Nailz

Kevin Wacholz, better known as Nailz, is a reminder that wrestling lives and dies on its villains. His menacing WWF run in 1992, all prison jumpsuit and raw aggression, left a mark far larger than its short duration. Before that, as 'Mr. Magnificent' Kevin Kelly in the AWA, he honed the craft of being hated. At 196 cm he had the size to terrify, but it is the conviction in his heel work that I appreciate. Good guys need a monster to overcome, and Wacholz played that role with a ferocity fans clearly never forgot.

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Name (English)

Nailz

Name (Japanese)

ケビン・ワコーズ

Reading

けびん・わこーず

Born

April 17, 1958 (age 68)

Origin

Bloomington, Minnesota, United States

Height

196 cm

Occupation

professional wrestler

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Dog

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nailz
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B1%E3%83%93%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AF%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11301193

Tags

• Minnesota
• professional wrestler

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.