10 WWE Storylines That Turned Into Real Life Shoots

Subtlety isn't John Cena's strong suit (but neither is rapping, and that didn't stop him from busting out his rhymes at every opportunity).

In 2008, WWE's poster boy returned a pair of underwear to Mickie James backstage, the ham-fisted implication being that they spent the previous night together. This trope is often used in fiction, although - honestly - it seems odd that someone would get dressed without putting underwear on.

It was the beginning of a blossoming romance between two of the company's biggest stars, an angle they pursued for at least three weeks before killing it dead and never mentioning it ever again (probably out of shame).

For Mickie James, though, there were some real life feelings there as well - at least that's what her former fiancée Ken Doane claims. He said the five-time Women's Champ "flipped out" when Cena spurned her advances.