WWE Star Kevin Nash’s Son Tristen Nash Useless at 26: Particulars

Wrestling champ Kevin Nash’s son, Tristen Nash, has died on the age of 26.

“On behalf of Kevin and Tamara Nash, I’ve to sadly report that their son Tristen Nash has tragically handed away on the age of 26,” Fightful.com reporter Sean Ross Sapp revealed in a press release through Twitter on Thursday, October 20. “Tristen not too long ago began engaged on Kevin’s new podcast and the 2 loved their time collectively. The Nash household asks in the event you may please respect their privateness throughout this time.”

No additional particulars surrounding Tristen’s passing have been revealed.

The 63-year-old skilled athlete — who has twice been inducted into the World Wrestling Leisure (WWE) Corridor of Fame — and spouse Tamara Nash welcomed Tristen in June 1996 and gushed about parenthood earlier than his premature demise.

“My motive for dwelling,” Kevin, who married Tamara in 1988, captioned an April Instagram photograph of his solely little one.

Whereas balancing his profession as a WWE persona forward of his 2020 retirement, the Canine actor made positive that caring for Tristen and Tamara remained his high precedence.

“I had a spouse who was due. I used to be dwelling year-to-year on whether or not I received a payday at [WrestleMania]. I didn’t know what I used to be going to make, and I’m driving a used Mercedes,” Kevin instructed Sports activities Illustrated in November 2016 about his 1996 contract extension to stay at WWE. “Then, unexpectedly, I’m going to get a minimal of $850,000 from WCW, and it was for 180 days, which was significantly extra days off than Vince [McMahon] at over 300.”

He recalled on the time: “I used to be coming from a world the place I’d sit within the automotive and watch guys come again from the telephone sales space after making a gather name dwelling and say, ‘My child walked at present.’ Then we’d drive off to Binghamton, New York, or wherever else. I didn’t need that to be my life. Should you’re on this enterprise, you’re already on the highway far more than try to be. Nearly all of our time was Waffle Homes and getting misplaced with no GPS. You had a map.”

Earlier this 12 months, the father-son pair began their “Kliq This” podcast alongside Sean Olivier.

“I met an ideal younger man this 12 months named Tristen. He labored with me and his dad on a podcast we’ve, and proved to be sensible, candy, savvy, witty, and mature past his mere handful of years,” Olivier tweeted on Thursday, mourning the late musician. “There have been large issues coming for him, however it was to not be. The unfairness of our brief time on earth rears [its] ugly head once more & we’re rendered speechless.”

He concluded: “To steal a coronary heart so pure, filled with potential, is cruelty past understanding. Gained’t attempt. I’ve his final textual content to me: ‘Love you man.’ I learn it 50 occasions in 2 days &, T, I’m gonna learn it much more.”

Whereas neither Kevin nor Tamara have additional spoken out in regards to the lack of their son, the wrestling group has supplied their condolences.

“My ideas are with Kevin Nash & his household following the passing of his son. It’s completely tragic,” Matt Hardy wrote through Twitter after studying of Tristen’s demise.

Professional wrestling coach Danny Cage, for his half, tweeted: “Ideas exit to Kevin Nash & his household. No father ought to must bury their son. Heartbreaking.”