Three weeks out from WrestleMania 42 in Las Vegas, WWE has discovered a bunch for the most important occasion on the 2026 wrestling calendar.
John Cena, three months faraway from the top of his WWE retirement tour, introduced in a video that he’ll make the brief journey from Hollywood to Las Vegas to function the occasion’s host on April 18 and 19 at Allegiant Stadium.
It did not take lengthy for WWE to name Cena again into motion — even when he is not really wrestling — after his retirement on the finish of 2025. There can be loads of hypothesis about whether or not Cena will get entangled within the ring whereas serving as host, as we have seen occur with earlier WrestleMania hosts like “Stone Chilly” Steve Austin and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
Cena put a bow on his wrestling profession in December, tapping out to Gunther in his closing match that ended an up-and-down retirement tour all through 2025. That included an ill-fated heel flip that originally brought on pleasure with followers who had lengthy needed to see a Cena heel run, however finally “bombed” — Cena’s phrases, not mine.
Whereas Cena’s retirement allowed him to shift his full focus to his appearing profession, he could not assist however make a fast return to assist WWE out with a WrestleMania that has struggled to create the type of buzz we have seen from latest installments. Wrestling retirements are all the time a bit tough, and regardless of how profitable a previous celebrity turns into exterior the ring that connection to WWE and wrestling by no means actually leaves.
It’ll additionally present a stage for a bit extra becoming send-off for Cena from WWE followers. Cena’s in-ring profession ended on a Saturday Evening Important Occasion due to the choice to make his closing run within the ring a calendar 12 months occasion in 2025, moderately than ending his run at WrestleMania in entrance of the most important crowd of the 12 months.