The initial debut came as a shock to those watching and to many involved — including the members of Nexus themselves, who were not made aware of plans for their debut until the day it happened.
“We didn’t know anything about Nexus until the night [we] debuted,” Tarver said. “We were pulled into an office and we were told everything. We were just all blown away … By the end of that night, the world was on fire.”
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To this day, many wrestling fans feel that the Nexus storyline was poorly handled, specifically regarding their 2010 SummeSlam main event — which saw the remaining seven members controversially lose to a team consisting of Danielson (re-hired and turned babyface), Cena, Edge, and Bret Hart, among others. Tarver co-signs this viewpoint, believing the stable’s run of dominance should have continued much longer.
“As it progressed, it’s like it moved so fast and blew up so fast they didn’t know what to do with it,” Tarver said. “There’s no reason why the original seven shouldn’t have dominated all the way to WrestleMania.”
Instead, The Nexus was already spitting up by the end of 2010, and even the ensuing spin-off groups (including The New Nexus and The Corre) didn’t make it past 2011. Every original member of The Nexus has since been released from WWE, including Tarver — though former Nexus leader Wade Barrett returned to the company in 2020 as a color commentator, currently contributing to the “WWE Smackdown” brand.
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