{"id":140557,"date":"2025-08-21T09:13:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=140557"},"modified":"2025-08-21T09:17:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:17:57","slug":"john-cena-final-wwe-match-date-confirmed-wwe-agrees-to-peacock-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/08\/21\/john-cena-final-wwe-match-date-confirmed-wwe-agrees-to-peacock-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cena Final WWE Match Date Confirmed; WWE Agrees to Peacock Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>It\u2019s been a busy few days for WWE, with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/08\/20\/wwe-bring-back-classic-ecw-event-wrestlepalooza-a-short-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">WWE WrestlePalooza<\/a> being announced in partnership with ESPN. The news for the North American promotion doesn\u2019t stop with that, as they struck a deal with NBC, as well as confirming when the final WWE match of John Cena will happen. On August 20th, WWE announced a multi-year partnership with NBC that will feature four Saturday Night\u2019s Main Event shows happening four times a year and will exclusively air on Peacock, beginning with two at the end of 2025 in November and December.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_132557\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-132557\" style=\"width: 686px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-132557 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/03\/hq720-20.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of WWE star John Cena, who will have his final WWE match at Saturday Night's Main Event.\" width=\"686\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/03\/hq720-20.jpg 686w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/03\/hq720-20-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-132557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: WWE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On that December 13th SNME, John Cena will have his last match for WWE. New beginnings and grand final endings were confirmed just this week for WWE.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>While it\u2019s sad to see Cena go, with four months left on his retirement tour, the WWE Universe can at least enjoy, as well as brace themselves, for the inevitable exit of the \u201cGreatest of All Time.\u201d All good things must come to an end. However, it&#8217;s safe to say that we don&#8217;t want the ride to end just yet for John Cena.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Enjoy it while you can, folks! The last time is approaching.<\/div>\n<div>\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 John Cena, WWE Saturday Night&#8217;s Main Event, NBC, Peacock, 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<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a busy few days for WWE, with WWE WrestlePalooza being announced in partnership with ESPN. The news for the North American promotion doesn\u2019t stop with that, as they struck a deal with NBC, as well as confirming when the final WWE match of John Cena will happen. On August 20th, WWE announced a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3735,"featured_media":125574,"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":[2,12,2192,4,3],"tags":[165,9074],"class_list":["post-140557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-wrestling","category-wwe","category-wwe-universe","tag-john-cena","tag-wwe-saturday-nights-main-event"],"modified_by":"Michael Joseph Sugue, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140557","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=140557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140559,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140557\/revisions\/140559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}