What's your headcanon?

[Rican]

Alberto Del Rio accumulated his wealth by his ties to drug cartels. Ricardo was in servitude to Del Rio for so long as a means to pay off his debts.

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I've got another one:

Wade Barrett's "Bigger Picture" was convincing Nexus to help him win both the WWE and WHC titles. With both titles and his own personal army, it'd be much easier to hold the company hostage to give in to their demands.

John Cena joining the Nexus should've worked much better seeing he's the face of the company and is under Nexus control, but David Otunga is a petty, petty bastard...

Otunga was trying to usurp Nexus from the beginning because he thought the pie-in-the-sky "Bigger Picture" was something Wade thought up to keep them in line and help his own career he figured Wade was going to screw them over the first chance he got, considering that's something Otunga himself would do. Otunga had the least to gain from Wade's plans anyway, seeing as how he's not hurting for money or success. So he tried to sabotage Wade, hoping to get the group to question his leadership and deliberately pissing off John Cena so he'd be less likely to help Wade and more likely to turn on everyone in the group, bolstering his argument on how shitty of a leader Wade is.

All because Otunga believes that with his status, he should've easily won NXT and be the leader of Nexus. Not Wade.

Otunga played ball with CM Punk, knowing that while CM Punk is charismatic (and he'd get the cred just by association), he's also a tattooed, Pepsi-drinking nutbar who eventually drives everyone away. Before Otunga could enact his plans of usurping him by "proving" to be more realistic than either the Waffle House cook or Wade Barrett...Otunga underestimated Punk's abilities to not only draw people to his side, but to get the group so dependent on his leadership they'd crumble without it.

Yep, like a drug dependency.

[mrjl]

As much as John Cena likes making little kids happy and doing charity work for WWE his favorite part of working for WWE is being able to piss off people who don't like him(what the hell are rap battles about but that?) which is why he will never change his character as long as people are booing him.

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Brock Lesnar's Head Cannon:

["Magic" Mark Hurr]

CM Punk never came back from Night of Champions when he beat John Cena and took the title. The CM Punk we have now is an imposter that they use with Paul Heyman being in charge of all of his character's decisions. That's why he is somewhat oblivious to the current angle with Bryan/Orton/Show/HHH.

[Chip]

Punk was a villain throughout most of the Summer of Punk. Almost every action Punk made, hell almost everything that happened in that angle makes more sense when you look at it as Punk being the villain of the storyline. He taunts and verbally attacks the face and champion of the company and the companies creator and his family. He confronts and taunts the new COO of the company at a PR appearance, f*** he taunts Hunter multiple times and even taunts his wife, makes ludicrous demands for his new contract, runs away with the WWE title and returns with it just as WWE had fixed the problem he had caused only to create a bigger wound.

The whole deal with Nash and Hunter can be attributed to this as well, Nash "stuck the winner" because he was tired of seeing Punk taunt his friend. Hunter had plenty of opportunities to screw Punk out of the title when he reffed the match but didn't, he chose to be the bigger man. Punk then went on to blame Nash's interference on Hunter. The reason Hunter beat Punk in a match we keep looking back on and ridiculing Hunter for is because based on the storyline, Hunter was the face, Punk was the heel. Hunter won after being ridiculed and villainised by Punk for months to prove he was innocent of everything Punk claimed he was guilty of.

Many people say that not long after this all happened Punk's "face" run started to suck and Punk as a character changed into something they didn't enjoy. Why? He was actually being written as a face at that point, rather then the heel he was previously.

[BorneAgain]

Clownshoes, AKA John Laurinatis was behind virtually everything for a good year and a half.

February 2010: The NXT Project is started by Laurinatis, set up as a potential pool for eager talent that could be used as potential pawns. Batista is set up as a WWE champion that will cooperate with corporate as the company wants a tighter grip on the shows.

May 2010: Bret Hart is introduced as the Raw GM, a friendly figure intended to please talent. This is a mere red herring. Hart is not intended to last longer than two months. With Batista too injured to be of any use, Laurinatis up allows Hart of fire him. Fearing that the Undertaker might get wind of what's going on, Kane is tricked into attacking him, so deluded he later believes it was his idea.

June 2010: Laurinatis gets in contact with Barrett, promising great things if leads an NXT invasion. Wade never knows precisely who he's talking to. This is mere cover and distraction to get Vince convinced to assign an anonymous GM to run Raw smoothly. The Nexus are assisted in taking out Hart, and Vince himself is taken out by Nexus by the order of Laurinatis to prevent possible interference in these crucial months. The former Johnny Ace is now in direct control as the GM, with no one, not even Barrett or McMahon knowing.

Summer 2010: With Miz's victory in MITB, Michael Cole is covertly ordered to praise him on commentary, as the former is now considered the ideal corporate replacement for Batista. Barrett, suspicious of who's he talking to, begins referring to a bigger picture, hinting that he might reveal what's going on.

September 2010: Edge and Jericho begin to question about the Raw GM. Jericho is booked against Randy Orton, knowing the latter will likely punt him and put him out of action. Alex Riley is picked from the NXT project and allowed to assist Miz on his way to the WWE championship. Alberto Del Rio arrives and is pegged as a potential corporate champion for SD.

October 2010: Edge is traded to SD to put an end to his GM complaints. In attempt to quiet Barrett and his suspicions, he is given McGillicutty and Harris as flunkies. Displeased with Kane's inabilty to completely take out Taker, Nexus is ordered by Laurinatis up to assist him soon. The NXT project is moved to low priority. CM Punk is drafted to Raw as a potential back up plan for future plans.

November 2010: Fed up with Barrett's ego trip, and unhappy with Cena's firing, the GM allows the latter to freely show up on Raw to attack Nexus. Miz becomes champion and is allowed a wide range of dubious behavior as corporate's choice.

December 2010: With no major figures left to question the GM, and a distraction no longer necessary the Nexus plan moves to its concluding stage, with Cena brought back. His efforts weaken the group, and as predicted, CM Punk takes over the stable. In exchange for no more words on "the bigger picture" Barrett is allowed to move to SD and form the Corre.

Winter 2011: After snooping around and asking the wrong questions, Teddy Long is temporarily removed from power as a warning to him and to test Dolph Ziggler as a potential corporate champion. Ziggler's repeated failures reaffirm Laurinatis' commitment to Del Rio. Alberto himself is given a late number and easily wins the Rumble as planned. Vince McMahon returns, but with both shows seemingly running smoothly finds nothing out of the ordinary.

Spring 2011: With his failure at Wrestlemania, Del Rio is shifted to Raw as a backup corporate champion in case of a possible title loss by Miz, with Christian now considered an acceptable replacement on SD. He is allowed repeated title shots after his loss on the higher up's orders. R-Truth's rants about conspiracies are ignored at the moment. The Rock is brought back, believing his presence will occupy Cena's mind from any possible interference with Laurinatis.

July 2011: CM Punk's outspoken comments throw in the company in disarray. Vince McMahon takes an active role, and Laurinatis loses his direct power as GM. Following Punk's departure and return with the belt and HHH's being assigned as COO, John realizes that the only way to get direct power back is to remove HHH. Del Rio wins MITB and reaffirms Laurinatis' faith in him.

August 2011: Punk is brought back via HHH's orders and a unification match is set for Summerslam. Laurinatis hires Nash to interfere afterwards to allow Del Rio to use MITB and to distract HHH after the PPV. Punk and HHH get into a bitter back and forth in the next few months while a few dodgy booking and ref decisions convince Miz and Truth there's a conspiracy against them.

Fall 2011: Awesome Truth are fired by HHH, but secretly allowed back into the building at several live events due to Laurinatis. Del Rio loses the title, but regains it at HIAC, though he's on thin ice in terms of Laurinatis' trust in his abilities. The Awesome Truth attacks lead to the walkout and HHH is subsequently removed from power with Laurinatis officially made interim GM of Raw. Del Rio's title loss and failure to recapture the belt at TLC convinces John that he's no longer viable as a corporate champion and begins looking towards Dolph Ziggler and certain frontman of Fozzy to potentially take the belt off Punk.

[CATCH_US IS the Conversation]

Miz and Maryse were an on screen couple, but had an open relationship. Miz was perfectly okay with Maryse fooling around with Ted DiBiase and Lucky Cannon aka Da Lish aka Mr Steal Ya Girl. Likewise Maryse was fine with Miz "experimenting" by trying to get the then twinkalicious Daniel Bryan to fall in line and eventually hooking up with the hunky jock Alex Riley because she likes that kind of stuff the same way that guys drool over lesbians.

[Reflecto]

More headcanon:

AJ doesn't "really" hate the Total Divas' roster, and never had.

The reason for this: Daniel Bryan left AJ for Brie Bella in kayfabe, and Bryan leaving AJ was the catalyst that made AJ snap- and it got worse and worse, and when John Cena left AJ for Nikki Bella in kayfabe, that sent AJ off the deep end for good.

AJ is going after the Total Divas' now, because what AJ REALLY wants is to destroy the Bella Twins as revenge for each stealing one of her ex-boyfriends- but she knew that if she came out and "said" she was going to destroy the Bella Twins for revenge, the other Divas wouldn't take her side. By claiming she hates the Total Divas and wants them out of the business, she can get the other non-Total Divas to take her side and go after the others, allowing AJ to try to kill the Bellas for stealing her man/men with no one noticing what she wanted.

Smaller headcanon that isn't worth a thread:

Wade Barrett never forgot that he won his own theme song in an NXT contest. Every so often, when he gets bored with his theme song, he goes to the music department and reminds them he won the contest so they'll let him have a new theme. The music department, since it is Wade Barrett, merely forget he asked for it before and get to work making a new one.

[stealthamo]

Everything from Wrestlemania 20 on has all taken place in the mind of Eugene. He's really just playing with a WWE snowglobe backstage while William Regal is in the background, shaking his head.

[ERON]

The name change from WWF to WWE was done to symbolize the merger of WWF, WCW, and ECW:

WWF
WCW
ECW

Also, the World Heavyweight Championship is the old WCW championship in my headcanon.

[Heartbreaker]

Last year CM Punk used AJ Lee as a fling before dumping her for Paul Heyman. After he lost to the Undertaker at Wrestlemania, the next night Punk had enough and left the WWE for a few months and his relationship with Heyman got strained. After he returned at Payback, Punk dumped Heyman and wanted to be "just friends". Heyman did not like this and got his ex Brock Lesnar to kick Punk's ass. Soon Lesnar disappeared but Heyman still wanted to get revenge on Punk so he hooked up with Ryback.

Curtis Axel may or may not be Paul's adopted son.

[thegame415]

Oct 13, 2013 16:11:27 GMT -5 Rican said:

Triple H was behind The Nexus. NXT was his idea initially and behind the scenes he was manipulating events so that The Nexus would be formed. The "bigger picture" was to take out all WWE main eventers and hurt the WWE's bottom line so that the board of directors would force Vince out and put HHH in charge. This is why initially they were obsessed with Cena. Wade Barret knows about all of this because Hunter was in communication with him and giving him instructions, but has never said anything because Triple H has some dirt on him or something. (Haven't really figured that part out.)

I guess that explains the nut shot from a few months ago.

Mine:

Bray Wyatt is a split-personality of Husky Harris. After being punted by Randy Orton in early 2011, Harris went crazy and developed the personality from head trauma.

[Old Jack Burton]

Mean Mark Callous/Punisher Dice Morgan was the Undertaker before he "died" during some heretofore unknown confrontation between himself, Paul Bearer, Kane, and the rest of his family. Some unknown power resurrected him into The Undertaker, and for a time he was a slave of Paul Bearer's because he had not yet come into his full power as the Lord of Darkness.

Undertaker's ministry is alive and well, and the druids you occasionally see are members of the roster past, present, and future who swear allegiance to him.

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Oct 14, 2013 15:06:34 GMT -5 @keijikage said:

I've got another one:

Wade Barrett's "Bigger Picture" was convincing Nexus to help him win both the WWE and WHC titles. With both titles and his own personal army, it'd be much easier to hold the company hostage to give in to their demands.

John Cena joining the Nexus should've worked much better seeing he's the face of the company and is under Nexus control, but David Otunga is a petty, petty bastard...

Otunga was trying to usurp Nexus from the beginning because he thought the pie-in-the-sky "Bigger Picture" was something Wade thought up to keep them in line and help his own career he figured Wade was going to screw them over the first chance he got, considering that's something Otunga himself would do. Otunga had the least to gain from Wade's plans anyway, seeing as how he's not hurting for money or success. So he tried to sabotage Wade, hoping to get the group to question his leadership and deliberately pissing off John Cena so he'd be less likely to help Wade and more likely to turn on everyone in the group, bolstering his argument on how shitty of a leader Wade is.

All because Otunga believes that with his status, he should've easily won NXT and be the leader of Nexus. Not Wade.

Otunga played ball with CM Punk, knowing that while CM Punk is charismatic (and he'd get the cred just by association), he's also a tattooed, Pepsi-drinking nutbar who eventually drives everyone away. Before Otunga could enact his plans of usurping him by "proving" to be more realistic than either the Waffle House cook or Wade Barrett...Otunga underestimated Punk's abilities to not only draw people to his side, but to get the group so dependent on his leadership they'd crumble without it.

Yep, like a drug dependency.

Okay, while there are a lot of great posts in this thread, THIS ONE is awesome. Oh man, if they ever actually explained it like this I'd never complain about Nexus again.