Bruce Prichard recently discussed how WWE failed to utilize Diesel and where WWE went wrong with the Big Daddy Cool.
Nash was one of the biggest names in WWE back in the mid 1990s. He started his professional wrestling career back in 1990. He started working in the World Championship Wrestling before he was signed by the WWE in 1993.
How WWE Failed To Utilize Diesel – Explained By Bruce Prichard
Instantly he paired with Shawn Michaels and their Tag Team was famously known as Two Dudes with Attitude. He had a 3 year run in WWE and in this short time period, he won two WWE Tag Team championships one WWE intercontinental championship and one WWE Heavyweight Championship.
In 1996 he signed for WCW, and he paid with Scott Hall. He changed his ring name to his original name Kevin Nash. Along with Scott Hall he founded one of the biggest stables in professional wrestling history, The New World Order.
The WCW run of Kevin Nash was extremely successful, and of course, it was more successful than his run in WWE. He won a total of five WCW World Heavyweight Championship and nine WCW World Tag Team Championships, he also won the World War 3 Battle Royal of WCW in 1998.
Bruce Prichard recently spoke on WWE booking of Nash and where it went wrong. In a recent episode of Something to Wrestle with, Prichard said;
“Well, I don’t think it was necessarily working, and it goes back to day one of ‘OK, here’s Diesel and he’s your champion, and we want him to be this big babyface, so he is going to lead everybody in prayer and then, let’s sing…..and he seized being Diesel. It became, [mimics Jim Ross], ‘Well, Kevin Nash, Diesel is Kevin Nash.
“He was at Tennessee playing basketball, and what a quarter he had that one time when he scored four points.’ All of sudden, everything I loved about Diesel went away because he became Kevin Nash, a basketball player that got hurt.
“Everything that was cool about him went away because somebody felt, ‘God damn, we’ve got to credentials. You’ve got to have credentials. You’ve got to tell a real story about these guys.
“He could have been a two-time All-American.’ Nobody gives a fuck about that shit. They thought Diesel was cool and kicked people’s asses. When he seized to become Diesel….the audience overall, they were intrigued by Diesel. They weren’t intrigued by Kevin Nash at this point in time.”
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