5 WWE Superstars whose ideas were allegedly stolen

#2 Tyler Reks accused John Cena of stealing Curt Hawkins’ WWE idea

Speaking to Lewis Nicholls in May 2020, former WWE Superstar Tyler Reks recalled the time that his former tag team partner, Curt Hawkins, came up with an idea that would have seen them try to sneak back into WWE arenas after getting kayfabe fired.

Reks and Hawkins presented the idea to John Cena, who told them that he would show footage of their storyline suggestion to Vince McMahon on the WWE Chairman’s private jet if they put it on a DVD.

Even though the up-and-coming duo went along with Cena’s advice, they soon realized that their idea was being used for another tag team – The Miz and R-Truth – instead of them.

According to Reks, Cena said the storyline with Miz and Truth was “something totally different” to what they had pitched on the DVD.

However, as the weeks progressed and it became clear that Miz and Truth’s segments were almost identical to what Hawkins pitched, Reks claimed Cena admitted to him that the idea was stolen.