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#1. Vince McMahon was ready to fire all members of Nexus from the WWE

The Nexus will go down as one of the biggest missed opportunities in WWE history. The faction made up of several talented NXT Superstars debuted with great promise, but a few big losses destroyed their momentum. The faction would eventually get dissolved merely fourteen months after its formation.

Fred Rosser was interviewed by Michael Morales Torres of Lucha Libre Online, and the former WWE Superstar revealed that there was a lot of pressure on the Nexus members to deliver. They were told that Vince McMahon and the WWE higher-ups were ready to fire them if they didn't make the angle work.

"It was something that we all needed to deliver. You know, we were doing the first season of it of NXT, and then we were in Miami, Florida, and we were brought into this office, and we were told by Vince McMahon and the higher-ups that we were going to be doing this, and we definitely had to deliver, or if we didn't, we would have been fired."

Rosser, fka Darren Young, explained that WWE learned from the Nexus mistake by not making the same blunder with the Shield.

"And it was a moment that I'll never forget because it's in the history books of us causing a complete havoc, and you know, you'll have guys like Chris Jericho and Edge, and I agree with them that Nexus should have dominated team WWE, but you know maybe WWE learn from that lesson and handling us when they started handling The Shield."

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