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The Nexus, later the New Nexus, was a villainous professional wrestling stable in WWE that competed on the Raw brand from June 7, 2010 to August 22, 2011, originally consisting of eight rookies of NXT season one and shifted their roster several times throughout their 14-month existence, with David Otunga being the only member to serve the group throughout the entirety of its existence.
Following dissension on Cena's team in the next few weeks, Edge and Jericho left the SummerSlam match on the August 2 episode of Raw. They rejoined the following week, however, when The Nexus tried to attack the members of Team WWE and Edge and Jericho. On the same episode, Khali was attacked by The Nexus, removing him from the match at SummerSlam.
The Corre [1] was a short-lived villainous stable in WWE. [2] Formed in 2011, the group was a spinoff of Wade Barrett's former group The Nexus. [2] The stable was formed after Barrett left The Nexus and aligned himself with Heath Slater and Justin Gabriel, both of whom were also Nexus members, while Ezekiel Jackson rounded out the group.
Team WWE (John Cena, Daniel Bryan, Edge, Chris Jericho, Bret Hart, R-Truth and John Morrison) defeated The Nexus (Wade Barrett, Justin Gabriel, Heath Slater, David Otunga, Skip Sheffield, Michael Tarver and Darren Young) in a 7-on-7 Elimination tag team match
On the May 23 episode of Raw, Otunga teamed with fellow Nexus member Michael McGillicutty to win the WWE Tag Team Championship from Kane and The Big Show with the help interference from fellow New Nexus members Mason Ryan and Punk. [37] [38] They made their only successful title defense against The Usos on the July 29 episode of SmackDown. [39]
At SummerSlam, R-Truth was part of Team WWE, defeating The Nexus. [28] On the October 11 episode of Raw, he defeated Ted DiBiase to qualify for Team Raw at Bragging Rights to face Team SmackDown. [29] Team Raw lost the match for the second consecutive time. [30] [31] In December, R-Truth mentored Johnny Curtis in the NXT's fourth season.
Tag team match for the WWE Tag Team Championship [23] 5:11: 9: Randy Orton (c) defeated Wade Barrett by pinfall: Pinfall or Submission only Singles match for the WWE Championship [24] with John Cena as the special guest referee. Since Orton won, Cena was fired. Had Barrett won, Cena would have been free from The Nexus. The Nexus were banned ...
On the October 18 episode of Raw, The Miz completed Team Raw by adding the returning Ezekiel Jackson as the seventh member of Team Raw. [12] [13] The main rivalry from Raw involved the WWE Champion Randy Orton against Nexus leader Wade Barrett in a match for Orton's WWE Championship which included newly inducted Nexus member John Cena in