Kevin Nash Says HHH Is Like A Brother To Him, Won’t Be At Raw’s 20th, Will Never Go Back To TNA

Kevin Nash posted the following on twitter:

HHH is like a brother to me, If he needs anything I would do it. Going back to TNA would break a trust. Love Dixie and their crew. WWE made me. Will not be on Raw's 20th. Would never go back to TNA. Still enjoy getting in the ring and doing shows,when I want to.The WWE is a young mans game. Nothing left to prove. Move on to a new goal.

This Day In Wrestling History

Frank Gotch defeats George Lurich and again announces his retirement. Immediately several people claim the world championship. An alleged title match takes place between Henry Ordemann and Jess Westegaard for the title. Dr. Benjamin F. Roller claims to be the champion. Frank Gotch opens up a car dealership in Humboldt, IA with Albert Wittman and P. F. Saul.
January 4, 1913

Shotgun Saturday Night debuts from the Mirage Nightclub in New York
January 4, 1997

Mankind (Mick Foley) defeated The Rock to win the WWF(E) World Title at a RAW is WAR taping in Worcester, Massachusetts. The show would air on the following Monday. That night Tony Schiavone would reveal the result during WCW Monday Nitro, airing live that night, noting that Mankind as champion "ought to put a lot of butts in the seats." Schiavone would later claim Eric Bischoff fed him that line to say.
January 4, 1999

Hulk Hogan defeats Kevin Nash for the WCW Championship via poking him with his finger. This incident lead to the rebirth of the nWo.
January 4, 1999

TNA iMPACT! moved to Monday nights to compete against WWE Raw. That night, Hulk Hogan made his debut with TNA, while Bret Hart made his WWE return to confront Shawn Michaels. Four months later, iMPACT! moved back to Thursday nights. They were not able to compete against Raw in the ratings.
January 4, 2010

This Day In Wrestling History

Kevin Von Erich defeated Dick Murdoch for the Missouri State Heavyweight title.
November 23, 1979

Pedro Morales defeated Magnificent Muraco for the WWWF(WWE) Intercontinental title.
November 23, 1981

Shawn Michaels & Diesel split & abandoned the WWF(E) Tag Team title.
November 23, 1994

Kevin Nash Believes Triple H Will Change WWE

Kevin Nash made the following comments to Busted Open Radio regarding how he believes his friend, Triple H will change WWE when he is in full control of the product:

"I think he’ll change the product in the way that he feels is good to change the product. I don’t think the product will stay the same. I think that he has a different vision than other people do," Nash said on the Busted Open satellite radio show this week. "I’m just saying other people; I mean, Vince (McMahon) isn’t the only one that is in the meetings and has a voice. There’s other people. Kevin Dunn. There’s a lot of people that have a voice in that company."

Related to Kevin Dunn and the production team, Nash he thinks "the biggest problem that WWE probably has right now" is a lack of people waiting in the wings to replace the people who have to "to make those incredible last-second calls that makes a near-miss look like the person gets their head taken off."

This Day in Wrestling History

Sting defeated Ric Flair for the NWA Heavyweight Wrestling title.
July 7, 1990

Ric Flair defeated Konnan for the WCW U.S. Heavyweight title.
July 7, 1996

Kevin Nash, Scott Hall & Hulk Hogan shock fans by forming the NWO at WCW's Bash at the Beach Pay Per View.
July 7, 1996

This Day in Wrestling History - The Birth of Austin 3:16

It's somewhat odd to think of but in a roundabout way, The Kliq -- and Triple H, specifically -- are indirectly responsible (at least partially) for the booming success of Stone Cold Steve Austin.

Back in early 1996, Kevin Nash and Scott Hall, two of The Kliq's members, were leaving the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) for the larger contracts and guaranteed main event slots being offered by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Shawn Michaels and Triple H, however, were staying behind. During a house show at Madison Square Garden in May, the four orchestrated a small ceremony to say goodbye, in which each member got into the ring at the end of the night and hugged each other before giving a curtain call.

This was a major breach of kayfabe, as the group consisted of both heels and babyfaces, and showed enough lack of professionalism that someone had to be punished. With Hall and Nash leaving the company and Michaels the WWF champion at the time, that left Triple H to take the fall. This was unfortunate timing, too, for him, at least. That's because he was penciled in to win the King of the Ring tournament the very next month to begin a big push.

Instead, that push went to a rising star in the company, Stone Cold Steve Austin.

Last we left "The Rattlesnake," he was losing a Caribbean Strap match to Savio Vega at In Your House: Beware of Dog 2, which served to rid Austin of his manager at the time, Ted DiBiase. He entered the King of the Ring tournament immediately after and advanced by defeating Bob Holly in the first round and getting his win back on Vega in the second.

That led him to the pay-per-view (PPV) and a match-up against Marc Mero in the semifinals, which he won after a damn fine 17-minute match that saw him get his lip busted open. Because of this, he had to go straight to the hospital while the event continued on before returning later to meet Jake "The Snake" Roberts in the final.

Stone Cold made it back in time and the two had a mostly underwhelming match. Roberts had his ribs busted up earlier in the night by Vader after their match ended and he was selling that injury all throughout the match. Austin, of course, used it as his focal point before ending it just under five minutes in with the Stone Cold Stunner, a finisher he had just started using at that time.

The match itself was quickly forgotten but the promo Austin cut during his coronation will live on forever in the annals of pro wrestling lore.

Roberts was using a born again Christian gimmick at that time, as he had recently converted to as much in his real life. So Austin used it for inspiration in his promo and created one of the most famous catchphrases in pro wrestling history

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This Day in Wrestling History

At WCW's Great American Bash in Baltimore, MD, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash attacked Eric Bischoff. Nash powerbombed him off the stage.
June 16, 1996

This Day in Wrestling History

Kevin Nash returns to the WWE & starts a feud with Triple H that lasts for three months.
April 7, 2003

World Wrestling Entertainment rebrands itself to WWE to better reflect the company’s global entertainment offerings and Paul "Triple H" Levesque becomes the head of the new Talent Development Department.
April 7, 2011

Kevin Nash Explains Why Triple H Beating Undertaker At WM28 Would Be Bad For Business

Kevin Nash told the UK Sun the following about why Triple H ending the Undertaker's streak at WrestleMania 28 this Sunday would be a bad idea.

"End of an Era…I've been thinking about the "speaking in code" that Shawn Michaels alluded to last week…If the WWE did have HHH end the Streak, what's the bragging point since it took him three tries? There's no bragging point, and it doesn't do anything for business…It wouldn't be good for business at all. It'd be like, yeah HHH ended it, but it took him three tries...Big deal. How does that impact the business to the good side?

"Most people would automatically point to the fact that he's married to Stephanie, and didn't do it because he deserved it…They could see through the facade WWE [would] have to build for it. I could already hear the bullshit chants from the more seasoned fans if they did that.

"In all honesty, at this point in time, the only one that deserves to end the Streak, is Taker himself by hanging it up when he chooses…In other words, he retires undefeated at Mania."

Kevin Nash Reveals What Was Planned for Texting Angle and Why It Was Derailed Mid-Stream

Kevin Nash revealed for the first time the full story on why his match with CM Punk was derailed after Summerslam last year in an interview with pwtorch.com.

What? You mean Triple H didn't hijack the storyline for himself? No haters...keep reading...

"I'll tell you what nobody knows about this entire thing," Nash said. "I never went into it and WWE never went into it because of the privacy issue. What happened was, because of the wellness program, because my dad died of a heart attack at 36 years old, they do beyond a thorough physical. Well, my heart and everything else was fine, but I'm on Plavix and Plavix is a blood platelet agulator; they call it a blood thinner. It's not, it stops your platelets from sticking together so you don't get cardiovascular disease and blockages in your arteries and have a heart attack. it's also for stroke. It's very common to take with a statin drug if you have anybody in your heredity who died before 50 let alone having a father who died of a massive coronary at age 36.

"So I was on Plavix. So this comes through. When the doctor sees I'm on Plavix, I can't wrestle. So now I'm supposed to wrestle CM Punk. I can't. They won't medically clear me. Triple H has to take my spot. It screws up the entire angle. That's how all that came about. WWE would never - because that's the class of the program - let that come out, but I need to make sure people realize it wasn't Creative's [fault], it was that a 52 year old guy was on Plavix and I had to go off it. I had to be off it for a certain amount of time before I could go back to work. It just so happened that I was finishing the Soderbergh film "Magic Mike" at the time, and I had to go shoot that, so it coincided with me going away for a while. I took the shot with the sledgehammer in Buffalo at Night of Champions and that got me away until I could be clear, and then I came back and we went into the match with Paul [Triple H] and I. At that point, Phil [CM Punk] and I sort of missed our opportunity to have that match. That's the true untold story that I give only Wade Keller (laughs)."

He said as a result, the entire storyline was scrambled and rewritten on the fly.

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Kevin Nash: Taker and Triple H Aren't Done Yet

Nash — who is close friends with both grapplers — gave SunSport a call to preview this year's Mania, which will be held in Miami.

And the match that was most on his mind was the one that pits his best pal Triple H — real name Paul Levesque — against Mark Calaway, aka the legendary Undertaker.

Nash told us: "It's going to be hard for them to follow last year, because the match they had was so epic.

"By adding the cell and by adding Shawn Michaels, they've got some more things to use as far as from a psychology and moving parts standpoint.

"It changes the psychology of the match. I'm really looking forward to seeing that what they do.

"I know that Mark's beat up, like we all are. I know Paul's beat up. His job is behind the scenes and in the office. When he does wrestle it's an added thing.

"It's added responsibility and I think that puts a ton of pressure on him, because he is so involved in so many day-to-day decisions that are made within the WWE.

"For something like WrestleMania it's easy for either one of those guys, the calibre of performer that they are, to be able to put one out of their hat...More?

source: the sun

This Day in Wrestling History

Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash & Scott Hall return to the WWF(E) & re-form the nWo at No Way Out.
February 17, 2002

Legacy of The Kliq

From Mike Johnson of pwinsider.com:

In terms of a legacy, I don't think there is any question that Shawn Michaels, from an in-ring standpoint, will have left the best legacy, but I'm going to go with Triple H. He wields far more political power and stroke than any other member of the clique and that power will only grow with time as Vince McMahon gets older. In terms of the worst, that's really subjective, but I'll go with Scott Hall, because (in the long term) he did the least with the most amount of talent and still has issues to this day despite many of his closest friends trying to support him and every major company giving him chance after chance. I know that a lot of fans really detest Kevin Nash but the reality is that he overachieved in the business and at the end of the day, he walked out with much more money than anyone would have ever predicted.

This Day in Wrestling History

Frank Gotch defeats George Lurich and again announces his retirement. Immediately several people claim the world championship. An alleged title match takes place between Henry Ordemann and Jess Westegaard for the title. Dr. Benjamin F. Roller claims to be the champion. Frank Gotch opens up a car dealership in Humboldt, IA with Albert Wittman and P. F. Saul.
January 4, 1913

Shotgun Saturday Night debuts from the Mirage Nightclub in New York
January 4, 1997

Mankind (Mick Foley) defeateds The Rock to win the WWF(E) World Title at a RAW is WAR taping in Worcester, Massachusetts. The show would air on the following Monday. That night Tony Schiavone would reveal the result during WCW Monday Nitro, airing live that night, noting that Mankind as champion "ought to put a lot of butts in the seats." Schiavone would later claim Eric Bischoff fed him that line to say.
January 4, 1999

Hulk Hogan defeats Kevin Nash for the WCW Championship via poking him with his finger. This incident lead to the rebirth of the nWo.
January 4, 1999

TNA iMPACT! moved to Monday nights to compete against WWE Raw. That night, Hulk Hogan made his debut with TNA, while Bret Hart made his WWE return. Four months later, iMPACT! moved back to Thursday nights. They were not able to compete against Raw in the ratings.
January 4, 2010

Kevin Nash Thanks Triple H

According to a source close to Kevin Nash, in his mind his match with Triple H at TLC was his retirement match. WWE could always decide to bring him back for another feud but Nash is under the impression that's it. He wrote on Twitter last night:

"Thanks Paul,nice to end it with someone I love."

Triple H Shows No Mercy

"Kliq" or no Kliq, Kevin Nash learned you never try to destroy The Cerebral Assassin with his own signature weapon.

In a punishing contest between the best friends turned bitter enemies, Triple H showed no mercy at WWE TLC once he managed to grasp the sledgehammer hanging above a ladder. Blow after blow, The Game made Nash pay for injuring him on the Oct. 24 Raw SuperShow and causing havoc in WWE over the last four months. When the torment was through, Nash had to be stretchered out of 1st Mariner Arena.

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Poll Results: Who Walks Out With The Sledgehammer At TLC?

Triple H 11 (73%)

Kevin Nash 4 (26%)

Video: Triple H Returns to Raw and Addresses Kevin Nash

Triple H is Coming to Baltimore, MD

Kevin Nash will face Triple H at WWE TLC in a Ladder Match with a sledgehammer hanging above the ring on December 18th.

Rumor Mill - Triple H Dealing with Injuries

Wrestlingnewsworld.com is reporting that Triple H is dealing with a real-life neck injury sustained during a spot with Kevin Nash. He is also having problems with his knees that may require surgery at some point.