Dude, Nash can punch me in the nuts in anger as I laugh at him in his costume. It is the funniest thing I ever seen since the California raisins.

Greatest entrance ever! Easily Kevin Nash's best gimmick.

Its my understanding that Turner had Just purchased the rights to "The Wizard of Oz" and they wanted to do some sort of promotion with WCW.

the scary thing is, they actually had dorothy, scarecrow, tinman, and the lion at his debut

This Oz gimmick was awesome! This would've gotten over if played by a charismatic Wrestler! Doink, Papa Shango, & Undertaker got over as wrestlers!

Lol!!! He should break out his OZ gimmick in TNA just for one night.

hahahahah they were so creative back in the day. i love the theme music too lol.

I like how Nash got this big extravagant intro like 2 minutes long....then his opponent just gets his name mentioned on the PA. Yeh WCW didn't make it obvious who they were trying to push lol...

rofl i love how J.R. can say anything without laughing. "Of course he has the great wizard by his side*

Nash's first appearance as Oz was in my hometown. That's priceless.

That was early 90s WCW for you. Almost everybody heel or face had a generic rock track as entrance music. Often the music would not fit the gimmick. Check out Black Blood's theme.

I read somewhere Big Kev despised this gimmick...

I don't get what people don't like about Oz, it's a creative character and intimidating, the only problem is that the costume doesn't look like the real wizard, but keep in mind, we only saw his head, and that was Oz 60 or so years ago, I am sure he would of grown a beard in that amount of time, and if that idea doesn't help, keep in mind that Oz is fictional, and so they can make the outfit look fictional too.

I remember this but haven't actually seen it since it happened.Knowing that was Nash in that get up had me fucking rolling.

Oz sure had some unfittingly awesome theme music

And about a decade he wouldn’t need to dye his hair silver.

Yes, a lot of attempted synergy between Turner and WCW then. Also, I think WCW was making various attempts to make their promotion look big time, so this was probably an early attempt to give these over-the-top entrances and characters. Another was when WCW put together all those mini-movies with Sting/Bulldog/Vader.

Dat finisher tho

3:01 I love the way the jobber lands on the back of his head and neck and just flops after getting clotheslined.

I liked that entrance with the castle and the pyro and smoke its pretty cool

That's the eye of the storm finisher James Storm uses now.

My dad and I are huge wrestling fans. My dad always said he remembers Nash in this gimmick with the cape. Before he became diesel

As a kid Oz was my favourite wrestler.

Great wizard said when the ref does the count "WELCOME TO OZZZZZZZZ"

This is one of the better entrances I've ever seen from a wrestler! Very cool & unique! Oz was a great gimmick but not right for Kevin Nash/Diesel

I hate to say it... but I thought that finisher was awesome.

Who was that little troll portraying the wizard?

I don't get why they picked an instrumental cover of "Another Bites the Dust" to use as his main theme... So I'll agree.

His music is awesome

I never understood why Oz's entrance music changed in the middle of his entrance. It should have just stayed with the ominous music at first instead of going to a retread rock track.

Reason #4022 Wcw went out of business

He should kept that razor's edge spin thing as his finisher

That finish was awesome.

I mean the crowd was into it. I think there were worse gimmicks than OZ

wcw had the most ill-fitting themes for wrestlers back then

The great and powerful

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

OZ hails from the territory of Comedy Central Championship Wrestling (3CW)

Oz and the Shockmaster! My dream tag team!

The gimmick wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't for the rubber mask

The wonderful wizard of Oz

At least he beat CM Punk.

In all honesty, I was being sarcastic... Although, seeing how the way the turtles defeated Super Shredder, I'd have a hard time taking him seriously in the ring... *watches Oz's entrance again...* Still... it would of been better then that.

i like the music

This gimmick straight off of a cherry 1980 VanDura with Wizard of OZ airbrush graphics on the side, pumping jams out of the a-track in the parking lot of the sportatorium.

Gordon was the real deal. Saturday night was not the same after they took his time slot.

just because it's Kevin

Johnny Rich really sold Nash's clothesline.

Wow give the guy a squash match and he nearly breaks Rich's neck. Classy.

Thats the best Idea Ive ever heard

1:11 of course Oz has the great wizard at his side LOL well of course why WOULDN'T HE

Are you kidding? This is 1991. Do you know how big TMNT were back then? The movie had just come out the year before and the cartoon series was still huge. They could have used that character very well had they acquired the rights. However, they did have the deal with Turner Broadcasting with the rights to the Wizard of Oz so they decided to go with that.

RIDICULOUS GIMMICK lolololol.

What other sport does a competitive match start with a guy running as fast as he can sideways ..Johnny rich was the shits.

Where's Toto, Tinman, Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion and the Wicked Witch Of The West? LOL! Seriously though, this gimmick has got to be one of the strangest I've seen. Big Sexy and Deisel were better.

True. WCW had some pretty bad ones back then too. Funny, reminds me of TNA today. Everybody has a generic rock theme there too.

Nash n Sullivan😆😂🤣

Kevin Sullivan aka the task master

Best gimmick next to Black Scorpion

damn can't beleive this is nash

Who did Nash do better: Oz or the Super Shredder?

wouldn't surprise me if nash was laughing his ass off underneath that mask!

Oz is so cool

Tony & JR....never thought bout them working together....interesting team.

Basketball coaches can lie about player heights as well, but those heights seem about right.

not only the gimmick is stupid but the theme song sound they smoush the bret hart theme and queen ¨another one bite the dust¨ together

Money

Anyone know who the great wizard was?.

So when he came over to wcw with Scott hall and he acted like it was he first time there, little did I know he's been there before!

nash does not need to be wearing those tights....my lord.

Lol Maybe a fail gimmick but what a pop that was

he wasnt,nash was super shredder in the movie

was this before or after Vinny Vegas

Yea...Im sure were all shocked the oz oz character never worked out....

What a shifty gimmick, but Sullivan is the man.

Not bad work

@RealDealRob69 The great wizard was Kevin Sullivan!

Ummm yeah, like Johnny Rich really stood a chance......

That little dude was Kevin Sullivan

these were very sad times for the wrestling world

Limited by his size, yes. Just like Rey Mysterio cannot work a big man style, Nash can only work the big man style because he is so damn big. Therefore he is not shit. Khali is shit, Gian Gonzalez was shit. Kevin Nash is not shit.

What was Dusty thinking...

Nope, becase he was, in his own words, a "limited worker", or, as I might paraphrase, "shite".

who has the great wizard?

nice 80's porn music

OZ! what a joke. this guy isnt going to amount to anything.

at over 7 foot tall wtf

Well we definitely werent going to see Stone Cold come out and Stun that creepy little wizard guy thats for sure...Thank god I didnt become a fan until the late 90s.

really cool entrance....i think they could of done more with this gimmick tho....it was a much better gimmick than that lame ass Vinnie Vegas lolz

Why? Because he didn't work like a little guy?

3 claps hahahahaha Nash.. hahah yah think he would have improved at some point. Lmmfao

Hate nash. Loved this gimmick though. Im actually somebody that thinks something more could have been done with this one. I think the Oz character was very intimidating

@Indigodelta383 the oz gimmick was over huge son. it was bill watts who turned him into vinny vegas. get your facts straight.

Who was the wizard played by anybody know

wow scary

@jmann229 Youre wrong. I know about the good history.

not only oz was really weird gimmick but the theme song doesnt fit

Because TMNT doesn't draw. Wizard of Oz TOTALLY did.

@EitherOr217 lol

Oz “what do you want?” Nash “a new quad...”