Kevin Nash Says Undertaker’s Curtain Call Remarks Rooted In Jealousy

Kevin Nash has pushed back on The Undertaker’s recent comments about the infamous 1996 “Curtain Call,” characterizing the WWE Hall of Famer’s take on the incident as jealousy.

The exchange stems from Undertaker’s own Six Feet Under podcast, where he shared his perspective on the moment that has become one of the most talked-about backstage stories in wrestling history. The Curtain Call took place in May 1996 at Madison Square Garden, when Paul “Triple H” Levesque, Shawn Michaels, Nash and Scott Hall broke character at the end of a house show to embrace and celebrate in the ring together — a rare, unscripted display of real-life friendship among four performers who were not supposed to acknowledge any bond outside of kayfabe. Hall and Nash were departing WWE for WCW at the time, making the moment feel like a goodbye as much as a celebration.

The gesture was seen by management as a breach of the era’s strict kayfabe standards, and it reportedly led to real consequences backstage, including friction over how the group — soon to be dubbed “The Kliq” — was perceived by others on the roster. Nearly three decades later, the Curtain Call remains a touchstone in conversations about the politics and camaraderie of the Attitude Era locker room, and it’s a subject that still generates strong opinions from the wrestlers who lived through it.

Undertaker weighing in on the topic on his own podcast was always going to draw a response, given his standing as one of the most respected voices from that period and someone who has spoken candidly in the past about locker room culture and the unwritten rules he helped enforce. Nash, never shy about sharing his opinion on wrestling history, apparently felt Undertaker’s framing of the moment said more about envy than about any real breach of etiquette.

It’s a familiar dynamic for anyone who has followed the decades-long, often good-natured back-and-forth between members of that generation. The Kliq — Nash, Hall, Michaels, Triple H and eventually X-Pac — have been dissecting and re-litigating the politics of their era for years across podcasts, documentaries and shoot interviews, and the Curtain Call keeps resurfacing as a flashpoint because it symbolizes the larger tension between old-school kayfabe values and the more relaxed, real-life friendships that would come to define backstage culture in the years that followed.

Whether Undertaker or Nash address the disagreement further remains to be seen, but given how frequently both men use their podcasts to revisit wrestling’s past, it wouldn’t be surprising if this particular chapter gets another chapter of its own before long.