During an interview with WrestlingINC Stu Bennett, known better to WWE fans as Wade Barrett revealed WWE reached out to him about a Nexus reunion at WrestleMania before COVID-19 caused plans to change.
In all honestly, if it had been something more significant, I would have paid it more attention. But it was something, to me, that I wasn’t interested in doing. There was no benefit at all, for me, in doing it, and I wasn’t excited about it, so I turned the offer down.Wade Barrett
It isn’t known what the return would have entailed, but it’s possible it was just an Axxess appearance, which is WWE’s yearly four-day fan convention coinciding with WrestleMania. It does sound though if WWE had wanted to make it a television angle, he would have been involved.
Wade Barret hasn’t wrestled since 2016, preferring to commentate and perform as an authority figure for various promotions. He was burnt out from his time on the road and discouraged that WWE wasn’t interested in his ideas. He dd look set to return to the ring and wrestle in Lucha Underground as “The Lord” in 2018, but the promotion went on hiatus and now seems dead.
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