Kevin Scott Nash (born July 9, 1959 in Detroit, Michigan) is a professional wrestler who has performed in two World Wrestling Entertainment, World Championship Wrestling and now Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.

Career
Pre-wrestling
Nash's primary sport while growing up was basketball. He was a 2nd-virtually all-recruited streaming video player inside Michigan in his senior year of high school, behind future basketball legend Magic Johnson. Nash was the center for the Tennessee Volunteers from 1979 – 1980, but was never the major star & quickly became enlightened. A year later on he began swimming office basketball inside Europe and ended up seriously injuring his knee. Nash was incertain of what to launder by owning his career so, & enlisted in the United States Army, serving in Germany for two years. He went in to turn into the bouncer, and was in time scouted by WCW's Dusty Rhodes, joining the organization.

Wrestling
Nash 1st worked when the share of a tag team in the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions known as the "Master Blasters", wrestling under the name "Steel", with his partner "Iron". Iron was later on replaced by "Blade" (Al Greene). Late, he wrestled under a title of Oz using Merlin the Wizard when his manager, and however late as Vinnie Vegas. When Vegas, he formed the short-fugacious team using Diamond Dallas Page called the "Vegas Connection." Within 1993, he left WCW and signed by using a WWF (nowadays a WWE), adopting a gimmick of "Big Daddy Cool" Diesel, originally a "bodyguard" for real-life friend Shawn Michaels. Nash however holds unprecedented credentials; he defeated Bob Backlund in November 1994 for the WWF Championship in eight seconds, a WWF record, & was a just grappler to get a WWF Tag Team Title, Intercontinental, and WWF Championship (tons of the WWF's titles at that instance) inside the calendar month. Nash's WWF Championship redo lasted for an telling 358 years, the rarity in the WWF. When terzetto years in the WWF, he left to rejoin WCW, & team (when The Outsiders) with another real-life friend, Scott Hall, to form the nWo (New Globe Sequentially). Fallowing a nWo was split into deuce factions, Nash joined the Wolfpac faction. Around World Championship Wrestling, Nash held all of the major championships likewise when existence the quaternary-period WCW Globe Heavyweight Champion, & also wrote a bit of of the late storylines for WCW before it was bought by WWF.

When allowing WCW, Nash once more joined WWE & briefly re-formed the nWo, however it was disbanded fallowing a quad injury put him away from action. He come back from either that, however his agent wrestling career apparently ended when the antecedently existent shoulder injury recurred around 2003, forcing him to undergo reconstructive surgery. He experienced announced a prevent of his within-ring career, although he experienced said he wanted to stay in the wrestling business. But, he late returned to wrestling, appearing within the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ring with Scott Hall. Nash & Hall ab initio formed the horse barn by having Jeff Jarrett known as The Kings of Wrestling. All a same, the fragile alliance fell apart whenever Nash's title aspirations became clear. In February 13, 2005 at the TNA PPV "Against All Odds" Nash received the NWA World Heavyweight Championship title shot, but was defeated by Jarrett. In March 13, 2005 at the TNA PPV "Destination X", Nash was defeated by The Outlaw in a Taped Fist 1st Blood match.

Nash spent period out of TNA, & returned on the October 1 2005 premiere of TNA iMPACT! on Spike TV.

Acting
Nash experienced notable roles inside Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze as "Super Shredder", and, additional recently, in the 2004 movie The Punisher as "The Russian" & in The Longest Yard as "Guard Englehart" and is currently swimming Bass within DOA: Dead or Alive, a approaching pic according to the 'Dead or Alive' video game franchise.

In wrestling

Nicknames
Big Dada Cool Big Sexy Big Nasty The Silver Fox

Previous managers
Diamond Dallas Page Dusty Rhodes Harley Race Pamela Anderson Shawn Michaels Merlin The Wizard Ted DiBiase Torrie Wilson

Quotes
As Diesel
"I've got the WWF running on Diesel Power."

As Kevin Nash
"When you’re nWo, you’re nWo - for life." "Big Sexy in the house." "...Just too sweet!" "The band is back together!"

Finishing and signature moves
Jackknife Powerbomb (Release powerbomb) Walking sidewalk slam Big Boot Chokeslam Snake Eyes

Championships and accomplishments
World Championship Wrestling
5-period WCW World Heavyweight Champion 9-period WCW World Tag Team Champion (2-instance by owning Diamond Dallas Page, 6-period using Scott Hall, 1-period by owning Sting) Winner of 1998 WCW World War 3 Battle Royal World Wrestling Entertainment
1-instance WWF World Heavyweight Champion 1-period WWF Intercontinental Champion 2-period WWF World Tag Team Champion (with Shawn Michaels) Pro Wrestling Illustrated
PWI ranked him # 59 of a D right singles grappler in the period of the "PWI Years" around 2003. He was likewise ranked twice in the better tag teams of the "PWI Years", stratified # 40 by owning Scott Hall and # 55 with Shawn Michaels. Nash won many PWI Awards across his career. He won Virtually all Improved Matman withinside 1994, Wrestler of the Month inside 1995 & Tag Team of the Month in 1997 sustaining Scott Hall. He was as well a share of the Match of the Month within 1995 (vs. Shawn Michaels).