The Nexus invasion storyline had a little bit of method acting involved.
While speaking on Out of Character with Ryan Satin, Wade Barrett revealed that the company took the Nexus storyline so seriously that they were ordered not to be allowed in the locker room. Barrett felt this was the dumbest rule he had ever experienced.
“Genuinely, it was one of the dumbest things that I’ve experienced in my time in WWE. There was a person who was put in charge of us who is no longer with the company who decided that it would be appropriate for a faction of guys who were attacking the company to not be allowed in the locker room, which would absolutely makes sense because in terms of Nexus, we were coming out of the crowd, we were perceived as outsiders who hadn’t earned contracts in WWE. So, it kind of made a bit of logical sense.”
“Why am I main-eventing Survivor Series, why are we all main-eventing SummerSlam, yet I’m not eligible to step in the locker room here? I’m gonna change in the hallway; dinner ladies and catering staff and cleaners are walking past while I’m putting my gear on. I’m like, ‘This is stupid. There’s no benefit to this. There’s no payoff to this.”
Wade Barrett to Out Of Character
It remains to be seen whether the former leader of the Nexus will end up competing in the ring in the future.
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