Actor Terry Crews recently took to Twitter and accused WWE of stealing his last name for Apollo Crews, who is now being billed as just Apollo. The actor also revealed that he had talks with WWE following a congratulatory tweet he made to Apollo back in 2015, but the negotiations failed.
As previously reported, WWE dropped Apollo’s last name due to last Wednesday’s high school shooting in Parkland, Florida. The gunman, 19 year old Nikolas Cruz, killed 17 people that day. It was reported that according to Sportskeeda WWE wanted to avoid any connection to Cruz, despite the different spelling, and the decision was made by Vince McMahon to drop the Crews name.
You can see Terry Crews’ tweets below:

 

I like and respect Apollo and wish him well— but The @WWE stole my name in the first place. https://t.co/PLqsPBhs0o
— terrycrews (@terrycrews) February 19, 2018

 

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— s3saiiiiiii (@sesaiiii) February 19, 2018

 

Negotiations broke down https://t.co/YTAj5RXXP5
— terrycrews (@terrycrews) February 19, 2018

 

… you totally missed a sick tag team opportunity man.
— Jon Maclean (@JonMacLean19) February 19, 2018

 

For free? No thank you https://t.co/8zP83XUZjE
— terrycrews (@terrycrews) February 19, 2018