Kevin Nash – Biography, Wife (Tamara), Son, Height, Net Worth, Age

Kevin Nash had his eyes set on a basketball career, however, a torn anterior cruciate ligament put an end to that dream. But who would have thought that an injury that killed one career would be an opportunity to fuel another? Kevin Nash is probably the only WWE fighter to transition from basketball to wrestling and achieve veteran status.

Besides his involvement in athletics, Nash served in NATO for two years between his basketball and wrestling careers. He is also an actor and still competes in WWE as part of its Legends program. In his wrestling career, Nash has been dubbed by several monikers, including Diesel, Vinnie Vegas, and Master Blaster Steel. Besides WWE, he wrestled for the World Wrestling Championship (WCW) and Total Nonstop Action (TNA).

During the three promotions, Nash won the World Tag Team Championship twelve times and was the World Champion five times. In 2015, he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.

Kevin Nash, Biography, Age

Kevin Scott Nash was born in Detroit, Michigan on July 9, 1959, he attended high school at Aquin High School. While studying psychology at the University of Tennessee, Kevin played for the school’s basketball team. After his time in Tennessee, he started his professional career in Germany, playing for different teams until his career was cut short by an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. At the time, he was playing for the Giessen 46ers, a German professional basketball team.

Between basketball and wrestling, the would-be professional wrestler has held multiple jobs. He was a NATO member, an assembly line worker at Ford Motor Company, and a strip club manager.

Professional wrestling career

Nash’s professional career began in 1990 with World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Throughout his time in WCW, he found himself on the short-lived tag team known as the Master Blasters and part of a large stable known as Half a Ton of Saint. hell. For his singles career, he wrestled under various gimmicks, including The Master Blaster, Oz, and Vinnie Vegas.

Leaving WCW, he joined the WWF under the stage name Diesel (Big Daddy Cool) in 1993. Nash teamed with Shawn Michaels as Team Two Guys With Attitudes. Together they won the WWF Tag Team Championship. As a singles fighter, Kevin Nash also won the WWF Intercontinental Title and the WWF World Heavyweight Title during this time.

Kevin returned to WCW in 1996 after signing a lucrative contract with the promotion. Here he was part of three overlapping stables. Nash and Scott Hall formed the tag team The Outsiders and together they won the WCW World Tag Team Championship. Both men were also part of the nwo stable along with Hulk Hogan and Sean Waltman, while the trio of Nash, Hall and Sean were also known as the Wolfpac in 1997. After the nWo ranks disbanded, Kevin and Hogan respectively became the leaders of nWo WolfPac and nWo Hollywood, recruiting new fighters into their ranks.

Nash won his first WCW World Heavyweight Championship title in 1998 against Goldberg and won it a total of 9 times with the promotion, his last title in 2001.

Following the WWF’s acquisition of WCW, Nash returned to the WWF in 2002. During his second stint as a promotion contender, he suffered a long injury in the WWF in January 2004. From November 2004, Nash spent the next seven years with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), claiming a plethora of titles, including a Tag Team Championship title and two Legends Championship titles.

In 2011, Kevin Nash signed a five-year Legends contract with WWE. The fighting legend has also been building an acting career since 1991, when he debuted in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze.

He also starred as “The Russian” in the 2004 Marvel-inspired film The Punisher. Other film and series appearances include: Magic Mike (2012) ; John Wick (2014) ; Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1997) ; and Living the Dream (2017). He also appeared as a playable character in 22 WWE video games from 1994 to 2018.

What is Kevin Nash net worth?

The wrestler has been in everything from multiple wrestling promotions, movies, and video games. According to Celebrity Net Worth, his value stands at $8 million.

Family: relatives

The WWE legend was raised as a devout Christian by his parents Robert and Wanda Nash. Sadly, he lost his father at the age of eight to a heart attack in April 1968. His mother followed in December 1994, after losing a four-year battle with breast cancer.

Wife (Tamara), son

Kevin married Tamara in 1988 and they stayed together until 2000 when their union fell on hard times. They broke up but eventually patched things up and have been together ever since. Their union produced one child, a son named Tristen Nash. He was born on June 12, 1996.

It seems that Nash’s family has its own demons as well. in December 2014, Nash was arrested for severely beating his then eighteen-year-old son Tristen. Further investigation saw police return to Nash’s residence to arrest Tristen for beating his mother. No charges were filed against the wrestler, as it was found that he was only defending his wife during the altercation.

Height, weight and body measurements

The Michigan man is intimidating to watch. He is one of the greatest wrestlers to ever appear on the WWE roster. Nash stands at an imposing height of 2.11m (6ft 11in) and maintains a weight of 141kg (311lb).