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Ah, the Nexus. Could have been so much more. They had such an amazing start in the WWE - the John Cena/CM Punk beatdown could've been one of those moments like Hogan turning on WCW at Bash at the Beach - the defining moment.
Their biggest mistake was not making Barrett out to be a contender, but doing the old fashioned "young guy paying his dues" crap, which he's STILL going through. It's fine if they treated everyone else like rookies trying to step into the big time - but at least treat the leader like some kind of a prodigy. Treat him like he's a mastermind or vicious psychopath or at least as an incredible in-ring worker who could actually stand toe to toe with the WWE main eventers. A couple of wins over some main event talent would've positioned him as "a guy."
WCW may have been a total disaster in a lot of ways (well, most ways), but the one thing they did right was push the nWo as a true threat to WCW's top guys. If you watch the BATB match, Hall and Nash pretty much dominate Sting, Luger and Savage without much effort for most of the match. That was a brilliant decision. Having Nexus pick up a clean win over the WWE's top faces on PPV would have made them out to be a huge threat. Yes, it makes the faces look momentarily weak, but it's all about a big payoff later on when they get their win back and vanquish the Nexus. In the end, everyone comes out looking like stars.
Instead, as has been said multiple times in this thread, they ended up just being another victory vehicle for John Cena - a guy who'd already beaten everybody there was to beat, and absolutely did not need the wins - wins that have equated to absolutely nothing in his career.
Oh well. At least they did The Shield correctly.
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