Did Kevin Nash make a mistake by going to WCW?

Nash had ran his course in WWF in my opinion, he held all titles at that time in a calender year. He also had been heel to No.1 babyface to No.1 heel in 12 month period also. Had feuded with major players Shawn (both as heel & face), Bret & Taker also. Only place to go was down the card I feel foir Big D.

Hall on the other hand, had plenty still to offer, not only was he better in the ring than Nash but he hadn't played heel in 3 years (a new heel Razor would have been awesome), never really been in the World title picture during WWF career so still had a ladder to climb (pun) and had potential feuds with Taker, Bret & a face HBK (as a heel Razor) to still play out. Should have offered Hall the big bucks to stay and dumped Diesel from a business point of view.

^^ Haha I was thinking the exact same thing.

I really believe if Nash had stayed he would've gotten extremely stale. I think when he went to WCW and portrayed a more "real to life" character he was better off. Kinda like Heyman was saying the wrestling business was changing like the music industry, and when they debuted in WCW they changed with the world of wrestling. I'm kinda glad he didn't stay though due to the fact I really enjoyed the Monday Night Wars

The Diesel character pretty much was done one he dropped the title. When he started referring to himself more as Big Daddy Cool at the end of his run, it was more comparable to his nWo/ Big Sexy gimmick and that just wouldnt have gone over well in the WWE at the time.

I think he would have been just fine. His heel turn at the start of '96 was the most interesting that Diesel had been since Royal Rumble '94... which culminated in nothing happening for months.

I don't find it to be a mistake, though. Nash was hilarious in WCW.

The thing about Hogan that, I think, really sets him aside is his look. Even though there wasn't much of it, that blond hair really stood out. Not to mention the red and yellow. Hogan was a character easily recognized. Nash could not have been that. Even though Hogan was over huge a decade before Nash, Nash wouldn't have become anywhere near as big as Hogan in terms of longevity. Nash made money in WCW. He helped kill it, but made money, so for him it was the right decision.

The guy damn near put the WWF out of business back in 1995. He helped start the Monday night war in WCW and got a guaranteed contract for 5 years as well.

"...we ain't here to play!"

On topic though, and no, I don't think he made a mistake in going to WCW as it pertains to how the business changed, but as Diesel there really wasn't anything else for him to do, titles-wise and matchups-wise.

He was smart though. He and Hall both worked their contracts where if anyone came in that was getting paid more, then they would get raises.

Indeed there was. That was how I first got my hands on ECW tapes. I used to frequent a site that was called something like alt.sport.pro-wrestling and traded/bought tapes from different parts of the country. That was much nicer than driving around to every video store I could find and hoping that they might have some wrestling that I hadn't seen before.