Kevin Nash vs Triple H - The Ruthless Aggression 2003 Rivalry
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Kevin Nash and Triple H had a rivalry in 2003 that involved also Shawn Michaels. Nash had a choice to make; side with Triple H and take on the world, or stick with Shawn Michaels and become part of the world that HHH is against. In the end Triple H made the decision for Big Nash, and the 2 would go on to have a series of matches that culminated in a Hell in a Cell match. This video covers the entire 2003 Nash vs HHH rivalry.
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My heart goes out to Kevin Nash after the tragic loss of his 26 year old son, Tristan. Prayers to his family
Diesel is best ever best fight best matches and honestly person
Double that, He lost his best friend first, and then on top of that, his son.
@@JanneSmith-n8r And, I believe his son actually died on Scott Hall’s birthday 😥
Dude I forgot bout that!! My heart is heavy. Hope they r well like u put it. Hope u r too!
I was always happy to see Nash show up in WWE, whether it was the attempt to revive the nWo, the 2003 attempt, or later. I'm one of the five guys on the planet who actually really liked face WWF Champion Diesel's run. But not once did his returns work out for him, and I've always thought that sucked every. single. time. Seriously, I'm STILL salty about how the nWo return went.
Yep, as a Scott Hall fan, that nWo return and how it could've been way better, to this day, takes up waaaay too much real estate in my brain
6th guy here!
7th guy here... We are becoming a faction.
Man, the opportunity WWE had in 2002/03 to do some serious business with the Kliq / nWo / DX was unreal. Such a shame it wasn't fulfilled.
I have a full plan and retcon that happened in mind lol
8th. ^ said it best.
Me 2
That epic brawl they had on Raw in May of 03 during the Highlight Reel segment was brutal, loved it.
I agree. Still go back and watch it every once in awhile
@@marquan1976 me too
LOL
That 2003 run was the last time Kevin Nash was significant in the business. It was fun to see him in that role
Nash had a good run in TNA too, paparazzi eye productions is one of the funniest segments in wrestling history and the main event mafia was amazing.
They did Nash dirty in 2003. Pretty much all his strengths in terms of coolness, wittyness and calmness were all taken away with his aggressive/hate behavior. They only time he clicked a little was the 2 or 3 weeks leading up to SummerSlam when he started acting and looking like Big Sexy again. And then he was gone.
You make "Reliving the War" (my favorite series in TH-cam history) with such a passion and effort, you make the PPVs from that era and you still have time to make quality videos from another eras?
I hope you will get hired one day by WWE or another promotion that pays really good to do promotional work for them because your hard work must be rewarded.
Nuff said 👍
That's a conflicting thought, I do want him to get paid really well for what he does, but I don't want to lose reliving the war!
@@martinbustamante4261 same feeling boss
3 quid per 1000 views.. TH-cam is doing him fine.
He puts out better content than the wwe network straight up. Any of their docs can't touch the quality on this channel. Produced by a real wrestling fan and it shows
The line JR said during the promo package before the Nash v HHH match at JudgementDay 2003..."What does HHH have to do to turn back the Challenge of the 7Ft 300lb Kevin Nash?" Was pretty epic.
A big factor during this time was how on fire King and JR were as commentators. It really made watching RAW great.
@@mrmoviemanic1 you indeed are right. Their comments were gold, and how these those commentators worked together was pure gold.
y'know... 2000's Triple H without beard for me always looks so incredibly strange. 1990's Hunter without beard? Littleissue... but for some reason, the 2000's...
oh Paul Michael Levesque
Its the hair w/o the beard, the 2000s were a strange time.
@@deadend1041 he was trying to be ric flair with the big gold belt
Not his most badass look. Although I never liked the Lemmy from Motörhead look, even that fits trips better. Either way, he was a bmf during the ruthless aggression era
His best look is 99-2002
Mick Foley is such an underrated story teller as a wrestler.
Underrated?
As much as I wanted to see Nash with the big gold belt once again, this is another case of a 2003 Triple H feud not needing the title involved. Booker T could've had a decent run with the title during this time, as the Triple H/Nash "friends turned enemies" could've written and sold itself.
Triple H needed to remain Champion to put over Goldberg. Besides, if Booker actually did become champion like Benoit did a year later, you guys would still be complaining about how Triple H overshadowed Booker T and hogged the main event spotlight despite not being champion. And without Triple H, who was Booker really going to feud with? His Evolution lackies?
The WWE couldn’t have the ‘Nappy’ headed guy as the Champ …. 🤦🏿♂️🤷🏿♂️
I agree this feud was still a fun feud but Booker T could've totally held the belt around this time until losing it to Goldberg at Summerslam.
@@quentinkaasa47 ohhh another Bruce Prichard relative
Do all ya kiss rest ends ?
@@I41535D How was anything I wrote wrong? Triple H as the top heel needed to drop the belt to Goldberg. Having Booker do it would have made no sense.
And IF Hunter did drop the title to Booker, you guys would be complaining online now about how he continued to dominate the main event scene, while World champ Booker was stuck beneath him feuding with his Evolution lackeys.
7:32 Flair looks insane in that freeze frame, lol. Im sure he was doing that “spasm” thing.
I think he was imitating the Warrior Rope Shake LMAO
ric was always looked crazy he did drugs for years
I loved Nash's 2003 entrance theme.
Same!!! 😁
After the time Warner contracts expired, I refer that time period as “the invasion 2.0.” The stars were now there but the results were the same.
During this time HHH defeated booker t, Nash, Steiner and Goldberg. All former wcw champions, which they mentioned every 5 minutes.
You forgot Ric Flair.
HHH Completed his Tally by beating Sting Years later too …… 👀
But he lost to Hogan, brother
@@adamalberts2 got his win back though
Goldberg defeated The Rock, Jericho, Batista, HHH and even Lesnar clean and he still whined about everything.
That Judgement Day set is one of my absolute favorites of all-time, and damn do I hope WWE goes back the fancy special sets for PPVs again.
Nash was still pretty relevant at this time a little more than 2yr after WCW closed and a year from the nWo 02 experiment. they should have put the Big Gold back on him in this feud. Wouldnt have been a nostalgia act nor would it have been unbelievable i mean he is 7ft 300+ a viable threat to HHH
Those injuries ruined everything. I agree with u, if he had stayed injured free the whole time, he would've been WWE Champion again for sure
@@billblaski9523 i believe your right that Quad injury that caused the end of nWo 2002 really did it for him. If he hadn't done that injury i think the nWo at that point would have carried on as a threat and seen Nash as the leader and WHC holder. But in 03 i think it shoulda happened at Judgement Day if it was going to....but as you said those dang injuries.
@@jfoxxbrowning but it would have ended anyway.
@@lexkanyima2195 well yeah it wasn't meant to last forever...yet in some form or fashion it has been nWo for life
Actually, no, he wasnt, he was injury prone. and as he was, he got injured.
Ah yes, Triple H’s WCW tour of 2003:
Scott Steiner, Booker T, Nash and Goldberg.
Especially given what was to happen with Goldberg, how do we best pass the time from after Booker T at Mania until Goldberg…this!
I really hated Vince, for burrying wcw talent like that. Even if Sting joined wwf at that time, vince would still bury them. And at that time Vince had a Gold mine, a plethora of Superstars he could do way more creative then he did, yet he made it all lackluster.
@JanneSmith-n8r That is because Vince is a Petty old man and does not respect any promotion or their history!
I would appreciate a Triple H vs Goldberg feud video. Not only is it the next part of Triple H's reign of terror but it covers 4 pay-per-views (Summerslam, Unforgiven, Survivor Series and Armageddon 2003). It would be interesting to look at one of the few times Triple H was clearly beaten during this era.
Agreed Bro 💯
We'll definitely see it
I believe Bios already covered that feud.
Oh Lord, that period during the reign of terror after Booker and Scott got buried in quicksand, then a program with a more than "past him prime" Nash. Thank God Smackdown was always a viable option during Ruthless Aggression...
Well said Fella 💀
I as an WCW fan, was very pissed. Steiner, Booker, Nash, Goldberg ... 4 WCW major players in a row.
smackdown was on fridays, while raw was on mondays, so was wcw, and wcw also had a show on friday.
or Thursday I mean.
That's cool that HHH is known as a safe wrestler who takes care of to make sure his opponents don't get (too) hurt. Those chair shots though . . . Really wish the NWO and WCW Invasion angles had worked better, but with the 2 year delay for many of the bigger stars, Sting never showing until wayyyyy later, etc. and Vinny's treatment of so many of the WCW people well it just petered out. At least some of them got great exposure though.
Yeah I get why they didn't come over sooner but if the legit wcw guys came right away and if Vince weren't Hella petty that could've been the coolest angle
I get goosebumps every single time I think about what COULD'VE happened if they came across one by one and made the invasion angle greater than it was..
By WM 2003 , the card Silsbee looked like,
Austin vs Golberg or Hogan
Rock vs Hogan or Golberg
Sting vs Taker (Deadman version)
DX vs The Outsiders
And any of those could be main event matches.... and we haven't even used other wrestlers like
DDP
STEINER
KANE
KURT ANGLE
JERICHO
BOOKER T
FLAIR
i was young when this rivalry happened and while it's not a highlight or something i look back on with nostalgia, I did like it well enough at the time.
I was there live in reference to 4:30. That particular RAW taping was in Richmond VA and it was really cool to see three of the five kliq members in the ring again in 2003. I remember marking out so hard that my heart was beating at a super fast rate, similar feeling to when you're about to beat a video game for the first time!
These days I get that feeling when I go to the casino and play Firelink slots or Blackjack.
I would have been 8 yrs old during this time and this feud was my intro to Kevin Nash.
I remember liking him and thinking this feud was pretty good but I had no idea the history he had with WWE until years later with his diesel character and the Kliq.
well, actually diesel was in wwf before all this started, he vent to wcw, because the money was better, and less work. I think It was Hall that vent first, and brought kevin with him to wcw.
Fast forward to ted turner selling wcw, and bishoff beeing unable to buy it, it was vince who bought the company.Than the Kliq, and all those feuds.
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Two men, one rivalry and not a single quadricep that wasn't made from dry super noodles.
You’re a Fool for this one Fella …. 💀
@@constablekennedy7705 Meh... I'm a fool for many things, but I'm ok with it 🤷♂️
ramen quads? lmao
Wrestling bios is the only reason I have the WWE network, they should be grateful for this Chanel! Thank you wrestling bios!!
Does wwe network have all the old raw episodes from the 90s
Wrestling Bios on a Sunday afternoon, sign me up yesiiiir
I was a huge fan of the Monday night wars on the 90s and lived for the sport
Honestly stopped watching wrestling around 2001 so getting these videos from the years to follow are amazing way to see what happened after I stooped watching
Thank you!!!
Same, I’ve been reliving my childhood watching these videos and it’s been incredible.
the days of Monday Night Wars, was my favorite. it got me going to the gym, working out, and gaining good physique, Not that i was Huge, or anything body building crazy. But since I used to wear lex Luger wcw shirts, and had physique, my friends nicked me lex Luger, and diesel. lol
I stopped watching wrestling shortly after WM19 so it’s cool to see what happened afterwards. Thanks.
Why, because Rock and Austin left?
You stopped watching wrestling or just WWE?
@@quentinkaasa47 yes
Absolutely love and enjoy your content... I just stumbled across this channel one day and it has become appointment viewing for me... The videos are informative, insightful and highly entertaining... Keep up the great work.
Kevin Nash need Bret Hart or Shawn Micheal to look good and have a great match. Triple H is decent but not that wrestler who can have great matches with every opponent.
Triple H regin of terror was irrating as he was winning everything and make you pissed off.
Agreed
HHH reign of terror was him beating former WCW guys
I wonder if Jarrett and Nash took notes from the Judgement Day match as to not make the same mistakes in their match two years later, like 50% of that match from TNA Against All Odds 2005(?) took place outside from what I recall, and the crowd ate it up.
They had one of the best brawls in WWE history in 2003 on that episode of Monday night raw 🔥🔥🔥
4:30 I didn't remember Nash being so jacked in this period. Fair play to him.
Dude was an absolute beast to be fair.
Just realized...I have seen about every video Bios has put out once I found the channel.
I remember this fued. Crazy time in wrestling
Never had a problem with those Triple H title reigns, it was the old school philosophy of a technically gifted villain making the championship something everyone wanted to win.
Exactly
finally someone gets it. it was born out of necessity as well. Rock and Austin gone, Brock and Goldberg leaving, all the WCW guys physically falling apart. Cena, Orton, Batista were the priority and HHH put them all over. You can't slay a dragon if there is no dragon to slay. Old school mentality : build up a mega heel so when you finally beat him its a huge deal. Look at the reactions Batista was getting in 2005. This generation doesn't have the patience for longterm booking they bitch about every minuscule thing week to week. People who use the phrase "Reign of Terror" are marks.
@@waynetables6414 wow take easy there buddy
@@waynetables6414 meh, had he not been married into the family and just simply earned the spot it would have been received better
@@iamarabicandiloveamericanp7137 he is right . Facts are facts .
This rivalry stands out to me because around this time is when WWE started doing shows in Oregon. I was at the first one which was a raw house show. The main event was HHH vs Nash and Nash actually won the title. They then reversed the decision because Nash used the belt. As a huge Nash fan this was exciting for me.
Oregon native myself
It is like Kevin said "The NWO was basically kliq south and DX was kliq north".
Kevin Nash is my second favorite professional wrestler of all time, behind HBK. I started watching wrestling in 2002, so 2003 Nash was actually my first exposure to him until the advent of TH-cam when I could watch his older stuff. It was, possibly oddly, his 2003 run that made me love him.
Nashs 2011 dye job on that beard and hair was funny as hell!
I was always happy when Nash was on TV even in TNA
2003 was a Great Year iin Wrestling!
It was Basically the Start of the Ruthless Aggression Era❤❤❤❤
Better than anything on Netflix, I got a 6 pack of beer and the day off tomorrow! Thanks Wrestling Bios :)
Call Sandman, you can relive those days together.
Just another part of the Reign of Terror! One that should've ended in the HitC with Nash going over as the champ. Nash could've kept the belt for a month or two just to quell the rage the fans had against HHH as the championship that never seemed to end.
Suggestions: videos on the APA, Kane in DX, Scotty 2 Hotty's career
This will be interesting for me to watch later because as a life time wrestling fan since about 1985, I skipped much of the WWE Cena Era (and didn’t miss much lol) only to fall back in love with wrestling again later in life like many of us do.
Try to watch them as he posts. Every now and the wwe hits him with copyright doodoo and he has to edit or take episodes down
ahh another anti cena fan huh? i thought y’all disappeared about 2-3 years ago.
That was AEW for me. First Dark I watched made me go "this is why I used to love wrestling".
@@KingJadInfiniteHope to mma
@@MaynardOwns trust me there's more than you think
I was a diesel/nash guy as a kid. As an adult I can see the limitations in matches but the charisma man. This is the guy they should have used like an event like Andre in his latter days or what they are trying to do with omos. We wouldn’t expect 5* but the spectacle of the build would have been great compared to throwing him in weekly stories
A DX vs nWo feud would have been interesting
Should have happened but it’s one of many missed opportunities …..
No, too many kliq members, too confusing
Maybe Outsiders vs Dx. If Nash wasnt too prone to injury.
Triple H and Shawn had no intent to ever become friends again.....until 2006
i remember all of this .. but being an 11 year old kid didn’t understand why they couldn’t just get along lol knowing that the kliq was an actual thing. haha… imagine if they had this story nowadays. god we took this for granted.
Just grabbed some McDonald’s and now gonna watch this!
I love the dynamic of this storyline. These 3 guys were closer than ever in the clique. However they all went their separate ways. Then in 2003, Nash returns to see his best friends trying to kill each other. Idk cculd be an unpopular opinion
I wish Nash came back as diesel. That was his best character and work in my opinion. 1996 diesel vs Bret Hart cage match was him at his ultimate
03 Nash was my Favorite! I remember Playing SD SHUT YOUR MOUTH AND HCTP SEASONS with dude
I had totally checked out by 2003 , didn't see any of this.
best nash looked in his career, an absolute killer, i really wanted him to win the belt at this time even if it was only for a month
Personally I didn't mind Hunter and Nash's rivalry in 2003. The 2011 one wasn't that great though.
it's really weird how Kevin Nash looked really cool almost the entire time during the NWO, but everything after that he just looked like a giant awkward goober 😅
I enjoyed their matches, & I think the HITC was pretty good. I got sick of Triple H dominating everyone. If they wanted to build up a big opponent for Goldberg, then they honestly wasted his potential title run seeing as he lost it back to Triple H a couple of months later, so all that dominating was wasted.
Considering that Goldberg didn't win at Summerslam was an indication that it wasn't going to be great. However, also that was telling in hindsight that Goldberg didn't enjoy being in WWE during that time and only signed for 1 year.
There was several reasons for that....
Goldberg was originally booked to win the Title at Summerslam but put himself in the doghouse by refusing to stand in for Triple H for a tour of Australia, that's why it was delayed until Unforgiven, another factor was HHH's groin injury, if he drops the belt earlier, it looks like he is only doing so due to working whilst hurt.
Goldberg also didn't like the day to day/behind the scenes work which wasn't appreciated by WWE's Upper Management. And whilst he drew ratings whilst chasing the belt, he didn't kick on once he was Champion.
Putting the belt back on Helmsley at Armageddon was due to the lack of alternatives (it really didn't help that Shawn wasn't full time at this point and refused to have another title run) and Goldberg's contract being up after WM20, they couldn't plan anything else long term with him.
More like they did not even bloody try to create new main event stars and just got lazy. So sick of these excuses. F wwe!
I gotta say one thing: had he had more opponents like Kevin Nash, Triple H's Reign of Terror would have been a bit less frustrating.
We must protect this man at all cost for this ENTERTAINMENT he provides on a weekly basis
Always thought this should have been a three way program between HHH, Nash, and Michaels. A Three way dance between them would have been fantastic instead of the 2nd Elimination chamber at Summerslam 2003.
It wasn’t the greatest rivalry but at the same time it wasn’t the worst either and Nash is my favourite.
At times nash was a poor mans Test.
Very true
Hey great video :) thanks. I wanted this feud to be so much better than it was.
This is a pretty forgotten rivalry since it overlapped with HBK. Which was way better.
By the time that 03 came around the Internet had ruined any good will Nash still had left with the crowd. That and the style change just made Nash obsolete. Fans just really didn't like those Big slower guys.
I remember this rivalry Nash vs triple h round 1 😎👍
By far the best part of the feud was the little bulid up package before the match that used headstrong
only thing I hated about this rivalry is KEVIN NASH DIDN'T WIN THE WORLD TITLE lol
I remember watching this time period and having it all on VHS.
That ended the week well, thank you.
One of the big regrets I have is that we never got a heel DX run after Shawn's comeback in 2002.
2003 would have been perfect with Nash also joining DX.
What would have been better, is if Hall would have stayed with the WWE and after HBK joins the NWO they try to get HHH to join, but he refuses and they beat him down and HBK tries to to stop the group after they take it too far and they turn on HBK as well. Later HBK and HHH reform DX and feud with the NWO specifically Hall and Nash. X-PAC could even be used a tool between the two factions, trying to see who he is most loyal too.
Would be the Kliq then
@@lanceyvalentino exactly
It's sad that while the Nash vs HHH matches suck, there was a lot of great storytelling in between matches. I think by this point Nash should have been an attraction and not a mainstay, he's cool in doses but as a constant I turn the channel when he's wrestling. If he's talking, like Dr. Nash in TNA, I'm fully invested 😂
I wish that Nash never got hurt in 2002 and Triple H joined the nWo
Nash returns were always great because he always looked like he hasn’t aged & legit badass.
The highlight of the HHH reign with terror was his feud with HBK. However HHH vs ex-WCWs guys were a snooze fest… HHH v Goldberg, HHH vs Booker T, HHH v Steiner, HHH vs Nash…
A Kevin Nash, HBK, HHH: WWE NWO (Kliq/DX) Stable would've been interesting.
(Esp. w/the brand split & more than 1 main title. 1 could've held the wwe title, the other the whc, & the 3rd could've unified the ic & us titles. js even w/o any titles it'd have made for an interesting run)
Agreed Bro
It would not make sense
How they didnt make this a very cool nWo vs DX angle, maybe combine them into a brand new nWx spinoff and make the most of the combined talents.. man... Is beyond me. Goldmine right there
Burying WCW
Random and probably stupid comment but is it weird that I don't association the Ruthless Aggression era with Raw at all? When I think Ruthless Aggression I only think of Smackdown. In my mind, Smackdown was solely the Ruthless Aggression era, Raw was it's own thing. It wasn't until last year when I even thought of Ruthless Aggression and Raw at the same time. Despite both shows running each week for the same company, to me Raw and Smackdown might as well had been WWF and WCW because they felt so different to me which is probably why I only associate the R.A. era with Smackdown. Raw was basically the Reign of Terror era for me.
I love your videos. They are like true crime videp but with wrestling.
If only Nash came back to WWF before the took the F out could only imagine how good it coulda been. He coulda been big part of DX first leading to a amazing feud down road.
The hiac match between these two was brutal
That Nash's entrance music was so badass
Jeez Nash was in incredible shape in 2002
This fued does make sense as to why it was booked. For me who watched it at the time *I was 16 Years old at the time* the way I saw it was Triple H had the WCW World Title *in looks at least* and he was going through every WCW Main Eventer that was Working with WWE in 2003 *Scott Stiner in Jan/Feb, Booker T in Apr/May, Nash in Apr/July, Goldberg from Aug/Dec*
I lapsed from 2002 to 2015. Ty for covering this
I love your rivalry videos hope you do more in the future like flair vs dusty Rhodes etc
Compared to Triple H's fued with Scott Steiner his fued with Kevin Nash in 2003 was an upgrade but only by am eyelash. It was rare to see Triple H fued with a Kliq member that wasn't Shawn Michaels during his Reign of Terror Era but in 2011 it wasn't anything special. Just like when Scott Steiner defeated Triple H via disqualification at one PPV only to lose at the next one they did the same with Kevin Nash (only he'd also at Insurrection in between). Makes you wonder how Scott Hall and Sean Waltman would've been used during that time if they were still in the company.
That Jacknife to HHH was f'n great. 😀
You have to do some kind of reliving the war series on the ruthless aggression era between raw and smackdown
Not only did Nash face triple h almost exclusively, but he would work with flair and jericho who are easy and have that WCW Connection going.
9:55 I was hoping I'd see this one. I'm in Halifax and was present for this event. Shame I don't see myself in any footage but it is still kind of cool to relive it after 20 years now.
Hmm the more you think about it
Triple H was the one who took out permanently all the biggest WCW stars
Sting , Papa Pump and Nash
Goldberg and Booker T as well
15:27 What was even the purpose of the ref checking Hurricane’s shoulder?
And why did he end the match without the 3 count?
@@davidg1612 I remembered that Shawn and Hurricane had heat backstage. I watched an interview recently where Hurricane hinted that this match was part of the reason for the heat. My guess is that the match was supposed to go on longer and Hurricane was supposed to get the shoulder up at that point but missed his cue and the ref called it early. That’s just speculation though
This feud didn't need to be about the World Heavyweight Championship. Friend turned foe feuds have enough meat in it of itself to carry it. Triple H could've done this with Nash and given Booker T a little more time with the title instead of that mess we got at WrestleMania 19.
I like how HHH never joined the WWF version of the nwo. It was kind of his way of saying he was above them and DX was his gig.
Hahaha! I'm with the fans in Halifax. Kevin Trash deserved to be booed.
1:39 - "The 2003 and 2011 runs didn't 'Clique' with audiences." I see what you did there.