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Logan Paul responds to Kevin Nash criticism: ‘I am better at your job than you ever were’

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Logan Paul doesn’t mince words about Kevin Nash.

Paul posted a video on X responding to the former WWE and WCW Champion, who was critical of Paul in his recent podcast, criticizing him for not knowing the difference between a work and a shoot as well as the amount of money he makes considering he doesn’t work a full-time schedule.

In his reply, Paul claimed he didn’t know who Nash was and said he was better at this job than Nash ever was.

“I said damn, who is Kevin Nash?” Paul replied. “And I mean that. I’m unfamiliar with this guy, which I think that’s his problem, I’m not as versed in the WWE and wrestling as maybe I should be, as my peers are. But then how am I so much better than all of them? I don’t have the answers to these questions. It is a question. I don’t know how I could be the best in the WWE or at least one of the best, like I’m assuredly a top fiver and I don’t even do it full-time.”

“Now imagine if I did learn a little bit. Imagine if I devoted, became one of the boys, learn what the difference between a shoot and a work was,” he continued. “Would that make me a champion? F*** me? F*** you. You’re one of the old guys who is bitter that I am better at your job than you ever were. And that makes you pathetic. This will be my sport and I will continue to make guys like you eat your words when I devote a little bit of time to it. So f*** me? F*** you.”

In his comments, Nash said the money that goes to Paul should be going to those working house shows.

“You don’t become one of the boys just because you’re f****** around them. That mother****** for what I heard he’s making, like five million bucks for limited [dates]…and those other mother******* out there making house shows, F**** you, f*** you. That’s for the boys. F**** you. I don’t give a f**** how many people are following you,” he said.

Paul was last seen in WWE at SummerSlam, where he lost the United States title to LA Knight.

Kevin Nash says Logan Paul ‘is not one of the boys’

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Kevin Nash was critical of Logan Paul during the latest episode of Kliq This.

Paul revealed on his Impaulsive show last week that he did not know what the word “shoot” meant in a wrestling context. Nash says the reason Paul didn’t know what the word meant was because he is not “one of the boys.”

“He’s not one of the boys, where would he learn that s–t at?” Nash said. “Where’s he going up and down the road talking about our jargon?”

Nash was also critical of Paul being paid a large salary for a limited schedule.

“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.”

Paul made the comments about wrestling jargon while Hulk Hogan was a guest on his show last week.

“You got to realize, bro, this is not a work, this is a shoot,” Hogan said to Paul on the show. “The business is a shoot. Everybody is going to tell you it’s a work, it’s not a work.”

“I don’t think I know the terms,” Paul said. “I know a ‘work,’ what is a shoot?”

“Come on, you’re bulls—ing me,” Hogan responded.

LA Knight: Kevin Nash was a ‘sweetheart’ in WWE SummerSlam interaction

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LA Knight enjoyed the interaction he had with Kevin Nash backstage at WWE SummerSlam.

Nash had taken some shots at Knight on his podcast in the past, including calling Knight “an absolute ripoff of The Rock.” But Nash said there was no heat between the two when they spoke in catering backstage at SummerSlam. Nash said Knight seemed like “a really nice guy.”

In an interview with the Daily Mail, Knight also described the interaction as a positive one.

“It’s funny because he came up while I was sitting in catering, talking to a couple of guys, and he came up, and I felt this hand on my back, and he said hello and we talked for a minute,” Knight said.

“He was asking about the match, and everything was cool and hunky dory. I am a mirror in a lot of ways – I give back whatever I receive. We could talk trash, and whatever he says on the podcast or what I say here and there, it could go either way. If he had come in talking, you know, craziness or whatever, I’d have probably responded in that regard. But he was a sweetheart, and I was a sweetheart right back.”

Knight defeated Logan Paul at SummerSlam to become the new United States Champion. It’s the first title Knight has held on the WWE main roster.

On SmackDown tonight (August 23), Knight is making a title defense against Santos Escobar. 

Kevin Nash says he has ‘no heat’ with LA Knight after WWE SummerSlam conversation

Posted on by Ian Carey

Kevin Nash says there’s “no heat” between him and LA Knight.

Last summer on his podcast, Nash was critical of Knight, at one point referring to him as “an absolute rip off of The Rock.” That September on an episode of SmackDown, Knight seemingly poked fun at a famous promo of Nash’s from WCW when he confused verbs and adjectives.

Nash was then critical of Knight again on his podcast the following week, saying:

“I’m in the Hall of Fame twice, both times as Kevin Nash, I mean he’s LA Knight, what the fuck is an LA Knight?”

Nash attended WWE SummerSlam earlier this month and saw Knight defeat Logan Paul to win the United States Championship. On the latest episode of Kliq This, Nash said the two talked backstage at the event and that Knight seemed like “a really nice guy.”

Nash said:

“LA Knight was sitting at the end of the table and I sat down at the table behind him and he turned around and I just said to him, ‘So, are you finally getting to go over tonight?’ He goes, ‘Something like that.’”

“He seemed like a really nice guy. There was no heat between us,” Nash continued.

“Nobody is trying to hurt anybody this business. I wasn’t trying to take food off his table.”

“Other people have mocked my words to him in promos on their television so I’d rather be the guy being talked about than the guy not being talked about, that’s just the way I look at it.”

Nash details other meetings he had backstage at WWE SummerSlam throughout the episode. It is available in full below.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6BuxYxm01i4XY6Wmzu2Smk?si=nNRGWyPwRiWxkL84YJZU6A&nd=1&dlsi=eb052250a2cf4d6a

Kevin Nash says WWE won’t allow him to attend Sting’s final match

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Kevin Nash says Sting asked him to be there for his final match. 

Nash and Sting worked together frequently throughout their careers, beginning in 1991 when Nash was wrestling as Oz in Jim Herd-era WCW. They would later team together as members of the NWO Wolfpac, The Millionaires Club, and then as part of The Main Event Mafia in TNA. 

On a recent episode of his Kliq This podcast, Nash revealed that he is not able to attend AEW Revolution. 

Nash said:

(Sting) asked me to be a part of it, and I just said that because of my positioning with the company, with WWE, I couldn’t even be there if I went in the crowd.

When asked what Sting wanted him to do for his last match, Nash responded:

I just think he wanted me to be there because I was just one of the guys that (was) with him the whole run.

He continued to say Sting was disappointed that Nash will not be there. 

Yeah, I think he was disappointed. I mean, I was disappointed, but I just knew. I asked. You know when you ask, and there’s that three, four-second pause and it’s just like, okay.

Sting’s final match is set for AEW Revolution on Saturday, March 3 at The Greensboro Coliseum. He is set to team with Darby Allin to defend the AEW World Tag Team Championships against The Young Bucks. 

Kevin Nash has procedure done to remove skin cancer

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Kevin Nash recently had a procedure done to remove skin cancer from his face. 

Nash spoke about having been diagnosed with Basal cell carcinoma on his Kliq This podcast, and showed an image of where doctors cut the cancerous area from his left cheek. 

Nash said he’s dealt with numerous skin damage related issues over the years and cited his history of using tanning beds as the reason. 

“For everybody out there that is – I’m 64 years old – and all this damage is from when we were kids,” Nash said. “All this skin damage is from when we were kids and I religiously – and I know you do too, Sean, because we’ve had this conversation – go to a dermatologist every three months and have yourself checked out.” 

“I know exactly why I have these problems. I’ve had several things cut off me. It was the 25 years plus of laying in tanning beds in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and everywhere else that had no sun because we had Monday Night Raw and there wasn’t an alternative.”

Nash joins Tommy Dreamer and Alexa Bliss as wrestlers who have dealt with skin cancer in 2023. All three have stated their history of using tanning beds is why they developed the cancer. Dreamer noted on his House of Hardcore podcast that he recently had a procedure done to remove skin cancer, his third time being diagnosed with it. Bliss also had a procedure done to remove Basal cell carcinoma earlier this year. 

Kevin Nash: Dark Side of the Ring working on Scott Hall episode

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Kevin Nash says Dark Side of the Ring is working on an episode focused on Scott Hall. 

The one-year anniversary of Hall’s death recently passed and Nash spent this week’s Kliq This podcast speaking about his friend. During the conversation, Nash noted that Dark Side wants him, Sean Waltman, and Cody Hall to take part in the project. 

Nash said:

Dark Side of the Ring, so, they want to do something and they want to involve me and they want to involve Sean Waltman, Cody [Hall], Cody’s going to be involved and you and I had this conversation yesterday, you know the thing that we want to do is – we just did the misconceptions of Kevin Nash as an episode – just tell people who Scott really f***ing was and I just don’t think that the A&E perspective is ever going to cover the post-traumatic stress of Scott and the shooting that happened at The Dollhouse on Orange Avenue. 

There’s a reason why so many of our warriors come back from combat and they take their lives because they’ve taken a life. 

Scott’s thing was always – because he was so highly religious – Scott would say, ‘but you don’t understand, I’m not going to go to heaven. I’ve broken one of the Ten Commandments, thou shalt not kill. I’ve killed, I’m not going to heaven, my soul will be in limbo.’

Hall fatally shot 37-year-old Rodney Perry Turner outside of The Dollhouse strip club on January 15, 1983. Turner was a manager at the bar where Hall worked as a bartender. The confrontation between the two began when Hall arrived at the bar and Turner confronted him about allegedly having slept with his wife. Turner had fatally shot another man due to a dispute involving his wife just months earlier. A struggle over Turner’s.45-caliber handgun ensued and led to his death and Hall being charged with second-degree murder. The charges were later dropped, however. 

In March 2022, Hall was taken to hospital after falling and breaking his hip. Following hip replacement surgery, he developed a blood clot that led to three heart attacks. The 63-year-old was taken off of life support on March 14, 2022. He is survived by his son Cody and daughter Cassidy.  

Kevin Nash tells police he has ‘no plans to harm himself’ after wellness check

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Kevin Nash is reportedly doing okay after comments he made on his podcast led to concern for his well-being. 

According to a report from TMZ, The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office made contact with Nash in-person recently to check on the 63-year-old following comments he made regarding his son’s death. Nash reportedly told the officers he has no plans to act on his comments and was said to be “doing okay.”

Nash posted the following to Twitter on Thursday afternoon:

Everyone take a breath. Let’s not take my biggest coping mechanism SARCASM and blow it out of proportion. I appreciate the concern and the fact that others find it a perfect time for insults. Continue to get you updates on @TMZ and wrestling sites. I’ve got legs to train today

Nash has been mourning the loss of his son, Tristen Nash, who died on October 20, 2022. The 26-year-old’s death was attributed to cardiac arrest brought on by a seizure that was triggered by alcohol withdrawal syndrome. Nash was speaking of it being 12 weeks since he lost his son when he made the below comments. 

Nash said:

Today is week 12 I lost my boy.

Time flies when you got a gun in your mouth, I mean time flies when you’re having fun. 

Nash’s co-host Sean Oliver interrupted to say, “Don’t play like that. You have guns so you can’t say those things.”

Nash continued:

I can do whatever the f**k I want to do, as long as I leave a note. 

If you or someone you know is in crisis, help is available at 988lifeline.org or by calling or sending a text to 988. 

Nash also posted to Instagram that the Kliq This YouTube channel he started with Tristen received a plaque for hitting 100,000 subscribers. 

Kevin Nash opens up about his son Tristen’s passing

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Kevin Nash has opened up about the death of his son, Tristen. 

Tristen Nash passed away on October 19 at the age of 26. On an episode of Kliq This released on Monday, Kevin Nash spoke about the days leading up to his passing. 

“This Wednesday morning my son passed,” Nash said on the show.

Nash revealed that his son suffered cardiac arrest due to a seizure. 

“The seizure caused a cardiac arrest. He was basically dead in his room on the floor with an EMT working on him and they got him back, got him in the ambulance, and tried to save his life. So, to the people at Halifax Hospital, doctors and nurses, I thank you.”

“We both had decided that we were going to stop drinking. So, it was a situation where we both went cold turkey. I don’t think either of us felt great because you stop drinking coffee for a day and you get a headache. I think that we were both dealing with it but also because we’re so close to the cruise lines here, that norovirus s**t is always relevant.” 

Nash was asked what precipitated him and his son to decide to quit drinking. 

“He had had a couple of incidents and we actually sat up here last Wednesday and during the course of the show, he drank four or five beers, unbeknownst to me.”

Nash continued to say he “got pissed” at his son for drinking the beers because Tristen had issues with alcohol. 

“He’d had this situation at the beginning of the year where he was hospitalized for almost 60 days. This is my cross to bear, it’s alcoholism.”

He would continue to say that alcoholism had taken a friend of his last year, contributed to the death of his friend, Scott Hall, and has now taken Tristen. 

“It took Scott, and now it’s taken my son,” Nash continued.

“Alcohol is such a nasty drug, and it’s a drug. Anybody out there, if you haven’t drank, you’ve probably done yourself an incredible service,” Nash would say later in the show. 

“I have spent half my life glamorizing the rock n roll, hard-charging, hard-drinking, drug-partying, wrestling world that I grew up in and lived in and I really need to take a step back from that and go, ‘you’re part of the problem, Nash, you glamorize a lifestyle that kills people and you’ve got to stop doing that.” 

Nash would continue to talk about Tristen having a high IQ as well as Asperger’s syndrome. 

“My son was autistic. My son was Asperger’s, my son was very highly educated, very high IQ but my son was autistic on top of all those things.”

“My wife and I learned so much from him because he was always exploring and investigating.”

Nash later commented on people who have reached out to him during this time including Vince Russo, Ric Flair, and Vince McMahon. 

“Vince [Russo] and I talked on Twitter direct message. He was very, very kind,” Nash said.

“I got a message, it was a Connecticut number, and it wasn’t in my phone. I said it was probably somebody from the office and I started to read it and it was Vince (McMahon). He said, ‘This is my new number, you need me, I’m here.'” 

Ric Flair lost his son Reid in 2013 at the age of 25 and also reached out to Nash. 

“Ric [Flair] reached out to me and I reached out, I said, ‘Can you talk?’ and he said, ‘Sure’ so I went out by the pool and said, ‘how did you do it with Reid?’ And we went over it and that’s what makes this s**t work, not some therapist that is going to look at me and not be able to look past my tattooed arm or the fact that I was a mediocre wrestler.” 

“Ric gave me some really good advice,” he continued. 

Nash would also say that his son helped him get through the recording of this episode. 

“I’ve wanted to break down this whole show, he won’t let me,” Nash continued. “He’s just like, ‘Dad, this is what we got to do.'”

“I was really looking forward to spending my golden years with my boy. I’ll find ways to try and stay connected,” Nash would say near the end of the show. 

Tristen Nash, son of Kevin Nash, passes away at 26

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Tristen Nash, the son of WWE Hall-of-Famer Kevin Nash, has passed away. 

The family released a statement to Fightful on Thursday confirming the news. 

“On behalf of Kevin and Tamara Nash, I have to unfortunately report that their son Tristen Nash has tragically passed away at the age of 26. Tristen recently started working on Kevin’s new podcast and the two enjoyed their time together. The Nash family asks if you could please respect their privacy during this time.” 

No cause of death has been revealed. 

“My heart is in a million pieces thinking about what 1 of my best friends in life is going through. IU 4-Life Kev,” wrote Sean Waltman on Twitter. 

“The entire AdFreeShows.com family and Podcast Heat network are shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of Tristen Nash. Our hearts are with Kevin and his wife Tamara during this most difficult time,” reads a statement from AdFreeShows, 

WWE Hall of Famer Kevin Nash launching ‘Kliq This’ podcast

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Kevin Nash is the latest pro wrestling legend to launch their own podcast.

It was announced today that “Kliq This: The Kevin Nash Podcast” will debut on Monday, July 11, with new episodes being made available every Monday on audio and video podcast outlets. Sean Oliver of Kayfabe Commentaries will be Nash’s co-host.

The podcast will feature guests from pro wrestling, entertainment, and more. The show is part of the Podcast Heat podcast network.

“Kliq This listeners will get a magical mystery tour into all aspect of life,” Nash said in a press release. “No topic is off limits or out of bounds. We will be pop culture driven, but not too timid to attack today’s current cancel culture.”

“Kliq This will be the best of what fans loved about our shoot interviews together, just on a much broader scale,” Oliver said. “Fans will slide up to the bar next to Kevin and me for banter and guests ranging from the stars of wrestling, to entertainment, to music and Lord knows what else.”

A “Kliq This” live show with Nash and Oliver will also be taking place at Starrcast V this July.

Nash is a two-time WWE Hall of Famer. He was inducted individually in 2005 and inducted as a member of the nWo as part of the 2020 Hall of Fame class.

DragonKing Dark: The death of WCW

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Continuing our 100 darkest moments in pop culture history, I return to the world of sports entertainment (pro wrestling) to find out how one company became the most profitable and successful wrestling company in the world and then sank over half of genre with it. 

The death of WCW is an amazing account of how to literally run off half of the entire fanbase of a very popular pop culture genre with a bad product.

Comic book companies, please take notes.

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Kevin Nash set for January’s GCW Most Notorious in Detroit

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Former WWE and WCW star Kevin Nash will make his GCW debut at Most Notorious on Friday, January 14th. 

The FITE.tv pay-per-view will be held at Harpo’s in Detroit, Michigan — Nash’s hometown. He isn’t expected to wrestle on the card as his last match was for Big Time Wrestling in 2018.

Nash isn’t the only legend on the card as the event will feature two other Detroit natives in Sabu and Rhino in addition to Ricky Morton of the Rock n’ Roll Express. It’s unknown who of that group will be wrestling. Grand Rapids, Michigan, native Jimmy Jacobs and Detroit native Alex Shelley have also been announced for the show.

The show is part of an already busy schedule for GCW as the booming indie promotion is running January 1st in Atlantic City, New Jersey; Hoffman Estates, Illinois, on January 15th; the Indie Wrestling Hall of Fame ceremony in New York on January 22nd; The Wrld on GCW in a sold-out Hammerstein Ballroom in New York on January 23rd; and January 31st in Atlantic City.

New premiere date set for WWE Broken Skull Sessions with Nash

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A new premiere date is set for WWE’s Broken Skull Sessions episode with Kevin Nash.

The Broken Skull Sessions episode with Steve Austin interviewing Nash is now listed among this week’s Peacock/WWE Network additions. It will premiere on Sunday, July 18, which is the day of WWE’s Money in the Bank pay-per-view.

The Broken Skull Sessions episode was originally scheduled to premiere on July 11 but was pulled from the schedule before it aired. It was going to be part of “nWo Week,” with content on Peacock/WWE Network and across WWE’s social media platforms celebrating the 25th anniversary of the nWo’s formation.

This was the second time this month that new Peacock/WWE Network content was pulled from the schedule. A WWE Icons documentary on Lex Luger was set to debut on July 4 before it was pulled. A new premiere date for the documentary has yet to be announced.

The most recent Broken Skull Sessions episode prior to this premiered last month and featured Mick Foley as the guest. The Undertaker, Goldberg, Kane, Big Show, Bret Hart, Ric Flair, Mark Henry, Jerry Lawler, Kurt Angle, Drew McIntyre, Bayley, Sasha Banks, Randy Orton, Chris Jericho, and The Godfather have also been guests on the show in the past.

Kevin Nash Broken Skull Sessions pulled from WWE Network schedule

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In what is becoming a trend regarding previously announced WWE Network programming, the Steve Austin Broken Skull Sessions episode with Kevin Nash that was set to debut Sunday is no longer on the schedule for either Peacock or the Network.

The change was first reported by WWE Network News. As of now, no reason has been given why it was pulled and neither Austin or Nash have commented on what is going on.

WWE Network News noted this is the third time in recent weeks that a previously advertised show has been pulled with virtually no notice. It began in June with WWE Untold: The Nexus and then WWE Icons: Lex Luger which was set to air last weekend.

The Nash episode was set to wrap up nWo Week on the Network commemorating the creation of the WCW faction 25 years ago. The week has featured a Best of the nWo show and X-Pac appearing on The Bump.