NEXUS

The Nexus is a heel stable in the professional wrestling promotion World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), that is currently competing on its Raw brand. The Nexus originally consisted of the eight contestants of the first season of NXT, but saw Daniel Bryan leave the group when he was released from WWE, a decision that caused much controversy with fans. Although Bryan would return in SummerSlam 2010, he has since aligned himself with the WWE and not the Nexus. Darren Young was the first member kicked from the group on the August 16 edition of Raw. The leader of the Nexus is the NXT season 1 winner, Wade Barrett.^[2]

Nexus vs. WWE

 On the July 19 edition of Raw the Nexus continued their attacks on the Raw roster by first attacking Edge and then Chris Jericho, after the two longtime rivals attempted to manipulate the group against each other. Later on in the show, Barrett defeated Mark Henry in a singles match. After that, Barrett and The Nexus asked Cena to join them. Cena refused and said that he would take them all down at SummerSlam, and that he had found some help to do it. Cena revealed his team one by one; the members were Edge, John Morrison, R-Truth, The Great Khali, Chris Jericho and Bret Hart.^[13] The next week of RawThe Hart Dynasty, Jerry Lawler, Evan Bourne, Goldust and Yoshi Tatsu) in a 7-on-7 elimination tag team match with a clean sweep. The Nexus later mocked Cena's team, who were arguing amongst themselves, saying that they'd have an easy victory at SummerSlam.^[14] At SummerSlam, the Nexus were defeated by Team WWE, featuring a returning Daniel Bryan, who joined Team WWE as a surprise member, after the Nexus had injured Khali, taking him out of the match, and eliminated both Young and Slater. Cena ended up being the sole survivor.^[15] The following night on Raw each member of Nexus competed in matches against members of Team WWE with the stipulation that whichever Nexus member lost their match would be exiled from the group. While almost all the members of The Nexus won their respective matches, Darren Young failed to defeat John Cena in the main event and was not only kicked out of the Nexus, but attacked by the group following his loss.^[16] In a live event in Hawaii, Skip Sheffield broke his ankle, putting him out for months, thus leaving only five active members of the Nexus remaining. featured The Nexus defeating Team Raw (Mark Henry,