10 Biggest WWE Summerslam Controversies

6. Cena Refuses To Sell ForThe Nexus

The decision made by WWE to have The Nexus be beaten in an Elimination match by John Cena (the sole survivor of his team) has been rightfully viewed as one of the most bone-headed in the past decade.

The Nexus storyline was white-hot before SummerSlam 2010. The band of NXT rookies had invaded the company and were tearing it down with aplomb. On their first night they decimated John Cena, the ringside area, even the ring itself. Their first major PPV match was set for SummerSlam. And they lost.

A lot of people have attributed that booking decision to John Cena refusing to lie down for The Nexus, causing a minor IWCcontroversy storm, but that's likely untrue. What istrue is that John Cena re-booked the finish of the match.

What happened was this: John Cena was the last member of his team left standing, facing Justin Gabriel and Wade Barrett of The Nexus. The two villains took him outside the ring and DDT'd Cena on the concrete floor. Not the ringside padding, the exposed floor. That should be enough to devastate an opponent. When the DDT was first introduced by Jake Roberts it was seen as one of the most bestfinishers of all time, and that was when it was hit in the ring. Cena took a DDT onto concrete and within minutes had won the match. That is terrible.

Edge and Chris Jericho stoked the internet's fire even more by claiming that they took Cena to one side before the match and told him the finish was a terrible idea, but he overruled them.Cena has since admitted that it was the wrong call and he should have bowed to their wisdom.