NEWS: John Cena's Latest Injury A Work?

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NEWS:

According to Dave Meltzer of Wrestling Observer Radio, the latest John Cena injury is indeed a work. Meltzer attests that Cena's ankle injury was written in the script in order to provide for a scripted angle to remove John Cena from next Sunday's Royal Rumble pay-per-view. Cena will begin filming a new movie on Sunday.

Meltzer also adds that the original plans were for former NXT Superstar Lars Sullivan to attack Cena, but with Sullivan reportedly dealing with issues related to anxiety, this didn't happen and WWE instead used last Monday's tag match to take Cena out of the Royal Rumble picture.

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