10 Times WWE Wrestlers Went Into Business For Themselves
2. John Cena Halts The Nexus Train
In all reality, the Nexus is looked back on as a footnote in wrestling history; one of many factions that talked the talk but regularly fell short, before its members all went their separate ways.
Without any sense of hyperbole, though, this Wade Barrett-led group was the talk of the wrestling business at one point in time, with a genuinely jaw-dropping debut instantly making the Nexus white-hot.
The rest of the Nexus all had varying levels of upside to them, but with Barrett it seemed as if WWE had a can't-miss main event star on their hands. That is, of course, until John Cena nixed the Nexus.
Having arrived on the scene with a bang in June 2010, Barrett and his cohorts spent the next two months butting heads with - amongst others - Cena ahead of a Team Nexus vs. Team WWE showdown at that year's SummerSlam PPV.
As has been documented in the years since - including by Chris Jericho, Edge and Barrett himself - the plan was for the Nexus to emerge victorious in that seven against seven encounter, with Wade toppling Cena to win the match.
Instead, Big Match John decided that he didn't want to do that, that it wasn't for him, and thus he got the result changed to him taking down both Wade Barrett and Justin Gabriel at the match's finish as he stood tall to close out the show.
In having Vince McMahon agree to change the finish here, Cena took all of the steam away from the once-unstoppable Nexus, and the faction never again managed to recapture anything close to that initial buzz.