Former WWE, WCW and TNA Superstar Kevin Nash recently appeared on Eric Bischoff’s “Bischoff on Wrestling” podcast. During the podcast, Nash discussed his Oz gimmick in WCW and New Japan. Nash said the fans in Japan loved it while the WCW fans hated it. He said:
“I’m one of those guys that can say what I want to honestly about the character but the part of the story I never tell is how WCW went ahead and sent Oz to New Japan. My first night over there I’m going to wrestle Hashimoto in the Osaka Dome. So they bring us down during the day time. They kind of walk me through this entrance and I’m on like a platform that’s going to rise through some smoke. I am going to the ring first and the night of they hit these green lasers and the smoke machine. Slowly with these lasers bouncing off everywhere, the smoke machine and this kind of cool techno music. They slowly raise me and the tip of my dunce hat comes out and as I come up I hear them all saying, ‘Oz-a! Oz-a! Oz-a!’ I’m like, ‘What are they saying?’ Finally I realized they are saying, ‘Oz! Oz! Oz!’ ‘Oh my God! This thing is over here!’ It was.
Remember when we were in that bar in Osaka and they had Liger’s mask and the Oz mask in that glass case?…We were drinking in that bar and you [Bischoff] said, ‘You want it?’ I said, ‘No! Oh God no! Let’s just leave it there! If somebody has this thing next to a Liger mask leave it.’”
You can listen to the complete podcast below:
