Published 20:17 IST, May 15th 2020

John Cena accused of stealing storyline pitches by former WWE star: Report

WWE news: Former WWE superstar Tyler Reks accused 16-time World Champion John Cena of stealing storyline pitches for himself in a recent interview.

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 Over years, John Cena has been face of WWE, putting on incredible displays in PPV after PPV and enthralling fans along way with his numerous feuds. 16-time World Champion has a large fan following in WWE universe with crowd chanting his name with fervour in every episode he has featured in. Along with wrestling, John Cena has also given acting a shot and will feature in latest instalment of Fast & Furious franchise alongside Vin Diesel, Charlize ron and ors. However, a former WWE superstar has slapped allegations on John Cena which could do latter's reputation some harm.

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John Cena accused of stealing storyline pitches by former WWE star: Report

In a recent appearance on Lewis Nicholas Show, former WWE wrestler Tyler Reks revealed how John Cena allegedly stole one of his storylines back in day. Reks was quoted as saying, “We went to John and said ‘this is a lot like what we just put on a DVD. Did we just get screwed?’ He said, ‘Naw, naw, naw, naw this is something totally different.’ Okay, so this looks like storyline that we just pitched that body’s ever done so it’s t gonna be as cool when we do it."

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 Tyler Reks, who retired from WWE in 2014 furr went on to point out how John Cena used his storyline along with or stars like Miz and R-Truth. Reks ded, “ next week that storyline progressed and it was basically what we pitched, but with Miz and Truth with John as  guy y jump at end. We h a term that we used ‘Being Burchilled’ because Paul Burchill would pitch stuff all time and creative would take it and use it for someone else. At one point we just asked Cena ‘are we being Burchilled?’ and he’s like, ‘yeah, you did.’ Blatantly telling us that he stole our stuff and used it and left us at bottom.” 

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Despite all this, Reks maintains that he harbours ill-feelings for global superstar. He ded that things are different w while saying that entire incident helped him learn how industry functions. He went on to d "John Cena's  top guy for a reason and if that’s how things were handled n more power to him."

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20:17 IST, May 15th 2020