Kevin Nash has explained why he opposed the idea of using a hologram of his late best friend and longtime tag team partner Scott Hall.
The subject came up on the latest episode of Kliq This during a discussion about Queen guitarist Brian May and the possibility of a digital avatar show featuring the late Freddie Mercury. Co-host Sean Oliver noted that a Hall hologram had previously been proposed, with Nash ultimately rejecting the idea.
Nash confirmed that he was against the concept because, after spending three decades alongside Hall, he believes his friend would have made the same decision if their positions were reversed. “Of course, because it was Scott,” Nash said. “I spent 30 years of my life with Scott. I know Scott wouldn’t let them do that to me. Scott would have been like, ‘Kev wouldn’t want this.’”
Hall died in March 2022 at the age of 63. Nash explained that the idea was also particularly difficult to consider because Hall’s death was still so recent when it was proposed. “The Scott thing was so fresh too,” Nash said. “Scott hadn’t been gone very long.”
Nash and Hall shared one of wrestling’s most famous friendships. After establishing themselves in WWE as Diesel and Razor Ramon, respectively, they left for WCW in 1996 and became The Outsiders before helping launch the nWo. They were also members of The Kliq alongside Shawn Michaels, Triple H and Sean Waltman.
Nash revealed that he keeps a bobblehead featuring himself and Hall on his desk and has developed a small ritual with it before recording each episode of his podcast. “Every time I come down there, I always ask Scott, ‘Scott, you want to do this show?’” Nash said. “And I give him a little, and he gives me the yeah.”
His objection to recreating Hall digitally is also part of a broader concern about using the likenesses of deceased people without their prior consent. “Leave the f*** alone, man, because they don’t get a say so,” Nash said. “It’s always going to be their people. It’s going to be somebody that’s profiting from that image, and I think that’s f***ed up.”
Nash said he would view the situation differently if someone had explicitly authorized the use of their likeness for digital or AI-generated projects before their death. “If your son’s really popular and he’s making money and it’s going into a trust, you should have his living will, and part of that should be, if I pass, I give you the right to my likeness to make money moving forward in an AI situation,” Nash said. “I would have that covered, and I would have that signed off by him.”
For Nash, the key distinction is whether the person whose likeness is being used had the opportunity to consent while they were alive.
Hall was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame individually in 2014 and for a second time as a member of the nWo in 2020. He died following complications after hip surgery.
Nash did not reveal who proposed the Hall hologram or what the intended project would have involved, and there was no indication that a similar concept is currently being considered.
