Kevin Nash Recalls Vince McMahon Not Matching WCW Offer

On the latest episode of Kliq This, Kevin Nash talked about his final negotiation with Vince McMahon before he left for WCW in 1996. You can check out some highlights below:

On what he told Vince: “I told this to Vince when I was leaving, and he said, ‘We’re family.’ I said, ‘No, we’re not family. My family is sitting in f**king Arizona right now, and my wife’s about to give birth to my son in f**king three months. And I need to know how much I’m going to make in order to start — it’s very hard to financially plan when you don’t know whether you’re going to make $1 or f**king $2 million.”

On McMahon’s reaction: “And I just said, ‘I’m not even going to tell you what it is.’ I said, ‘I’ve already written it down.’ And I gave it to him, and he read it — and it was great, because it was so classic Vince. He read it, he kind of dropped his head, and he turned his back and took like four steps. And kind of like he was pondering it. It was great. He comes back and he was like, ‘Yeah, I can’t match that.’”

On whether he’d have stayed if McMahon matched the offer: “F**k yeah. You got to realize that on TV f**king in WCW, is the Dungeon of Doom. You know? ‘Sullivan and my son.’ I’m the hottest I’ve ever been. I’m I finally f**king, I’m no longer a baby face. I’m working with f**king — I’m gonna stay in the top, wouldn’t be one of the top five guys.”

On the WWE schedule: “F**king at that point man, we’re already so f**king operately conditioned, it was just like — I did it for f**king $700[000]? I mean, knowing that you’re going to get $750[000] knowing that it’s guaranteed? Because then you can, when you get — and you’re getting paid every two weeks. Like, you can run a household. You can take money and put it into f**king — all you could do when my first three years in the WWE is, you could pretty much put your money in a SEP. That was your best option financially for taxes. I was incorporated, but it was just — you never knew how much.

“And then every f**king receipt that you had to have, you know? And then finally we got a platinum card. And then the platinum card would give you the breakdown, and then you would put everything on your platinum card. But you would literally come home at the end of the month and f**king have a bag of receipts that you would have to handle. If you were f**king conscious and conscientious. But if you were conscious of what the f**k you were doing and knowing that you were gonna make you need to f**king have these write-offs. And I ran every f**king scam you could. I f**king rented the vehicles because I had a Diners Club, and then that made the loss damage waiver free. So at the end of the f**king 24-day run, everybody f**king gave me cash for what the bill was. And I wrote the whole f**king thing off, and I was only paying about f**king a fifth of it.”

If you use any of the quotes in this article, please credit Kliq This with a h/t to 411mania.com for the transcription.