WWE legend John Cena went out on his again, tapping out to GUNTHER’s sleeper maintain in the course of the ring, a smile on his face, throughout his deliberate retirement match at WWE Saturday Evening’s Primary Occasion in December 2025. The loss got here after a year-long retirement tour, which noticed Cena flip heel for the primary time in many years, in addition to his seventeenth run with a world championship.
Throughout his latest media tour forward of the discharge of “Matchbox: The Film,” Cena sat down on “Pleased Unhappy Confused” with Josh Horowitz and spoke about his performing profession. The star in contrast it to his WWE run, and mentioned he is in “an occupation that is fragile,” and he is aware of it would finish. Cena mentioned he additionally is aware of that finish is past his management.
“If I’ve my very own story to color and doing it by myself phrases, I might like to do that perpetually,” Cena mentioned. “Once I retired from WWE, everyone’s like, ‘Man, you are doing it by yourself phrases.’ Bulls***. I wish to do it perpetually. I do know that it is time to go. It’s inside my values. I mentioned, ‘I wish to do good work and I wish to go away doing good work, however my very own phrases are to do it infinity.’ I wish to proceed to do it. However, I gotta be sensible and take a look at the maths and be like, ‘Okay, it is time to step away.”
Since retiring from WWE, Cena has develop into the face of the corporate’s unique Membership WWE model. He additionally introduced the “John Cena Basic,” a event the place “WWE NXT” stars will face principal roster stars, rumored for December.
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