{"id":152758,"date":"2023-01-23T11:55:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T17:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=152758"},"modified":"2023-01-23T11:55:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T17:55:16","slug":"john-cena-revealed-as-wwe-2k23-cover-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/01\/23\/john-cena-revealed-as-wwe-2k23-cover-star\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cena revealed as WWE 2K23 cover star"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1941932680\" 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>John Cena will grace the cover of the WWE 2K23 video game in 2023. 2K revealed the news in a post on social media on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWEgames\/status\/1617522969164787722<\/p>\n<p>The video game will be released on March 17 and will feature a host of special features and collector edition materials. You can preorder the game by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j1rIrmKhXb\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cena commented on being the cover star and said, &#8220;Honored to be on the cover of WWE and WWE games or the second time. The new game certainly brings a new meaning to &#8220;career mode.&#8221; Excited for every player to take this journey!&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Honored to be on the cover of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WWE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWEgames?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WWEgames<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WWE2K23?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WWE2K23<\/a> for the second time! <\/p>\n<p>The new game certainly brings a new meaning to \u201ccareer mode.\u201d Excited for every player to take this journey! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/upMG7JF6xn\">https:\/\/t.co\/upMG7JF6xn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Cena (@JohnCena) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnCena\/status\/1617516138602311681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>John Cena was dormant in WWE throughout most of 2022. He appeared on an episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/01\/23\/wwe-raw-full-match-card\/\">WWE Raw<\/a>, which celebrated his 20th Anniversary with WWE. Cena wrestled his only match on the December 30, 2022 edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/01\/20\/1-20-wwe-smackdown-results-kellers-report-on-reigns-owens-contract-signing-drew-sheamus-vs-raiders-brawling-brutes-vs-imperium\/\">WWE Smackdown<\/a>. Cena teamed with Kevin Owens to take on WWE Undisputed Universal Champion, Roman Reigns, and his Bloodline partner Sami Zayn.<\/p>\n<p>Cena and Owens won the match clean in the middle of the ring. Prior to 2022, Cena was a fixture of summer WWE events in 2021. He returned at the Money in the Bank PPV event and then challenged Roman Reigns at Summerslam.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CATCH-UP:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/01\/23\/reason-for-raw-30-segment-change-revealed\/\">Reason for Raw 30 segment change revealed<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3819770794\"><div id=\"pwtor-2690204160\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>John Cena will grace the cover of the WWE 2K23 video game in 2023. 2K revealed the news in a post on social media on Monday morning. https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWEgames\/status\/1617522969164787722 The video game will be released on <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/01\/23\/john-cena-revealed-as-wwe-2k23-cover-star\/\" title=\"John Cena revealed as WWE 2K23 cover star\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":152760,"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":[2,3],"tags":[116,71],"class_list":["post-152758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe","tag-john-cena","tag-wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2023\/01\/Cena-2k23.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152758","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152761,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152758\/revisions\/152761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}