John Cena will retire from the WWE in 2025.
The wrestler-turned-actor introduced on the Money within the Bank occasion in Toronto, Canada, over the weekend, that he’ll step down from the World Wrestling Entertainment firm subsequent 12 months.
John, 47, instructed the gang: “Tonight, I announce my retirement from the WWE.
“I hear a blended opinion on the market. Plenty of questions possibly, proper? Like, why right here? I wish to speak about that for a second. I wish to speak about Toronto. Matter of reality, I wish to speak about Canada. Matter of reality, I wish to speak about Canadians.
“I’ve been doing this some time. I’ve been in WWE for over twenty years and in that point I’ve seen unbelievable waves of prosperity like we obtained proper now. WWE is the most well liked ticket on the town, little question.
“And I’ve additionally seen large hardship and that’s when no person is aware of your identify, no person needs to be your buddy and solely essentially the most devoted, hardcore followers stand by your facet.
“So in all these years one of the essential, one of the spectacular issues that I discovered was whether or not the WWE was sizzling or chilly, Canadians at all times present up.
“All of you constructed this to what it’s right now which makes this, in my thoughts, the proper place to say what I’ve obtained to say.
“This farewell doesn’t finish tonight. It is stuffed with alternative. I wish to say thanks. Thank you a lot for letting me play in the home that you just constructed for therefore a few years. Thank you a lot at all times in your voice, as a result of it’s actually loud and your honesty as a result of it’s fantastically brutal. and most of all thanks a lot for permitting me to be right here with you tonight.”
John added that he’ll undertake a closing tour with the WWE in 2025, taking in Royal Rumble, Elimination Chamber and WrestleMania.
The star signed with WWE in 2001 and is a 16-time world champion.
Since 2018, he has carried out part-time.
