Nexus Invasion: The Angle That Started My Dislike Of WWE

Nexus Invasion: The Angle That Started My Dislike Of WWE #nexxus #wwe #prowrestling For most of the time since WWF/E became popular in the 1980s, the company was seen by wrestling fans as a good, if not weird to some, variation of the pro-wrestling genre. That started to change in the 2000s. After the end of the Monday Night War, and with no or little competition to speak of, World Wrestling Entertainment seemed to be getting stale. In addition, fans of the industry beyond WWE were starting to grow disenchanted with the way the company presented itself and new wrestlers to the system as “rookies“ or “less than“ which was something not done before. Fourteen years after the angle shocked many WWE fans out of that complacency, we look back at the Nexus invasion angle from how well it started to how quickly it deteriorated. Was it the catalysts for a large number of fans to seek wrestling elsewhere, thus leading to the revival of non-WWE pro-wrestling in the 2010s?
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