10 Wrestlers Who Didn't Care About Kayfabe
5. Kevin Nash
Kevin Nash stopped giving a toss when WCW business declined, which it did in no small part through his booking, but he was so incorrigible and funny with it that his antics have a developed a certain charm in retrospect.
Or a posthumous charm, since this sort of thing killed the company.
The second that man erupts into his sh*t-eating grin at the start of That Thunder, Jesus Christ. You feel like ruffling his hair and forgiving him for the last 20 years of U.S. mainstream rot.
He openly admits to being a horrible booker the very minute fans are introduced to the broadcast, helpfully revealing it to be both fake and terrible. He buries Jim Duggan's knee drop with the most cutting of comedic tools: incredulity of its very existence. He documents Goldberg's initial struggle to locate the hard camera before patronising him with a hugely enthusiastic "Yeah!" when he finally manages. Goldberg also makes an appearance later in the night, which Nash calls like a wildlife documentary narrator. It's the one time Goldberg's spear doesn't look great, because Nash, in a fabulous quasi-Attenborough accent, calls it a tackle.
This was probably more damaging than a guy who...