Kevin Nash has a simple question for WWE and he cannot understand why no one inside the company has acted on the answer.
On the 200th episode of Kliq This, Nash addressed Bron Breakker’s name during the Raw recap segment and made the case that the solution to whatever is holding Breakker back from the next level is sitting right there in his family tree.
“I saw, or actually heard, Seth call him Steiner, and it’s like, when is the WWE going to realize that he is a Steiner. He’s Bronson Rick Steiner. Why don’t I just call him Bron Steiner?”
Nash then went directly at the current ring name with the kind of clarity that only someone with decades in the business can bring.
“Bron Breakker sounds like something I watched on a cartoon in 1971.”
Co-host Sean Oliver compared it to a Marvel villain’s name. Nash did not disagree and continued building his case, arguing that the refinement Breakker has shown as a performer has made the corporate ring name feel even more mismatched.
“Bron Breakker. And maybe they thought that’s the direction that he’d go, but now that it’s been refined, and he held his nose and did this, the voice. It’s just like, come on, man. The guy can do it all. He looks like a million bucks. He can talk, he can definitely do the walk. So it’s just like, let the boy Boogie Woogie. Let him be Steiner.”
Nash returned to the family legacy argument again later in the same segment, pointing out the internal contradiction of WWE referencing the Steiner name through storylines while refusing to put it on the marquee.
“If you’re gonna make reference to it, if you’re gonna make reference to his uncle and his father, then…”
He was referencing the 2022 NXT angle where Joe Gacy and Harland kidnapped Rick Steiner to set up Breakker’s title program. Bronson Rechsteiner is the son of WWE Hall of Famer Rick Steiner and the nephew of Scott Steiner. He inducted both into the WWE Hall of Fame in April 2022 and uses the Steiner Recliner, the camel clutch his uncle made famous, as one of his finishing moves.
Nash also addressed Breakker’s spear, which appeared twice during Monday’s Raw against Seth Rollins. He praised the first one, a full-sprint effort from the entrance ramp, while questioning the second.
“He half ass missed that one. The first one, when he comes that whole distance, let alone the fact that it was a 390 yard sprint.”
Oliver raised concerns about the spear as a long-term career move given the spine and shoulder stress it generates. Nash agreed and pivoted to his own back, which he said is herniated at L2, L3, and L4 from years of his sidewalk slam dropping his full weight and his opponent’s onto his right hip.
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