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John Cena went through his retirement tour throughout 2025, and it was one of the best years in his professional wrestling career. He touched multiple records during this year, including winning the WWE world title for the record 17 times, beating the previous record set by Ric Flair. He also became a Grand Slam Champion recently and even had his first heel run in over 21 years.
He only had two appearances left in his present WWE contract, one of them will take place at Survivor Series, where he will defend the WWE Intercontinental Championship against Dominik Mysterio, and his last ever match will take place at the upcoming Saturday Night's Main Event on December 13, which will also be his retirement match.
Will John Cena return for WrestleMania 42?
WWE has organised a 16 man tournament and named it The Last is Now tournament, where the winner will challenge John Cena in his final match at the mentioned Show on December 13. The first round of the tournament is already over, and the quarter final is presently underway. Some of the former WWE stars, like Zack Ryder and Dolph Ziggler, also made their returns to take part in this tournament.
John Cena is a scheduled to retire on December 13
This is quite disappointing that Cena will never return to action after December 13, and this is definitely going to be a very emotional night for his fans. But a large number of fans believe that he will not retire actually, and WWE will ultimately bring him back. Speaking on the “RAW Recap” podcast, Cena revealed that he has no intentions of returning to the ring after he retires;
He will wrestle his final match at Saturday Night's Main Event
“I know there’s a lot of speculation, or there was at one point, like, ‘Oh, they’re just going to run him through WrestleMania [42] because that’s the end of everyone’s story’ because that’s the way everyone did it before him. I told everybody fifteen months ago that I was going to do this. I told them I was going to do a year, and after this, it’s done. And I don’t say that as a bad thing.”
Gunther presently stands as the favourite to win the tournament and feature as the final opponent of John Cena. The Ring General is one of the best in ring workers in WWE right now, and perhaps that has been the reason behind his name being proposed to be the final opponent of the Greatest of All Time.
