Kevin Nash says he was against the idea of a Scott Hall hologram because he knows his late best friend would never have allowed the same thing to be done to him.
The subject came up on the latest episode of Kliq This during a conversation about Queen guitarist Brian May and the idea of a digital avatar show featuring Freddie Mercury. Co-host Sean Oliver noted that a Hall hologram had been pitched at one point, and that Nash had been the one to shoot it down. Nash confirmed he did not support it, and said his reasoning was entirely personal.
“Of course, because it was Scott,” Nash said. “I spent 30 years of my life with Scott. I know Scott wouldn’t let them do that to me. Scott would have been like, ‘Kev wouldn’t want this.'”
Hall died in March 2022 at the age of 63. Nash said the timing made the idea harder to consider.
“The Scott thing was so fresh too,” Nash said. “Scott hadn’t been gone very long.”
The two were among the closest pairs the business has produced. They came through the WWF together in the early 1990s as Razor Ramon and Diesel, left for WCW together in 1996 as The Outsiders, and formed the core of the nWo. They were also two of the five members of the Kliq, the backstage group whose name Nash’s podcast carries. As Razor Ramon, Hall was a four-time Intercontinental Champion, and his ladder match with Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania X in 1994 is still regularly listed among the best matches in the event’s history. In WCW he held the tag team titles with Nash multiple times as The Outsiders. Hall was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame individually in 2014 and again as part of the nWo in 2020.
Nash said he keeps a bobblehead of the two of them on his desk and checks in with it before every show.
“Every time I come down there, I always ask Scott, ‘Scott, you want to do this show?'” Nash said. “And I give him a little, and he gives me the yeah.”
Nash said his objection extends beyond Hall. In his view, people who have died should be left alone.
“Leave the f*** alone, man, because they don’t get a say so,” Nash said. “It’s always going to be their people. It’s going to be somebody that’s profiting from that image, and I think that’s f***ed up.”
He said the only version of it he would accept is one where the person signed off on it while they were alive.
“If your son’s really popular and he’s making money and it’s going into a trust, you should have his living will, and part of that should be, if I pass, I give you the right to my likeness to make money moving forward in an AI situation,” Nash said. “I would have that covered, and I would have that signed off by him.”
Doing it after the fact, without that consent, is where Nash draws the line.
Hall’s death followed complications from hip surgery, and tributes came from across the business, including from Nash and the other members of the Kliq, Shawn Michaels, Triple H and Sean Waltman.
Nash has spoken often about Hall since his death, and the relationship remains a regular thread on Kliq This. Nash did not say who pitched the hologram or in what context, and he did not indicate that anything similar is being considered now.
