John Cena sees retirement on the horizon. Cena is motivated to combine it up with at present’s WWE superstars however is aware of the clock is ticking on his in-ring profession.
Cena just lately accomplished a two-month run with WWE that concluded with a loss to Solo Sikoa at Crown Jewel. It was the 16-time world champion’s longest steady run with the corporate since turning into a part-time act in 2019. Cena has carried out in a WWE ring yearly since 2002, however he is aware of that streak will not final.
“Sure, I hope so,” Cena stated of an in-ring return whereas talking with Logan Paul on the “Impaulsive” podcast. “I am not formally completed. I do know that I am shut. I am shut. I can really feel it.Â
“The product has turn into so crisp and so quick and so expert. It’s a totally different world. I like and I nonetheless really feel fluent. I wish to say goodbye after I nonetheless really feel fluent. It is coming and to the purpose the place… you realize the second within the sundown the place it begins to go down, ‘Man, it is happening actual quick.’ That is sort of the place I am at. I am not completed, however I have to resolve after I am.”
Cena provided a barely narrowed retirement timeline in an interview with ET. Cena plans to cease wrestling earlier than he is 50. That places his newest finish date at April 22, 2027. WrestleMania historically takes place in early April so he may squeeze in a finale at WrestleMania 43 if he chooses.
“I am gonna be 47 this 12 months,” Cena stated. “I really feel nice. So inside, I really feel nice, however I do know what it takes to be a WWE performer evening in and evening out, and I do not ever wanna simply go on the market and do it to do it. I wanna have the eagerness, the identical ardour because the fanbase, and I wanna give them precisely what they provide me.”
“The miles on the odometer say, ‘Hey, that is gotta be completed earlier than 50.'”
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson just lately joined the board of WWE’s father or mother firm TKO Group Holdings. Paul Levesque, previously Triple H, is the chief content material officer and head of artistic for WWE. Cena doesn’t have designs on turning into an govt within the wrestling world like his legendary rivals.
“What I’d love to present to the enterprise is my time,” Cena stated. “I stay very near the Efficiency Heart and I wish to go in as a visitor and that means I am not obligated and so they’re not obligated in any means. It is stuff I do in my free time anyway.
“I am lucky sufficient to have another stuff occurring and I will be specializing in that too, however I at all times wish to be concerned within the enterprise. I get so captivated with it and it is one thing that I like and I feel I’ve a few items of knowledge that have to be handed on, I do not suppose it ought to die with me. I will attempt to do this one of the best I can.”