Kevin Nash says wrestler hygiene is not the problem it used to be, and that the era he came up in is the one that earned the reputation.
Nash was responding on the latest episode of Kliq This to comments from Zoey Serrano, the former Zoey Stark, who talked on her Zoey 101 series about opponents who smelled bad. Serrano said poor hygiene comes up in wrestling more than she would like to admit, given how much physical contact a match involves, and described opening gear bags on the independent scene that reeked. She said the problem was never the women.
Nash asked who Serrano was when co-host Sean Oliver brought up the story. Told she was talking about in-ring contact rather than the locker room, Nash drew a line under it.
“I think that that was just a different era, also,” Nash said. “There’s nobody on Raw that’s funky.”
He then explained why gear got that way in the 1990s, which came down to how the touring schedule was built.
“You would start the tour, and you would do the live Raw, and then the two that would follow the next two weeks. You would do all your TV in three days, and then you went out and you worked for another 23 days, whatever it was, and then you come home for four, and then you go back to TV,” Nash said. “So it was the f**ing 21 days in between those three. If you weren’t smart, you could f up a good portion of your gear at TV, because you might have four matches a day.”
The fix was doing laundry on the road. “You had to put Woolite in the sink,” he said.
The distinction Nash is drawing is a scheduling one rather than a personal one. Four matches in a day at a television taping meant four sets of gear used before the tour proper started, and a wrestler on the road for three more weeks with no laundry access had to make what was left last. The modern schedule does not work that way. Serrano’s complaint was about the independent scene, where wrestlers are largely paying their own way between bookings, which is closer to the conditions Nash is describing than a WWE television schedule is.
Nash’s own era is the one the reputation was built on. He worked the WWF’s peak house show schedule as Diesel through the mid-1990s, and then the WCW run with the nWo, both of which were built on volume rather than the reduced touring calendar WWE runs now.
Nash said the one wrestler he remembers calling out was Scott Hall, his Kliq and Outsiders partner, who died in 2022.
“Sometimes Scott, because he was so hairy, he’d have a little BO going, and you’d be like, dude,” Nash said. “And I swear to God, and I wish Kid was here to back me on this, but he would have a bottle of Brut, and he would splash that s*** on so f***ing gingerly that you would think it was like a woman putting Chanel No. 5 on.”
Nash added that Hall would be the first one to point out somebody else’s beefer. The Kid reference is Sean Waltman, the other member of the Kliq who worked those tours with Nash and Hall and who appears on Kliq This regularly.
Serrano was released by WWE on April 24 while recovering from a torn ACL, MCL and meniscus suffered on the May 19, 2025 episode of Raw. That is a release of an injured wrestler mid-rehabilitation, and it put her back on the independent circuit for the first time in years, which is the scene her comments were about. She signed with TNA and debuted on the August 27 episode of Impact, attacking Indi Hartwell.
