10 Wrestlers Accused Of Stealing Another Wrestler’s Looks

Vince McMahon has never been above taking another person's idea, giving it a slight twist, and sending it out onto WWE programming as his own. This has happened on a number of occasions over the years, with everything from angles to entire characters from another person's mind being given to another star without the consent of its creator.

Another reported example of this went down when former WWE on-air personality Abraham Washington sent in a video to the company showcasing a number of different ideas. One of these resembled what would later become Seth Rollins' 'Monday Night Messiah' gimmick and presentation, with Washington telling High Spot Podcast:

“I feel they’re using certain elements of my material and yeah, I’m not too happy about it. You know because here’s the thing I sent the WWE a video of me doing the Jeremiah Constantine thing the whole religious aspect with the studio audience mind you."

"All these things that I use right now and I got a response from someone saying that ‘okay I’m going to send this to a lead writer’ so I know that they’ve seen the material and they know what I’m doing you know and certain aspects of that have come out on TV and I’ve never gotten a response from them, so it just upsets me the fact that you can’t even acknowledge me and that you’re taking from my stuff, especially with the Seth stuff, the Monday Night Messiah. I’m pretty sure they got that from my promos."

Further elaborating on his claims of WWE stealing his concepts, Abraham also noted how one of Bray Wyatt's Firefly Funhouse segments involving the character presenting 'Breaking News' was also based on his own work:

"Then they had Bray Wyatt doing the newscast thing you know which I’m doing right now, so it’s just like eh whatever.”

Whether these accusations are true or not remains to be seen, but based on McMahon's prior history of idea theft, you wouldn't be surprised if they turned out to be 100% legit.