5 WWE careers ruined by backstage politics

#1. The Nexus

Wade Barrett was the leader of The Nexus

The last entry on our list also features involvement from John Cena.

The Nexus were on a roll in 2010 and the main event of SummerSlam saw The Nexus taking on John Cena, Chris Jericho, and Edge. By all accounts, Cena pushed for the finish to be changed and ended up burying The Nexus that night, regardless of whether he knew what was going to happen.

Here's what Chris Jericho said about it on Talk Is Jericho in 2013:

"It was WWE Team vs. Team Nexus...and the finish boiled down to you [Edge] and me [Jericho] were in there, but it was Cena against a couple of them. John wanted to do things a certain way and we told him 'you're wrong'. Remember that? And he did it anyways, and it sucked. And then afterwards he came over to us and said 'I should have listened to you, but I wasn't seeing it that way. And sometimes you just don't see it that way, you know?"

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