Kevin Nash Biography

Ring name(s) Master Blaster SteelKevin Scott Nash (born July 9, 1959 in Detroit, Michigan) is a professional wrestler who has performed for World Wrestling Entertainment, World Championship Wrestling and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.

Nash's primary sport while growing up was basketball. He was the second-most-recruited player in Michigan in his senior year of high school, behind future basketball legend Magic Johnson. Nash was a center for the Tennessee Volunteers from 1979 to 1980, but was never a major star and quickly became disillusioned. A year later, he began playing professional basketball in Europe and ended up seriously injuring his knee.
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Nash was unsure of what to do with his career then, and enlisted in the United States Army, serving in Germany for two years. He went on to become a bouncer, and was eventually scouted by World Championship Wrestling's Dusty Rhodes, joining the organization.

Nash first worked in WCW in 1990 as part of a tag team known as the "Master Blasters", wrestling under the ring name Steel, with a partner named "Iron". Iron was later replaced by "Blade" (Al Greene). During 1991, he briefly wrestled under the name of Oz with Merlin the Wizard as his manager. Later that year, he was renamed Vinnie Vegas and given the gimmick of a casino card shark. As Vegas, he formed a short-lived team with "Diamond" Dallas Page called the "Vegas Connection". Nash eventually left WCW and showed up in the WWF a short time later.

In 1993, he left WCW and signed with the WWF (now the WWE), adopting the gimmick of "Big Daddy Cool" Diesel, originally a "bodyguard" for real-life friend Shawn Michaels. Little did wrestling fans know that 1994 would be a milestone year for Diesel, managing to win all three WWF titles in that year.

Diesel won the Intercontinental Title from Razor Ramon in the weeks following Wrestlemania 10 thanks to interference from Shawn Michaels. Michaels took a backseat to Diesel around this time, merely seconding him to ringside in many of his matches. One day prior to Summerslam 1994, Michaels teamed up with Diesel and they won the WWF Tag Team Championship from the Headshrinkers. Eventually, the partnership would come to an end. Michaels had accidentally superkicked Diesel on several occasions, and the incident at Survivor Series 1994 was the final straw. Diesel broke ties with Michaels, and vacated the WWF Tag Team Championship in the process.

However, Diesel would be holding championship gold again very shortly. Only three days after the Survivor Series, he defeated Bob Backlund for the WWF Championship at Madison Square Garden in a record setting eight seconds. This would begin Diesel's run as the company's representative and main babyface. Shawn Michaels was irate about his former bodyguard beating him to a world championship and used this motivation to win the 1995 Royal Rumble, earning himself a title shot against Diesel at Wrestlemania XI. With Pamela Anderson at his side, Diesel managed to retain the title at Wrestlemania. Shortly after Wrestlemania, Michael's new bodyguard Sid attacked him, prompting Diesel to come to the save. This started Michael's babyface run along with a reunion with Diesel. The duo was now known as the Two "Dudes With Attitude," managing to win the WWF Tag Team Championship again at In Your House 3.

Nearly one year after his world title win, Diesel finally lost the WWF Championship to Bret Hart at the 1995 Survivor Series. Following the pinfall, Diesel snapped and attacked Hart. Standing over his slumped body, Diesel proclaimed to the crowd "I'm back!" This brought the end to the babyface Diesel and Big Daddy Cool reverted into his old ways in the period following Survivor Series, though this time as a bit of a face/heel tweener.

Right before Wrestlemania XII, the wrestling community was shocked when the news leaked that Diesel signed a contract with World Championship Wrestling while he was still working on WWF television. This was considered a blow to the WWF, made all the more worse with Scott Hall (Razon Ramon) also signing a WCW contract. Though Hall was off WWF television at that moment, Diesel remained in WWF storylines for most of that spring. He turned completely heel when he attacked his friend Shawn Michaels at a house show. With Michaels winning the WWF Championship at Wrestlemania XII, this set up a world title match between the two at In Your House: Good Friends, Better Enemies. Michaels defeated Diesel in his last televised match of his current WWF run. However, Diesel's last house show match at Madison Square Garden lead to a far more interesting situation. Following a Michaels/Diesel cage match, both Hunter Hearst Helmsley and Razor Ramon came out to join the two in the ring. In front of the crowd, all four of them hugged and wished each other farewell. This was a controversial event because despite the four being friends in real life, they were all enemies in the storylines and this act essentially broke kayfabe. This event was not even acknowledged on WWF television until late 1997 when Shawn Michaels played the clip on the Titantron to insult WWF Chairman Vince McMahon.

With their days as "Diesel" and "Razor Ramon" behind them, Kevin Nash and Scott Hall headed to WCW.

Nash as leader of nWo WolfpacAfter weeks of Scott Hall appearing on WCW programming and taunting announcers, wrestlers and the company, Nash finally debuted alongside his friend. The duo was known as The Outsiders, and the storylines was pushing them as "invaders" from the WWF. (The WWF legal team would eventually threaten WCW over this.) At Bash at the Beach 1996, Hall and Nash fought the team of Lex Luger, Sting and Randy Savage and promised to add one more man to their entourage. In a shocking move, Hulk Hogan returned to WCW and attacked the WCW team, aligning himself with Hall and Nash. The three formed the nWo, the New World Order. This incredibly hot concept would help WCW Monday Nitro to win in the ratings against WWF Monday Night RAW for 84 consectutive weeks in a row and arguably helped WCW reach it's prime in the mid to late 90s.

After the nWo was split into two factions, Nash became the leader of the Wolfpac faction. At Starcade 1998, Nash won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship against Bill Goldberg. In doing so, Nash managed to break Goldberg's long running undefeated streak. However Nash would lose the title in unceremonious fashion just a short time later on Monday Nitro. In a controversial moment known as "The Fingerpoke of Doom," Hulk Hogan faced off against Nash for his world title when Hogan took his finger and poked Nash, which proceeded to fall down and willingly allowed Hogan to pin him for the title. This event would reunite the nWo for another run, but the entire circumstance actually would begin WCW's declining ratings.

Backstage, Nash wrote some of the later storylines for WCW. Nash's booking abilities (or lack thereof) are widely considered as one of the many reasons the quality of wrestling in WCW suffered while he was lead booker.

Nash would eventually win the WCW Championship again in 2000 from Diamond Dallas Page, and the nWo would disintegrate. Hulk Hogan defeated Nash in a "retirement" match at Road Wild. (The "retirement" would allow Nash to take some time off.) In the fall, Nash returned to WCW along with Scott Hall and announced that he was "getting the band back together." This was revealed to be an all-new version of the nWo involving Nash, Hall, Bret Hart and Jeff Jarrett. This group would not last long either, and Nash spent most of 2000 feuding with the likes of Terry Funk, Mike Awesome, Scott Steiner and Booker T. Nash won the WCW Championship again from Booker T, but would eventually lose it back to him later on at Fall Brawl. He even had a stint as WCW Commissioner (where he demanded wrestlers to call him "Lord Master") and served as a coach/mentor to the Natural Born Thrillers, whom would eventually turn on Nash. Nash aligned himself with Dallas Page, forming a team called "The Insiders." The Insiders managed to win the WCW Tag Team Championship at Starrcade that year.

In 2001 (WCW's final months), the Insiders continued their feud with the Natural Born Thrillers. Nash would lose another "retirement" match to Scott Steiner at Super Brawl, but it would not be long before WCW announced the sale of the company to the World Wrestling Federation. As he had a guaranteed contract with Time Warner, Nash chose to wait out the remainder of his contract.

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Height 6 ft 10 in (208 cm)
Weight 337 lb (153 kg)
Born July 9, 1959
Resides Detroit, Michigan
Trained by Billed from
Debut 1990

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