{"id":12806,"date":"2016-03-08T20:15:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T02:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=12806"},"modified":"2016-03-08T20:31:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T02:31:49","slug":"john-cena-announces-he-will-not-wrestle-at-wm32-ending-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/03\/08\/john-cena-announces-he-will-not-wrestle-at-wm32-ending-streak\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cena announces he will not wrestle at WM32, UPDATE &#8211; McMahon addresses Cena&#8217;s status"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2939482900\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>WWE top star John Cena said Tuesday that he will not be wrestling at WrestleMania 32.<\/p>\n<p>Cena made the announcement during the WrestleMania 33 press conference Tuesday morning in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Cena said he has been working hard to get back in the ring for WM32, but he will be unable to compete. Cena is currently rehabbing a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:\u00a0<\/strong>Following Cena&#8217;s announcement, WWE CEO Vince McMahon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/sports\/os-wwe-vince-mcmahon-0309-20160308-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">commented to Brian Fritz for the Orlando Sentinel<\/a> about Cena missing WrestleMania.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;John Cena has been on the sidelines for a while. It&#8217;s so difficult for him. Obviously, he&#8217;s one of our premier performers. Watching on the sidelines, it&#8217;s brutal. When your passion is to be in the ring and performing, it&#8217;s killing him that he&#8217;s not going to be in one of the main events this year. It&#8217;s really killing him. I felt so badly for him,&#8221; McMahon said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;John is Babe Ruth, he&#8217;s everything to us. And a real warrior. I don&#8217;t know how long he&#8217;s going to pursue this. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s going to be 70 like me, but he&#8217;ll try. It&#8217;s just in him and he loves it so much, even when he was a little kid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McMahon also talked about Cena&#8217;s absence making\u00a0WrestleMania plans more challenging. &#8220;Every year you have to outdo yourself. This year was difficult because John Cena was not a part of it,&#8221; McMahon said. &#8220;We have to reach way down and try and come up with things you haven&#8217;t done before and also hold back surprises that the audience does not know. They expect that from us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-3718399856\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>This will mark\u00a0the first WrestleMania\u00a0without Cena in a match\u00a0since WM19 in 2003, ending his streak at 12 straight Manias.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnCena?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JohnCena<\/a> confirms at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WWE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WWE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WrestleMania?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WrestleMania<\/a> presser that while he&#39;s working hard, he won&#39;t compete at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WM32?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WM32<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vYbZ9wTrwI\">pic.twitter.com\/vYbZ9wTrwI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brian Fritz (@BrianFritz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianFritz\/status\/707244045626695681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cena at WrestleMania Through the Years<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 WM20 (2004) \u2013 Won U.S. Title from Big Show at MSG in NYC<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 WM21 (2005) \u2013 Won WWE Title from JBL at Staples Center in Los Angeles<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 WM22 (2006) \u2013 Beat Triple H to retain WWE Title at Allstate Arena in Chicago<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 WM23 (2007) \u2013 Beat Shawn Michaels to retain WWE Title at Ford Field in Detroit<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 WM24 (2008) \u2013 Lost to Randy Orton and Triple H in WWE Title match at Citrus Bowl in Orlando<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 WM25 (2009) \u2013 Beat Edge and Big Show to win WWE Hvt. 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Cena made the announcement during the WrestleMania 33 press conference Tuesday morning in Orlando, Florida. Cena said he has <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/03\/08\/john-cena-announces-he-will-not-wrestle-at-wm32-ending-streak\/\" title=\"John Cena announces he will not wrestle at WM32, UPDATE &#8211; McMahon addresses Cena&#8217;s status\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[116,133,1724,132,71],"class_list":["post-12806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news_wwe","tag-john-cena","tag-wm32","tag-wm33","tag-wrestlemania","tag-wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2015\/11\/CenaPhotoWK_3x2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12806"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12881,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12806\/revisions\/12881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}