Nash fights Piper for real backstage
Less than three hours after Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart got into a fight in a bathroom in Hartford, Conn., Kevin Nash and Roddy Piper did the same in a locker room in Boston, Mass.
After the disaster of a match with Nash & Scott Hall facing Piper & Ric Flair, Nash was upset. Piper had blown his interview at the beginning of the show, and then after agreeing to the details of how the match would play out just minutes before going to the ring, once he got to the ring Piper broke script entirely, leading to an embarrassing mess in the ring where at one point of the match everyone was standing around looking at each other. Then the time-cue to end the match came earlier than expected, leaving no time to fix the mistakes or get across the storyline they wanted to.
After the match, Nash stormed to Piper’s locker room. He banged on the locked door, which eventually Piper opened. He exchanged words with Piper and gave him an open palm to the face, knocking him to the ground. Piper got up and threw a kick at Nash. Flair and Piper’s bodyguard/gopher were the only others in the room, and they held Piper back. Hall and Syxx held back Nash. Nash told Piper he better not pull the improvisation stunt at the PPV on Sunday in Moline, Ill. Backstage Eric Bischoff met with both Piper and Nash regarding the circumstances that led to the altercation, and after meeting with both wrestlers, no disciplinary action was expected.
The fight was part of a somewhat offbeat Nitro for a variety of reasons. The main event match was cut short, in part because it was such an embarrassingly bad match, which led to having too much time to fill with the wild brawl at the end of the show. Producer Craig Leathers mistakenly filmed Sting hooking the KO’d Dallas Page to the harness that he wore under his shirt. The original plans were for Sting to appear to be holding Page on his own as he was pulled to the ceiling. The producer was supposed to cut away from a camera shot of Sting for the few seconds it took him to attach the KO’d Page to the rope.
The presence of Kevin Sullivan also stirred talk backstage. Sullivan did not partake in any booking duties. Terry Taylor continued to run the show backstage. Sullivan, though, is considered a lock to return full time as a wrestler in July and as a booker in August.
