John Cena Insists 'There Is No Way' He'll Return to WWE After He Retires at the End of 2025

It’s casual to hide these days that histrion John Cena has his roots elsewhere — but the present beloved movie prima precocious opened up astir whether oregon not he’d ever instrumentality to the WWE aft his upcoming status tour.

"There is nary way," Cena precocious revealed connected Good Morning America. "There is absolutely... I don't privation to talk successful absolutes, due to the fact that I don't privation to adjacent immoderate opportunity, but I made a committedness to the fans who've allowed maine to beryllium present for a 4th of a century. They allowed maine to beryllium with you today. I wouldn't privation to disrespect them similar that. This is an lawsuit — erstwhile radical attend, it's precise exclusive."

The wrestler, who is considered 1 of the top of each time, besides noted that helium didn’t privation to “ruin” the transportation he’s built with fans passim his vocation for the “selfish gain” of picking backmost up again aft announcing his determination to measurement backmost from the sport.

John Cena has said he's retiring from WWE for existent aboriginal this year. Photo by Rich Freeda/WWE via Getty Images.

"Speaking to a retired athlete, I deliberation you intrinsically cognize erstwhile your instinct says, 'I'm a measurement slower.' It's past conscionable a conflict of, 'How agelong bash I combat those reddish flags earlier it could beryllium counterproductive?'" Cena said of the extremity of his 25-year career. "I inactive look good, I inactive consciousness good, I inactive consciousness similar I tin execute astatine a WWE level, but I besides deliberation it's clip for maine to measurement speech and fto the young endowment measurement forward."

That said, helium "wanted to bash thing that's ne'er been done" to people the last signifier of his wrestling life, truthful helium acceptable retired connected a monolithic goodbye tour.

"I said for the twelvemonth I'd execute successful 36 states," helium told the assemblage astatine GMA. "We're halfway through, and I deliberation cipher thought I was serious. And present that we're halfway done and radical truly recognize that my past lucifer is successful December and it's clip for maine to determination on, the audiences person been electric."

In March, we reported connected however John Cena followed up his daze bottommost crook astatine WWE Elimination Chamber by posting a Grand Theft Auto 6 representation connected societal media, showing helium was good alert of the meme.

For the uninitiated, the 12-year hold for Rockstar to merchandise GTA 6 has spawned a meme successful which radical item the astonishing things they got earlier GTA 6’s merchandise date.

In this case, it was a John Cena bottommost crook — his archetypal successful 20 years and a communicative displacement galore thought would ne'er happen. To enactment it successful different words, Cena, the WWE's superstar ‘good guy,’ the Make-A-Wish satellite grounds holder and all-round much-loved wrestler and actor, became a WWE ‘bad guy’ earlier we got GTA 6.

Cena volition wrestle his last bout earlier status successful December. As for his acting career, helium tin beryllium seen adjacent successful the upcoming enactment drama Heads of State, which volition beryllium released connected July 2 connected Prime, and past successful Peacemaker Season 2 connected August 21.

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Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.