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Kevin Nash recently made an appearance on a terrible Sky One original comedy drama entitled 'Living The Dream' in which a Yorkshire family uproot to a Florida trailer park in order to 'Live The Dream'. But, as you can imagine, this dream soon turns into a nightmare! Or something. That's probably the premise.

A Nash cameo on a terrible TV show isn't newsworthy in itself - he, after all, appeared on 'Love Boat: The Next Wave' - but writer Mick Ford, despite devising such a hack-tastic title, has a certain way with a rib. In the show, Nash plays a retired wrestler suffering from a shoulder injury. Ford was clearly clever enough to realise a torn quad was too on-the-nose. In the show wink-wink, Nash's character Troy Marshall is too broken down to "make it look good for the people", and so his match with Buff Bagwell is the same "stuff" he subjected WWE audiences to in 2011.

Nash throws weak boots and weak elbows in the corner, doing that and everything else at a snail's pace. A match framed as a disaster on a lighthearted sitcom contained as much action as his effort against Triple H at TLC 2011 - which was the net result of the Summer of Punk storyline.

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Michael Sidgwick is an editor, writer and podcaster for WhatCulture Wrestling. With over seven years of experience in wrestling analysis, Michael was published in the influential institution that was Power Slam magazine, and specialises in providing insights into All Elite Wrestling - so much so that he wrote a book about the subject. You can order Becoming All Elite: The Rise Of AEW on Amazon. Possessing a deep knowledge also of WWE, WCW, ECW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, Michael’s work has been publicly praised by former AEW World Champions Kenny Omega and MJF, and current Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes. When he isn’t putting your finger on why things are the way they are in the endlessly fascinating world of professional wrestling, Michael wraps his own around a hand grinder to explore the world of specialty coffee. Follow Michael on X (formerly known as Twitter) @MSidgwick for more!