{"id":208735,"date":"2025-12-12T21:05:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T03:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=208735"},"modified":"2025-12-12T21:08:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T03:08:52","slug":"john-cena-says-his-retirement-match-will-main-event-wwe-saturday-nights-main-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2025\/12\/12\/john-cena-says-his-retirement-match-will-main-event-wwe-saturday-nights-main-event\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cena says his retirement match will main event WWE SNME"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2179529283\" 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 has declared his retirement match against Gunther at SNME on Dec. 13 will main event the show.<\/p>\n<p>Cena said he never even considered opening the show and isn&#8217;t sure how that rumor started. &#8220;I&#8217;m not going first tomorrow,&#8221; Cena said during his appearance on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yfw0u9ST__E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Pat McAfee show<\/a> on Dec. 12. &#8220;We&#8217;re going last and I don&#8217;t know how that rumor started.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cena told McAfee he believes that perhaps the rumor started because people misunderstood what he said during his recent\u00a0 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. \u201cI\u00a0was on Jimmy Kimmel I said I\u2019m ending the show,&#8221; said Cena. I said I normally go to bed early, but I\u2019m going to stay up late for this one. I guess people didn\u2019t read between the tea leaves. Like, we\u2019re last. I don\u2019t even know how that started. It\u2019s difficult to conceptualize that. Again, I don\u2019t make the menu. And if, gosh, if I show up tomorrow and they want me to go on first, well that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do, but we are last at this point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cena is a former 17 time world champion in WWE. He is currently scheduled to headline Saturday Night&#8217;s Main Event on Peacock tomorrow agsint Gunther, who won the Last Time is Now Tournament for the right to face Cena in his last match. 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