Kevin Nash wasn’t about to let Scott Hall get turned into some digital attraction after his death — and when the idea of using a hologram came up, Big Sexy says his answer was basically over before the conversation started. During the Kliq This podcast, Nash revealed that he shut the idea down because he knew exactly what Hall would have wanted.
The subject came up during a conversation about Queen potentially keeping Freddie Mercury alive on stage through avatar technology. That eventually turned into a discussion about Hall, with Sean Oliver bringing up a proposal involving a hologram of the WWE Hall of Famer after his death.
Oliver noted that the people close to Hall were apparently operating under an all-or-nothing agreement on the idea, which meant everybody needed to be on board. Nash wasn’t. When asked whether he supported the hologram, he gave the shortest answer possible, saying, “No.” There wasn’t any hesitation either. Nash said this wasn’t some philosophical debate for him because Scott Hall wasn’t just another wrestler whose image could be recreated — this was someone he spent roughly three decades of his life with.
“Well, of course, because it was Scott because I don’t think I spent 30 years of my life with Scott — and Scott wouldn’t let that — I know Scott wouldn’t let them do that to me.”
That was the entire decision for Nash. He believes Hall would have protected him from the exact same thing if Nash had died first. The timing made it even worse. Hall had only recently passed away when the hologram idea was being discussed, and Nash made it clear the wound was still way too fresh.
“Scott would have been like, ‘No, Kev wouldn’t want this.’”
“Well, with the Scott thing was so fresh, too. Like Scott hadn’t been gone very long.”
That tracks with everything Nash has said about Hall since his death. Nash has openly admitted that he doesn’t believe he’ll ever truly get over losing Scott Hall, and he has never tried to hide how brutal losing his longtime best friend was for him. Nash does keep Hall around in his own way, but it’s a hell of a lot less Black Mirror. He revealed that he has a bobblehead of himself and Hall sitting on his desk and even talks to it before recording the podcast.
“You know, it’s just like, like I said, I got this f*cking bobbing head f*cking gimmick on my f*cking desk of me and Scott. And every time I come down there, I always ask Scott, I said, ‘Scott, you want to do this show?’ And I give him a little and he gives me the f*cking — he gives me the yeah.”
Oliver joked that the bobblehead was about as close to a Scott Hall hologram as Nash was ever going to allow. That’s when Nash stopped joking and explained the real reason the whole idea bothered him so much.
“I’m just saying, like, you know, I just believe in letting people f*cking — that have passed, leave the f*ck alone, man.”
For Nash, the issue comes down to one thing: Hall can’t say yes anymore. Once somebody is dead, Nash doesn’t like the idea of another person deciding to put their face, voice or personality back on a stage just because technology makes it possible.
“Because they don’t get a say. So it’s always going to be their f*cking people that — it’s going to be somebody that’s profiting from that image. And I just don’t — I think that’s f*cked up.”
Nash did admit there is one situation where he sees things differently. If somebody wants their family to make money from their likeness after they die, he believes they should put that permission in writing while they’re still alive.
“You know, like right now, if you have a — if your son’s really popular and you — I’m sure you’re — and he’s f*cking money, making money and it’s going into a trust, you should have his f*cking living f*cking will.”
He said that kind of agreement should specifically cover AI and future technology so there’s absolutely no question about what the person wanted after they’re gone.
“And part of that should be, if I pass, I give you the right to fu*king my likeness to f*cking make money moving forward in an AI f*cking situation. I would have that covered and I would have that f*cking signed off by him.”
For Scott Hall, Nash clearly believed the answer was already obvious. He knew the man, he knew how Hall would have handled it, and he wasn’t going to let somebody drag his best friend back onto a stage as a hologram just because they could.
That hits even harder now that Nash is the last surviving member of the original three-man nWo lineup. Hall and Hulk Hogan are gone, but Nash clearly has no interest in watching technology create some artificial version of the guys he actually shared the road with.
Scott Hall’s memory is clearly sacred territory for Kevin Nash, and if anybody thought Big Sexy was going to sign off on a hologram of The Bad Guy just because it looked cool, they found out very quickly that wasn’t happening.
What do you think about Kevin Nash shutting down the Scott Hall hologram idea? Should wrestling companies ever recreate deceased stars with holograms or AI if the wrestler never personally approved it while they were alive? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
