Other Names Master Blaster Steele, Oz, Vinnie Vegas, Diesel, Big Daddy Cool, Big Sexy
Date of Birth 9th July 1959
Weight:
325lbs
Height: 7ft 2
Signature Move Jack-knife Powerbomb
Federations WWF, WCW
Titles Held WWF Intercontinental Champion
WWF Tag Team Champion
WWF Heavyweight Champion
WCW Tag Team Champion
WCW Heavyweight Champion
Short Bio
Nash's first big break was playing college basketball for University of Tennessee. From there he played pro in Europe for four years before knee injuries forced him to look to the squared circle for his career, Dusty Rhodes lending a guiding hand in Nash's early days.
A series of failed gimmicks in WCW led his career to be non existent: Master Blaster Steele (A Legion Of Doom rip), Oz (Based on the Wizard of Oz... no, don't ask) and Vinnie Vegas (a gambler) were not great characters. Not even DDP as Vinnie Vegas' manager made a difference, so he jumped to the WWF where he was placed as Shawn Michaels' bodyguard, Diesel.
Finally finding a gimmick that worked, Nash could work on improving his less than great in-ring skills, although we still wait for evidence of this. Developing his character slowly, by 1994's Royal Rumble he was popular enough for Vince to let him eliminate 7 wrestlers on his own, and test the water with the fans.
The fans responded: Diesel was to be pushed. He and Michaels were tag champs, Diesel had held the IC belt, and suddenly he was #1 contender for the title when Bob Backlund took the title from Bret Hart. An eight second demolition later, and Diesel was Champion, for a year no less... With his contract running out, he and Scott Hall jumped back to WCW for a big pay-day.
He and Hall played the Outsider angle to perfection, eventually forming the nWo with Hogan, and making WCW the big promotion of the time. Since then, Nash has seemingly been on auto pilot. A run on the booking committee, a spell as commissioner, a few title reigns, a heel turn here, a face turn there, Nash certainly packs it in.
Although his mic skills aren't in doubt (he is one of the best) his in ring work is quite frankly dreadful. No-one it seems can make him look good in the ring.
Since WCW has been bought out, Nash has stated in interviews that he's going to sit back with his feet up and collect his pay until his contract runs out, and he's free to negotiate a new one. Nash probably hopes for one last run with the WWF before he finally retires for good.
