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Originally Posted by hb2k
Wow, now that's reaching.
Nash being big was, at best, a small element in the equation. Nash was big in WWF and he tanked as top guy. But when he displayed his charisma and personality, the nWo changed the company. You do the math of what's important.
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Nash never reached his full potential in WWF. He was constantly booked as a secondary player. He was either Michaels's stooge, or else Michaels's stooge turned against him, or some guy to be afraid of the Undertaker. He was never a THREAT. His title run smacked of transition, but it took a year to actually do it. He won the belt with almost no buildup, as a fill-in for Bret Hart, in a match that lasted less time than it takes any of us to take a shit. His entire run seemed to consist of him TRYING to give it away. When you look back at his run, how can you see him as anything but a strap-warmer for then-golden boy Bret? And he still managed to stay decently over, even if he wasn't drawing the huge money. And even that was a combination of poor storytelling and the fact that the business was just at a low ebb. Am I saying that he could have pulled the WWF out of the slump it was in? No, because who knows. Am I saying that WCW couldn't have had the huge success it did with the nWo without him? Yes I am, because the nWo was about attitude, and moreover, it was about HIS attitude.
And his attitude is centered on the fact that he was BIG Sexy, BIG Daddy Cool.