Nash Says Wrestling Died When Benoit and Guerrero Became World Champions

Chi-Town Bully

Grantland.com has published a lengthy article on the life and controversial wrestling career of Kevin Nash, who has begun to gain traction in Hollywood. A notable point in the article has the six-time world champion reiterating his stance on "Vanilla Midgets," a dismissive term he used as booker in the late '90s in World Championship Wrestling to describe small-statured, gifted technical wrestlers who didn't project larger than life personalities but were beloved by fans, such as Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero and Dean Malenko. "Big Sexy" feels the professional wrestling industry died in 2004 at WrestleMania XX when WWE's "Super Bowl" concluded with the image of the under six-foot-tall grapplers reigning supreme as champions and emotionally celebrating. Even though the two wrestlers are now deceased, he still believes they never belonged in the main event scene due to their small stature.

"When Benoit and Guerrero hugged [at the end of WrestleMania XX], that was the end of the business," Nash says. "Has business been the same since that WrestleMania? Has it come close to the Austin era? Has it come close to the nWo or the Hogan era? You put two fucking guys that were great workers that were the same height as the fucking referees, and I'm sorry, man. Are you going to watch a porno movie with a guy with a three-inch dick? Even if you're not gay, you will not watch a porno movie with a guy with a three-inch dick. That's not the standard in porno films. So you put a 5-foot-7 guy as your world champion."

Nash has the same problem with today's "Internet heroes," CM Punk and Daniel Bryan.

"They are not bigger than life," he says. "I bet they could both walk through airports and not be noticed unless they have a gimmick shirt on and the belt."


No Homo at the porn analogy

infamous114

LMAO what a terrible analogy....

Serious Juice Mayne

Nash dumb gay measuring dicks

RodrigueZz

dalyricalbandit

this nigga nash has always felt himself to much

genocidecutter

lol at that statement

KingGivBiz

fuck nash.. no homo

NothingButTheTruth

I agree

herbalism101

Nash is a hypocrite. He's saying that Guerrero and Benoit killed the business by embracing at Wrestlemania when him and the Kliq killed Kayfabe by embracing at MSG...Dude really needs to stop. Just cause he rode the curtails of HBK (Which everyone in that crew did except for Hall) and got lucky with NWO(thanks to Hogan) doesn't mean he is a true legend to give comments like that. Like he's done much....Without those two major boosts, He was nothing more than a VEGAS loser in the wack ass world of OZ

Then he talks about Punk and Bryan. Didn't this jackass just tweet after Raw 1000 that he was bringing back NWO and he wanted Punk to lead it? Some wrestlers should not be interviewed....

Jamaica

Shawn Michaels is around the same height as Benoit and Eddie. Just saying.

dalyricalbandit

Jamaica wrote: »

Shawn Michaels is around the same height as Benoit and Eddie. Just saying.

my thoughts exactly

Indy8503 HD

Because the New Generation era when he was champ for almost a year was so much better...

TrueGodHS

Nash just mad niggas dont wanna see him on TV no more.

darkone360

That Virgil pic is probably one of the saddest things I've seen in a long time. Smh.

Trillip Brooks

Trillip Brooks

Jamaica wrote: »

Shawn Michaels is around the same height as Benoit and Eddie. Just saying.

nah, not really, HBK is 6'2", Austin was 6'2". Better example would be jericho.

BlackAX410

PUSHER wrote: »

LMFAO yo said dat hahahahaha dat porn quote was horrific tho

VIBE

Nash is just mad he's washed up.

Jericho with that ether, what did Nash say?

VIBE

Kevin's response:

Once again the puppet master pulls the marks strings .Knew Jericho was a closet mark.First one eliminated on a bullshit sing show...REALLY!!

(dance show not sing but whatever lol)

People tweeting him all angry lol

powerman 5000

I beg to differ, but that's nash; He knows what's best for the business i guess that's why wcw is so successful today. This coming from the man that had david arquette as champion and denis rodman headlining pay per views for the company he was with.

MillzOG

I wish i could quote on the phone...but cs powerman 5000

Chi-Town Bully

Nash acting like the fans reacted positively to his stints as world champion. His WWF title reign was the most boring that i can remember, i cant think of one memorable feud he had in his year as champ other than Bret and Shawn who carried him in those matches.

As far as the NWO lets not act like he wasn't the third wheel in the group, he rode the coattails of Hogan and Hall. When he became the focal point of the group and started winning the WCW title the promotion started going bankrupt, i dont think that's a coincidence

genocidecutter

Is this is the same Kevin Nash who helped kill WCW?

VIBE

- As noted last night, Chris Jericho took a swipe at Kevin Nash for Nash's recent comments in an interview with Grantland.com about how the business ended when Chris Benoit and Eddie Guerrero hugged as world champions at WrestleMania XX. Jericho responded to Nash's remarks on his Twitter, writing, "Funny how @realkevinnash says wrestling 'died' when Benoit and Guerrero were champs-Yet the worst year for WWE biz was 95 when he was on top"

Nash replied to Jericho's message, writing, "Once again the puppet master pulls the marks strings .Knew Jericho was a closet mark.First one eliminated on a bulls--t sing show...REALLY!!"

Jericho replied, "Hope @realkevinnash doesn't tear his quad tweeting! #typicalbigman #nwothirdwheel"

CM Punk also responded to Nash, writing on his Twitter, "PULL THE STRINGS! PULL THE STRINGS!!!!"



Read more: http://www.WrestlingInc.com/wi/news/2012/0808/555067/kevin-nash/#ixzz22yQlUhZH

NothingButTheTruth

So y'all agree with short or average-height, non-threatening nerdy white boys having the belt? SMH that shit is a joke! That's why no one watches that shit anymore. Reality TV > WWE lol.

And SMH @ how corny wrestling has become. That comedy central, dull humor is not cutting it. Jericho fell off a cliff and is no longer funny, and CM Punk has always been too corny to take serious. Get some new talent ASAP or just give the belt back to Cena. At least he looks like he can somewhat fight.

VIBE

Putting the belt on Punk, Bryan, Rhodes, Ziggler or Tyson Kidd >>> putting it on others who are just buff tall muscle heads who can't wrestle or sell.

WWE got the championship game twisted as fuck, tell me what other organization puts their belts on no talent big men? I'll wait.