[1998-02-02-WCW-Nitro] Kevin Nash promo

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[soup23]

Nash is back to wearing NWO gear. He gets a great reaction coming out. Nash has exception with Kidman using a variation of the powerbomb in the previous match. Nash is angling for a size discrimination suit. He is really playing up the bad ass rebel role here garnering a lot of cheers from the crowd. He is too big, too talented, too sexy, and too sweet to be contained by WCW.

[Zenjo]

Kidman can use the powerbomb but... You Can't Powerbomb Kidman!!!

 

Really good promo from Nash, taking a note or two from Stone Cold's playbook.

[Loss]

This feels like an ad-libbed promo because Kidman made a mistake in his match. I can see WCW doing something like this without thinking to tell the cruisers to stay away from the move, and I can also see the cruisers in their own world not even thinking about that. This does feel like a prelude to a Nash babyface turn. I like the idea of fines, but their impact is negated when wrestlers don't sell them as mattering. This is good for getting over Nash, but I don't know what else it benefits.

[Childs]

This is good for getting over Nash, but I don't know what else it benefits.

 

What's the over/under on how many times we utter some variation of this line in 1998?

 

 

 

I should add that I loved Nash in 1998 and thus was part of the problem.

[Loss]

I loved him too! And yes, I am sure that will be a recurring theme.

[Migs]

I loved him too! And yes, I am sure that will be a recurring theme.

 

I definitely owned a Wolfpac shirt around this time. Really apprehensive about rewatching that period, which I know I liked.

[PeteF3]

 

This is good for getting over Nash, but I don't know what else it benefits.

 

What's the over/under on how many times we utter some variation of this line in 1998?

 

I loved him too! And yes, I am sure that will be a recurring theme.

 

On the other hand, last week we all agreed that Hogan was undermining the Outsiders by making the Savage conflict all about them, so in this instance, I have to side with Nash looking out for Nash. This was a good promo and I can totally see Kidman doing the tiger driver on his own and WCW having to scramble to cover it.

[TravJ1979]

Nash has always been too smarmy for me. It worked for him in 1998, but when he came back to WWE and tried it with The Rock and CM Punk he got owned. This wasn't a bad promo, I just do not like Nash. By the way, is a Tiger Bomb an actual move?