John Cena hung up his Jorts in December of last yr, after a year-long retirement tour that celebrated his 23 years in WWE. The previous WWE Champion recently attended the premiere of “Matchbox: The Movie,” where he was asked in regards to the decision to depart WWE.
“[Wrestling is] something I wish I could do without end. I feel the reasonable approach is to grasp when it is time to step away,” Cena told “Entertainment Tonight.” He went into the roughly three-year process that went into coming up with, pitching, after which following through on the retirement tour that Cena concluded on December 13 in Washington, DC. “I did have loads of time to get right into a space that like, ‘My in-ring performance in WWE is over.’ I’m glad that we did -I believed we did an incredible yr of business, and definitely the audience has talked about it, and I’m very grateful for that.”
Cena’s retirement tour featured a controversial heel turn, which saw Cena turn his back on the WWE fans to hitch up with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Travis Scott for much of the spring and summer, before finally being welcomed back as a hero after SummerSlam.
Cena was one in all the various stars retired by former World Heavyweight Champion Gunther. Gunther submitted WWE HOFer Goldberg in the previous WCW World Heavyweight Champion’s retirement, then he submitted Cena at December’s “Saturday Night’s Most important Event,” after which went on to retire AJ Styles on the Royal Rumble in January, also by submission.