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Jan. 6, 2001
Kevin Nash, whose contract with AOL Time Warner expired last week, is expected to become the World Wrestling Federation’s next big-name acquisition.
Nash, whose previous run in the WWF as “Big Daddy Cool” Diesel ended in 1996 when Eric Bischoff lured him to WCW with a big-money deal, last week denied widespread rumors that he had signed with the WWF. Nash, however, reportedly has verbally agreed to a WWF contract and should be joining the organization within weeks.
Nash stated on his Web site Thursday that he had neither signed a contract nor had any paperwork even been received, although he failed to deny that a deal was on the table. Nash had been negotiating with both the WWF and the upstart World Wrestling All-Stars, but apparently decided to go with a WWF package that included more pay but more dates as well. Nash, a first-rate locker-room lawyer who was second only to Hulk Hogan in the art of backstage politicking, had wavered on signing a contract that required him to work 15 dates a month, and it is not known whether the WWF had relaxed the schedule to meet Nash’s demand of 12 dates or less.
Nash’s longtime cohort, Scott Hall, is not expected to be part of the package, since WWF officials remain leery of Hall’s track record and his much-publicized out-of-the-ring problems.
Kevin Nash, whose contract with AOL Time Warner expired last week, is expected to become the World Wrestling Federation’s next big-name acquisition.
Nash, whose previous run in the WWF as “Big Daddy Cool” Diesel ended in 1996 when Eric Bischoff lured him to WCW with a big-money deal, last week denied widespread rumors that he had signed with the WWF. Nash, however, reportedly has verbally agreed to a WWF contract and should be joining the organization within weeks.
Nash stated on his Web site Thursday that he had neither signed a contract nor had any paperwork even been received, although he failed to deny that a deal was on the table. Nash had been negotiating with both the WWF and the upstart World Wrestling All-Stars, but apparently decided to go with a WWF package that included more pay but more dates as well. Nash, a first-rate locker-room lawyer who was second only to Hulk Hogan in the art of backstage politicking, had wavered on signing a contract that required him to work 15 dates a month, and it is not known whether the WWF had relaxed the schedule to meet Nash’s demand of 12 dates or less.
Nash’s longtime cohort, Scott Hall, is not expected to be part of the package, since WWF officials remain leery of Hall’s track record and his much-publicized out-of-the-ring problems.
