10 Times Great Wrestling Was Ruined By Bad Writing
2. Team WWE Vs. The Nexus (WWE SummerSlam 2010)
Of all the burials on John Cena’s resumé, what he did to The Nexus might just be the worst.
The Nexus literally tore WWE apart in their debut. Interrupting a match between Cena and CM Punk, they beat the tar out of everyone at ringside (staff included), trashed everything they could lay their hands on, and even started deconstructing the ring. It remains one of the most memorable debuts in WWE history. They soon went on an unbelievable tear through the WWE roster.
Cena was a frequent target, and the group cost him the WWE Championship on a number of occasions. Fed up, Cena recruited a team of wrestlers who’d also been wronged by The Nexus to take them on in a 7-on-7 elimination match at SummerSlam 2010. What followed was the spectacular destruction of a white-hot angle.
Super Cena single-handedly pinned Justin Gabriel then Wade Barrett in the closing stretch, and The Nexus’ heat was effectively dead. Cena systematically destroyed them, and the angle nosed-dived thereafter, with Cena putting the final nail in Barrett’s coffin by defeating him at Bragging Rights that October. In having Cena eviscerate The Nexus, WWE ruined what could have been one of the most memorable angles in wrestling history. A shockingly self-destructive piece of writing.