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Kevin Nash is expected at Raw this Monday and will be a regular character going forward on WWE TV. Nash will be doing a program with CM Punk and for those wondering, yes, the plan is for the two to meet in the ring. The idea behind the program was to give Punk a major name to work with that would put him over. Personally, I don't see how working with Nash would get him over more than the John Cena bouts had been doing, but that's just me.

The backstage reaction to the Punk-Nash back and forth Monday was that Punk got the better of Nash and that Nash's comebacks came off too inside and antiquated in comparison. Nash did not receive a big reaction coming out on Raw and the feeling after the taping was that the company needed to do a stronger job of explaining to the current generation of fans who he was. Initially, that was not a concern due to the big pop he received at the Royal Rumble.

WWE instructed Nash to dye his hair black for his appearances, although it may have already been dyed for his recent role in "Rock of Ages" where he plays a bodyguard to the Tom Cruise character "Stacee Jaxx." TNA had tried numerous times to get Nash to dye his hair during his run there but Nash would often convince officials otherwise, something that was a minor frustration among certain people in that company.

Nash, meanwhile, was able to slip a final shot in on TNA during the Raw back and forth with Punk. When Nash stated that Punk looked like a short order cook in a "Pikeville Waffle House", it was a shot at one of TNA's best house show markets, Pikeville, Kentucky. Nash was very verbal during his TNA run that he hated the company's house shows and was never a happy camper when he was booked on them.

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