Wade Barrett Reveals Vince McMahon’s Orders Before Nexus Debut

The original Nexus leader Wade Barrett has revealed orders the group received from Vince McMahon ahead of its debut on the June 7, 2010 episode of Raw.

Speaking with Inside The Ropes, Barrett revealed that the group didn’t know it would be called the Nexus but was given the ‘N’ armbands anyway, and were basically old to be as violent as possible by Vince McMahon.

Barrett said:

“Vince speaks to us, he says, ‘OK, this is a huge opportunity for you guys, this is going to be big, we want you to go attack John Cena at the end of the show and smash everything up, here’s what I want you to do, I want you to wear these armbands with the little N on there,’ didn’t give us a reason why we were wearing the N, didn’t give us the name Nexus or anything like that, said, ‘Put these on, Wade you go down, everyone else join him, smash up everything, I want you to rip the ring apart, I want you to trash the table, I want you to punch the security guards, punch the referees, punch Jerry Lawler, beat up Justin Roberts.”

The last part of that quote is pretty ironic considering Daniel Bryan got fired after he was supposedly too violent when he was attacking Justin Roberts, choking him with his own tie.

The WWE Network recently put together a ‘Best Of Nexus’ compilation to celebrate 10 years since the debut.

Thanks to 411Mania for the quote

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