Source: Tim Baines of the Winnipeg Sun
Kevin Nash agonized over a return to WWE.
Vince McMahon wanted Nash, whose TNA contract was up, to return as Diesel.
But the more Nash thought about it, the more he knew TNA was a better situation for him. Less travel. Less in-ring wear and tear. And more friends. So he re-signed with TNA for a one-year term, with two one-year options.
“Vince wanted me to do the Diesel thing,” says Nash, who returned to TNA’s Bound for Glory pay-per-view with a bang, bashing Samoa Joe with a baseball bat and costing him a title loss to Sting. “And I was OK with that, basically to start and end my career as Diesel. When we sat down and talked, Vince got to the point where he wanted me to colour my hair dark. I went to my hair lady and she said with my hair, that’s all I’d be doing is dying my hair.
“I sat down with my wife and she said: ‘Shawn (Michaels) and Hunter (Triple H) are up there. But Hunter’s married with kids. And Shawn’s not going to be there much longer. You don’t know any of those guys.’
“Undertaker’s one guy that was a buddy and I hung out with (Randy) Orton a bit, but all my buddies are (in TNA).
‘YOU WERE MISERABLE’
“All I wanted was one more Wrestlemania, but my wife said: ‘You were there for five Wrestlemanias and you were miserable.’
“It was a difficult decision because it is WWE, but I know I made the right decision.”
Nash says he feels good once he gets his day going.
“I’ve dropped about 20 lbs., getting that weight off has been good for my knee. In 1999, I had a cracked bone in my ankle, a compound fracture. And now, for the first 30 minutes of every day, it’s like I have somebody (else’s) foot on. Then I sit in the steam shower for 20 minutes, go to the gym and get the sweat going and I feel pretty good.
“I don’t take pain medicine. I think about painkillers. Some of the guys (who have died) were taking painkillers and muscle relaxers. Some of those painkillers were so strong, they might as well have been doing heroin.”
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