10 WWE Legends That Require A Career Reevaluation
4. Kevin Nash
The butt of jokes, disdain and derision for decades, Kevin Nash's legacy amongst many is that of a fortuitous f*ckhead, earing away at his employers for his own self-worth. The evidence for the prosecution is ostensibly vast but badly lacking in context.
He was a low-drawing champion during the industry's lowest-drawing period but was switched on outside of the bubble enough to understand what made his character so appealing in the first place when he pioneered the Sports Entertainment anti-hero role in early 1996. This skill can't be understated - he employed it again to reign in Hulk Hogan's silliness when it came time to establish the New World Order as something completely different to the wrestling norm. It was one he lacked when returning in 2011 as the spoiler of CM Punk's SummerSlam party, but black-gloved fingers are pointed wrongly if they're pointed towards 'Big Sexy' for the catastrophic demise of that storyline.
Scripting himself to end Goldberg's streak - an accusation he denies having actual control of - remains the most tricky to justify two decades after it occurred, but here goes; the fans go absolutely f*cking bananas for it. Kevin Nash knew how to get over and stay there. Few colleagues at the time had that skill so well mastered.