John Cena sees retirement on the horizon. Cena is motivated to combine it up with in the present day’s WWE superstars however is aware of the clock is ticking on his in-ring profession.
Cena not too long ago 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 changing 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 mentioned of an in-ring return whereas talking with Logan Paul on the “Impaulsive” podcast. “I am not formally carried out. I do know that I am shut. I am shut. I can really feel it.
“The product has develop into so crisp and so quick and so expert. It’s a completely different world. I like and I nonetheless really feel fluent. I wish to say goodbye once I nonetheless really feel fluent. It is coming and to the purpose the place… you understand the second within the sundown the place it begins to go down, ‘Man, it is taking place actual quick.’ That is form of the place I am at. I am not carried out, however I must resolve once I am.”
Cena supplied 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 might squeeze in a finale at WrestleMania 43 if he chooses.
“I am gonna be 47 this 12 months,” Cena mentioned. “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 carried out earlier than 50.'”
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson not too long ago joined the board of WWE’s mum or dad 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 changing into an govt within the wrestling world like his legendary rivals.
“What I might love to present to the enterprise is my time,” Cena mentioned. “I stay very near the Efficiency Middle and I wish to go in as a visitor and that method I am not obligated they usually’re not obligated in any method. 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 all the time wish to be concerned within the enterprise. I get so enthusiastic about it and it is one thing that I like and I feel I’ve a few items of knowledge that should be handed on, I do not suppose it ought to die with me. I will attempt to try this one of the best I can.”
