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Post by Perd on Aug 8, 2012 0:55:43 GMT -5
I always just assumed Nash was only in it for the money. But it's nice to know that he's also in it for the Monet.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Aug 8, 2012 0:57:55 GMT -5
I always just assumed Nash was only in it for the money. But it's nice to know that he's also in it for the Monet. Tremendous.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2012 1:20:52 GMT -5
@iamjericho Hope @realkevinnash doesn’t tear his quad tweeting! #typicalbigman #nwothirdwheel Is this for real? f*** twitter, it's killing my perception of people. "HAH tear quad HAH!" He might as well be Jerry Lawler setting the indoor "borrowed" record on Raw Monday.
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Post by The Line on Aug 8, 2012 1:29:25 GMT -5
@iamjericho Hope @realkevinnash doesn’t tear his quad tweeting! #typicalbigman #nwothirdwheel Is this for real? f*** twitter, it's killing my perception of people. "HAH tear quad HAH!" He might as well be Jerry Lawler setting the indoor "borrowed" record on Raw Monday. considering that Jericho was one of the people that Nash used to call a Vanilla Midget, I don't think it's that out of line(especially considering that, like Nash, the comment by Jericho could easily be 100% a joke)
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Post by mizerable on Aug 8, 2012 1:29:41 GMT -5
I always just assumed Nash was only in it for the money. But it's nice to know that he's also in it for the Monet. Haha amazing.
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Post by Some Guy on Aug 8, 2012 1:32:19 GMT -5
@iamjericho Hope @realkevinnash doesn’t tear his quad tweeting! #typicalbigman #nwothirdwheel Is this for real? f*** twitter, it's killing my perception of people. "HAH tear quad HAH!" He might as well be Jerry Lawler setting the indoor "borrowed" record on Raw Monday. Quad tearing jokes are always hilarious. Plus, Nash is an ass and Jericho hates him, so it works all the better.
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Post by mizerable on Aug 8, 2012 1:35:35 GMT -5
Instead of a quad joke, I'd rather he revert to calling him a Nashhole again. And then rubbing Nash's hair all over his face.
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Post by juvijuiceisloose on Aug 8, 2012 1:41:40 GMT -5
Is this for real? f*** twitter, it's killing my perception of people. "HAH tear quad HAH!" He might as well be Jerry Lawler setting the indoor "borrowed" record on Raw Monday. Quad tearing jokes are always hilarious. Plus, Nash is an ass and Jericho hates him, so it works all the better. Click!
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Post by flatsdomino on Aug 8, 2012 1:54:30 GMT -5
In the WWE, he DIDN'T draw, that's the thing. He did in WCW but I'm not giving him the credit for that PPV and ignoring Goldberg, who was ridiculously over but they booked in some odd-ass way in a combination of 1) the old guys up top needing to be all over the PPV's with celebrities and 2) his greeness and them not wanting him to work more than 10 minutes. That might be one of the only legit PPV ME's he did. The rest of that PPV was lame considering the roster WCW had, so that match was obviously the major selling point. Where did I say ignore Goldberg? I'm saying it wasn't ONLY Goldberg. To not give credit to Nash is ridiculous. Goldberg fought DDP at Halloween Havoc 98, and DDP was a pretty huge star in 98, but even with Hogan vs. Warrior and Sting vs. Bret in the undercard of that show, Starrcade with Nash and Goldberg blew it out of the water with basically nothing of note in the undercard. The two of them were a huge draw. And what difference does it make where you draw? Vince couldn't draw with anyone from 92-97. His quote makes no claims to his drawing power in the WWE. His opinion shouldn't be invalidated ON THE GROUNDS that he didn't draw, because he clearly did. Souled Out 98 was also one of WCW biggest buyrates too and Nash vs. Giant was promoted as the main event. I didn't make that original post to say that you can't disagree with him. His point is unorganized, very confusing, condecending, and embarrassingly simple and tunnelvisioned for a guy that a sentence earlier was trying to make some bizarre point about how he was more cultured, thus implying that he was more intelligent than the average wrestling fan. But to disqualify his opinions on the grounds that he didn't draw is silly, because he did draw. Thats all I was trying to say ehh, he was a draw in WCW, but as part of an ensemble - that being the NWO. Now, there's absolutely NOTHING wrong with that, but if Big Daddy Cool Diesel just jumped to WCW in 1996, without an NWO angle...yeah, that wasn't exactly going to set the world on fire. Hell, I'd wager Scott Hall alone would've done better than Nash without the NWO angle, but that's mere speculation. My point is that Nash got over because of the NWO, and the NWO got over because of Nash being a part of the puzzle, along with Hall, the Hogan heel turn, Bischoff, Sting and others. But Nash did NOT get over just for being Nash, and without the NWO angle, and then the red-hot Wolfpac stable, no, a match between the lowest-drawing WWF champion ever, 2 1/2 years after he left the WWF for WCW, against the new, hot WCW champion, would not have been much of a draw; in fact, I'd wager that Nash wouldn't even be anywhere near the main event in 1998 without the NWO. Hell, without the Wolfpac I doubt Nash would've been as hot in 1998, but I'm not gonna knock him for that, since he was the star of that angle, which means he was just being booked right. But he wasn't THE star of the NWO angle, the angle that saved his career - that was Hogan, who WAS a draw on his own merits. Nash and Hall needed him for the angle to work. Which is more or less always true in wrestling - for everyone that says, for example, "CM Punk isn't a big enough star to wrestle the Rock" - well, if you don't put him with the Rock and show he can hang with the Rock, he'll never get a chance to be as big as the Rock. He needs to interact with big stars and legends to become one himself; he needs that boost from associating with them. This goes back to the whole thing about Goldberg - Goldberg was red-hot, but he was working with mid-carders. He NEEDED to work with guys like DDP and Nash, or else he was never gonna be as big of a draw as he could potentially be. Paired with the right opponent, Goldberg was someone the fans wanted to see. Nash was the right opponent, with the Wolfpac angle. But again, Nash's dancing partner was what increased Nash's stock. Put Nash in a match against Luger, Hall, Sting, Flair, DDP, or anyone not named Hogan and I doubt his match would've been as big of a deal. Plus, two things when comparing to Halloween Havoc: one, Starrcade was ALWAYS the biggest show, an sold itself, like 'Mania does, and two, I'm not sure if the refund issue hurt the numbers for Havoc. What's funny is I've always found Nash to be weirdly entertaining. I find him likeable, at least on-screen. But he's NOT on the level of Hogan, Piper, Macho, Austin and Rock, nor is he even on the level of HHH, HBK, Undertaker and Hart. His spot in history is nothing to be ashamed of, but he's more or less on the same level as Eddie Guerrero himself, so...yeah, his whole point really falls through.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Aug 8, 2012 1:56:57 GMT -5
Who the hell cares what Nash thinks anyway? His whole career was piggybacking off others or being tall.
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Post by mizerable on Aug 8, 2012 2:00:44 GMT -5
Who the hell cares what Nash thinks anyway? His whole career was piggybacking off others or being tall. Or being tall through piggybacking.
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Post by Cry Me a Wiggle on Aug 8, 2012 2:15:24 GMT -5
Even though I disagree with Nash here, I just can't hate the guy. I think he's out of touch with his views on wrestling, but he's so tremendously entertaining and bright in all other aspects that I let it pass.
Honestly, I'm a bit perplexed why WWE hasn't brought him in as a color guy. He'd be a terrific replacement for Lawler.
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Post by Sparvid on Aug 8, 2012 2:52:56 GMT -5
^ I think Nash expressed his true feelings in that interview. But now he's trying to play it off like he was just trolling because his comments pissed so many people off. "Double work!"
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Aug 8, 2012 3:40:43 GMT -5
Kevin Nash needs to stop acting like a 50 something year old 7 foot tall attention whore.
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Post by Ryushinku on Aug 8, 2012 3:48:25 GMT -5
No point in taking any of it seriously, because Nash will happily just turn around another day and say "Oh, I was just working there."
Much like Hogan, I think he just enjoys doing that kind of thing and I'm not sure he knows where the line is anymore.
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Post by The Ichi on Aug 8, 2012 4:25:47 GMT -5
Nash: "these guys the internet liked were small n dey sucked"
Internet (and Chris Jericho, apparantly): "Actually..."
Nash: "LOL I TROLL U"
Pro-wrestlers, ladies and gentleman.
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Post by Arrow on Aug 8, 2012 5:20:23 GMT -5
It's not like there isn't some truth to the things that he said. People like the larger than life guys, and part of being a superstar is looking like one. I think he's wrong in the implication that you have to be gigantic in order to achieve that, especially in this day and age, but you should have that presence about you. Look at the most successful wrestlers and they all have that. Granted, Nash is hardly in a position to slam anyone else for not drawing, but still...
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Post by machomuta on Aug 8, 2012 5:38:20 GMT -5
Typical BS from Nash.
You dont need to be 7 foot tall to be "larger then life"
Flair and Austin were "larger then life" and they were small.
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Post by Bo Rida on Aug 8, 2012 6:12:00 GMT -5
WWE need to film a segment where Damien Sandow and Kevin Nash visit an art gallery together.
Then they should do it again but get attacked by Brodus Clay.
That in turn should lead to a falls count anywhere match in a fictional modern art gallery.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2012 6:43:14 GMT -5
The biggest draws in UFC right now are Anderson Silva (185) and GSP (170).
In Boxing Pacquiao and Mayweather fight at around 150, and only Wrestlemania can compete with them in PPV buys.
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