10 Biggest Mistakes WCW Made With Kevin Nash

Kevin Nash had a great career with WCW after his WWE stint. The shocking move of leaving WWE for WCW coincided with Eric Bischoff’s best idea to form the New World Order. Nash was in a relevant position for basically that entire stint leaving his early 1990s WCW disappointment in the past.

Even though WCW had Nash in important situations often, they made quite a few mistakes with the top big man. Nash having a strong following and being among the most over stars of the era was not by luck. Unfortunately, a company can sometimes stand in the way of the best-case ideas playing out. Nash witnessed the following mistakes made by WCW regarding his career.

10 Losing WCW Championship Via A Tag Match

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Any world champion losing their title in a tag match is definitely going to have fans scratching their heads. Kevin Nash’s face WCW Championship reign in the spring of 1999 ended at the hands of Randy Savage, but it was due to a tag match.

Savage and his Team Madness partner Sid Vicious faced off against Nash and Sting with the person scoring the winning pin becoming champ. Nash did get pinned by Savage to lose the WCW Championship, but it was a disappointing way to go about it.

9 Making Him Authority Figure

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Another overlooked yet strange aspect of Kevin Nash’s later years in WCW featured him becoming an authority figure character. Nash and Terry Funk entered a feud over who should be the Commissioner of WCW as 2000 started a new millennium.

The win for Nash over Funk led to a lackluster run as the heel boss figure for a short time. WCW made too many mistakes like this that made their top stars come across foolish. Nash gained nothing from this angle and just felt like he lost some credibility in a bad storyline.

8 Calling Out Bret Hart On The Tonight Show

WCW had a great relationship with Jay Leno to have their stars appearing on the popular late-night talk show The Tonight Show. Quite a few angles or teases for big news came on that show with WCW fans having to tune in to stay engaged.

Kevin Nash teased a huge challenge before appearing on the show with implications towards WWE names. It turned out to be a cheap challenge to fellow WCW star Bret Hart. WCW never paid off this story since Bret took time off with his brother Owen passing away shortly after, but it was an odd way to set up a big match.

7 Playing The Heel In Eventual Hulk Hogan Feud

Multiple mistakes came with the Hulk Hogan vs Kevin Nash feud that never lived up to the hype. WCW fans badly wanted a match between them when the New World Order split into two factions. Unfortunately, the duo reunited before ever having a legitimate competitive match.

WCW went back to the feud in the deep summer of 1999 when Hogan turned face to embrace his old Hulkamania character. Nash turned heel and felt like a generic heel to put over Hogan despite being one of the most over stars on the face side before this change.

6 Secondary Part Of Goldberg's Worked Shoot Feud With Vince Russo

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WCW upset Goldberg most when coming up with the idea of him pretending to break character and refusing to follow the script. Goldberg often talked to the camera and called out Vince Russo backstage when acting like he was no-selling moves or leaving the ring.

Kevin Nash and Scott Steiner both had a feud with Goldberg going that suffered from the worked shoot dynamic with Russo. Both wrestlers were often left looking like fools trying to talk Goldberg into getting back into the match and exposing the scripted side.

5 Playing Second Fiddle In NWO 2000

Kevin Nash was usually the second most important member of the New World Order behind Hulk Hogan. The rise of Nash in the Wolfpac proved fans loved him even more in the lead role when the face faction existed.

Both of those factors made it odd that Nash was playing second fiddle to the new leader Bret Hart when the nWo 2000 faction formed. Bret suffering an injury to ruin that plan saw WCW even trying to spotlight Jarrett above Nash at times, despite Nash being a more respected member than anyone else in the new group.

4 Not Capitalizing Off Feud With Mike Awesome

WCW had fans interested in the new signing of Mike Awesome when he jumped ship as the ECW Champion. The hope was that Awesome could become a noteworthy star for them and help the movement of newer talents getting pushed.

Awesome attacking an injured Kevin Nash was a great debut to show him starting off with great importance. Unfortunately, WCW never booked a strong feud afterward between the two. Nash eventually returned to get revenge, and Awesome moved down the card into bad comedy gimmicks.

3 Losing Multiple Retirement Matches

WCW was often criticized for booking too many ludicrous stipulation matches that became pointless after a while. Kevin Nash was a victim of this booking style when losing retirement matches multiple times in WCW despite never actually retiring.

The terrible Hulk Hogan vs Nash feud ended with Hulkamania winning and Nash being forced to retire. However, Nash returned after a few months and became a constant part of the show again. The next retirement match came in early 2001 when losing to Scott Steiner. WCW did not get their chance to reintroduce Nash however they originally planned since the company closed shortly afterward.

2 Feud With Scott Hall

The idea of two credible top stars having a tag team and feuding afterward usually feels like a bulletproof idea. Scott Hall betraying Kevin Nash and starting a rivalry should have been a great angle, but it failed badly.

WCW grew tired of Hall’s inconsistent behavior due to his battle with alcoholism and regretfully made that part of his character. Nash growing sick of Hall showing up drunk and becoming a punch line was the overall story that felt wrong for all parties.

1 Wasting WCW Championship Reign After Ending Goldberg's Streak

Kevin Nash holding up the WCW Championship.

Some fans would argue that Kevin Nash ending Goldberg’s undefeated streak was a mistake, but it worked in the very short term. Starrcade 1998 felt like a huge attraction and Nash winning the WCW Championship in historic fashion had a strong fan base behind him.

The bigger mistake was reuniting the New World Order and having Nash hand over the belt to Hulk Hogan with the Fingerpoke of Doom. Nash moved out of the title picture and became the second fiddle to Hogan again despite the fans wanting otherwise.