John Cena - Alex Riley Feud: Where's the heat?

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Former WWE star Tyler Rex recently conducted a Reddit AMA, and below is an excerpt of what Reks had to say regarding rumors of John Cena attempting to bury Alex Riley backstage in WWE:

“There is truth that there was some sort of unknown, unreasonable heat between Riley and Cena. To the point where everyone on the roster thought that Cena was treating him in a way that was totally uncalled for. No one approached Cena about it, but the entire locker room was on Riley’s side, a lot of condolences, and this is ‘ridiculous, bro,’ and it was every freakin’ day. Cena thought Riley did something wrong every single day.

Like, it’s completely against the wrestler code to ever go through another wrestler’s bag. One day, Riley walked into an empty locker room and Cena was just going through his bag. He found some pre-workout vitamins and b—hed him out for taking supplements, asking if he ‘thinks this is ok.’ Like, he was looking for a reason to get him fired.

We had the match when Linda was running for Congress for the Stand Up For WWE charity shows, and it was a tag match, I think it was a six man tag match if I remember right. And it was me, Hawkins, and Ziggler vs. Riley, and two other baby faces. Cena had made it clear that he wanted Riley to act a certain way and do certain things. And we structured the entire match to his wishes and it went flawlessly as far as we were concerned. The second we walked backstage he came up to me and said ‘hey where’s numbnuts?’ And he sees the look on my face and tells me to go get Riley. So all six of us came back and he b—hed out Riley in front of the backstage roster — about how he always tells him to do one thing and he does another, and Cena was ‘washing his hands of helping him.’ Even Ziggler was like, ‘What the hell, man?'”

Seriously, where is all the heat coming from? Did he go to the HHH-HBK-Undertaker locker room school of hard knocks?

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If I remember correctly Riley called out Cena for acting like a dick Infront of the entire lockerroom & Cena holds a grudge.

[Instant Classic]

Gonna need more conformation from others named in the story. This is like the second Reks cena story.

[TWERKIN' MAGGLE]

Riley probably opened his mouth when he shouldn't have.

I think the term is, Riley being Riley.

No, that doesn't condone Cena being a dick, but we've all witnessed Riley's asshole tendencies.

[The Sam]

So, what you're saying is, his name is Alex Riley and he's in a rage? He wants Cena and he wants him in a cage?

[Mayonnaise]

I had heard Cena and Riley had actually made up and put things behind them, it was now on Vince or someone that has his ear that is holding on to the issue. Not shocked, nor do I doubt what what Reks has said since it falls in line with the stories from the time.

[Magic knows Black Lives Matter]

Hmmm. Seems kinda weird that this is now just coming out if that's extreme and been going on for that long. If the entire locker room knew, you'd think somebody else that's been released would have said something by now. But then again, maybe there's a fear of talking about the top star in the industry when you don't really have any kind of concrete proof.

I don't know. Right now, it's just one guy's story so I can't say for sure if I actually believe it or not.

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I once thought Cena was a great guy with all the make a wish and all but picking on 2 salt of the earth guys like A-Ry & JTG is shameful.When Nikki finds out about this there will be no coitus for 3 weeks.

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Dec 18, 2015 20:12:06 GMT -5 Magic knows Black Lives Matter said:

Hmmm. Seems kinda weird that this is now just coming out if that's extreme and been going on for that long. If the entire locker room knew, you'd think somebody else that's been released would have said something by now. But then again, maybe there's a fear of talking about the top star in the industry when you don't really have any kind of concrete proof.

I don't know. Right now, it's just one guy's story so I can't say for sure if I actually believe it or not.

It was out at the time.

[Magic knows Black Lives Matter]

Dec 18, 2015 20:15:28 GMT -5 @mrbonezone said:

Dec 18, 2015 20:12:06 GMT -5 Magic knows Black Lives Matter said:

Hmmm. Seems kinda weird that this is now just coming out if that's extreme and been going on for that long. If the entire locker room knew, you'd think somebody else that's been released would have said something by now. But then again, maybe there's a fear of talking about the top star in the industry when you don't really have any kind of concrete proof.

I don't know. Right now, it's just one guy's story so I can't say for sure if I actually believe it or not.

It was out at the time.

Damn. Guess I've just been out of the loop then. I have such a hard time keeping up with who potentially has heat with who.

[Instant Classic]

Dec 18, 2015 20:13:53 GMT -5 @mrbonezone said:

I once thought Cena was a great guy with all the make a wish and all but picking on 2 salt of the earth guys like A-Ry & JTG is shameful.When Nikki finds out about this there will be no coitus for 3 weeks.

what happened with him and JTG?

[Mozenrath]

So what Tyler's saying is, this shouldn't fly?

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Dec 18, 2015 20:19:35 GMT -5 Instant Classic said:

Dec 18, 2015 20:13:53 GMT -5 @mrbonezone said:

I once thought Cena was a great guy with all the make a wish and all but picking on 2 salt of the earth guys like A-Ry & JTG is shameful.When Nikki finds out about this there will be no coitus for 3 weeks.

what happened with him and JTG?

JTG used the word loyalty in a wwe magazine interview & Cena had them take JTG's merch away.

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Dec 18, 2015 20:18:49 GMT -5 Magic knows Black Lives Matter said:

Dec 18, 2015 20:15:28 GMT -5 @mrbonezone said:

It was out at the time.

Damn. Guess I've just been out of the loop then. I have such a hard time keeping up with who potentially has heat with who.

I saw it on a sub Reddit so it's gospel.

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Dec 18, 2015 20:22:06 GMT -5 @mrbonezone said:

Dec 18, 2015 20:19:35 GMT -5 Instant Classic said:

what happened with him and JTG?

JTG used the word loyalty in a wwe magazine interview & Cena had them take JTG's merch away.

Speaking of, Cryme Tyme remains one of my favorite tag teams. The fact they didn't get a tag title run is a travesty.

Not to mention, I think JTG is a damn talented wrestler who could be much more.

[MrElijah]

Dec 18, 2015 20:10:13 GMT -5 The Sam said:

So, what you're saying is, his name is Alex Riley and he's in a rage? He wants Cena and he wants him in a cage?

This is Kevin Owens and he had a passion, he wants the title back from that humanoid Ambrose.....


Shit, that don't rhyme.

[JTG Fan]

I remember the rumor being that in the fall of 2011 Cena and Riley got into an argument and not long after A-Ry went from being on RAW every week and in the IC Title hunt to Nowheresville.

[karoline94]

There’s a saying that goes like this; You haven’t seen the quality of a ship’s captain unless you have been with him in a storm.

Just because Cena is a hard worker doesn’t mean he’s a nice guy, but he’s sort of gotten that status being the top dog in the company. Maybe he’s a big dick if you get on his wrong side, but we just never see that side of him often because nobody on the roster is stupid enough to GET on his bad side. Maybe Riley was legit one of the first guys in a long while to call Cena out on his bullshit while he was the "top dog" of the company.

One thing is for sure, they had grand plans for Riley, and someone stopped them. The guy was given the pop of a life-time when he turned on heel Mizz (when Mizz was at his finest too). I remember the crowd giving Rock-level preactions when RIley debuted with his new theme song, and then suddenly a couple matches later (one of them being a rather bad cage match where he DID botch a little, and it happened to be against Cena too), his momentum just stopped dead in its tracks.

[CATCH_US IS the Conversation]

Dec 18, 2015 20:11:21 GMT -5 Mayonnaise said:

I had heard Cena and Riley had actually made up and put things behind them, it was now on Vince or someone that has his ear that is holding on to the issue. Not shocked, nor do I doubt what what Reks has said since it falls in line with the stories from the time.

I believe Riley is one of the little clique that works out at Cena's gym. He even had the gym's t-shirt when he did the Rage promo before the return match with CJ Parker. I honestly don't believe the stories of heat because if that were the case the company would've looked for an excuse to axe Riley at the earliest possible opportunity (and he makes it pretty easy for them to do so) and yet they never do, not even with the mass release from last year.

Also Cena doesn't come off as a "This Business" type; all of those stories seem to come from salty guys who barely even managed to reach the short peak that Riley had.

[edgestar]

Tyler: Cena was saying it to Riley's face, and he didn't like it. Remember me, guys???
Riley: Shut up, Tyler...