{"id":80254,"date":"2025-12-15T05:36:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80254"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:36:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:36:48","slug":"john-cena-retires-after-final-wwe-match-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/15\/john-cena-retires-after-final-wwe-match-2\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cena Retires After Final WWE Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WWE legend John Cena has retired from professional wrestling following his final bout at Saturday Night\u2019s Main Event in Washington, D.C., bringing an end to a 24-year career.<\/p>\n<p>The 48-year-old lost his farewell match to Gunther after submitting to a sleeper hold in a near 25-minute contest, a rare moment that stunned fans as Cena had never tapped out in his storied career.<\/p>\n<p>After the match, fellow WWE stars entered the ring to honour him. Cena placed his wristbands and boots in the ring before saluting the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Cena retires as a record 17-time world champion and six-time WrestleMania headliner.<\/p>\n<p>He debuted in 2002, rose to fame with his \u201cDoctor of Thuganomics\u201d persona and \u201cYou Can\u2019t See Me\u201d slogan, and later built a successful Hollywood career.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Cody Rhodes said Cena \u201cset such a high standard, such a high bar.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola WWE legend John Cena has retired from professional wrestling following his final bout at Saturday Night\u2019s Main Event in Washington, D.C., bringing an end to a 24-year career. The 48-year-old lost his farewell match to Gunther after submitting to a sleeper hold in a near 25-minute contest, a rare moment that stunned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80257,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80254\/revisions\/80257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}