{"id":147803,"date":"2025-12-04T08:16:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=147803"},"modified":"2025-12-04T08:16:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:16:50","slug":"john-cena-upsetting-news-wwe-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/12\/04\/john-cena-upsetting-news-wwe-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cena Shares Upsetting News Regarding His WWE Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This whole year has been crazy to watch as a John Cena fan. Not only did they get to see Cena&#8217;s long-awaited heel turn in WWE, but he also captured his 17th WWE Championship and became a record holder in the company.<\/p>\n<p>Cena has worked through numerous matches this year, but now, he only has one more match left. It&#8217;s going to be his retirement match, where <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/12\/03\/wwe-smackdown-preview-12-5-25-1st-friday-after-survivor-series-wargames\/\" target=\"_self\">he&#8217;ll face either LA Knight or Gunther<\/a> (depending on who wins the Last Time is Now Tournament).<\/p>\n<p>If there are any fans who&#8217;re hoping Cena would eventually return to the ring in the next few years for a match or two, The Cenation Leader has got some bad news for them.<\/p>\n<h2>John Cena Says He Is 100% Done With Wrestling After His Final Match<\/h2>\n<p>Speaking on <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g7Vvna3OfhY\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/a>, John Cena once again said that his retirement will be final. We know that many stars in the past have come out of retirement for a match or two. Even Shawn Michaels, who fans thought was done for good, eventually returned to the ring again for a Saudi Arabia show.<\/p>\n<p>It seems things will be different in Cena&#8217;s case. He&#8217;s consistently said that after December 13, 2025, he will never step into the WWE ring again. Cena said the same to Jimmy Kimmel:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;It has been a crazy year where I announced this like 15 months in advance that I&#8217;m going to retire. This has really never been done in WWE history, WWE superstars don\u2019t necessarily \u2018retire\u2019 they always kind of hang on for one more match. I am absolutely 100% done. The 13th of December on Peacock is my last in-ring performance. I will never wrestle again.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fans can watch Cena&#8217;s appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Cena on Jimmy Asking Him to Be Naked at the Oscars, Retiring from Wrestling &amp; Final Match Ever\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g7Vvna3OfhY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On the same show, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/12\/04\/john-cena-jimmy-kimmel-wwe-retirement\/\" target=\"_self\">Cena also addressed the skepticism of wrestling fans surrounding his retirement<\/a>. Cena said he announced his retirement in advance so WWE fans will have the time to process it.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Cena finally won the Intercontinental Championship in WWE as well and became a Grand Slam Champion. He lost the belt to Dominik Mysterio at Survivor Series 2025 after an interference from Judgement Day. Currently, Cena is preparing for his upcoming Saturday Night Main Event match, which takes place on December 13.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>If you use any quotes from this article, please credit Jimmy Kimmel Live and provide an H\/T to LastWordOnSports.com.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Header photo \u2013 WWE \u2013<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stay tuned to the <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for more on John Cena&#8217;s retirement <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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. You can check out WWE programming on<\/span><\/i><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/81788927\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Netflix<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Raw), <\/span><\/i><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.usanetwork.com\/wwe-friday-night-smackdown\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">USA Network<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (SmackDown), <\/span><\/i><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.cwtv.com\/shows\/wwe-nxt\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The CW<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (NXT), and <\/span><\/i><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\/watch\/home\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Peacock<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (archives and premium live event streaming). You can follow WWE on social media and relive top moments on <\/span><\/i><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WWE\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">YouTube<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This whole year has been crazy to watch as a John Cena fan. Not only did they get to see Cena&#8217;s long-awaited heel turn in WWE, but he also captured his 17th WWE Championship and became a record holder in the company. Cena has worked through numerous matches this year, but now, he only has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5645,"featured_media":145803,"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":[12,3],"tags":[165,9001],"class_list":["post-147803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-wwe-universe","tag-john-cena","tag-john-cena-retirement"],"modified_by":"Ishaan Sharma","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147803","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\/5645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147806,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147803\/revisions\/147806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}