>>18796639>>18796580>>18796584He didn't book himself to be raped, it was supposed to be a worked rape.
The story goes that with WCW's lagging ratings, they needed a new hot storyline. Nash was inspired by the Montreal Screwjob and thought he could do a similar angle to drum up interest. So he hired a bunch of black guys to pretend to attack and rape him in an alleyway, and this was supposed to lead to a huge babyface turn where Nash would demolish the NWO, become the top star and help increase the ratings. But on the night it was supposed to happen, the script got flipped (some say at the behest of Russo) and the black men he hired really did shoot attack and rape him in that alley, of course WCW not knowing that it was a shoot, and not a work, ended up airing the entire rape. In an attempt to play it off, Nash pretended that it was always supposed to be a shoot and did the whole faked shoot Russo thing of 'they went off script and wouldn't follow the orders of the booker, me, I booked this whole angle to happen', which led the famous remarks of the WCW commenatator's
>Schiavone: How can any man book himself to get raped? It's unbelievable, it's his own fault for whatever happened - Nash screwed Nash.>Heenan: No Tony, that's where you're wrong, anyone who watched the event last week knows that Blacks screwed Nash. 
