When did the Nexus angle jump the shark?

[casualobserver]

Last night's PPV with Cena winning in decisive fashion appears to signal the end or beginning of the end to the Nexus angle. What would you consider the turning point of the able where it all started to go downhill? I chose a handful of key moments, but feel free to write in any I may have missed.

[FinalGwen]

It's a close one between Summerslam and Cena no-selling being fired. The former kind of halted their momentum, but the recent Cena stuff has stopped it dead.

[hossfan]

I don't know if it jumped the shark, but the angle certainly suffered by having Cena come back the very next week and start his Roaring Rampage of Revenge.

[Ryback on a Pole!]

Cena is fired.

Nexus should have won at Summerslam but they did rebound okay from that.

Since Cena got fired and the WWE have all but ignored it, the angle has rapidly gone pear shaped. I knew the WWE would eventually cock thing sup eventually. Cocking up good angles with bad booking seems to be a speciality of the WWE.

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Dec 20, 2010 11:03:55 GMT -5 hossfan said:

I don't know if it jumped the shark, but the angle certainly suffered by having Cena come back the very next week and start his Roaring Rampage of Revenge.

Cena came back later the same night, haha. It was silly.

[Rocket N. Nine]

Honestly, I think the Nexus still has some life left in it. I think they have to move on from Cena. Maybe they could move in on Orton, since Miz'll be focused on JoMo.

[hossfan]

Dec 20, 2010 11:23:00 GMT -5 @daleboyv1 said:

Dec 20, 2010 11:03:55 GMT -5 hossfan said:

I don't know if it jumped the shark, but the angle certainly suffered by having Cena come back the very next week and start his Roaring Rampage of Revenge.

Cena came back later the same night, haha. It was silly.

That one I can accept since it could be explained as Cena's parting shot to Nexus before he goes away.

['Smart' Mark Poindexter]

The Cena fired angle I mean jeesh..if he'd waited a couple of months..or at least a couple of weeks and come back to save the WWE Universe form a Nexus dominated Raw it could have been huge. Instead they wasted it and Nexus's momentum stalled and fizzled.

[bob]

I still think they should've won at Summer Slam but Cena no selling being fired nd coming back so soon was beyond stupid

what should've happened is that Cena wins the Rumble as a mystery entry and faces Barrett at WM for the title, of course this makes too much sense for WWE to do it

[randomranter]

I don't know if I can pinpoint it. It started as (1)Nexus vs. WWE, then turned into (2)Wade and his lackeys vs. WWE, then turned into (3)Wade and his lackeys that no longer matter vs. Cena, then turned into (4)Wade and his lackeys that no longer matter being bitchslapped by Cena.

I'd say it jumped somewhere between (2) and (3). Now that it's officially a 7 on 1 feud where the 1 is dominating, I'd say it's officially jumped the shark, fell off the waterski, landed in the ocean, and drowned.

[Kevin Hamilton]

Summerslam certainly didn't do 'em any favors, but then the Cena forced to join/being fired story was very interesting, till they shot it to hell immediately the next night. That was the end of my interest.

[Lardlad]

My Dad hadn't watched wrestling since the Rock left years ago. When Nexus came out this summer and destroyed the ring and the set, I had him watch the replay the following day and since then he's been hooked into watching RAW every week again.

Sidenote: I tried to get him to watch Smackdown as well, which he did, until the Kaaaaaaaane Kaaaaaaaane stuff.

Move forward to the Nexus/Cena fired/Cena still on RAW every week crap, and my Dad stopped watching RAW again. It's a shame, but I'm voting "Cena is fired, yet continues to show up on Raw" for that reason.

[Celgress]

Cena is fired, yet continues to show up on Raw, I know that pretty much killed any further interest in the angle from me. Though Nexus losing at Summerslam really took a lot of zing off the group's fast ball, and was the first major downturn in the storyline imo.

[crimsonwolf]

Cena no-selling being fired, for several reasons. As already stated, this turned it from a WWE Universe vs Nexus to Cena vs Nexus, the writing has become completely inconsistent over whether Otunga and the rest of Nexus are loyal to Barrett, and it made the "Cena joins Nexus" storyline completely irrelevant since Cena could've just quit early on and attack Nexus.

[Hammer Smashed Ball]

Let me first say that I‘m not posting this in order to have a different opinion than everyone else, but if you ask me, I feel that the loss of Young, Sheffield and Tarver really hurt the credibility of the group. Although Young wasn‘t a very intimidating wrestler, Sheffield and Tarver were big, frightening men (I hear Tarver EATS BABIES!). I feel like Huskie and Mike were a poor man‘s version of the previously mentioned dudes.

Also, the dismissal of those three wrestlers expressed the loose bond between the group. It made them look very weak when it was exposed that they weren‘t tight. You gotta have unity to have success.

[rnrk supports BLM]

When they took seven boring, generic jabronis in trunks from the FCW clone factory and pushed them as this nWo-like super heel faction.

God, that was so stupid.

[Rave]

Cena no-selling being fired. The one night after the PPV I could accept, he was specifically invited there and got in a last parting shot at the end. But showing up every week after that with nothing done about it? No. Not even Austin back in the day no-sold a firing that much. Cena giving "Oh they don't like you since you beat them up" as a reason security doesn't drag him out of the building doesn't hold up either, since it's a different set of security every week.

WWE has obviously never heard of the saying "Absence makes the heart grow fonder". The kids would've been OK not seeing Cena for a couple weeks. They've got Orton to cheer and merch would've still sold, plus holding off on him 'til a big show (I would've aimed for the Rumble) would've helped pop the buyrate.

[nate5054]

At first Nexus had this odd idea that they were a group that was greater than the sum of its parts. Then Nexus, almost predictably, because Wade and his underlings with Otunga trying to make Nexus Otunga and his underlings. Once that uniqueness of a heel group that actually functioned as a well oiled machine who didn't have egos went away, so did the group.

[Indifference Abounds]

Dec 20, 2010 15:25:47 GMT -5 nate5054 said:

At first Nexus had this odd idea that they were a group that was greater than the sum of its parts. Then Nexus, almost predictably, because Wade and his underlings with Otunga trying to make Nexus Otunga and his underlings. Once that uniqueness of a heel group that actually functioned as a well oiled machine who didn't have egos went away, so did the group.

I agree completely.

I think the Nexus, as a group, was damaged irreparably by their loss at Summerslam. One of their points going into that match was that they were all "on the same page", while the WWE's team would collapse under the weight of their own egos, yet the WWE team still won despite all its infighting. That killed the group's credibility as a whole for the simple fact that it told us that they could never actually "take over" Raw.

It didn't help that the angle moved on to Nexus having lots of internal strife and Cena being the most valued, and effective, member of the stable.

[i.Sarita.com]

When they basically realized that they had no "bigger picture".