroes really never did return to save the day.

The match was the usual farce, with the 2-out-of-3 stipulation added after Nash clocked Steiner with the title belt to win in 17 seconds.

Tied at 1-1 following a Steiner lead pipe shot after three minutes, Ric Flair interfered with a steel chair ten minutes later and allowed 'Big Poppa Pump' to lock on the Steiner Recliner for the victory.

Nash was gone from WCW. But just over a month later, everybody was.

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