{"id":329286,"date":"2026-05-04T23:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=329286"},"modified":"2026-05-04T23:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:15:13","slug":"backstage-update-on-john-cenas-wwe-schedule-post-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/backstage-update-on-john-cenas-wwe-schedule-post-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Backstage Update On John Cena&#8217;s WWE Schedule Post-Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<article class=\"news-post\">\n<div class=\"news-article\">\n<div class=\"slide-key image-holder gallery-image-holder credit-image-wrap lead-image-holder\" data-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/2164069\/wwe-john-cena-backstage-update-schedule-post-retirement\/\" data-post-title=\"Backstage Update On John Cena's WWE Schedule Post-Retirement\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-post-id=\"2164069\">\n<picture id=\"p246247a3e73a41e0d5d3efdbdec87e03\"><source media=\"(min-width: 429px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/img\/gallery\/backstage-update-on-john-cenas-wwe-schedule-post-retirement\/intro-1777915701.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source media=\"(max-width: 428px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/img\/gallery\/backstage-update-on-john-cenas-wwe-schedule-post-retirement\/intro-1777915701.sm.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">Ethan Miller\/Getty Images<\/span>\n                    <\/div>\n<div class=\"columns-holder \">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">John Cena can have retired from his in-ring wrestling profession last December, but he&#8217;s seemingly been around almost as much as he was before his retirement tour began. Not only was Cena readily available for each nights of WrestleMania 42, hosting WWE&#8217;s marquee event, but he can also be scheduled to look at WWE Backlash this weekend, where he has teased unveiling a &#8220;history making&#8221; bit of reports.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For a lot of, Cena&#8217;s two consecutive appearances on WWE PLEs is confusing given Cena&#8217;s busy schedule and the assumption he could be less involved with the promotion after retirement. But as Dave Meltzer explained during Monday&#8217;s edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f4wonline.com\/podcasts\/wrestling-observer-radio\/wor-wwe-releases-weekend-news-and-tv-recaps\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Wrestling Observer Radio,&#8221;<\/a> Cena&#8217;s appearance at WrestleMania, Backlash, and another future events is all by design, and a part of a brand new agreement Cena and WWE reached right after Cena&#8217;s final match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They signed him to a contract, which called for various appearances,&#8221; Meltzer said. &#8220;So that is one among those appearances. It was not like&#8230;his deal called for these items. So&#8230;to me, it&#8217;s type of weird since it&#8217;s like, he just did WrestleMania. It was purported to be special. And here we&#8217;re, a few weeks after WrestleMania, and he&#8217;s doing it again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So it looks like you are type of, for like a giant guest like that, coming back so quick and having him again, it type of looks like &#8216;Why would you do it?&#8217; almost. But I feel the mentality is that John Cena is significant, and getting him on TV is significant, and he&#8217;s signed for various dates, so&#8230;that is one among them. That is it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>In case you use any of the quotes in this text, please credit &#8220;Wrestling Observer Radio&#8221; and supply a h\/t to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethan Miller\/Getty Images John Cena can have retired from his in-ring wrestling profession last December, but he&#8217;s seemingly been around almost as much as he was before his retirement tour began. Not only was Cena readily available for each nights of WrestleMania 42, hosting WWE&#8217;s marquee event, but he can also be scheduled to look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":329287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21056],"tags":[13881,20471,3413,51349,802,581,6221],"class_list":["post-329286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wwe-and-more","tag-backstage","tag-cenas","tag-john","tag-postretirement","tag-schedule","tag-update","tag-wwe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329289,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329286\/revisions\/329289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}