Wade Barrett Says He Would Handle Political Situations Differently Now Than He Did In 2010

Wade Barrett comments on backstage politics and how he would handle them differently now.

While Barrett is currently an announcer and has been one for years now in WWE, he was a prominent name in WWE during the early to mid 2010s. Barrett is a former Intercontinental Champion, and was also the leader of the Nexus back in 2010.

During The Nexus’ initial run in WWE, their main target was John Cena, who would prove to be a stumbling block for the faction as Cena routinely would come out on top against the faction.

This came to a head at SummerSlam 2010, where The Nexus would lose to Team WWE after establishing a numbers advantage in a multi man tag match. However, Cena would rise above logic and defeat the heel faction, despite Chris Jericho and Edge trying to sway the 16 time world champion on the idea of him defeating the stable.

Appearing on the Even Stronger podcast with Kazeem Famuyide, Wade looked back on his run as part of The Nexus, and how he would do things differently if he could do the events over.

“Well, it’s kind of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, I’ll get it out of the way now. I wish I had the brain I have now on the young body and potential I had back then because I would have done things a little differently. I would have handled certain political situations differently, things that were completely beyond the realm of my comprehension in 2010. I wasn’t able to understand how the industry worked behind the scenes,” said Barrett. “The other side of that is the positive side where you’ve got to remember at that point in my career. I’d probably been training to be a wrestler for about seven years at that point. I’d been all over Europe at that point. Obviously, I’d come over to the US and been in the developmental systems in Ohio Valley Wrestling and Florida Championship Wrestling, getting paid very little and making big sacrifices to try and chase this dream.

“So, the really cool thing about the era that you see [in WWE 2K23] this young, fresh-faced Wade Barrett, that was the point where I knew that no matter what happened from there, all my sacrifices had been worth it,” he continued. “I’d made it to WWE, I’d made it to the pay-per-views, I’d made it to Raw and SmackDown, I was a focal point of the show in 2010. So, really, it felt like a big weight lifted off my shoulders that I wasn’t going to have to go back to the UK with my tail in between my legs, having failed to make it and having to go back to my regular old job and beg them for my job back. I think that would have haunted me for life. So, there was a massive feeling of achievement and relief that I got to that point in 2010, and this is the character you get to play with now on WWE 2K23.”

Wade Barrett

Wade had a hilarious response to being asked if he would get into the ring with Gunther in the future, which you can check out here.

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