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 various professional wrestling moves and explained which are the moves he thought were dangerous.
Kevin Nash started his professional wrestling career back in the 1980s but he god is first recognition from the wrestling fans during his WWE reign in the early 90s where he was famously known as Diesel. At first he paired with Shawn Michaels and where team was usually popular among the WWE fans.
Kevin Nash Talks About Various Moves Of Pro Wrestling
Later WWE started to treat him as a main event star and he won the WWE championship one time. He had a very bright future lying ahead of himself in WWE but he decided to leave the promotion for WCW in 1996. WCW also treated him as a main event star where he won the WCW world heavyweight championship for a total number of four times.
He was a big attraction of WCW stable the nWo which is considered as one of the best stables in professional wrestling history. In 2002 he arrived in WWE after the death of WCW. But he struggled to gain the fame he received in WCW and previously in WWE. In 2015 he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
Kevin Nash who is also a former four times WCW World Heavyweight champion recently spoke on his Kliq This podcast where he talked about various professional wrestling moves and explained which are the moves he thought were dangerous. He said;
“Nobody got hurt until the German. Nobody ever broke their neck when I first broke in. But then all of a sudden that German Suplex comes in.”
“Jericho and Danielson had that match in AEW, where I lost count. I just don’t get it. I lost count. Why is it ‘I give you one. You sell it. You give me one. I sell it?’ Why is it ‘I give you one. You sell it. You give me one. I sell it?’ I used to like when Ricky The Dragon Steamboat would send them off [the rope] and drop to one knee and do like a Steven Seagal-ish chop.”
“Our management just immediately outlawed that [the knife edge chop.] When you chop somebody [for real] that’s right below using a handgun. The list goes ‘Firearm, knife edge chop. Ric would chop me, but Ric would always follow it up with a punch. Chop. Punch. So the chop could give him a chance to fire his f punch. But they’re not doing that [anymore.] There’s psychology for why it would or wouldn’t work.”
“Piledrivers are another one. I mean that almost paralyzed Steve [Austin.] I’ve never given one. I don’t take backdrops and I don’t give backdrops. There are certain things you have to do in order to f***** have a pro-wrestling match. Like running the ropes is one of them.”
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