{"id":206379,"date":"2025-11-20T11:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/john-cena-didnt-want-a-whole-tribute-show-for-his-wwe-retirement-next-month\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T11:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:01:16","slug":"john-cena-didnt-want-a-whole-tribute-show-for-his-wwe-retirement-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/john-cena-didnt-want-a-whole-tribute-show-for-his-wwe-retirement-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cena didn’t want a whole ‘tribute show’ for his WWE retirement next month"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/p>\n

\n

\n

John Cena<\/a> didn’t want an entire “tribute show” for his WWE retirement.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

John Cena has explained the logic behind his final WWE appearance next month<\/p>\n

The 48-year-old wrestling legend turned Hollywood actor will end his WWE career on December 13 with his final ever match at Saturday Night’s Main Event, and the show will highlight the superstars of the future, with talent from the company’s developmental brand NXT getting to face the best of Raw and SmackDown.<\/p>\n

Speaking on this week’s Raw Recap podcast, John said: \u201cI really want to take my hats off to Triple H, I called him up, I said, \u2018I got an idea.<\/p>\n

“‘We got to do two hours for the tribute show, and if you do a whole John Cena<\/a> tribute, two things are going to happen. You\u2019re either going to do too much or too little.<\/p>\n

“‘You\u2019re never going to please everybody. I would like to propose that we have big name WWE Superstars fight in exhibition matches versus the brightest in NXT so that way we have a sold out building.\u2019 “<\/p>\n

\nThe 17-time world champion – who also currently holds the Intercontinental Title – insisted his retirement show will be a peek into the future for wrestling fans.<\/p>\n

\nHe added: \u201cHopefully the world\u2019s watching on Saturday Night\u2019s Main Event.<\/p>\n

\n“I get to wrestle one final time, but in doing that, everyone also gets to look at what to look forward to. And I think that\u2019s the most important thing.<\/p>\n

\n“Yes, it\u2019s that\u2019s my last match, but collectively we\u2019re all just kind of closing a chapter of an era in sports entertainment. I want people to be able to look forward to what\u2019s next.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nHis final opponent is being decided by WWE’s ongoing The Last Time Is Now tournament, which features the likes of GUNTHER, Solo Sikoa, LA Knight, Carmelo Hayes and Bronson Reed.<\/p>\n

\nReflecting on the idea behind the tournament and his last show, John said: “Forever, the tradition has been your last match, you go out on your back [losing] and you do the honours and that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

\n“No, I think we can do more. We can take the eyes that care about showing up to our show and expose them to the future and what\u2019s next.<\/p>\n

\n“I love The Time Is Now tournament, that we have some way to earn the chance to be to qualify as my last opponent.”<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n


\n<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n


\n<\/p>\n


\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n


\n
Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

20 November 2025 John Cena didn’t want an entire “tribute show” for his WWE retirement. John Cena has explained the logic behind his final WWE appearance next month The 48-year-old wrestling legend turned Hollywood actor will end his WWE career on December 13 with his final ever match at Saturday Night’s Main Event, and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6541,10065],"class_list":{"0":"post-206379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-john-cena","9":"tag-triple-h"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}