During the SummerSlam Night 2 post-show, WWE’s Chief Content Officer Triple H indirectly confirmed that whatever is happening with John Cena during the retirement tour is Cena’s wish and Cena wanted to work with Brock Lesnar before retiring:
“As you’re doing this, when you come in, you know, you have a finite number of dates on John Cena. You don’t know of a finite number of big matches and big moments and incredible things that you want to do and you want to get to the most, you know, majority of them. You can’t get to every single one of them. You can’t get to everything.
But as I said in the beginning, sort of for me, this is John Cena’s wish list. It’s him writing the last chapter of his book. And I think people saw a conversation with us where he said we’d have to screw it up pretty badly to ruin his career. But it’s not about that for me. It’s about John being able to go out the way he wants to go out to write his chapter.
I know what that’s like as a performer. I know what that’s like for everybody to feel that. And I think for John to be able to do what he wants to do. So it’s one of the first, very first things I said to him is, ‘What do you want and how?’, and we’re working through that.”
During an interview with Boston Herald, Cena went on to say the exact opposite of what Triple H claimed and noted that he has never chosen any of his opponents in his 23-year WWE career:
“I’ve been doing this for 23 years, and I’ve never once chosen my opponent. I’ve always lived by the philosophy that life will give you opportunities every single day, and you have to do the best you can every single day with what life gives you. So whoever challenges me for that last match, I’m going to give it my best shot.”
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WWE Is Using Brock Lesnar To Hurt AEW
WWE is preparing to shake up the wrestling calendar this fall, as the company is set to run a premium live event head-to-head with one of AEW’s biggest shows of the year. According to multiple sources who spoke with POST Wrestling, WWE has locked in a PLE for Saturday, September 20, in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The timing is notable, as it lands on the same date as AEW’s All Out 2025 pay-per-view, which will emanate from the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto. While start times for WWE’s event have yet to be confirmed, All Out is slated to kick off at 8 PM Eastern.
If the schedule holds, it will mark the first time in history that a WWE main roster PLE has gone head-to-head with an AEW pay-per-view. However, WWE has shown a willingness to overlap with AEW before – NXT PLEs have previously shared dates with Double or Nothing, All In Texas, and Forbidden Door earlier this year.
In an update from the Wrestling Observer, Brock Lesnar vs. John Cena will take place at this September 20th PLE:
“The planned main event for WWE’s September 20 PPV, going head-to-head against All Out, is Brock Lesnar vs John Cena. Which is why Brock’s not booked for Paris. Because they wanted him as a method to counterprogram AEW.”
There have been rumors that this September 20th PLE could be Bad Blood.
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