Kevin Nash says he has not watched WWE in about two months, and that this year’s WrestleMania is the reason he stepped away.
Nash made the comments on the latest episode of Kliq This: The Kevin Nash Podcast, titled Paying Dues, when co-host Steve Kaufman brought up the recent online discussion about Roman Reigns being called overrated. Nash said he had not heard about any of it.
“I’ve decided, like a couple of, maybe two months ago. Actually, WrestleMania put a really sour kind of twist on things for me, and I have not,” Nash said. WrestleMania 42 took place in April in Las Vegas. Nash did not elaborate on what specifically soured him.
The WWE Hall of Famer said there is one exception. “Because you can pick up the episodes now on Netflix and watch. So I’ve been watching Big Mama Cool. I’ve been watching my girl. I watch her segments,” Nash said, referring to Raquel Rodriguez. Rodriguez uses the Big Mami Cool nickname, a nod to Nash’s Big Daddy Cool moniker from his run as Diesel, and Nash has praised her work on the podcast many times.
Nash said the change has become noticeable to people around him. “A friend of mine touched base with me today on my phone and texted me. I guess our lack of talking wrestling, I think, is starting to make people understand that we’re just not watching the product,” he said.
Kaufman said Nash is not alone, claiming that half of the wrestling podcasts covering WWE are not actually watching either. “They’re just lying,” Kaufman said, “or they’re watching just enough to be able to cover it. Whereas you’re just being emotionally honest, like this doesn’t interest me.”
Nash pushed back on that framing. “It’s not that it doesn’t interest me. It’s just that it’s summer,” he said. Nash, who lives on the water in Florida, said he would rather be outside on the incredible sunny days, even at 103 degrees, than inside watching television, and described listening to families on the public beach near his house.
He also pointed to the tone of wrestling coverage. “Then it became all of a sudden this whole podcast wrestling thing became such a negative world,” Nash said, adding, “there’s so much negativity on a daily basis, just in our world alone.”
Nash, 67, is a two-time WWE Hall of Famer, inducted individually in 2015 and again in 2020 as a member of the nWo. He has been a regular presence in WWE-adjacent media through the podcast, where he has generally discussed the current product week to week, which makes the decision to stop watching a notable shift. The podcast has continued weekly with Nash discussing other topics.
Elsewhere in the episode, Nash weighed in on the Avery Styles ring crew debate that has run through the wrestling world for more than a week. Nash defended the 19-year-old son of AJ Styles, saying he never set up a ring in his own career and that ring assembly is skilled work rather than a way to pay dues. “I think AJ paid enough dues to where his son’s piggy bank is full,” Nash said. He also praised referee Charles Robinson as a first ballot Hall of Famer for still helping put up and take down the ring to this day.
Nash also spoke about Game Changer Wrestling, where Avery Styles wrestled his first match this month. Nash said he appeared at GCW’s show at Harpos in Detroit alongside Alex Shelley, and called GCW his favorite wrestling product going right now outside of the major companies.
The episode was hosted by producers Steve Kaufman and Dominic DeAngelo, filling in with Nash while regular co-host Sean Oliver was away.
The full episode of Kliq This: The Kevin Nash Podcast is available now.
