Evan Husney believes Kevin Nash will become one of the most talked about parts of the new "Who Killed WCW?" docuseries on VICE.
When it comes to covering a topic like the death of WCW, it can be hard to find a different approach to take without feeling like a horse's corpse is being battered.
Fortunately for Evan Husney and those featured in the upcoming "Who Killed WCW?" docuseries on VICE, they believe the best angle to take is simply to not tell the story from the WWE's skewed perspective. Instead, Husney and company spoke with names that were actually involved with WCW in order to get a more genuine depiction of what went wrong before the promotion closed its doors in 2001.
Speaking with Sean Ross Sapp about interviewing WCW talent, Husney put over Booker T as somebody he enjoyed working with that he had always wanted to work with. Husney also credited the relationship with Dwayne Johnson's Seven Bucks Productions with helping open doors to forging relationships with talent that had not yet been part of Dark Side of the Ring.
"It was awesome. It was super awesome to be able to work with folks like Booker T., [who] comes to mind as somebody we've always wanted on the show. Going back to the Tales from the Territories collaboration, working with The Rock and Seven Bucks helped open those doors that were previously not open for us on Dark Side of the Ring," said Husney. "Like on Territories, we got, you know, Jerry Lawler, we got Jimmy Hart, who, his status had changed since earlier seasons of Dark Side and that was great for it. Oh, we got we got Michael Hayes on Territories, something we've always wanted. So those collaborations have helped us kind of bridge that gap and this was the same in terms of getting, folks like Booker T involved who, you know, by their means, probably wouldn't be able to participate in the Dark Side episode. So love that for this. Love that collaboration in order to be able to speak to people and to widen that net for sure."
Kevin Nash was also interviewed for the series. Nash is a name that often comes up when discussing the growth and eventual demise of World Championship Wrestling. As a founding father of the New World Order, Nash was extremely instrumental in helping WCW grow to a point where they would defeat WWE in the ratings on Monday nights for 83 consecutive weeks. However, Nash also played a role in more infamous WCW moments such as the end of Bill Goldberg's undefeated streak at WCW Starrcade 1998 and the subsequent "Finger Poke of Doom" that occurred in a match between Hulk Hogan and Nash on the January 4, 1999 episode of WCW Nitro.
Husney believes that Kevin Nash will be seen as the main star of "Who Killed WCW?" once the new docuseries airs.
"Well, Kevin Nash comes to mind, who I think is going to wind up being the star of the show by the end of it. But he is someone we've never worked with before, again, also has ties to WWE and we've never had him on Dark Side. I don't think we were even really asked. We had never had the right opportunity," said Husney. "He was amazing to work with his like, his tone, his irreverence, his sense of humor, the way he sort of speaks. It's not like direct storytelling walking you through every beat, but it's kind of the perfect color commentary if you will all this stuff, the perfect punctuation mark on a lot of these stories and he's so, so funny. He constantly cracked us up and it was cool to hear from him and what was important to him with this series was that it was—because I don't think he would have cared otherwise—is that it was finally, ‘Let's tell this story from the perspective of the people solely, minus The Rock, who were in WCW. This is our story.’ He wanted to own that and had a lot to say about it. It was awesome to work with him on it."
Elsewhere in this interview, Husney talked about The Rock's involvement in the upcoming series. Read more here.
"Who Killed WCW?" premieres on VICE on June 4 at 10:00 p.m. ET.
Fans can check out the full interview with Evan Husney embedded above.
