John Cena is definitely approaching the twilight of his career, at this moment. He has transformed less of a wrestler in recent years.
In fact, the last time, he properly wrestled in a full-fledged match was at Greatest Royal Rumble in Saudi Arabia against Triple H. Since then, WWE used him strategically so that he makes less body contact inside the squared circle to keep his body fit for Hollywood filming.
Like most of the Ruthless Aggression Era Superstars, John Cena is closing in for the inevitable retirement. He had a cinematic match at WrestleMania 36 which was praised by colleagues and WWE fans.
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It gave them a break from seeing monotonous in-ring competitions. The Firefly Funhouse match received movie-like treatments which gave history lesson looking back at key moments of Cena’s career and milestone moments of WWE and WCW.
The ending of the Firefly Funhouse match was bizarre just like the entire match where we could barely understand what really was going on. The ending raised speculations amongst the fans whether John Cena is finished as a wrestler.
It’s unfair to see a main-eventer player like him to feature in squash matches like the one he had with Bray Wyatt aka The Fiend. It certainly indicates that his time may be up.
As reported by Slice Wrestling, John Cena is heading back to his Hollywood career and beginning preparations for the next projects when the COVID situation comes under control.
John Cena always kept the WrestleMania 36 slot free in order to feature in a match, there. He wanted to wrestle in a match since the event was originally scheduled to happen in his residing territory of Tampa Bay, Florida.
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All things end. When it’s time to leave, leave them guessing.
— John Cena (@JohnCena) April 8, 2020
The source added that we won’t be seeing John Cena performing in the full-time schedule again and his current priority is with movies. But he will never turn WWE down and continue to make surprise appearances at the big shows such as WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, SummerSlam and Survivor Series.
Currently, John Cena stands as a 16-time World Champion which keeps the speculations on whether WWE will ever give him the number 17 title reign and thereby break Ric Flair’s record. It depends on Cena himself who has to come back for a full-timer’s role in order to have so.
