PHOTOS: Kevin Nash posts picture of brutally deformed knee that forced him to retire from wrestling

Kevin Nash has finally posted deformed pictures that forced him into retirement from pro wrestling earlier than anticipated. Nash is one of the most important superstars in the history of professional wrestling for a variety of reasons.

WWE Hall of Famer Kevin Nash is one of the most dominant WWE Superstars to set foot in the squared circle. Nash, who gained most of his notoriety as Diesel, is a former WCW and WWE World Champion who helped revolutionize the wrestling business back in 1996.

But his move to WCW in 1996 with Scott Hall changed the industry forever because of their guaranteed contracts. Now, stars are paid totally different to how they were decades ago.

Nash, now 61, retired from being an in-ring competitor in 2011 and he has now revealed why he absolutely had to.

He had a knee replacement and stem cell therapy having ‘destroyed’ his right knee in 1986 and now claims he is in the best physical shape, adding he ‘worked 29 years on one leg.’

“The reason I retired was I was deformed and basically crippled,” he tweeted along with a picture.

“This knee replacement and two years of rehab and training has been brutal. Just get my hips to re-align was incredibly painful. To the haters, f**k off. To those that have championed my recovery I send my thanks and love.”

Nash was a founding member of the NWO, one of the most influential stables in the history of wrestling.
He was also a multiple-time world champion in both WWE and WCW as well as a prominent figure in TNA for a while.

Kevin Nash has wrestled under various ring names, but is most notably known by his real name in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), and in the World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE, where he has also been billed as Diesel.

Kevin Nash was arguably the most popular member of the nWo and later went on to form his own faction known as The Wolfpac.

The New World Order NWO

In 2002, Nash returned to World Wrestling Entertainment alongside good friend Scott Hall and “Hollywood” Hulk Hogan. In 2003, Nash was featured in a very good feud against Triple-H. The two battled in a great series of matches that summer, culminating in a Hell in the Cell match.

Nash was one of the main superstars that helped WCW defeat WWE in the ratings for 83 weeks once upon a time.

However, speaking to talkSPORT last summer, Nash said he believes AEW has a long way to go before they are real rivals of WWE.

“Of course it’s on their radar,” he said.

“But if you’ve ever been around that megalopolis of a business – when you’ve got someone like Triple H running at 100 miles per hour all day, every day – they’ve got a big, wonderful publicly-traded enterprise they’ve got to run and take care of every day, they can’t put too much time thinking about competition.”