Kevin Nash on Rob Van Dam
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- Kevin Nash, wrestling's six-time World Heavyweight Champion and twelve-time Tag Team Champion, is inviting YOU to become an insider in the most exclusive band of rebels in the Podcast sphere! Kevin and his crew grabbed the wrestling business by the sack in the 90s and never let go, making his Kliq the most powerful faction in the history of the business, both on camera and off. They spent countless hours together, riffing on the business, the lifestyle, and everything else under the sun, and this podcast is no exception. Kevin left wrestling and built a successful career as an actor and guest on dozens of talk shows. His opinionated nature has made him the most requested guest of shoot interviews and network shows for more than a decade. Now, Kevin and his frequent host Sean Oliver, bring you all that you loved about their shows in this weekly podcast. No guest or topic is off-limits. Are you sweeeeet enough.......to be the next member of the Kliq?
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Kevin and HBK’s relationship be damned, we all know the best part of “Pick A Hand” was Rob’s impression of Shawn and Shawn’s eye. That should have been the thumbnail. 😂
Lmfao 🤣😆🤣🤣🤣😆🤣 I remember
"Oh jesus christ..."
"Impression?" That was beyond impression! That was like Val Kilmer's performance in The Doors, he didn't just play the role of Jim Morrison, he WAS Jim Morrison. In that interview, Rob Van Dam WAS Shawn Michaels! 😂🤣😂
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Sean’s reaction was almost as good as the impression itself lol
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You’re not wrong!! The jovial insincerity of Rob’s impression mirrored the insincerity Rob felt Shawn was showing him. I hear they’re cool with each other which is all we can hope for. Life’s obviously way too fuckin short to hold any grudges. 🤘🏼
RVD not being submissive to Vince took serious balls. It’s clear he won’t tolerate someone with a god complex controlling the narrative of his life and it’s important to him. He’s mentally tight and doesn’t let people hold things over his head to twist his arm. Not a people pleaser.
vince not understanding people like having time off and spending time with family rather than working 24/7 because he has not life.
@@Shadeem He might be P.T. Barnum reincarnated for all we know 🤷♂️😅
When he says, "what do you mean? I dont have it in my contract that I can have balls!" I think it really hits home for everybody, even Nash. I feel like not many pro wrestlers outside of like Brock Lesnar are like this..........
Vince's Jedi mind trick didn't work on Rob.
I met RVD once. He was going through my comics and he was looking for old school Ghost Rider. This was after ECW and WCW were gone and he was inbetween at the time. I asked him what's next for you and he told me "Vinnieland".
I've met a couple hand full of wrestlers over time and RVD was the nicest, most conversational guy of them all. Was just a cool dude.
Agreed, he likes to party
Most conversational, yeah sure. That's because he had a babble flash after smoking weed. If others like RVD and Val "Kaptain Kannabis" Venis would have smoked weed too, than they would have been also more conversational. :) EDIT: You can find Val Venis official account here on UA-cam under "The Kaptains Show".
@suoquainen His personality is his personality. He didn't just babble. He asked questions about me, carried conversations that weren't just about him and who he was. Actually, I listened and responded like he gave a shit... The only wrestler that I've met that did that.
Honorable mention - Chris Kanyon. He helped sneak my brother, friend, and I into the lounge/bar area where a bunch of wrestlers were hanging after the show.
@@rasheed9705 Sorry, i didn't meant "babble" that way. It' s just that if you smoked weed and depending what weed and so on you smoked, then you may reach a level of being stoned that you start talking a lot and like you said not just babbling. I know from being a cannabis consumer since 1995 through personal experience, that some kind of discussions are really only possible when being stoned. Nice to hear about Kanyon by the way, he always seemed to be a guy you could have fun with. Aah and by the way, I'm actually stoned by myself...so yeah. :)
@@suoquainenI could tell that you were stoned writing this 😂😂😂
Seeing Big Kev crack a smile thanks to RVD and Sean's video makes my day.
👊
I will always put RVD on my top 3 for the sole reason that he was the realest wrestler. When I say real I mean, his mentorship with The Sheik and his brotherhood with Sabu. It was very Ryu and Ken
if you know what I mean. Rob Van Dam 4 LIFE.
With everything Kevin has gone through this last year, its just nice hearing him talk about wrestling and old stories. Revisiting and reacting to some of these old shoot interviews could be something you guys could add to the show too, its super entertaining! Laughter can be so healing.
Some of those shoots would be funny af for Nash review
Well said
@@RexMundi_UTC A dedicated 'review' channel/show......jus needs a catchy name
RVD and Jeff hardy are two that come to mind that when I saw them perform live I said holy shit. I didn’t realize how big they were physically to be doing that kind of stuff.
I think RVD is probably the most physically gifted person to ever wrestle. Combining strength, agility and aesthetic. Brock Lesnar, Billy Gunn and Shelton Benjamin are up there, but RVD is on a higher level, in my opinion.
@@Y2JLionHeart In my opinion Tom Magee was the most talented. He never amounted to anything in the sport but other than Ted Arcidi and Kazmaier, who had very brief stints in wrestling he was the strongest wrestler of the time and he also was incredibly agile for his size. The guy was not just biggish...he was a world record setter in some lifts. He could have been the 80's Brock Lesnar but for whatever reason most people never got to see him go anywhere.
To be fair when I'm talking about being the complete package I'm talking more about physique and tricks than the interplay of holds and moves between two men. Perhaps Magee was not good at learning how to put a man into holds or sell them or whatever but as a physical specimen without the need to coordinate his movements with the other guy he was good.
Out of the guys I seen live in person, Owen was up there too.
@Honest youtubr Agreed. Brock’s in a class all his own. His measurables were documented at NFL combine. Was as, if not more talented than the #1 pick in the draft. RVD…at his peak, he was as gifted as they come. The ECW version of RVD was showcased really well. WWE struggled to market him and the cannabis situation didn’t help. Kurt Angle was another athlete that was on another level…
@@Soon2B30 Brock never even played college football.
The JBL impersonation😅😂🤣😂😭
I always go back to rewatch the RVD pick a hand segment, so seeing them react to it was GOLD
What eleven soft mean?
I can definitely see Nash and RVD getting along really well.
Absolutely. Both Michigan boys, and stoners. 😆 🤣 😂
RVD is my literal childhood hero. He’s said before that kids weren’t his target audience, but damn did he rope me in at least. I remember wanting to reach his physique one day.
@Red Dogg - Rebel4Truth I doubt it. Rob was a big guy but he wasn’t like Triple H or anything. I know that doesn’t disprove it, but he’s never been outed for it and he’s always been pretty straightforward and genuine about what he did and didn’t use.
@Red Dogg - Rebel4Truth I literally said it doesn’t disprove anything. That’s why I said it, you can’t read apparently
@Red Dogg - Rebel4Truth i doubt he was
@@sirnetflix7162 I think you can tell be did roids when he first came to the WWF/E in 2001-2002 era. You can tell how much bigger he is. I'd say 95% of the roster at that time was on some form of PEDs. But for the large remaining part of his career I'd say RVD was natural. He has been open about his weed use and how he dislikes pills and needles.
@reddogg-rebel4truth445RVD didn't hit the roids. He would've gone bald years ago if he had.
Out of everything said about Nash over the years... he earned respect. His words may not seem like gold, but he was there. We weren't. Him going through with this podcast after what I'm sure has been a hard year or so shows the man can keep his head level.
Also, condolences to you Kev. No one should go through what you have lately. I lost my parents (one to surgery one to cancer), had a divorce, best friend and another friend died in the same car wreck all in a 3 year period. I know how hard it is to put that business face on and push forward when your world has collapsed.
On the other side of that suffering, is great peace.
Hard times man. I dont know if i could stay stable if i had those same loses as you did.
Powerful words.
Hogan was also there, while we weren’t….but we’re allowed to call him out on his BS lol
Should have shown Kevin the Shawn Michaels impression 😭
My brother and I were obsessed with wrestling in the 90s and a lot of it was because of this man. Got to see him live and I was in the 2nd row right next to the ramp. I stood on a steel chair so I could get a good look and he was still taller than me. I knew he was a big guy but couldn't believe how huge this man was.
Met him at a wrestlecon sort of thing during wm 30 weekend. Yep a big guy and was cool
I think it's really cool Kevin is still doing the show, this and grilling JR is my work jam, I just would of thought big man would of taken a break away after tristen but we all deal with death differently and I think it makes him strong cause if I lost my son I'd be deep in not caring about anything or myself for that matter and would just be a complete mess of a human
He’s doing it too keep his mind going 100mph I’m the same way when depressions creep on me…it’s the only medicine that works if you’re just sitting home alone with no one around it’s the darkest places you’ll ever be in
@@MeekMillisbendingoverrn Yeah. Kev knows if he's not keeping busy its gonna eat away at him. He needs to keep his life as normal as he can to help the healing. It's the same reason football, basketball, baseball players play the game still after someone close passes away.
He is obviously devastated losing his son and best friend so close together would be shattering to a person and it is but Kev has a family still that needs him and you don't quit on life you just keep pushing forward
"I'll do a job, it doesn't matter to me." - Spoken by Kevin Nash as not a joke. LMAO
Everybody beat Hall and nash 😂
RVD was at a comic con recently and I was kicking myself I didn't go because he was just walking around the floor mingling as RVD. Can't believe I missed that, he's one of my favourite wrestlers ever.
Pick A Hand was one of my favorite segments ever from KC. I've watched it so many times.
ECW Van Dam was the absolute best!
I was always a watch when bored fan of wrestling but Nash and Austin have made the stories and histories so intresting. Well done great content and thanks for sharing a part of your life behind the curtain.
I met Kevin and just about all the others when they stayed in the hotel I was a manager at in Memphis in 2001. It was one of my favorite memories of all time. I sent my bartender home and took care of them all night. They were so different in person as they are on tv.
Really good to hear that jericho and rvd reached out to nash when finding out out nash lost his son
Kevin Nash always seems to be a level-headed and smooth with his interviews including all the shoot interviews first class interviewer first class Talent!
Kliq 4l
I really think RVD should of won the title in 01, it would of at least been something good to come out of the invasion angle
Yeah I was rooting for him over Austin and that NEVER happens cause I'm an Austin MARK.
Need more watch along type segments on the show, this was gold.
Def need the HBK impression I want to see Nash laugh hard he needs it
RVD is right we’re seeing it right now in AEW with Jericho
love this show. Kevin, stay strong. This is probably good for him to do right now to keep himself moving forward.
i love these reaction videos to other wrestler interviews and clips. you guys are onto something big
Van Dam is still underated. Guy had a incredible skill set and work ethic in the ring. Regardless of how much weed he smoked
Everyone ever is underrated
@@mattharper1242 RVD is when being talked about the greats. His name should be mentioned more. He was incredibly over. And his skillset was second to none.
@@JB-xh5mc getting pulled over on the way to raw in Philly (I was there) n being caught with a pharmacy n weed with Sabu derailed his entire legitimate push. N he wasn’t trying to do all the extra shit non stop like Cena at the time so Vince didn’t trust rob to be the guy. But i agree he should have been given another chance
@@ZoMan85 Facts.
@@ZoMan85 To be fair, he had a prescription for his pills if memory serves. Sabu didn’t. It was the weed that he got arrested for, not pills.
God I love RVD he's hilarious and Kev reacting laughing is got me 😂🤣
Have both of y'all guys ever thought about bringing in guest wrestlers especially from the kliq or others every once in a while. It would be very entertaining as well hearing you nd Nash talking while reminiscing about times in the road or other things.
Forgot which show I was watching for a minute there, but I think the live reaction is great!! You guys should do more of that
RVD was awesome. He was a ball of lightning. Energy that the shows desperately needed. I always felt like he was under-used.
Great to see Kev doing well.
Chris Jericho has proved himself to be exactly that in AEW.
That being said, I’ve always admired people that took the business serious and wholeheartedly believe in what Austin always says about people not belonging in the business if they don’t wanna be the number 1 guy
@@socialistbatman1211 you don’t have to screw people over to want to be the #1 guy and you don’t have to be a prick ti your coworkers
Yes.. you can just tell he just loves hearing himself talk he seems like a real douche wad
exactly what?
You say that like looking out for yourself is a bad thing…
Oh god that whole pick is still hilarious to me all these years later. That Vince story with the troops and the balls in the contract I just lose it. Unintentionally funny AF!
Thanks big sexy for doing this and sharing with us! Love hear from him! Back when I was growing up you didn’t have this content! To be able to set in a room basically with your favorite athletes
That RVD interview is such an all time great.......I literally get just as tense as RVD does when he's recounting the Vince story, I've definitely been there
This made me love RVD even more. Truly awesome….he ruined my Zen haha
You're a hero to many Mr Nash bless you sending all my families love and prayers to you and yours
Yeah I forgot his son died.. along with razor.. two key players in his life gone.. I seen what losing a son does to people as my step dad lost his and was never the same.. was on mother's day and the mom would not let him go because they were broken up and she wanted it to be just her and her son at this dam.. he was begging her to let him be there but kid went on a rope swing and didn't let go, hit his head on the bank and drowned for 45 minutes, mother didn't know how to swim
This clip really makes my day! Big Kev, we all love ya and were thinking about you and your family and praying for you guys every day!! Laughter and good memories are good for the heart and soul!♥️😁
This channel should blow up. It's juicy.
This is my first time checking out the show great job fellas. But if I tune into a full episode and I don't hear a question from The Horsecock Express I'm gonna riot.
RVD was straight up immune to Vince's jedi mind tricks.
I love these video reactions. More please.
Why was the rvd interviews removed? They were legendary.
I went to a raw taping in 2006 and when RVD was doing his RVD chant on the ropes I was the only one in that side of the crowd doing the chant. RVD spotted me and pointed right at me shaking his head saying “yeah!!” I was 7 years old and I’ll never forget it. Then I told bro to pick a hand. Been banned from WWE since.
I can understand why people give Nash $h!t and I can understand why people support him, but after all the countless hours of entertainment and what he has done, I appreciate the hell out of him.
Not too mention, Big Daddy Cool is the greatest moniker ever!
He’s not a daddy anymore.
He entertained you, not the people the held down
@@GlobalPsychosis Not a cool message. Even if your child dies you're still a parent to your deceased child.
@@GlobalPsychosis You're a legitimate prick
@@miesvaillanykyisyytta3252 was*
Fun fact: I saw Vinnie Vegas (Nash) vs. Robbie V (Van Dam) at a WCW house show in late '92 early '93 when I was about 12 years old..
So happy to find this podcast...awesome!subscribed!
My condolenses to Kevin Nash for his son dying recently . To hear the Pick A Hand bit was funny and pricelesss especially with Shawn Michaels (I Know that Nash and Michaels buddies ) right down to the lazy eye . The JBL imitation was funny as well . RVD was always a great match . His wars with Sabu and Jerry Lynn in ECW wre the stuff of legend and he deserves to be in the WWE HOF .
Kevin Nash & Rob Van Dam: two great men!
RVD's impression of Shawn is comedic gold
Kevin
your awesome
thank you for all the years you spent entreating me
you deserve hall fame more than anyone, you the man!
respect to family deaths
Thanks!
We gotta get Kev's reaction to RVD clowning Shawn
i remember that business quote from when i first heard it in nash's shoot. one of those lines that sticks with you
R.I.P. Tristen. Sorry for your loss Kevin
That RVD YouShoot was one of the best. "hand pickage" is a term I use as much as possible.
How receptive was Bob Backlund to the squash match at msg for the winged eagle?
Thx for the great content guys! Keep it up!
Hope your good Kevin my thoughts and prayers are with you. Always good to see you and Sean chopping it up
I was hoping he'd show the clip of RVD doing the Shawn Michaels impression - I'd love to see Nash's reaction to that
Just met RVD and his wife today. Signed some stuff for me. Super cool guy.
What can you say about a legend like Rob Van Dam? The man was tremendous either as the ECW World Television 📺 Champion, or as the WWF Hardcore Champion, or as the WWE Intercontinental Champion, or as the WWE Champion, or as the ECWWorldHeavyweight Champion. The man was terrific!
RVD marches to his own drum beat. I ran into him at a food mart about 6 years ago. I didn't make a big fuss, but i did tell him that i followed him through his entire career, i agree with him 100 on his openness of 420. He was very grateful, thankful and asked my wife if she had any single sisters. Class act.
wished they showed the entire thing because i wanted to see Kevin's reaction to RVD's HBK impression lol
RVD in ECW was a lightning rod. He had his own style and gimmick that was completely foreign.
STAY UP BIG KEV!!!!! GOOD ISH!!!! You and SEAN putting in that work.
Saying this in the straightest way possible Sean, you look better with the gray in your hair now. Also solid four soft, much love to you two
That pick a hand always gets me. Best shit on UA-cam. Kevin Nash watch along is fantastic. He was all smiles 😊
RVD is easily one of the most naturally charismatic and athletic guys to ever wrestle. That being said, he sounds like he was really difficult to work with. Wanting to fight elderly coworkers over misunderstandings (Vince McMahon/Bruce Prichard) and working extra stiff with Kurt Angle and other top guys...No one is perfect, but the dude didn't help himself and because he's so cool it's like fans ignore the rough edges.
You think the Vince thing was a simple misunderstanding??
I think Rob explained it perfectly.
@@josevillarreal5955 You're right. I shouldn't say simple. Knowing what a maniac Vince can be when it comes to his work ethic does lead me to believe he and RVD were just in entirely different viewpoints on the subject. I still think wanting to fight your much older and less skilled boss is too much. The world really is lucky RVD and weed found each other. 🤣
@@Y2JLionHeart But Vince tried to fight Kofi lol
Aka youre butthurt that RVD trashed your pwecious Jericho. lol
@@kangtheconqueror9545 Okay? Never heard that story, but that's not cool, either.
Kevin, don’t know if you’ll see this. I want to give my condolences for everything you are going through. I will keep your family in my prayers.
RVD'S impression of shawn is fkn gold 😆😆😆
After not watching for a few years big daddy cool got me back into wrestling by playing in rock and jock softball on MTV with the world title.
Kevin Nash was Super Shedder in Ninja 🐢
About 20 years ago, I was sitting at the airport in Oakland, waiting for my plane, when I saw RVD 30 feet away. I looked at him. He looked at me. I nodded. He nodded. I consider it a great missed life opportunity that I didn't do the R-V-D gesture - that and nothing else.
Nash and RVD were both in Qatar together a couple years ago for QPW SuperSlam 2. QPW's owner said in an interview that Nash actually told him he's willing to have an official retirement match there in Qatar.
Nash hit the nail on the head about the "if you treat it like a business, you're a dick"
How many times do you hear different wrestling personalities talk about how cutthroat wrestling is, and how you rarely make any true friends?
Yet, when guys like Warrior or Goldberg or Brock come in and do their own thing, those some personalities have to tear them down for not being "one of the boys"?? The hypocrisy is hilarious.
I don't think Jericho was just treating it like a business. He comes off as such a dick in some interviews
Oh yea. I'm just saying in general lol
Nash’s business quote summarizes Punk and AEW very very well.
There’s nothing funnier than watching wrestlers doing impressions of each other.
I agree with RVD. He is a stand up guy.
When you're promised Sexual Favors to get a spot..... ding ding ding 😂😂😂😂
I completely understand where RVD was coming from on the Vince thing. They work all year. RVD was just trying to take a break and see his family.
RVD keeps it 💯 @ all times.Gotta respect it.
Dammit i wish Nash would've seen RVD's impression of shawn michaels 🤣
I am so with Rob about the troops thing. It seems like a miserable trip.
Yes aye remember that Vince pulling RVD To one side and saying is this a political reason why you don’t want to go to support the troops.
RVD replied and no Vince I’ve working been working all year I just want to spent the holidays with my family.
👽
People have said a lot of bad things about Nash holding them down. He seems like a cool and reasonable guy so it seems like if someone had a problem with him they could respectfully sort it out. I love this podcast.
He wasn't cool to the people he held down though
The internet is like a cult when it comes to wrestling. It all started back through 98/99 when wcw started to hit the skids and all people talk about when it comes to wrestling on the internet is all the things that are wrong and how they personally would have the right answer. So in wcw around that time when it started falling significantly behind wwf people just get hellbent on finding the problems and suggesting solutions. As the main event talent wasn't doing the job, they suggested the mid carders, Benoit, Malenko, Guerrero, Mysterio and Jericho as they were consistently performing and genuinely not being rewarded like they should have. Around this time Nash came out with that "vanilla midget" line about any of them being the solution, and to a large portion of idiots his name has been muck ever since. While 20 years later he has continued on living his life doing new things, they have gotten so invested into this internet fantasy booking thing that it actually influences their personalities, and I bet to this day with all their ego issues they haven't lived as much in 20 years as Nash has lived in a day. Nash always struck me as a guy who knows who he is, so of course the people who talk bad on him are people who don't know who they are because they think they're all these things, like brilliant wrestling minds, that they aren't.
@@ronjeremy9648 If you're feeling held down, you try and do something about it, then you see if you're actually being held down or you're making excuses. Most people never try and confront this stuff for real, and go through their lives jaded that they were "held down" when they just didn't make enough effort to get involved, they're always waiting for an invitation instead of introducing themselves.
@@thebigbop5866 Well said.
@@thebigbop5866 It seems like you're going through life without confronting facts too. That was then, this is now. Everything you said about people being held down or not held down is obsolete. Did you not watch any wrestling from 2007 to 2017 when everything revolved around one single vanilla gorilla? If people weren't held down in that time then no one has ever been held down in history.
My condolences to you big Kevin
Rob isn't lying, Chris Jericho, he's pulling that same shit in All Friends Wrestling
For real. Jim Cornette called it on his podcast and said that Jericho would be RoH Champion because he just HAS to have the belt and low and behold he's now RoH Champ.
How does your arm feel from that reach?
@@ekmad or just getting programs with talent that's getting popular like MJF, Eddie Kingston, etc. and burying them
I always liked Kevin because he never came across like most of his other kliq buddies seriously I have never heard about him being a locker room politician and usually 9 times out 10 he was the best part of the interview sections of any pro wrestling show he was on I truthfully think Kevin could have been a comedian
I dont think PAC was a dick either. Just Sean and shawn
There's plenty stories about him being a politician, true or not. Especially for beating Goldberg, his friendships with Shawn and HHH, Dixie Carter, etc.
I watch more wrestling podcasts than actual wrestling can listen to the same stories everyday all day twice on Sunday been an wrestling fan since 90 and I was born in 85
I remember that I always thought RVD was related to Jean Claude Van Damme lol
Holy Shit, was Nash shooting on HBK with that favours line.
yeh it's well known HBK was a bare skin rug member back in the day. road warriors referred to his contract in the 90s as a "cock n ball agreement"
@@mr.c4p wdym ? Lol he was getting fvcked by Vince ?
I thought Nash did make an appearance at one of the Tribute to the Troops shows, but if I’m right, it could have been when they started doing them at bases in the US.
I think if I worked as a wrestler I would try to go out of my way to be the most offensive jobber I could be.
Do you want someone to win a match but nobody's willing to lay down? I'll do it, my only term is that I get 3 to 5 good offensive spots to show offense.
But selling looks so much fun and the guys who sell well are what make the product look fantastic. If I take a chokeslam and I'm smiling on the way up, way down, spring back up and ask for another than that makes the shit look terrible. But if I take the chokeslam looking terrified and then act like my neck just broke then my opponent looks like a million bucks. Being a good seller is so damn important.
Hey big sexy, do you have any stories on Insaneclownposse? You both are from Detroit have you ever crossed paths with them in WCW or WWE? They was close to scott hall...