13. Why Did Nexus Bury The Phenom?
Before there was The Shield, there was The Nexus – a renegade faction led by Wade Barrett, consisting of members from a former incarnation of NXT. They were a powerful, nearly unstoppable faction… and in 2010 they decided to literally bury The Undertaker. The question is: why?
Brothers Kane and The Undertaker were in the midst of a heated feud, which was set to culminate at Bragging Rights in a Buried Alive Match. This is where the Nexus decided to intervene, aid Kane, and bury the Phenom. In the weeks following the shocking display, Wade Barrett would hint at a “greater purpose” for the Nexus that would be revealed in time. There was also an incident where Nexus member David Otunga threatened to expose Barrett’s true motives if the latter didn’t play ball. Unfortunately, the faction’s massive push was cut short and WWE’s attempts to patch things up by introducing CM Punk as their new team leader failed miserably. In the end, we never got to see what Wade Barrett’s grand scheme was, or why he chose to provoke the Deadman, but we can only assume it would have led to a match at WrestleMania.
12. Who Burned Down The Family Home?
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Remember when Kane made his debut by interfering in the Hell In A Cell match between Undertaker and Shawn Michaels, costing Taker the victory? The story goes that Kane was Undertaker’s demented little step-brother who set their family home on fire when they were kids… sacrificing Taker’s parents in the process. Years later, Paul Bearer would reveal that Kane was alive and well in some weird asylum (or something) and was coming to destroy his older brother. That storyline should have been sufficient, but WWE being the fickle company that it is, decided to flip the angle on its head years later by revealing that it was in fact The Undertaker who set the family home on fire… killing his and Kane’s parents in the process! The question is, which one is true?
The storyline was retconned yet again in the early 2000s when commentators would hint at Kane’s vile past and how he set the family home on fire. But wasn’t it Taker who was capable of arson? In the end, that storyline was never really resolved. They both seem to want revenge on each other for killing their parents… and then sometimes that storyline is completely ignored altogether.
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