Kevin Nash reacts to Mick Foley cutting ties with WWE
The two WWE legends have similar politics, but Kevin Nash doesn’t have any plans to cut ties with the company like Mick Foley did.
Last week, Foley announced that he is parting ways with WWE due to the association the promotion has with President Donald Trump. Foley said he will not be renewing his WWE Legends contract when it comes due next summer, and he will not be making any appearances as a representative for WWE while Trump is still in office. The final straw for Foley was how Trump reacted to the death of director Rob Reiner — with Foley calling Trump’s comments “incredibly cruel.”
Nash reacted to Foley’s decision on the latest episode of his Kliq This podcast, saying he understands where Foley is coming from but will not be making the same decision himself.
“I understand it. And if that’s how Mick feels, it’s like, I get it from Mick’s standpoint,” Nash said. “But for me personally — because I had some people text me like, ‘Are you going to follow suit?’ I’m like, well, I said, ‘Let me explain my position.'”
Nash detailed how Paul “Triple H” Levesque and Linda McMahon have been like family to him over the years. When Nash’s son Tristen was born, Levesque was the first person from the Kliq to hold him. In the 1990s, Linda McMahon was great to Nash’s wife when they spent a day together in New York City. Linda knows Nash does not agree with her politically, but that does not cause issues when they see each other.
“I look at the McMahon/Levesque, I look at them as family,” Nash said. “Like, that’s it. They’re just family to me… they’re my Republican family, you know?”
Nash said he knows Levesque’s position on the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition is a huge honor to him because of how passionate Levesque is about fitness. And while Linda might be a member of Trump’s cabinet, other members of the administration did not have the same reaction to Reiner’s death that Trump did. Nash said, instead of being outraged by what Trump said, he personally was bored by it.
“I understand Mick’s, ‘This is all I can stand, because I can’t stand no more.’ I understand that,” Nash said. “I was more of a, ‘Could you f*cking grab another hold? Boring.’ You know, that’s kind of the way I looked at it. Like, f*ck, dude, boring. It doesn’t work anymore.”
Aside from his closeness with the McMahon/Levesque family, Nash said he is able to differentiate WWE as a company from the disagreements he has with Trump.
“Because my deal is with the WWE. My deal isn’t with MAGA. My deal isn’t with Trump,” Nash said. “And I don’t see those sensibilities coming through my television screen when I watch Netflix and when I watch Raw and when I watch the Saturday Night’s Main Event.”
Nash said, if Foley feels his decision did some good, he applauds him for it. But Nash believes more harm is done by giving Trump the reaction that he wants.
“What am I supposed to do? I’m going to give up revenue? I’m going to give up revenue, for what?,” Nash said.
Joseph Currier is the lead editor of F4WOnline.com, directing daily news coverage and writing articles on professional wrestling. He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, obtaining a journalism degree in 2016. Joseph joined F4W during his time at UMass and has now been writing about the industry for nearly a decade.
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