This upcoming weekend, John Cena will officially retire from skilled wrestling at Saturday Night’s Predominant Event after conducting a year-long farewell tour at first of 2025. Cena first announced the tour at Money In The Bank in Toronto, Canada in 2024, but based on the 17-time World Champion during a recent interview with Chris Van Vliet on “Insight,” his retirement plans for this yr had been discussed long before the Premium Live Event.
“About one other yr and a half. So the entire thing was like 3 years. … By then, I knew I had numerous opportunities outside of WWE and people are very difficult to balance. Not only being all over the place – the primary half of this yr for the tour, I used to be flying backwards and forwards to Budapest and Morocco, making PLE dates and man, I literally left Intuit [on January 6] … to land in Budapest to shoot the subsequent day. That is a scheduling thing. The largest hurdle to climb is insurance, and insurance is super pricey, like every date the fee goes up.”
Cena continued to discuss insurance, stating that attempting to avoid injury while wrestling was a predominant priority for him throughout 2025 because getting hurt within the ring would end in any film or TV roles to be placed on pause until he’s healthy. He also explained that getting a movie studio to comply with allow him wrestle similtaneously shooting a movie might be unimaginable, and has often needed to pay out of pocket for insurance.
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