If Kevin Nash were making the call, CM Punk would drop the World Heavyweight Championship to Bron Breakker on the first WWE Raw of 2026.
Punk and Breakker are set to face off on the January 5 episode of Raw from Brooklyn, New York. The title match will help set the stage for WrestleMania season — and Nash would like to see a new champion crowned. On his Kliq This podcast, Nash critiqued Punk’s performance from Raw last Monday. He thought Punk looked slow and like he was “done.”
“I watched Punk in the main event of that match last Monday. Number one: if you’re the Heavyweight Champion of the WWE and you wrestle in a T-shirt — ouch,” Nash said. “Number two: his punches looked really slow. He looked slow. I think it’s time for him, I think he’s done. I think Bron should beat him.”
The tag match from last week saw Austin Theory & Bronson Reed defeat Rey Mysterio & Punk. Following the match, Punk was laid out by a spear from Breakker.
Punk vs. Breakker is happening on the same Raw episode that will have a crossover with the hit Netflix series “Stranger Things.” The episode will also celebrate the one-year anniversary of Raw coming to Netflix.
Nash, a WWE Hall of Famer, was once rivals with Punk on-screen with Nash playing a role in the Punk vs. Triple H rivalry that took place in 2011.
The two WWE legends have similar politics, but Kevin Nash doesn’t have any plans to cut ties with the company like Mick Foley did.
Last week, Foley announced that he is parting ways with WWE due to the association the promotion has with President Donald Trump. Foley said he will not be renewing his WWE Legends contract when it comes due next summer, and he will not be making any appearances as a representative for WWE while Trump is still in office. The final straw for Foley was how Trump reacted to the death of director Rob Reiner — with Foley calling Trump’s comments “incredibly cruel.”
Nash reacted to Foley’s decision on the latest episode of his Kliq This podcast, saying he understands where Foley is coming from but will not be making the same decision himself.
“I understand it. And if that’s how Mick feels, it’s like, I get it from Mick’s standpoint,” Nash said. “But for me personally — because I had some people text me like, ‘Are you going to follow suit?’ I’m like, well, I said, ‘Let me explain my position.'”
Nash detailed how Paul “Triple H” Levesque and Linda McMahon have been like family to him over the years. When Nash’s son Tristen was born, Levesque was the first person from the Kliq to hold him. In the 1990s, Linda McMahon was great to Nash’s wife when they spent a day together in New York City. Linda knows Nash does not agree with her politically, but that does not cause issues when they see each other.
“I look at the McMahon/Levesque, I look at them as family,” Nash said. “Like, that’s it. They’re just family to me… they’re my Republican family, you know?”
Nash said he knows Levesque’s position on the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition is a huge honor to him because of how passionate Levesque is about fitness. And while Linda might be a member of Trump’s cabinet, other members of the administration did not have the same reaction to Reiner’s death that Trump did. Nash said, instead of being outraged by what Trump said, he personally was bored by it.
“I understand Mick’s, ‘This is all I can stand, because I can’t stand no more.’ I understand that,” Nash said. “I was more of a, ‘Could you f*cking grab another hold? Boring.’ You know, that’s kind of the way I looked at it. Like, f*ck, dude, boring. It doesn’t work anymore.”
Aside from his closeness with the McMahon/Levesque family, Nash said he is able to differentiate WWE as a company from the disagreements he has with Trump.
“Because my deal is with the WWE. My deal isn’t with MAGA. My deal isn’t with Trump,” Nash said. “And I don’t see those sensibilities coming through my television screen when I watch Netflix and when I watch Raw and when I watch the Saturday Night’s Main Event.”
Nash said, if Foley feels his decision did some good, he applauds him for it. But Nash believes more harm is done by giving Trump the reaction that he wants.
“What am I supposed to do? I’m going to give up revenue? I’m going to give up revenue, for what?,” Nash said.
Despite Bret Hart’s claims, there is no truth to the idea that Vince McMahon and Shawn Michaels were secret lovers.
That’s according to Kevin Nash, who worked closely with McMahon and Michaels during a year-long reign as World Wrestling Federation champion in the 1990s.
“I spent the better part of three years of my life with Shawn Michaels,” Nash said on his Kliq This podcast. “And I never remember having a double knockout with Vince during any of our travel.”
“There’s just no way that it would be that he never told anybody,” Nash continued. “He couldn’t tell anybody. See, that’s one of those things where you tell a story like that and you say ‘I’m sure.’ But no, you’re not. No, this is all speculation. He saw nothing. He didn’t walk in on, you know, Pat Patterson or anything like that.”
Nash says there’s “no way” that McMahon and Michaels could have kept a romantic relationship secret for nearly 30 years.
Hart made his claims on the Johnny Pro Show while discussing the anniversary of the Montreal Screwjob. “I think Shawn and Vince were sleeping with each other,” he said.
“When I look back, I got caught between two lovers. I got shafted and screwed over and Shawn was so envious and jealous of my position that he finally had to sleep with Vince to get it.”
Nash suggested the timing of Hart’s comments was not coincidental. “I think it’s in poor taste,” he said. “I know they’re talking about the screwjob … somebody, please, get the [censored] over that.”
Kevin Nash says WWE royalty payments “got weird” after the company’s merger with UFC to create TKO Group Holdings.
On an episode of his Kliq This podcast, Nash revealed that he recently received a royalty payment from WWE that was for much lower than he expected. He said he called Sean Waltman to discuss.
Nash said:
“(Sean Waltman and I) both got our royalty checks and I called him and he’s laughing on the other side of the phone and says, ‘Obviously, you got your royalty check.’ I said, ‘Holy f–k. The last one was good, this one was rotten.’ I mean, it was half.“
He continued to say that after TKO took over the process, the royalty payments were not as detailed as they had been previously.
“When I was making huge money in my royalties, it was broken down. It would say NWO t-shirts, NWO women’s t-shirts. Now it says NWO intellectual property and there’s just a number.”
“It got weird when they sold. It started when they sold,” he continued.
“I can only go by what I was making, I can only imagine what like Hulk, Austin, Rock. If you take all those guys – I think Steve was at 50 percent of his merch. Some of mine was at 25 – When you take that and you cut that in half and put that back on the books, that’s several million dollars.”
However, Nash concluded that so long as his longtime friend Triple H is in charge of WWE, he will just roll with whatever happens.
“My thing with it is, I would never do anything to put any bad light on Paul,” he continued. “As long as Paul’s in charge, I just roll with everything.”
The heart procedure that Kevin Nash recently underwent was an in-and-out experience.
Speaking on his Kliq This podcast, the WWE Hall of Famer said the procedure only took 53 minutes of his time in total. Nash didn’t even need to take his shoes or shorts off — he just had to take his T-shirt off, have part of his chest shaved, and have anesthesia performed.
“My cardiologist, he treats me very well,” Nash said. “And I get treated very well at this hospital.”
The procedure was an electronic correction for an irregular heartbeat (atrial fibrillation). On his podcast last week, Nash said his cardiologist found that he had a small amount of scar tissue on the back of his heart and might have suffered a minor heart attack 20 years ago. Despite that, Nash is fine now except for this irregular heartbeat issue that needed to be corrected.
“I walked in and when they put the blood pressure cuff on me, my blood pressure was 106 over 68 and my pulse was 63. So not exactly like racing into AFib or anything else,” Nash said while describing the procedure. “It was just that when you look at the EKG, because I’m looking at it, I’m like, ‘I don’t see… ‘ My cardiologist said, ‘Right there, that knobble little thing right there shouldn’t be there.’ But it’s like f*cking a pretty long way and then there’s just one that’s wrong.”
The procedure was an easy experience with Nash able to leave the hospital right after it was done.
“So I wake up, he’s smiling at me, they’re happy. They said, ‘Okay, we’ll get your wife.’ She came in and says, ‘You want something to drink?’ I said, ‘Yeah’ — and my go-to after surgery drink is always cranberry juice, because I don’t ever drink anything like that,” Nash said. “So that’s like, you know, nice and tart, kind of cleans your mouth out.
“So I had my cranberry juice and then they were like, ‘Well, you can get up when you feel like it.’ I just sat around because I already had my shoes on. And she untied the back of my thing. I pulled it off, put my T-shirt on, and was in the car — I think total time until we hit the IHOP was under an hour.”
The 66-year-old Nash was a World Champion for both WWF and WCW during his career, starring as Diesel early on before later helping to revolutionize the industry as a member of the nWo.
Raquel Rodriguez is crediting two WWE Hall of Famers for helping her improve in the ring.
In an interview with The Metro, Rodriguez said The Undertaker has been helping her behind the scenes and giving her some tips. She has also used recent criticism from Kevin Nash to help improve her in-ring game.
“Undertaker’s really stepped up, and he’s been giving a little bit more of his time and advice and his knowledge to everyone in the business, including myself,” Rodriguez said.
In comments made on his podcast this July, Nash criticized Rodriguez for working too small and not maximizing her size as a strength. Rodriguez responded to that criticism with grace, showing respect for Nash and saying that she was going to start working bigger.
“Kevin Nash has been so gracious since the comments, and I think he really took my response in a very nice way as well,” she told The Metro. “He’s been nice enough to message me here and there and give me a little couple of tips about videos and matches that he’s seen.
“So I know he’s watching the product. I know he’s watching me, and that makes me feel good, because he’s out there to want to make me better.”
Rodriguez and her Judgment Day partner Roxanne Perez are set for a tag match on today’s WWE Raw in France. They’ll be facing off against The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka & Kairi Sane).
Kevin Nash has responded to Bret Hart’s comments about not getting a seat to watch WWE SummerSlam.
Hart made headlines last week when he mentioned that he felt unappreciated by WWE after being invited to attend SummerSlam, only to be told at the show that they did not have a seat for him. Hart said he noticed that Nash had a seat at SummerSlam, something Nash refuted on the latest episode of his Kliq This podcast.
“I saw where he was pissed because he went to SummerSlam and was told that they would have a seat for him and there wasn’t, but I got a seat” Nash said, before revealing he didnt’ attend the show.
“Well, number one, I didn’t go to the show because I knew I didn’t have a seat,” Nash continued.
Asked why Hart would comment on him having a seat at SummerSlam when he wasn’t at the show, Nash continued:
“I guess my name got brought up because it would be like, ‘Oh, Triple H’s buddy f—ing got a seat,” he said.
Nash says he called Hart to clear the air about the issue and told him that he stopped going to WWE events because of the same issues Hart dealt with at SummerSlam.
“I actually called Bret today. I said, ‘Bret, I stopped going after they put me in a f—ing box and the monitor in the box didn’t work, and the ring was so f—ing small and we were so far away that we had to look up and watch the f—ing tron with no f—ing announcing.'”
“It’s bad enough to have to watch f—ing wrestling without being able to fast forward through s–t,” he continued.
Nash also brought up that The Undertaker didn’t even have a seat to watch the show.
“From what I heard, Taker wasn’t real happy,” Nash continued. “Somebody saw Taker at the show and he was sitting in a TV room watching a monitor.”
Nash believes that since he and Hart at one point left WWE to go to WCW, neither of them will ever be treated as well as someone like The Undertaker.
“Bret has to realize that he f—king left and went to WCW,” Nash continued. “He put on the gray. I put on the gray, I understand that. I was part of the f—ing people that almost put that f—ing place out of business, so I’m never going to be treated the same as everybody else.”
The full episode of Kliq This with Sean Oliver and Kevin Nash is available below:
Raquel Rodriguez loves when fans compare her tag team with Liv Morgan to Shawn Michaels & Diesel.
Currently in their third reign with the belts, Rodriguez & Morgan are the WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions heading into WrestleMania 41. Their dynamic has drawn comparisons to Michaels & Diesel with Rodriguez being a powerhouse and serving as a bodyguard for Morgan.
” I love it. I absolutely love it,” Rodriguez said about the comparisons on a new episode of Insight with Chris Van Vliet. “I feel like Dakota [Kai] and I had those comparisons in NXT too when we were tagging, and so I was calling myself ‘Big Mami Cool’ for a while, because I love it. I love Diesel… It’s really, really cool. And what a comparison to be compared to [Kevin Nash]. He [is] just known for his swag and his attitude and his confidence, and so I try to bring that. Especially coming back from my illness. I was like, ‘I want to come back and I just want to exude confidence.’ I want to exude machismo to quote a little bit of WWE there with Razor Ramon. But machisma. That’s not a real word [laughs]. So yeah, I love that comparison.”
Rodriguez spent several months out of action in 2024 due to mast cell activation syndrome, which she described as her body “having a constant allergic reaction to everything.” She is determined to keep a positive attitude despite the condition and wants to show younger people that, no matter what they’re going through, they’re beautiful the way they are.
“I can’t stay stuck in a rut,” Rodriguez said. “I want everyone to know that — I know you may feel stuck for whatever time it is that you’re there right now, but it’s not forever.”
WWE has yet to confirm Rodriguez & Morgan’s plans for WrestleMania, but Bayley & Lyra Valkyria are looking like potential challengers. Maxxine Dupri & Natalya are another team that wants a shot at the Women’s Tag Team titles.
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Kevin Nash provided an update on several of his injuries during the latest episode of his Kliq This podcast.
In previous episodes, Nash mentioned that he needs shoulder surgery but is hopeful he’ll only require a minimally invasive procedure. On today’s episode, he revealed that he’s also dealing with a torn biceps, something that MRIs he had last month missed.
“I got the MRI, my orthopedic looked at it and he said there’s not a tear, I don’t see a tear in your biceps. When the radiologist read it, there were no tears in any of my rotator cuffs,” Nash said on the show.
However, when Nash resumed training recently, he started to feel his biceps cramping while working on a curl machine.
“At about nine reps, I could just feel my left biceps cramping and I was just like and I was just like, ‘Oh f–k me,’ because when you tear a biceps, it cramps.”
Nash believes that previous damage he’d done to his biceps likely led to the earlier MRI being inaccurate.
“Not to blame the MRI but I’ve got so much hardware in my shoulder that’s holding everything together that when they take an MRI, you get a lot of artifact so you don’t get really true readings,” Nash said.
“I saw my orthopedist, and we sat down and reviewed slides of my bicep tendons, which appeared intact at the time,” he continued to say of the MRIs that missed the biceps tear.
Nash says he’ll undergo a procedure to correct the tear, which will keep him out of the gym for six weeks.
“What they’ll do is they’ll go in and they’ll make an incision and then they’ll weave sutures into the tendon that’s there hoping that it hasn’t already retracted all the way.”
“You basically drill a hole through the humerus and stick the bicep tendon through the humerus.”
Kevin Nash has provided an update on some of the injuries he’s currently dealing with.
On last week’s episode of his Kliq This podcast, Nash revealed he needed shoulder surgery. However, during this week’s episode, he noted that his shoulder feels significantly better ten days after suffering the injury, though he still requires a minimally invasive procedure to address stenosis.
Nash explained:
“I went in there today, and he went through the whole thing,” Nash said.
“He showed me all my different rotator cuffs, then he showed me a pretty decent bone spur on the end of my humerus, which I found nothing funny (about).”
Nash continued:
“He just said that I have so much arthritis that probably what happened was there was an area that looked like scar tissue that I had broken loose. I had some cysts and some bone spurs that they cut all the way through so I think that is what split.”
“I was actually having a hard time pulling up a pair of shorts on my left side, but since I’ve done this, like, the first day I got up, I pulled my underwear on, I was just like, there’s no pain on the back of my shoulder.”
Regarding what doctors will now do to treat his stenosis, Nash said:
“I talked to the spinal surgeon, and they’ll be able to just go in, like the f—in size of a McDonald’s straw, and take that piece of bone out. Minimally invasive procedure.”
“There’s only so much you can do with stenosis with stem cell, but my shoulder right now, it will flourish because all that tendinitis and all that wear and tear, that stem cell will give that a nice (shot).”
The full episode of Nash’s podcast is avialable below:
Kevin Nash revealed he needs shoulder surgery on the latest episode of his Kliq This podcast.
His co-host, Sean Oliver, asked about rumors that Nash will appear on NXT programming soon and Nash responded that he first needs to have surgery.
“I’ll definitely show up at an NXT taping if I’m not being operated on during that time because it looks like I’m going to get my shoulder operated on,” Nash said. “Something popped in my shoulder training on Tuesday. It never stops, man.”
Nash is also dealing with a back injury that caused him to withdraw from events for MCW Wrestling and Adrenaline Championship Wrestling this weekend.
“We’re dealing with the back. It’s two separate issues. I mean, it’s easily compartmentalized. One of them is my nerve is pinched, and it’s making my quad not fire; the other one is when I wipe my ass, I scream,” Nash said before confirming the latter issue developed recently
Nash says he was using a Cybex row machine when he heard something pop in his shoulder. The full episode of his podcast is available below.
Kevin Nash believes Paul “Triple H” Levesque leaving WWE was a real possibility if Vince McMahon had been able to take control of creative prior to his resignation.
During his Kliq This podcast this week, Nash said that — while he believes Ric Flair and Hulk Hogan are the two greatest wrestlers of all time — he thinks Levesque has had “the best run of anybody” from all standpoints of the business. He praised how Levesque has improved the WWE product. Though he and Levesque have not had this conversation with each other, Nash feels that Levesque would have left WWE if McMahon had been able to take the creative reins from him.
“There’s the 1A [and] 1B. You know, whether you’re a Flair guy or you’re a Hogan guy. And then there’s the business aspect guy — and I say that the best run of anybody would be Triple H. From all standpoints of the business. I mean, there’s no comparison,” Nash said.
“Because he’s so good at what he does on a daily basis. Like, as soon as he got his hands on the controls, sh*t changed. The product became — it just was night and day. Vince almost tried to kibosh it, and, you know, they went through all that sh*t again. And I think at that point, if it wouldn’t have went the way it did, I think Paul would have walked. [Stephanie McMahon] already had.
“I have a feeling. I mean, we never had the conversation, but I know Paul. I just think that it was like, ‘F*ck, man.’ But I heard some other — I have talked to Paul about some other things. So, I mean, I know some information and things that made me feel really good when I heard how they felt, Endeavor, how they felt about Paul.”
Levesque became WWE’s Chief Content Officer in 2022 following McMahon’s initial “retirement” from the company. McMahon forced himself back into power as executive chairman in January 2023, one year before ultimately having to resign.
The back and forth between Logan Paul and Kevin Nash has continued.
The public dispute between the two began last week when Nash said on his podcast that Paul was “not one of the boys” and was critical of him for earning a large salary while working limited dates.
“You don’t become one of the boys just cause you’re around them. From what I heard he’s making, like five million bucks for limited (dates), and those other (wrestlers) are out there making house shows. F–k you, that’s from the boys. F–k you. I don’t give a f–k how many people are following you” Nash said last week.
Paul then responded to Nash by saying, “‘I am better at your job than you ever were,” in a video posted to X.
Nash addressed the situation again on an episode of “Kliq This” published on Monday.
“I didn’t say “F— you,” I said, ‘F–k you from the boys.’ I’m not—I guess I’m one of the boys, I guess technically, but I don’t have a dog in the race,” he said. “I love the fact that the boys are making that kind of money it’s just…”
Nash continued to say of Paul:
“I think his athleticism’s amazing but I also, you know, when I go someplace, and somebody’s getting that kind of push and paid that kind of money, I ask some questions because I’m still one of the boys. I asked a person that has been in the ring with him, “How is he?” And they said, ‘He’s amazing as far as what he can do physically.’ He said, ‘He just doesn’t remember anything.'”
Nash spoke about how WWE has sent a ring and will send talent to Puerto Rico to work on Paul’s matches with him. He continued to say that Paul should not consider himself a top guy in the wrestling industry if he is not able to “call it in the ring.”
“It’s just that you’re not a top-five guy if you can’t – when I was 42 years old, if you can’t go out there – and I’m sitting in Hulk’s dressing room drinking beer, and we had 12 minutes, and they give us the finish, and your music plays and mine plays and I go out to the ring, you’re not one of the top five guys if you don’t know what the f–k we’re doing, if you can’t just go out there and call it.”
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