10 Failed WWE Pushes One Tweak Away From Excellence
3. The Nexus
Why it failed: The story never ever changes with this lot. A strong start derailed by months of lousy booking culminating in them losing when it mattered the most.
The Nexus losing to Team WWE at SummerSlam wasn't the end of the line for the group, and approaching this with reality it was always likely Vince McMahon and his golden goose weren't going to let them have the keys to the kingdom so quickly. But there was more for them beyond losing one big match.
One Tweak: Not to steal a line from The OC in their original 2016 guise, but BEAT UP JOHN CENA!
It worked so spectacularly well the first time it's a wonder WWE didn't revisit the concept over and over again until the lads in the N-shirts were all made men for the rest of their tenures. Decimating 'The Champ' following a clandestine edition of the flagship, all of the goofs from the jumped-up talent show looked ready to take the world on as they tore WWE's stoic universe to pieces.
Beyond that, they were just warm bodies waiting to have their attitudes adjusted in a multitude of different demeaning ways.