{"id":135414,"date":"2025-05-16T21:15:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T01:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=135414"},"modified":"2026-01-20T19:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T00:40:18","slug":"john-cena-compete-wwe-saturday-nights-main-event-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/05\/16\/john-cena-compete-wwe-saturday-nights-main-event-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cena to Compete at WWE Saturday Night&#8217;s Main Event 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Undisputed WWE Champion John Cena winds down his dates with another bout at Saturday Night&#8217;s Main Event 2025 that the WWE Universe will certainly look forward to. After the events of WWE Backlash St. Louis in his match against Randy Orton, wherein Orton was going in for the kill with a Punt Kick, but was unfortunately stopped by R-Truth.<\/p>\n<p>For his efforts, R-Truth got the beatdown of a lifetime from his &#8220;Childhood Hero&#8221; John Cena. On t<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/05\/16\/wwe-smackdown-results-5-16-25\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">his week&#8217;s SmackDown<\/a>, R-Truth would voice out his opinions regarding the actions of John Cena, informing the WWE Universe that he had already spoken to SmackDown GM Nick Aldis about a potential match between him and John Cena.<\/p>\n<p>To Aldis&#8217; credit, he heard the pleas of R-Truth and booked the match to happen at WWE Saturday Night&#8217;s Main Event 2025, R-Truth, talking to Wade Barrett in an interview, stated that he wants to get through to Cena before it&#8217;s too late, and if he can&#8217;t, nobody probably will.<\/p>\n<p>On the John Cena Retirement Tour, R-Truth gets his shot against the man he idolized and respected for a long time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cIf I have to beat him back to his senses, then I&#8217;ll do it\u201d<\/p>\n<p>R-Truth believes <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnCena?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@JohnCena<\/a> is in need of an ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT! Will he be able to deliver at <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SNME?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SNME<\/a>? \ud83d\udc40<br \/>\n<a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonKillings?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@RonKillings<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SmackDown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SmackDown<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lWxufIwVMm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/lWxufIwVMm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WWE (@WWE) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/1923545953493045301?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><b>More From LWOS Pro Wrestling<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><i>Header photo \u2013 WWE \u2013 Stay tuned to the\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\"><em><u><i>Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i> for more on WWE Saturday Night&#8217;s Main Event 2025, John Cena, R-Truth, and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><i>You can check out WWE programming on\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/81788927\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>Netflix<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>\u00a0(Raw),\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usanetwork.com\/wwe-friday-night-smackdown\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>USA Network<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>\u00a0(SmackDown),\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cwtv.com\/shows\/wwe-nxt\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>The CW<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>\u00a0(NXT),\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/tubitv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>Tubi<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>\u00a0(WWE Evolve),\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aetv.com\/wwe\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>A&amp;E<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>\u00a0(WWE Superstar Sunday \u2013 Rivals, WWE LFG, and Greatest Moments) and\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\/watch\/home\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>Peacock<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>\u00a0(WWE Main Event as well as archives and premium live event streaming). Follow WWE on social media to relive top moments and matches on\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/wwe\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>YouTube<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>, and catch fast-paced action on X (<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/events\/1773457579022155776?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>WWE Speed<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>).<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undisputed WWE Champion John Cena winds down his dates with another bout at Saturday Night&#8217;s Main Event 2025 that the WWE Universe will certainly look forward to. After the events of WWE Backlash St. Louis in his match against Randy Orton, wherein Orton was going in for the kill with a Punt Kick, but was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3735,"featured_media":135441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2192,4,3],"tags":[165,9001,9074],"class_list":["post-135414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-wrestling","category-wwe","category-wwe-universe","tag-john-cena","tag-john-cena-retirement","tag-wwe-saturday-nights-main-event"],"modified_by":"Marilee Gallagher, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135414"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135442,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135414\/revisions\/135442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}