10 WWE Matches That Defined Each Year Of The 2010s

10. 2010 - Team WWE vs The Nexus

SummerSlam 2010 was all about one match - the huge 7-on-7 elimination main event between Team WWE and The Nexus.

The Nexus - led by Wade Barrett - were a group of rookie wrestlers who had burst onto the scene by attacking top stars, particularly John Cena.

Cena was leading the resistance, backed up by the likes of Edge, Chris Jericho, and a 53-year-old Bret Hart. Presumably they didn't want him to feel left out.

All logic pointed towards a Nexus victory. A win on this scale in the main event of the company's second-biggest annual show would launch all seven members into the stratosphere and create a whole host of new stars all in one go. Sadly, this logic didn't take into account one crucial thing - the Super-Cena variable.

The former Doctor of Thuganomics put that degree to good use and came back from a 2-on-1 handicap (and a DDT on the concrete floor) to win the match for his team as its sole survivor. The Nexus' push was dead, and the group never recovered.

This match was the perfect example of WWE sacrificing new, up-and-coming talent to bolster an already established star. Unfortunately, this is a trend that only got worse as the decade went on.