Wade Barrett thinks WWE not mentioning his history with the Nexus during his in-ring run was (and still is) “stupid.”
The WWE commentator led the infamous faction after winning the first series of NXT in 2010. The group caused havoc in the WWE, destroying the ring and attacking wrestlers during an exciting time. However, once the group lost to John Cena and split, Wade Barrett’s history as leader was rarely mentioned. This is a fact that he thinks is stupid, as he shared with AceOdds.com.
“I think Triple H is really good at tying up loose ends too.” Wade Barrett said. “I think in the past, there were times when storylines would seemingly end halfway through and never be mentioned again, Triple H is really good with the continuity aspect of it.”
“I think he has a real respect for the need to tie up loose ends and call back things that maybe happened a year ago that everyone forgot about. Oh no, we’re bringing that back now. Whereas in the past we would act like certain things have never happened. We would ignore them. After Nexus ended in 2010, I don’t think Nexus was mentioned on WWE TV for probably seven or eight years. It was never brought up.”
I was the guy who was maintaining all these premium live events in the second half of 2010, destroyed the company, yet even in my matches in 2012 2013 2014, the fact that this guy was the leader of Nexus and how WWE to ransom for this long was never once brought up because it wasn’t supposed to be mentioned. We had to forget about that which to me at the time I thought was stupid. To this day I think it’s stupid.”
Wade Barrett doesn’t blame John Cena for beating The Nexus
SummerSlam 2010 featured the big showdown between the Nexus and a WWE team led by John Cena. Despite impressing early on, The Nexus fumbled a 3-1 lead and Cena won the match for his team. This is largely considered a poor booking move by Vince McMahon by many people. However, Wade Barrett doesn’t blame Cena for going through with it.
Barrett told AceOdds that while he does not think the match should have ended in the way it did, it probably wasn’t Cena’s fault. Barrett doesn’t know how much input Cena had on the result, but instead argued that the WWE didn’t want to build any new stars.
“The Nexus SummerSlam match in 2010 should not have ended the way it did. And I don’t think you will find a single person of note in the wrestling industry who will agree with how that match ended, which is where John Cena beat the Nexus at our first real test,” Barrett said. “How much of that was down to John Cena, I don’t know. I think the problem we had at the time in WWE was that management had a philosophy that we’re going to make one, two, maybe three stars and everybody else on the roster is essentially cannon fodder for these top names.”
