Professional wrestling legend and a two times WWE Hall of Famer Kevin Nash who is also a former four times WCW World Heavyweight champion recently talked about his legendary WCW faction nWo and talked about the value of its trademark.
In 1996 Kevin Nash along with Scott Hall left WWE to join WCW. Together they formed a team called the Outsiders. Their gimmick was something like they came from the outside of WCW and they wanted to sabotage the promotion openly. It was all kayfabe of course.
Kevin Nash Talks About The Value nWo Trademark
At the Bash at the beach pay per view event of 1996 Hulk Hogan turn heel and joined the Outsiders. Together they were started to be known as The New World Order aka nWo. This faction not only became the biggest faction in WCW history but it is also considered as one of the best factions in the history of professional wrestling.
The nWo ruled WCW as long as the promotion existed. Later it came to WWE as well after Vince McMahon purchased WCW. But the stable could not be as big as it was in WCW in the WWE. Nash picked up an injury soon after the debut of the nWo WWE and Scott Hall was nowhere to be seen either.
Kevin Nash who is also a former four times WCW World Heavyweight champion recently spoke on his Kliq This Podcast where he talked about his legendary WCW faction nWo and talked about the value of its trademark. He said;
“It should only be able to be registered, but not trademarked. And then you would have to sign a merchandising agreement. I don’t see how they can trademark it,” said the former WWE World Champion.
“[WWE] owned the nWo. So we got a percentage of that from the WWE. The faction makes way more money than “Kevin Nash” does. The nWo was the homerun. If I could pick owning either the nWo trademark solely 100%, or owning “Kevin Nash” in the realm of wrestling? I’ll take the nWo.”
“It was Marvel, and [WWF] paid, I wanna say one hundred grand, to use the Hulk trademark,” said the WWE Hall of Famer and former four times WCW World Heavyweight Champion Kevin nash.
“You know what the problem is with Diesel? So when they said they were gonna call me Diesel, I said “can we spell it with a Z?” They looked at me like I was fucking insane. But I had lived in Europe and played basketball over in Germany. Diesel jeans were nothing in the States at that time. There wasn’t a Diesel brand. For merchandise, they always had to put Diesel “power.” They always had to put something else, they could never just put “Diesel.”
Quotes via 411 Mania