Thank You John Cena | Final Match reactions and more: Saturday Night’s Main Event Recap
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What happened at John Cena’s final match and how did the arena react?
Time to bring the juice. When every day feels like Monday, bring the juice. Minute Maid.
John Cena has wrestled his final match. Obafemi is going to be on the show. R-Truth is going to be on the show. This is the Saturday night's main event, John Cena's final match. Recap, a WWE and Fanatics original production presented by Minute Maid.
Hi.
Megan, I don't know that we have ever come together at a more emotional time.
I don't think we have.
For me, and I'm sure for you as well.
We were just in an arena with crying grown men and children.
And it was so funny watching everybody process this so differently. I mean, I was, I felt like, usually when you and I are on the floor together, Like I'm kind of going a little nuts.
There's a lot of nudging. There's a lot of exchanging of glances. There's a lot of chanting. This was the most locked in I've ever seen you.
I was in quite.
You were taking every ounce of all of this in. I mean, you were even very calculated about when you took out your phone and took a picture was usually you're not because you wanted to take it in.
That's so funny that you noticed that. I did. That is 100% true. That I was like, okay, I'll get this shot or whatever, but like, no, I need to live this. Yeah. Because it really is. I mean, as far as retirements go, there's never been anything like this before. But there's never been anyone like John Cena before. And I think that a part of this is that that year, this year, retirement tour was not just a moment to be like, hey, wouldn't it be nice to give fans a year to see John Cena? John, for him to go to 36 different cities or however many it was and to and to and to wrestle in front of these crowds again, everywhere from New Jersey to Perth, Australia, to here in Washington, D.C., you know, and I think that while that was what it was on the surface, what it ended up being was a year to allow people to be like, yeah.
Yeah.
I love this guy. Like the level of appreciation, especially after he turned back Babyface. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It grew each and every show.
Yes. And I think, but I mean, I think if you go, and I was talking on the Countdown show, and I believed this. Peter Rosenberg thought I was trolling. I believed it. That like, that big moment of the year for John Cena, for me, like, of course you have the Elimination Chamber turn. But watching him on that SmackDown leading to SummerSlam kind of become the old John Cena again, it was like logically you go, how can he just decide in one promo in one night to just be like, nah.
Because it's John Cena.
Exactly. And that to me like is so symbolic, emblematic of like. the relationship that John Cena has with the audience and how much we wanted this John Cena that we have had since August that we got here tonight. And I mean, I have to tell you, I've been around some loud audiences. I was there when Triple H returned at Madison Square Garden after quads. And I mean, I that's sort of my go to of like, man, that was that was just about as loud as I've heard an arena. It's a little different in a stadium because there's no roof to it. But like also I was there when John Cena returned at the Royal Rumble.
Yes.
At Madison Square Garden as well. And that was an incredibly loud reaction. But the sustained level of volume throughout this entire match was like nothing that I've ever heard. It was like, this is the beauty of pro wrestling. There's this story being told in the ring between the ultimate villain in Gunther and the ultimate hero who has been by your side for 20 years in John Cena. And we're all locked in to the exact same story. And unlike most stories in professional wrestling, it had an end. It did. This is the end of John Cena's story. Now, I could go a lot further and go, well, maybe John Cena saw his story as just this little part of the bigger story, which is the story of pro wrestling, which, I mean, clearly now goes forward.
A chapter is closed. Another chapter begins after tonight. But, I mean, for you... What were your feelings when, I mean, because you were going nuts.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What happened at John Cena’s final match and how did the arena react?
0:01–22:30
2
How did the match storytelling build tension between Cena and Gunther?
22:30–36:42
3
Why did the crowd feel conflicted when Gunther won Cena’s final match?
36:42–1:16:37
4
What did R‑Truth say about John Cena’s retirement after the show?
1:16:37–1:17:40
Speakers
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