Nexus was the biggest botch in WWE history

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John Cena should have put em over clean, no fuckery. Especially since the dude took everything under the son and made them look like jobbers. Wade Barrett was gonna be a made man, and Nexus guys all could have been established as elite level lackeys and could have dominated the midcard. Let's not forget they fired Danielson who ended up being fired, came back and didn't join them. Which just made him wallow in relative obscurity for a bit. That was the last time I remember WWE really heating up. The CM Punk angle was pretty good too... But it was just one guy. They could have gotten an entire faction over. That shit doesn't happen in todays wrestling world.
 
Barrett was the only decent guy in the group. the rest were jobbers: young, gabriel, tarver (lol), ryback, slater. They wouldn’t have done jack together and didn’t do jack alone.
 
Wyatt Family was a bigger missed opportunity imo. You could even make an argument that they dropped the ball more with them as singles than as a group.
 
Good Ole Stannis's BBQ said:
Wyatt Family was a bigger missed opportunity imo. You could even make an argument that they dropped the ball more with them as singles than as a group.
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They could of push them big time and made Wyatt a big heel holding that title for years. As the ratings for WWE continue to slide, I hope other wrestling companies (AEW) take advantage of this time to make wrestling great again.
 
Pretty sure Owen Hart plunging to his death was a bigger botch.
 
deezy said:
Pretty sure Owen Hart plunging to his death was a bigger botch.
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yeah when i first read this i thought maybe it was offensive but no you're 100 percent right i think the word botch has been misused for this thread
 
Can't blame Cena. They were dead a week after their awesome debut when the entire group was filmed running backstage from...Santino (and Santino only).
 
BADBOYKILLA said:
yeah when i first read this i thought maybe it was offensive but no you're 100 percent right i think the word botch has been misused for this thread
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Probably wasn't a botch though. Austin got revenge for Owen breaking his neck.
 
As far as botched go, you are going into some tough territory and I think the Invasion wins hands down.
 
deezy said:
Pretty sure Owen Hart plunging to his death was a bigger botch.
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Not the biggest botch but talk about burying one of the biggest and most over groups in the last decade. The Wyatt Family is up there as well, especially as individuals. Bray Wyatt had so much freaking potential and IF 'Taker/WWE was all about business, putting Wyatt over would've been far better for "business" than Lesnar who was already over and didn't really need the win. Losing to Taker didn't kill Wyatt but the booking following that certainly did and off with Wyatt and the Wyatt Family. Wyatt was the first guy since Mankind that had that eerie, psychotic persona that intrigued me and I definitely felt like he was going to be a star and had the makings of a star.

Also, Summer of Punk was as big a fuck up as anything the WWE has done in years. Instead of capitalizing on Punk, they put him in a shitty feud against Nash and HHH and killed whatever momentum that was built up.
 
warriorscommando said:
As far as botched go, you are going into some tough territory and I think the Invasion wins hands down.
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No question. Burying the ECW faction by pairing them with WCW-Light was only one terrible decision.
 
GSPSAKU said:
Not the biggest botch but talk about burying one of the biggest and most over groups in the last decade. The Wyatt Family is up there as well, especially as individuals. Bray Wyatt had so much freaking potential and IF 'Taker/WWE was all about business, putting Wyatt over would've been far better for "business" than Lesnar who was already over and didn't really need the win. Losing to Taker didn't kill Wyatt but the booking following that certainly did and off with Wyatt and the Wyatt Family. Wyatt was the first guy since Mankind that had that eerie, psychotic persona that intrigued me and I definitely felt like he was going to be a star and had the makings of a star.

Also, Summer of Punk was as big a fuck up as anything the WWE has done in years. Instead of capitalizing on Punk, they put him in a shitty feud against Nash and HHH and killed whatever momentum that was built up.
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Switching Bray from insane cult leader to supernatural Undertaker-(not so)Lite killed all momentum.
 
Batjester said:
Switching Bray from insane cult leader to supernatural Undertaker-(not so)Lite killed all momentum.
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That and not having a good match that didn't involve him having steps thrown at his head by Cena did him no favours either.
 
Even as a kid I knew the Invasion was trash and going to fail, it was so bad the storylines within failed from some of the biggest names being brought over. Best example is DDP/Taker stalker storyline.
 
To me, it's one the best examples of the WWE going out of it's way to bury anything that organically gets over.

I think Daniel Bryan tops it though. Just in the sheer amount of ways they tried to bury him. They just couldn't get the job done because he was way too popular. I still question their findings on his concussions that ultimately did him in during his peak as Champion.
 
HereticBD said:
To me, it's one the best examples of the WWE going out of it's way to bury anything that organically gets over.

I think Daniel Bryan tops it though. Just in the sheer amount of ways they tried to bury him. They just couldn't get the job done because he was way too popular. I still question their findings on his concussions that ultimately did him in during his peak as Champion.
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Except it was a neck injury that got him at his peak as champion.....it was concussions that did him in the following year.

But at least you looked into it
 
deezy said:
Except it was a neck injury that got him at his peak as champion.....it was concussions that did him in the following year.

But at least you looked into it
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Meh, whatever. My point still stands. I don't even like the little shit bird, but dude got railroaded and fought uphill at a time when his popularity was at it's peak, for no reason at all. I also still question his career ending "you could die with the slightest bump to the head" diagnosis that miraculously went away and allowed him to jump head first off of ladders again.
 
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