Kevin Nash has done plenty of wild stuff in wrestling, but even he admits Sting’s WCW drop entrances were a different kind of insane.
Speaking on Kliq This, Nash looked back at WCW’s legendary rafter entrances and revealed that while he experienced the famous “Sting Drop” himself, it was Sting doing it over and over that earned his respect. Nash said his own drop was one of the highest the company ever attempted.
“It was the second tallest. The tallest one, Steve I think told me that the tallest one was the New Boston Garden.”
The wild part? Nash never even rehearsed it. When asked if he did a practice run before dropping hundreds of feet from the rafters, Nash laughed the idea off and immediately shifted the praise to Sting, who made those entrances part of his weekly routine.
“I said, ‘F*** no, I didn’t do a practice.’ And I said, ‘But Steve was doing it every week. Just that alone, to take that risk at that point of the business… that was huge.’”
Nash then shared the Sting entrance that still lives rent-free in his head. After the nWo had beaten Diamond Dallas Page down near the barricade in Dallas, Sting descended from the ceiling, clipped DDP into a double harness, and lifted him back into the rafters.
“And then he did the one thing—I don’t know what building it was—I remember it like it was yesterday. We were getting to Dallas. Sting repelled in Dallas. We’d beaten DDP down to the floor by the barricade, and Sting came down on this double harness thing and took Dallas away with him up into the roof. It was… I mean it was just so… I just remember sitting there watching that going, ‘Wow.’”
The WWE Hall of Famer also pushed back on people who only remember WCW for backstage politics. Yes, there was drama, but he says fans sometimes forget just how much the roster put on the line every week.
“And you know, people can say whatever they want, but there’s a lot of guys that were busting their asses doing what they did. Yeah, was it political? There’s never ever going to be that many stars, that many Hall of Fame guys on one roster fighting for six spots. It just ain’t going to happen.”
Bottom line, Nash may have survived one of those drops without practicing, but Sting doing it regularly is what really impressed him. To Nash, those rafter entrances were not just a gimmick. They were a weekly gamble from one of WCW’s biggest stars.
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