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John Cena is presently celebrating his retirement tour, which he started back in January this year. Last year at the Money in the Bank event, he announced that he would retire by the end of 2025, and after he started his retirement tour at the Netflix RAW premiere earlier this year, he has done a lot of things.
He started things off by winning the Money in the Bank ladder match to earn the right to challenge for the Undisputed WWE Championship on the main event of WrestleMania 41. He also had his first heel run in nearly 22 years, he won the record breaking 17th WWE World Championship, and also had his only World Championship reign as a heel.
John Cena had a big planned match cancelled for his retirement tour
Cena also had multiple big matches with some of the newest stars, along with some of his biggest older rivals like CM Punk and Randy Orton. After dropping the Undisputed WWE Championship at SummerSlam, he is mostly focusing on non title feuds. And presently, he is having a mega rivalry with Brock Lesnar.
Cena started his retirement tour earlier this year
There has been no confirmation on who is going to be his final opponent, as a number of names have been rumored. But according to WWE Hall of Famer Rob Van Dam, John Cena had at least another match planned, and it was with him. Recently, he spoke to TMZ’s “Inside the Ring,” where he revealed the following;
John Cena is presently having a rivalry with Brock Lesnar
“Let me tell you this, I wanted to be one of the return matches for John Cena and his retirement tour. I was talking to them. There was a lot of interest; without giving away too many details, we were probably going to do it. Then I broke my heels.” said the former WWE Champion Rob Van Dam who had a rivalry with Cena back in 2006.
Rob Van Dam only had one rivalry with Cena, and it was back in 2006 for the WWE Championship. Van Dam defeated Cena at the One Night Stand event of the mentioned year to win the WWE Championship. He dropped the Championship only after 22 days to the Rated R Superstar Edge.
