David Otunga On If John Cena Buried The Nexus: That’s 100% Accurate

David Otunga says that John Cena ‘100%’ buried The Nexus.

In 2010, John Cena and The Nexus would go to war, beginning with the factions first appearance in WWE where they would lay out Cena and tear apart the WWE ring area. This would lead to a tag team match involving a team Cena assembled and the faction, with Cena eventually earning the victory in the match after overturning a significant man advantage to win. For many, this came as a burial for the faction, and David Otunga agrees.

While speaking to Insight With Chris Van Vliet, Otunga was asked if he agreed that the match was a burial.

“Oh yeah, that’s 100% accurate. I mean, that’s what happened, that is what happened.”

Otunga was then asked if it was because Cena wanted to go over, to which he once again agreed.

“Yes. And I don’t know why he wanted to go over, but we knew all day we were supposed to go over, and then things started getting weird, and then they tell us, no, the finish changed, and it’s because John wanted to go over, and we weren’t happy about that. The other guys in the match weren’t happy about that. And if I’m being honest, I think John probably knows that wasn’t the right idea. I mean, maybe obviously, at the time, he thought that was the right call, but in retrospect, I don’t even think he would agree that that was the right thing to do.” 

Otunga then shared what the original finish of the match was supposed to be.

“I know we were supposed to go over. I don’t know how. I don’t know how many of us there were [supposed to be left in the match], but there were some shenanigans [planned] and ultimately, we went over. But either way, you spend six months or however long it was building this faction, and we’re the strongest thing, we’re the hottest thing they have. Then now, why would you have us lose that? This is the main event. To really build these new stars, you want us to keep going. We could have rode this all the way to Mania, but then after that, we’ve now lost and that took us down a few pegs. After that, we never regained the steam. They ended up separating us. Even then they started to have a good storyline going where we were gonna oust Wade Barrett, and I was gonna take over. I remember, I kicked him out of the group. I think it was Raw, and then the next week, I was supposed to then become the leader. However, then it’s hey, surprise guys, we got a new leader for you, CM Punk. Wait, what? How does this fit in? And I guess he needed a faction. Straight Edge Society was done and he needed a new faction. So I don’t know why they decided just to give him Nexus. So then the storyline that we had going just stopped, and now we’re The New Nexus with CM Punk, which, eh. It never really took off, I think, because it was a disconnect for the fans too.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Otunga spoke about potentially returning to WWE. You can read more about that here.