Kevin Nash Reveals He Doesn’t Remember Several Of His World Title Victories

Kevin Nash has admitted that he has watched back footage of himself capturing world championships and has no memory of the moments occurring.

He opened up about the experience on Kliq This, the podcast he co-hosts with Sean Oliver, after a listener inquired about whether he ever considered adding the NWA or TNA World Championship to the WWE and WCW titles he had already held.

Nash explained that once he secured his first world title, his ambition in that regard was fulfilled.

“No, I mean I would have if somebody would have told me that they wanted me to do it. But once I won the WWE Championship, I was a world champion. I attained a goal when I broke in. I wanted to be a world champion.”

He noted that he maintained a realistic perspective about what the title represented.

“I knew that didn’t mean you were the best. I just knew that it meant you were in a good position, and I wanted to be in that position.”

He then offered an unexpected admission that had not been part of the original discussion.

“There’s several times in my life that I see clips of me winning world championship matches, and I have no recollection of them.”

Nash captured the WWE Championship from Bob Backlund on November 26, 1994, at Madison Square Garden, winning the match just eight seconds after the bell rang. He held the title for 358 days. Backlund had defeated Bret Hart for the championship three days earlier at Survivor Series, serving as a transitional champion whose primary purpose was to deliver the belt to Nash. Nash ultimately dropped the title back to Hart at Survivor Series the following year. His reign stands as the longest WWE Championship run of the 1990s and established him as the face of the company during a period when the industry was struggling.

In 1996, Nash departed for WCW alongside Scott Hall, where the two formed the nWo with Hulk Hogan. During his time in WCW, he won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship five times. His first reign began at Starrcade in December 1998, when he defeated Goldberg to end a lengthy unbeaten streak that the promotion had heavily marketed. That victory was followed one week later by the infamous Fingerpoke of Doom, during which Nash deliberately lay down for Hulk Hogan on the first episode of Nitro in 1999.

Across his WWE and WCW careers, Nash accumulated six world title reigns spanning two championships, which was the basis for the listener’s original question. In total, he secured 21 championships across the three promotions. He also captured twelve world tag team championships, nine of which came in WCW, two in WWE, and one in TNA. Additionally, he held the WWE Intercontinental Championship once. While he worked for TNA across several stints beginning in 2004 and won the Legends Championship twice there, he never claimed that promotion’s world title or the NWA version.

Elsewhere in the same episode, Nash discussed the physical toll that professional wrestling had taken on his body, including a quadriceps tear he suffered at age 42 and the fact that he has since had both knees replaced. He has previously stated that seven years represents the maximum length of time a wrestler’s body can endure the demands of the profession.

Nash made his professional debut in September 1990 and wrestled his final match in January 2020, spanning nearly three decades in the industry. Now 67 years old, he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2015 and received a second induction as part of the nWo in 2020. He currently co-hosts Kliq This alongside Sean Oliver.

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