Where are they now: The Nexus 7, 7 Years Later

#1. Michael Tarver

Michael Tarver didn't have much to do with WWE post-Nexus.

Michael Tarver was a bruising member of the Nexus stable, who looked genuinely intimidating and worked an effective striking style. Tarver wouldn’t do so well once the Nexus settled into regular wrestling, though. He was the second man eliminated from the Nexus’s SummerSlam main event—not making it five minutes into the match. He’d suffer a groin injury afterwards and was largely buried as a character as Wade Barrett suggested he was going to fire him from the stable anyway. Tarver would appear lurking in the background on WWE television months later but wound up released before that storyline could ever play out.

Tarver has stuck with wrestling, working for a variety of independent promotions since he left WWE. While it doesn’t seem all that likely he’ll ever make it back to WWE, he’s an example of one of the many talents making a living on the contemporary indie landscape.