Kevin Nash thinks WWE is sitting on the simplest rebrand in wrestling and refuses to make it.
On the 200th episode of Kliq This, Nash spent a chunk of the WWE Raw recap arguing that Bron Breakker should just be Bron Steiner. Sean Oliver had opened the wrestling segment praising last week’s show and calling Bron’s mic work possibly his best to date. Nash agreed on the show’s flow and went straight at the name.
“I saw, or actually heard, Seth call him Steiner, and it’s like, when is the WWE going to realize that he is a Steiner,” Nash said. “He’s Bronson Rick Steiner. Why don’t I just call him Bron Steiner?”
Then he went after the current name directly.
“Bron Breakker sounds like something I watched on a cartoon in 1971.”
Oliver compared it to a Marvel villain. Nash didn’t disagree.
“Bron Breakker. And maybe they thought that’s the direction that he’d go, but now that it’s been refined, and he held his nose and did this… the voice. It’s just like, come on, man. The guy can do it all. He looks like a million bucks. He can talk, he can definitely do the walk. So it’s just like, let the boy Boogie Woogie. Let him be Steiner.”
Nash circled back to the family name argument later in the same segment.
“If you’re gonna make reference to it, if you’re gonna make reference to his uncle and his father, then…” he said. “Early in his career, he did stuff with his father. You know, where they had Robbie tied up or some shit.”
The “Robbie tied up” reference is the 2022 NXT angle where Joe Gacy and Harland kidnapped Rick Steiner to set up Bron’s title program with Gacy. Bronson Rechsteiner is the son of WWE Hall of Famer Rick Steiner and the nephew of Scott Steiner. Bron inducted his father and uncle into the WWE Hall of Fame in April 2022. He uses the Steiner Recliner, the camel clutch his uncle made famous, as one of his three finishing moves.
The other angle Nash hit on Bron was the spear. Bron threw two on Rollins Monday, including the opening sneak attack delivered from a full sprint down the entrance ramp and a second one outside the ring after Montez Ford accidentally distracted Rollins.
“He half ass missed that one,” Nash said of the second spear. “The first one, when he comes that whole distance, you know, let alone the fact that it was a 390 yard sprint.”
Oliver flagged the move as a potential career-shortener for spine compression and shoulder damage. Nash agreed and pivoted to his own back, which he said is herniated at L2, L3, and L4 from years of dropping his full weight plus his opponent’s onto his right hip with the sidewalk slam.
WWE Backlash takes place Saturday at Benchmark International Arena in Tampa.
