Wade Barrett should've gotten a Heavyweight title and/or WWE title run with the Bad News Barrett gimmick. It would've gotten a lot of heat since he would've gotten challengers to jump through hoops, then says "I'm afraid I've got some good news, you don't have a title match with me". That would've gotten ratings through the roof
@@thereturnofharlem9030 I feel I would have rathered him have beat cena for the wwe championship when he was leader off nexus but a BNB title run would have been sweet as well
Highly underrated wrestler. Maybe was just in the business when there were more other high profile wrestlers at the time. Would be great if he did a comeback as BNB in a one off main event.
What made BNB great was Wade Barrett. "Ladies and Gentlemen. I'm afraid I've got some baad news" still one of the most memorable things I've seen in wrestling in 28 years.
Bad news Barrett was a damn good character tho, entertaining as hell lol. sadly he wouldn't become the new face of WWE that he was supposed to be, but if WWE kept at it, he would've still been a character now.
Would have been great if Vince was back in charge he’d have gunther become an SS trooper and Wade the home guard. Battle of Britain ppv on the cliffs of Dover. Nationalities races and religions offended in droves and at the end for no reason Vince just does a shite on Vera lynns chest.
Why is that a question? OF COURSE HE SHOULD BEEEE* CHAMP!!!! Need him to return to the rumble this year. He can fight, he can talk, he has a great look, has the experience. Why not?!
I will never deal with the fact that i've been robbed of this guy being a Main Eventer. He's entertaining, classy, has got the look. Forever my favorite wrestler.
I feel like this needs to happen at some point, especially as they had a somewhat confrontational moment a few months ago. I thought that was leading somewhere.
I like Wade Barrett but seeing him reminds me of how inept WWE was back then of following through when their talent got themselves over in spite of the poorly run circus around them. Wade Barrett, Rusev, Cesaro, Damian Sandow, all deserved pushed to the moon
Don't forget Zack ryder. At one point, he was one of the most over on the roster. They didn't have to push him to the moon. Just make him a solid mid-cards.
Fantasy booking Alert : Wade Barrett is from UK, so I'm just fantasy booking here. Bring in Pete dunne, Ijia Draganov, bring in Marty Scurl, and couple of other English guys, may be the guys who played Vaud Villains. Form a New NEXUS, The Nexus 3.0. Gunther vs Wade barret with Imperium vs Nexus would be so damn cool! Two European Factions going at it!
@j86485 wade barrett is from UK, so I'm just fantasy booking here. Bring in Pete dunne, Ijia Draganov, bring in Marty Scurl, and couple of other English guys, may be the guys who played Vaud Villains.
I saw Wade becoming the British version of HHH. Not Hunter Hearst Helmsley 😂 but in the same way we all saw Ziggler as the new Shawn Michaels. There's nothing wrong with borrowing from the past if you can actually pull it up and make fans care. Ric Flair wasn't the original Nature Boy.
He should have won it, Nexus was the hottest thing in a while, PG era RAW was pretty bland at the time and you had these guys really shake it up. Should have had the title once even if Nexus lost the WWE vs Nexus match him still having the title would have retained their momentum, instead he got buried and then literally got buried by chairs in the next match, tragic waste of mega heat. Nexus walked so The Shield could run.
See at the time it was interesting because people were for a while going down rabbit holes in RUclips and they were finding out that the news media doesn’t always tell the truth and you can’t trust them… I always that the bad news Barrett gimmick was fantastic but if he slap on something that was like he was a newscaster delivering bad news in the way he was doing it we could have seen something that fit right in to the times… it would have been fantastic because people at that time were sick of the news and he would have been an even bigger annoying heel… there was so much more potential in it and it was one of those things that needed to be guided in the right direction
"Ladies and gentleman, I'm afraid I've got some bad news! Vince McMahon has taken creative control of my character, therefore I'll have to read lines from a script that he wrote, and only he finds funny."
The fact bad news was entertaining at that point shows how bad the wwe was at the time. Go back and watch bnb now and you can just how cringeworthy it was
"A wrestling related video I must fight the battle for Hunter no matter what. I know what will show my loyalty, parroting Jim Cornettes nickname. Hilarious. Hunter will surely reward me finally"
Should Wade Barrett have been WWE Champion? Let us know in the comments below!
If not at least 1 world heavyweight title ran deffo deserves a great slam much like sheamus difference is sheamus just needs an IC title
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Wade Barrett should've gotten a Heavyweight title and/or WWE title run with the Bad News Barrett gimmick. It would've gotten a lot of heat since he would've gotten challengers to jump through hoops, then says "I'm afraid I've got some good news, you don't have a title match with me". That would've gotten ratings through the roof
@@thereturnofharlem9030 I feel I would have rathered him have beat cena for the wwe championship when he was leader off nexus but a BNB title run would have been sweet as well
Highly underrated wrestler. Maybe was just in the business when there were more other high profile wrestlers at the time. Would be great if he did a comeback as BNB in a one off main event.
What made BNB great was Wade Barrett. "Ladies and Gentlemen. I'm afraid I've got some baad news" still one of the most memorable things I've seen in wrestling in 28 years.
Bad news Barrett was a damn good character tho, entertaining as hell lol. sadly he wouldn't become the new face of WWE that he was supposed to be, but if WWE kept at it, he would've still been a character now.
Barrett vs Cena one more time in 2025 😤
As a kid I really thought he’d be the big bad guy of the future, now I’m just glad he’s on commentary😢
Wade has become a great commentator. Great voice, good humor etc
Wade & Gunther can have a awesome feud if he returned to the ring!
Would have been great if Vince was back in charge he’d have gunther become an SS trooper and Wade the home guard. Battle of Britain ppv on the cliffs of Dover. Nationalities races and religions offended in droves and at the end for no reason Vince just does a shite on Vera lynns chest.
Hell yeaah
Loved how he would interrupt an otherwise predictable spot and just ruin it for whoever was in the ring.
Why is that a question? OF COURSE HE SHOULD BEEEE* CHAMP!!!! Need him to return to the rumble this year. He can fight, he can talk, he has a great look, has the experience. Why not?!
Injury prone, got injured before every major push he got.
He can talk? Lmfao cmon man are you smoking something he can barely talk out of character
I will never deal with the fact that i've been robbed of this guy being a Main Eventer. He's entertaining, classy, has got the look. Forever my favorite wrestler.
Wade's Vince impression is top tier
I'd lose my mind if Drew McIntyre was complaining, and all of a sudden, "Ive got some bad news!" comes in, and they start a rivalry
I feel like this needs to happen at some point, especially as they had a somewhat confrontational moment a few months ago. I thought that was leading somewhere.
I like Wade Barrett but seeing him reminds me of how inept WWE was back then of following through when their talent got themselves over in spite of the poorly run circus around them. Wade Barrett, Rusev, Cesaro, Damian Sandow, all deserved pushed to the moon
Don't forget Zack ryder. At one point, he was one of the most over on the roster. They didn't have to push him to the moon. Just make him a solid mid-cards.
Pac as well, completely dropped the ball on him then sent him to AEW who continued to drop it..
It was one of my favourite characters. What a charismatic guy BNB was.
Fantasy booking Alert : Wade Barrett is from UK, so I'm just fantasy booking here. Bring in Pete dunne, Ijia Draganov, bring in Marty Scurl, and couple of other English guys, may be the guys who played Vaud Villains. Form a New NEXUS, The Nexus 3.0.
Gunther vs Wade barret with Imperium vs Nexus would be so damn cool! Two European Factions going at it!
Nexus isn't European lol
@j86485 wade barrett is from UK, so I'm just fantasy booking here. Bring in Pete dunne, Ijia Draganov, bring in Marty Scurl, and couple of other English guys, may be the guys who played Vaud Villains.
@@indrakanthshenoy3248 ilja is Russian
Crazy even with an accent his vince impression is good😂
I saw Wade becoming the British version of HHH. Not Hunter Hearst Helmsley 😂 but in the same way we all saw Ziggler as the new Shawn Michaels.
There's nothing wrong with borrowing from the past if you can actually pull it up and make fans care. Ric Flair wasn't the original Nature Boy.
He should have won it, Nexus was the hottest thing in a while, PG era RAW was pretty bland at the time and you had these guys really shake it up. Should have had the title once even if Nexus lost the WWE vs Nexus match him still having the title would have retained their momentum, instead he got buried and then literally got buried by chairs in the next match, tragic waste of mega heat. Nexus walked so The Shield could run.
Stu Bennett is a fantastic story teller.
Not that it's anything wrong with the prime time players 😅😂
See at the time it was interesting because people were for a while going down rabbit holes in RUclips and they were finding out that the news media doesn’t always tell the truth and you can’t trust them… I always that the bad news Barrett gimmick was fantastic but if he slap on something that was like he was a newscaster delivering bad news in the way he was doing it we could have seen something that fit right in to the times… it would have been fantastic because people at that time were sick of the news and he would have been an even bigger annoying heel… there was so much more potential in it and it was one of those things that needed to be guided in the right direction
Wade Barrett was good. I enjoyed everything about him, until Nexus was squashed by John. Still love John.
Bad news Barrett takes me back I gotta look up clips
... Bad News Barrett was my favorite part of the show for a while.
Wade talking about the Cody lie, brilliant 😂
I still think BNB could absolutely have a second life as a GM/authority figure. The gimmick would feed right into the role, and it'd be great.
He still looks in great shape, I think he could have one more run in him.
He should have beat Cena, massive missed opportunity
I honestly thought this gimmick was going to take him a long ass way.
BNB as smackdown GM.
Im afraid ive got some bad news. You are going one.. on one... with the underrrrrtaker
So underrated and they wasted his talent. I love Wade Barrett
I still love bad news
Bad News Barret felt like Razor Ramon bad guy gimmick to me.
Sounds good, and can be used for wrestler stuff, and non-wrestling.
No it was when Barrett felt like he was shooting is when it got over, because WWE was really shit then and he started making fun of it
"Ladies and gentleman, I'm afraid I've got some bad news! Vince McMahon has taken creative control of my character, therefore I'll have to read lines from a script that he wrote, and only he finds funny."
Daniel Bryan "Cody Rhodes taught me how fun lying is"
If triple h was in control of the nexus thing wade would not of been a jobber so as the rest of the nexus
The fact bad news was entertaining at that point shows how bad the wwe was at the time. Go back and watch bnb now and you can just how cringeworthy it was
Yeah it wouldn't work in today's time just from the amount of stars wwe has
Wrestling has a plumber in AEW 😂
"A wrestling related video I must fight the battle for Hunter no matter what. I know what will show my loyalty, parroting Jim Cornettes nickname. Hilarious. Hunter will surely reward me finally"
@mothertrucker341 what an odd comment
The Cody lie rears its head yet again
Almost 5 years older than Cody not 5