It’s been a good week for fans of the Nexus, WWE’s stable made up mostly of “competitors” from the first season of the faux-reality competition version of NXT.
Original leader and “New Nexus” leaders Stu “Wade Barrett” Bennett and CM Punk got a gig hosting the new season of Ultimate Beastmaster on Netflix, and now Chikara has announced the team of PJ Black (Justin Gabriel), Fred Rosser (Darren Young) and Tyrone Evans (Michael Tarver) as “The Nexus Alliance” for this year’s King of Trios tournament.
Grab your King of Trios 2018 tickets right now - https://t.co/w05aX6Iqyr Be there as The Nexus Alliance of @realfredrosser (f.k.a. Darren Young), @darewolf333 (f.k.a. Justin Gabriel) & @TyroneEvansB20 (f.k.a. Michael Tarver) reunite in Easton, PA! pic.twitter.com/aynHA3K6fa
— chikarapro (@CHIKARApro) March 1, 2018
Chikara’s been known to dip into WWE nostalgia for their annual six-man tag tourney. 2016 gave us a “Divas Revolution” team of Mickie James, Victoria & Jazz. The bWo was in it the year before that.
This is still pretty wild, though. And, who knows? If WWE doesn’t clear him, and Cody and The Bucks don’t book him for that weekend, maybe Bryan Danielson can show up and manage his old stable-mates on Memorial Labor Day weekend (Aug. 31 - Sept. 2)?