John Cena has opened up on tapping out to GUNTHER in his WWE retirement match at Saturday Night’s Main Event.
Cena’s retirement tour came to an end on December 13, with him competing in his final wrestling match against GUNTHER on Saturday Night’s Main Event, with GUNTHER scoring the submission victory.
The decision for Cena to submit in his final match has been very divisive among wrestling fans and those within the industry itself, and Cena has now opened up on the decision to submit.
Speaking on What Do You Wanna Talk About?, Cena gave his vision for the final moments of his career, comparing it to losing a loved one.
He said:
“I envisioned something beautiful. Saturday far exceeded whatever was in my heart and soul. So I know I’m out there one last time, they had to move the side ramps in to get more seats, it was almost like a fire hazard to go down the ramp. You can not fit any more people in there.
“So going up to this event I made sure, everyone I talked to, all the podcasts I did, I said ‘hey, I know you might not think I’m gonna retire, I am. I’m comfortable with that, please just get the closure you need’.
“Now I’m out there. They hate the guy I’m working with, they universally cheer me, that is f**king rare, and for the last five minutes everything I preach about story, and drama, and having a conversation with the audience. The ones I love are front row, my colleagues are watching on a monitor back there. We’re just in a Sleeper Hold man, but we’re having that conversation with the audience.
“So as I essentially take my last breath, I have struggled, if you think of somebody, however we picture loss in our life, they struggle, they struggle, they hang on just long enough to say goodbye to everybody that’s been meaningful in their lives, and that day was so many vulnerable, meaningful conversations.
“Then you realise, I’ve connected with everybody I love. Physically I feel great. I think it’s time to take that last breath, and that’s that, I hate to keep going back morbidly to obituaries, but like ‘this person died peacefully’, and knowing that we’re in a good place, we’re gonna be great going forward. The bottom of the t-shirt says ‘I gave everything, thank you for everything’. And that was that going peacefully.”
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