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- 0:00Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the M3P Podcast, a show
- 0:03where fandom chaos, nostalgia, and questionable booking
- 0:06decisions always collide. Tonight is a major one.
- 0:12This is episode 265, landing on the eve of one of the biggest
- 0:17nights in modern wrestling. Because this Saturday, December
- 0:2113th, 2025, live from the Capital One Arena in Washington
- 0:24DC, extremely exclusively on Peacock, we witnessed something
- 0:29none of us ever thought we'd actually see.
- 0:33John Cena's final match. The last bell.
- 0:37The final entrance, the curtain call for a man who walked the
- 0:40Smackdown in 2002, stepped up the Kurt Angle and rewired
- 0:43wrestling culture with two word ruthless aggression.
- 0:52And from that moment, he transformed from a hungry rookie
- 0:55and George dropping freestyles and anyone brave enough to hold
- 0:58a mic to chain gang soldier to the 17 time world champion, to
- 1:03the company's last true Iron Man.
- 1:05And then he spun the block and built an entire second career.
- 1:10The Marine kicked down Hollywood.
- 1:12Hollywood door. Trainwreck showed he had comedic
- 1:15timing. If you haven't seen Trainwreck,
- 1:18now's your chance. Fast and Furious made of a
- 1:22franchise player Peacemaker tournament to a culture icon.
- 1:26One helmet, one crazy silly dance sequence and suddenly
- 1:32America had a new favorite Himbo vigilante.
- 1:36Then there was Barbie Vacation, Friends, Argyle, Hit and Strike
- 1:40Ninja Turtles. He didn't just go Hollywood, he
- 1:43invaded every genre like it was another open challenge.
- 1:47But for wrestling fans, No movie role, no cameo, no Hollywood run
- 1:51will ever be bigger than John Cena the wrestler, the guy who
- 1:55carried the company through arrows, booze, cheers, memes,
- 1:58kids, adults and everything in between.
- 2:01So tonight isn't our usual predictions episode.
- 2:05This is a celebration, a tribute, a send off.
- 2:09Cena's finale is the story. Everything else in the card is
- 2:13framed around it. Saturday Night's Main event
- 2:16isn't running like your typical premium live event.
- 2:19This one's built like a special 8:00 PM Eastern, 5:00 PM Pacific
- 2:25start time on Peacock, a pre show and full of taping earlier
- 2:29in the day and immediately after the event.
- 2:30The post show continues here on Peacock or over on YouTube.
- 2:33So the conversation is literally does not stop, and outside of
- 2:37Cena's last stand, the rest of the lineup is being treated as
- 2:40exactly what it is. A series of exhibition matches.
- 2:43NXT talents stepping up, main roster stars testing the waters.
- 2:48A showcase night. A proving ground.
- 2:51The future versus the present. Before we close the book on one
- 2:56of wrestling's all time great if you're new here.
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- 4:05memories collide every single week.
- 4:08And for the day one listeners here to know the drill, here's
- 4:11what we've got tonight on the car tonight, Saturday night's
- 4:15Main event, the Cena finale, why his last match feels like a
- 4:18season finale, and the emotional weight behind it.
- 4:20John Cena lore from ruthless aggression to Hollywood
- 4:23domination to becoming the generational GOAT top ten seen a
- 4:29moment matches and feud. The battles, promos, storylines,
- 4:32entrances and areas that shaped the career annex.
- 4:35Heber's main roster showcase the exhibition matches the future
- 4:37stars and who might steal the spotlight.
- 4:40And of course, I'm not covering this alone.
- 4:43Joining me tonight, Fist taped. Did you fish?
- 4:47Your did you tape your fist? Yeah, There you go, Fist.
- 4:50Tape. Attitude locked in already and
- 4:57ready to talk. Her Talk Madness is in the
- 5:01studio. Hi everyone.
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- 5:28Thank you for the hard me. What's the twist of song that we
- 5:31use for John Cena? That's the song.
- 5:36Yeah, Doesn't he cover like A twist of song?
- 5:40Is it Caroline I? Don't know.
- 5:43I don't know any. The only song I know that like
- 5:46could be it would be with Kanye West and the whole Through the
- 5:52Wire. Oh, OK.
- 5:56It's not no, that's not Twister though.
- 5:58It's the one with Kanye West, Jamie Foxx.
- 6:03Oh I'm twister. Oh oh, she's not the mom and
- 6:15kids little girl does that one OK.
- 6:20That's the one I kept thinking about.
- 6:21When the church bells. The church bells.
- 6:27The. Church bells I love.
- 6:29You know it's 9:00, can you not? Anyway, I got my John Cena right
- 6:35behind me otherwise. There you go.
- 6:38There you go. Please stay up tonight.
- 6:43Don't fall, John. Don't fall for those little
- 6:47where unaware like two few nights ago freaking he just fell
- 6:51off the freaking thing that was there just weird.
- 6:56It just like fell off all right, you ready for this?
- 7:02Yes, my hearts are SpongeBob. They are they are they are.
- 7:12I heard they were SpongeBob yesterday and this told me that
- 7:15they were SpongeBob and I'm like I don't understand why I can't
- 7:18see them double plastic Spires in two hours.
- 7:22I don't want to use double blast.
- 7:24All right, that's great. On November 10th episode of Raw,
- 7:30John Cena announced a series of exhibition matches That which
- 7:32feature and it's the talents. Wait, go back.
- 7:34Go back. How is how are you?
- 7:37I introduced you. I didn't ask how you doing?
- 7:39Hey hey, welcome to the show menace.
- 7:44We get to have you at least two times the this month.
- 7:47Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
- 7:53Survivor. State, so it's kind of weird.
- 7:55That's. Whatever.
- 7:56Well, not really because that was November, but we're in
- 7:59December now. So yeah.
- 8:00Yeah, but how are you? How's your doing?
- 8:03Good. How did you enjoy that that
- 8:07whole? You know, I I liked it, but the
- 8:15men's match didn't feel like a main event.
- 8:20Horrible. And, you know, it just kind of
- 8:23like the masked, you know, the masked man just kind of made it
- 8:30not feel like anything. And the fact that we still don't
- 8:34know who it is, you know, but you know, hopefully we'll find
- 8:40out who he is. I don't.
- 8:44Want to know just yet? No.
- 8:47Like if you're going to do long term storytelling, give it like
- 8:50a few more months and find out it was rikishi the entire time.
- 8:57Yeah, right. It's a little too small to be
- 9:00rikishi. Just saying.
- 9:04Hey. Well, no, because he was a
- 9:06little too big to be the raucous, especially since he
- 9:09lost all that weight, you know what I mean?
- 9:12Oh God, I've seen him with what's his face, Brendan Fraser.
- 9:18Yeah, talking. About The Mummy and I'm like,
- 9:25which one's star? Brendan Fraser is a star and
- 9:30he's all like, like, I appreciate everything you did
- 9:33for me. And I'm like Brandon Frazier,
- 9:35really. Wow.
- 9:37OK. Yeah.
- 9:38So I saw, yeah, I saw like a little snippet, just like it was
- 9:42just like a headline, not really headline, but just like a
- 9:44paragraph. And it was saying that Brandon
- 9:47Frazier gave The Rock like his first movie role, which was the
- 9:53money. And then they said, so that kind
- 9:57of skyrocket, you know, started him as an actor.
- 10:01And then years later they said it was a full circle moment
- 10:05because The Rock helped him with the Whale.
- 10:10And since he I, I guess so. And so since he helped him with
- 10:16the Whale, Brandon Frazier got his first Oscar.
- 10:21So they said, you know, Brendan Fraser helping the Rock.
- 10:26The Rock in turn helped Brendan Fraser get his first ox skirt.
- 10:29So I was like, that's pretty awesome.
- 10:32I didn't know that, so not. Either I got to watch the whale.
- 10:36Yeah, I'm gonna. Support Brendan Fraser.
- 10:39I heard, I heard it was a really good movie and obviously he he's
- 10:43a good actor. What else happened this week,
- 10:52this week, this past weekend? John Cena's going on a
- 10:59retirement tour. He got that.
- 11:01ESPN. I haven't even seen it.
- 11:04I was supposed to watch it today but.
- 11:06Yeah, I haven't watched that interview either.
- 11:08I was, I said I was going to listen to it while I was at
- 11:11work, but it didn't happen. So yeah, maybe tomorrow, you
- 11:17know, hopefully I'll watch it before Saturday.
- 11:20So exactly. So I could see what you know,
- 11:24because they've been showing us like little clips here and
- 11:26there, you know, during, you know, for the past, what, 2-3
- 11:31weeks. So.
- 11:33Press tour, like, all right, it's my retirement match.
- 11:38I promise the fans if I ever start going slow and I would
- 11:42retire and here we are. I'm gone slow.
- 11:45Like OK dude, you're coming back, aren't you?
- 11:49For WrestleMania show? Up.
- 11:52He's coming back. He'll be there, He'll be there.
- 11:58All right, let's, let's get to it.
- 12:00Let's get to it. On November 10th episode of Rod
- 12:04Johnson announced a series of exhibition matches that would
- 12:06feature NXT talents against Maine roster wrestlers.
- 12:10On December 5th episode of Smackdown, Undisputed Duty
- 12:13Champion Cody Rhodes announced the NXT Champion Ricky or Santa
- 12:15Nova Femi that the winner will fade will of their title match
- 12:19the following night at NXT. Then line will face on the
- 12:21Saturday night's Main event. Femi defeated Saints to win the
- 12:25NXT Championship and Brave Rhodes and Starlights main
- 12:27event. Also in December 5th episode,
- 12:29Smackdowns announced that Bailey would face My Girl Saw Ruka at
- 12:33the event. Love it.
- 12:37So we have another added match as well.
- 12:40So this one, Cody Rhodes, Oba Femi champions champion.
- 12:45Just going to go ahead and say it.
- 12:47Oba Femi should just squash him. I think he is.
- 12:52You know, I've seen him wrestle and I'm like, that's good.
- 12:56I mean, Cody's a good wrestler, but he's not Oba Femi.
- 13:03Oba Femi's called the Ruler for a reason I see.
- 13:07He rules over everything. I've seen over family with the
- 13:12Celtic workout. Which, uh huh.
- 13:15Yeah. I'm like, wow, he is doing some
- 13:19crazy moves in there and Sheamus is trying to keep up these days.
- 13:24He always does. I will tell you, I don't know
- 13:28what Sheamus does in his workouts, but for some reason
- 13:33when he has, you know, every time he has a guest, he cannot
- 13:39keep up with what they do, you know, And it could be just like
- 13:44one time he, I forget who it was, but she was doing Pilates.
- 13:50So obviously his muscles are, you know, are more constricted
- 13:55than hers. So Pilates is not his Forte and
- 14:01he was struggling so. That heavy breathing, you heard
- 14:07it too. You heard it too.
- 14:10This goes back to to 2019-2020. Around there.
- 14:14I saw him and Edge Edge doing the whole walk up the hill.
- 14:20He. Has a barrel and he puts stuff
- 14:22in the barrel and he's just walking up the hill.
- 14:24OK. And.
- 14:25Here's James right behind him. Yeah, gosh, I'm.
- 14:31Like dude. Like was he like had a barrel
- 14:35like on wheels or was it on his back and he's just like pushing
- 14:39it while throwing trash or things in it and.
- 14:43I think Edge was in the barrel in.
- 14:46The Wheel and Seamus. Had to carry him up there.
- 14:50Oh wow, which? They had to like switch around
- 14:52there all the. Time.
- 14:55Yeah, this was when Edge was coming back to wrestling.
- 14:57OK, he was. Show showing him all the stuff
- 15:00that he was doing and I'm like why are we showing him doing
- 15:05stuff? Huh.
- 15:05What's? Going on what's?
- 15:07Happening and then the rumble happens and he's there and I'm
- 15:10just like, that is awesome. Ever since the Celtic workout,
- 15:14I'm just like, oh, OK. But ever since then we've seen
- 15:17him do all kinds of stuff. John Cena with the with the
- 15:22Rose, and here comes Shamus again.
- 15:26I felt like. Dude, why are you not able to
- 15:31pick keep up? Even the girls.
- 15:33Even the girls, there wasn't. Even I think it was Maxine
- 15:36Dupree that was doing Pilates. Oh.
- 15:39God, yeah, that it would be here.
- 15:41Yeah, the Iconics were at the time they just walking with the
- 15:47weight on their. Hand.
- 15:49He was just like, all right, so I do this like, yeah, OK, add
- 15:53more weight. So he does.
- 15:55And he's like now he has to loot on just with them.
- 15:58Oh yeah, I'm like, come on, man, what are you doing?
- 16:07So. I don't know.
- 16:09Been years that he does that. Yeah, although Febby gets on
- 16:12there and I was like, this is like 50 year old man to a 21
- 16:16year old. Guy, Yeah.
- 16:18Don't, Don't do this to us. I'm going to look that up.
- 16:22You see Oba Femi using the stairmaster saying like.
- 16:25This but his. Pace going like you know.
- 16:28Yeah. Going very fast and then you see
- 16:32Sheamus going next. No.
- 16:39I'm like, no, I gotta take this off.
- 16:41I can't. I can't see this anymore.
- 16:42I can't. I can't watch my guy do this
- 16:44anymore to himself. Oh my gosh, that's hilarious.
- 16:50For those that didn't see it is like freaking over Femi doing it
- 16:53like what 5 mph and then you have Sheamus going like very
- 16:58slow it. Was it was rough.
- 17:04It was rough. So here's what I'm thinking.
- 17:05It's like over Femi quashes Cody Rhodes because Cody got hurt
- 17:10once with Brock Lesnar. I'm not OK else you know, we
- 17:15don't need him to win this match.
- 17:18Yeah. Like, we know he's a champion.
- 17:21Great. What does he win out of?
- 17:24What does he get out of this? Nothing Oba Femi would get like
- 17:26a lot of credibility and stuff like yeah.
- 17:28Cool. And go back to NXDII.
- 17:32Conquered Cody Rhodes. Champion.
- 17:34Yeah. You know, that'd be great.
- 17:40Yeah. So we agree on Oba Femi.
- 17:42This will be a. Shortest episode?
- 17:44I swear to God that's OK. It's going to be short episode
- 17:49because it's four matches. I hate it.
- 17:51I hate those four matches. Yeah.
- 17:54And didn't give me. They didn't.
- 17:59And I got it from Wikipedia obviously, but they didn't give
- 18:01any like background information on it.
- 18:05OK. That's just that AJ Styles and
- 18:08Dragon leaves Jayvon Evans and Leon Slater.
- 18:11The only person from TNA in this is Leon Slater.
- 18:16So I love how like, you know, and it's not too late.
- 18:19Maybe on Friday they'll announce something for Saturday.
- 18:22Maybe. And Dominic will get in there
- 18:25probably, but Leon Slater from TNA and Jayvon Evans are, so
- 18:33they're PAC partners. So AJ Styles and Dragon Lee Umm
- 18:39again, this is another moment to showcase Leon Slater because
- 18:42they don't have to win. But Jayvon?
- 18:45And Leon do, so it's probably going to show off where Javon
- 18:49and Leon are like gritty and well, you can do whatever it
- 18:53takes. Well, it's for the belts, so.
- 18:56Is it for the belts? Yeah.
- 18:58I did not see that. Yeah, so.
- 19:03Tag team match for the World Tag Team Championship.
- 19:05Nice. All right, we're going for the
- 19:08belts. Let's go.
- 19:10Yeah. All right, so we do get to
- 19:14predict this one, huh? Yeah.
- 19:17Yeah. I'm going to say AJ Lee is going
- 19:20to win this. Yeah, Dragon styles, Yeah,
- 19:25Dragon style. Yeah, I, I think, yeah, I think
- 19:33it's going to be Dragon Styles. But they're going to put on a
- 19:37good show. I think it's going to be a good
- 19:40match because like you said, they're they're showcasing, you
- 19:44know, the NXT versus the main roster and then they add TNA in
- 19:49there. So we get to see somebody from
- 19:54TNA see how they perform and then NXT how he performs, which
- 19:59we've already seen how he performs.
- 20:01But yeah, I think this is going to be a good one.
- 20:06I don't see any of these matches as not being a good match, so.
- 20:11I, I think that for the last PLE of, you know, 2025, I think this
- 20:22one's a good one. So, and not that it's a PLE, but
- 20:28they treat it like, you know, it's, it's special.
- 20:31So I think it's good. It'll be a good, I think it'll
- 20:34be a good show. Next up is Bailey, Jesus we Next
- 20:45up is Bailey, but Sol Ruka, my girl.
- 20:48Yeah. I am going for Sol Ruka here.
- 20:54I know Bailey fucking awesome. Great.
- 20:58But you know, let's see what she can give her.
- 21:00Let's see what she can happens. Yeah, I like Sol Ruka.
- 21:04I think I've seen a few of her matches.
- 21:07I think that she's super athletic and her finisher is
- 21:12pretty amazing. Like, I don't know how she does
- 21:17it, you know, that's. Especially on one leg.
- 21:22That too. That's did you see?
- 21:25I saw the highlights she did for Iron Survivor.
- 21:29She did it on the floor on. The floor, yeah, I'm like trying
- 21:34to rewind that part. I'm like, how'd you what?
- 21:36What just happened? Yeah, she went from the steps
- 21:41and did that. I was like, Oh my gosh, I'm like
- 21:44she's and the double on the girl crazy.
- 21:48Yeah, yeah. But it's a good crazy, you know,
- 21:53that's it's, it's the crazy that you're like mind blowing.
- 21:59She is. She's pretty amazing.
- 22:02Definitely would see her on the main roster.
- 22:04Doing Oh, I can't wait and when she comes up, I think they
- 22:10really need to push her. You know, I don't know because I
- 22:14mean, I don't know where I where I saw it, but they said that you
- 22:17know, they're it looks like they're trying to break up her
- 22:20and Zarya, unless they already did.
- 22:23They tried, but yeah, they're. Trying to they're.
- 22:26Trying to I'm like why? You know, I'm like, why the?
- 22:31Main roster, the other one. Needs to stay in there.
- 22:33Oh well. Well, they could always do like
- 22:36they did with Roxanne and Julia. Put them on the main roster, but
- 22:42one on Smackdown and one on wrong.
- 22:44Yeah. Yeah.
- 22:49Yes, I love that. So Ruka and then versus
- 22:55Charlotte, oh, I can't wait for those one-on-one matches versus
- 23:02what's her name? I already forgot her name.
- 23:08Tiffy. Tiffy.
- 23:12Just bring all the blondes over, have a blonde off.
- 23:16Heather Monroe, a blonde off. Heather Monroe, Charlotte Flair
- 23:21So. Blake.
- 23:23Heather Blake. I don't know Heather Monroe.
- 23:26Is an actual independent wrestler.
- 23:29Oh, OK. Oh, well, maybe then you were
- 23:33talking about her. No, it's Blake.
- 23:35Blake. OK, OK.
- 23:37Blake. Blake.
- 23:40Blake. It's Blake.
- 23:43It's pronounced Blake. It's Blake.
- 23:46Blackey Blockey. Blockey, Monroe.
- 23:50Yeah. So yeah, I have all the blondes
- 23:54in there and just freaking have at it.
- 23:56Go for it. Anyway, Yeah, so who's winning
- 24:03this match? I don't even know.
- 24:05Like I want sold or win, but Bailey's there and it's like oh
- 24:10crap. Yeah, I I think so.
- 24:14Exhibition match yeah it's Seoul.
- 24:16I like I said the the NXT to people that need to win this
- 24:19match. All right and finally, John Cena
- 24:28was Gunter at money in the bank. On July 2024, Johnson announced
- 24:31that he would retire from in ring competition at the end of
- 24:342025, right there during the Raw premiere on Netflix.
- 24:41On January 6, 2025, Cena officially kicked off his
- 24:44retirement tour by announcing he would compete in the Royal
- 24:47Rumble match at the eponymous event on February 1st to try and
- 24:51earn an opportunity to win the championship by WrestleMania 41.
- 24:55He lost the Royal Rumble match, however he won the Elevation
- 24:58Chamber match at the namesake event on March 1st, earning an
- 25:01Undisputed World Championship match at WrestleMania.
- 25:04He would go on to win the title by defeating Cody Rose on Night
- 25:06to the event on April 20th, holding it until August 3rd at
- 25:09Night to of Summer Slam, where he lost it back to Rhodes in a
- 25:12street fight. Later same month, it was
- 25:15officially announced that Cena's last match would take place at
- 25:18Saturday Night's Main Event. And on November 1st I started a
- 25:21nice main event. It was announced that Cena's the
- 25:24final opponent would be decided in the last Time is Now
- 25:26tournament beginning on the November 10th of the Raw in
- 25:29Boston, MA, near Cena's hometown.
- 25:32On that same message was so Cena defeated Dominic Mysterio for
- 25:35the WE Intercom Championship, win the title for the first time
- 25:37in his career, and becoming a Triple Crown and Grand Slam
- 25:40champion in the process. However, Survivor Series War
- 25:43Games on November 29th, Cena lost the title back to Mysterio,
- 25:46thus entering his final match without a championship.
- 25:49On the December 1st episode of Smackdown, Gunter won the final
- 25:53the last time is now tournament to become Cena's final opponent
- 25:56for the event. His last time is now.
- 26:07See it. Everybody in the chat crying I
- 26:14doing this, but I love doing this.
- 26:20I've seen a better win. I know.
- 26:24I know it's gonna be freaking a lot of signs out there.
- 26:27Cena loses, we riot. Yeah.
- 26:31Cena better win. Yeah, Gunther doesn't need it
- 26:35like here to beat Goldberg. Yeah, yeah.
- 26:39Like 1 like he's been Zena's been losing these these past
- 26:43matches. Seriously though.
- 26:45Seriously though, like Cena's been losing these past matches.
- 26:48Mysterio Cody, he took the freaking falls from the girls.
- 26:57He got freaking live kicked him in the balls.
- 27:02Fucking Roxette gave him a pop rocks mommy mop, the Hana mommy
- 27:07just bombed him. I'm like Great McDougal and Finn
- 27:15Balor like stomped on him and everything like he gave you.
- 27:19Judgment Day to Yeah, he gave Judgment Day this big push for
- 27:22no reason, but anyway. So he better win this match,
- 27:28right? Yeah, I, I really hope so too.
- 27:32I hope that he goes out on top. You know, this is, I mean
- 27:39Goldberg. Goldberg was winning the whole,
- 27:42you know, I wouldn't say the whole time, but, you know, he
- 27:45was winning. And then all the sudden, you
- 27:48know, you got to pass it. What was it?
- 27:50The ref got hit. So yeah.
- 27:55Soon as that happens, like all right, here we go.
- 27:58I know I'm like come on now. And because the whole situation
- 28:03with Goldberg that, you know, they cut the feet off and
- 28:06everything during his speech, like, no, seriously, I didn't
- 28:10want to hear it. I really didn't.
- 28:11Want to hear it? Nobody cared anymore in order
- 28:16for that to that not happen this time they're doing a post show
- 28:19so just in case the fee does go off.
- 28:23Yeah, on. YouTube.
- 28:24Anyways, I'm like alright guys, we're back.
- 28:26It's on YouTube. Yes, yeah.
- 28:28So like John Cena's retirement speech is gonna happen on the
- 28:32Post show? Yeah.
- 28:34Right after like you know, thank you everybody for doing, for
- 28:36coming today, blah, blah. Sure.
- 28:41Sure, Yeah, John Cena win. John Cena better win.
- 28:46I say John Cena wins and you know, he goes out on top.
- 28:52He doesn't go out, as you know, as a champion, but he'll be the
- 28:56new people's champion. Thank you, I hope so.
- 29:02That's what I hope you know. Too bad we didn't get the
- 29:09theories of The Rock sending Brock Lesnar to beat up John
- 29:15Cena, all kinds of stuff, everything from The Rock.
- 29:20That And it didn't that didn't go through.
- 29:22Yeah. We really didn't need Scott,
- 29:26whatever his name was. Oh, Travis Scott.
- 29:29Travis Scott in the freaking building at all.
- 29:32I just felt like, yeah, like so much stuff that we didn't need.
- 29:35So we basically didn't really need the John Cena.
- 29:38He'll turn because it's like. No, you know, I I didn't like it
- 29:45because I'm like it. It felt to me like it was
- 29:49something that was forced. You know, I didn't, you know, I
- 29:54didn't get to see John Cena when he first came out, you know, or
- 29:58I guess when he was first heal. But you know, it it just when he
- 30:04did it, I was like, OK, you know, that's kind of weird.
- 30:07But, you know, I was like, maybe this run is going to, you know,
- 30:12since it's his last run, maybe this is something he wanted to
- 30:15do. And I thought maybe it would be
- 30:20more productive, but it's like it wasn't.
- 30:24It was just like this, this, this, this isn't this doesn't
- 30:30seem like John Cena. He's always been, you know, and
- 30:36even though he broke up with the fans, you know, it's it didn't,
- 30:42it just didn't seem, it didn't seem right.
- 30:46You know, I'm like, this is this isn't what the fans want and it
- 30:53doesn't, it wasn't what he wanted either.
- 30:56You know, you could kind of see that him being a heel was not
- 31:03good for business sake as you could say, you know, he's more
- 31:08of, you know, the you can't see me the being the hustle,
- 31:14loyalty, respect, all that. That seemed more like his
- 31:20character. Yeah.
- 31:22Yeah, trying to be the bad guy. Yeah, that didn't.
- 31:26Yeah, it didn't work for him. What I think didn't work was the
- 31:31fact that Cody Rhodes was the first in line from him being the
- 31:34bad guy. OK.
- 31:36And what we saw was John Cena being quiet.
- 31:41And. You know, protecting Cody Rose
- 31:44because Cody Rose protected. Yeah.
- 31:47Because if he went in on Cody, he.
- 31:50Would just. Destroy him.
- 31:52OK. And for based on his past promos
- 31:57against other people, sure. Like he would destroy Cody being
- 32:03as a heel he would. Destroy Cody.
- 32:05Like, you know. Yeah, You know, I think he even
- 32:11said that himself. You know, I think he even said
- 32:15that him. I think I remember him saying
- 32:16that that, you know, I could go in on you, I could destroy you,
- 32:21you know, but I'm just going to kind of relax on that, you know?
- 32:29But you know it just. Cody.
- 32:32You know, I mean, if, yeah, it was kind of weird that, you
- 32:37know, Cody was his his first, you know, like the the victim of
- 32:41his field turn. But I just, I don't know, I
- 32:45didn't like even when they were feuding, you know, I'm like,
- 32:49this doesn't this isn't right. It doesn't, you know, it feels
- 32:55like bad writing, you know, bad creative.
- 33:00Yeah. And like he would have went in
- 33:04on his dad would have made Cody cry.
- 33:08Yeah. It would have made Cody cry so
- 33:11like anything would have worked, but he didn't.
- 33:14Sounds like alright, you know what, this whole thing sucks.
- 33:19What was this Netflix thing? On that unreal.
- 33:23Unreal. Yeah, uh huh.
- 33:25We find out that The Rock wanted Kevin Owens as his champion just
- 33:31in case Cody Rose said no. And you know, here comes AAA,
- 33:35just like calling him. I was like, hey, what do you
- 33:37think about this? John Cena goes heal and like,
- 33:41you know, does that. Yeah.
- 33:43And AAA said something about after going back and forth, back
- 33:47and forth, we finally came to an agreement.
- 33:49I'm thinking that Iraq said no. He to a temper.
- 33:53Temper tantrum. Yeah.
- 33:54Wanted his way. Kevin Owens.
- 33:56Kevin Owens says Kevin Owens that.
- 33:58But no, here comes John Cena. It's like, all right, you know
- 34:01what? Fine, I'll do it.
- 34:02Yeah. We'll do John Cena thing, I'll
- 34:05show up with Travis Scott, we'll do that.
- 34:08And then at WrestleMania I won't show up at all.
- 34:11You didn't use my guy, so fuck it.
- 34:13Yeah, I don't need to be here. I got movies to do a smashing
- 34:19machine. Yeah, I think so.
- 34:22Yeah, that. Little Santa Claus movie he did
- 34:24that was. Horrible Red red.
- 34:26What's it red, red one or something red?
- 34:31Red one, that was horrible. Oh.
- 34:34Like what else was he doing? Well, the only thing that was
- 34:37good was smashing machine. Yeah.
- 34:39Everything else you were doing don't really care.
- 34:44Probably doing fast then fast 11 fast. 12 yeah.
- 34:49And then Todd? Versus Shaw again.
- 34:52Oh, who knows? But like, for him to not show up
- 34:58when we needed him and, you know, Travis Scott shows up and
- 35:02like, why, yeah, there's no reason for this guy to show up.
- 35:06It's supposed to be the rock that shows up.
- 35:08Yeah, we. Wanted to rock and the whole
- 35:10thing was for the rock to show up.
- 35:11And there was like you. Not necessarily.
- 35:13No, no, no, no, no you don't. Yeah.
- 35:17You did the whole thing 2-3, you know there was a.
- 35:20Third. Yeah.
- 35:21Third guy and everything. He showed us on Unreal what was
- 35:24going to happen and it didn't deliver so.
- 35:27Yeah, yeah. And then that's when there's
- 35:29like, all right, where this whole heel turn turned shit.
- 35:34Yeah, forgot. To clean that up.
- 35:42So, yeah, that's what like a like pissed everybody off that
- 35:46he did. He didn't come through with his
- 35:49plan. And so like Isle of Blue, John's
- 35:52Law, like against for summer slam.
- 35:56You know what? You're right.
- 35:57Let's let's, you know, I'm a good guy now.
- 36:00Here I am. Let's scrap this whole thing.
- 36:03Yeah. And then shows up and like, like
- 36:07nothing ever happened. Like this whole year past three
- 36:10months didn't even happen. Yeah.
- 36:15Hate it. What else happened?
- 36:21And then Cody Rose gets the belt back.
- 36:24Yeah. And we're back to Cody Rose
- 36:26being anything whatever, but his matches against CM Punk, Yeah,
- 36:31the only one I really enjoyed it was the CM Punk one.
- 36:36I mean, there's a whole thing with this John Cena and this
- 36:39Randy Orton because it's happened every every time
- 36:44they're refuting this John Cena and this Randy Orton.
- 36:50And so it happened again, this time, like, you know, this bulky
- 36:53freaking Randy Orton with this heel John Cena.
- 36:57Yeah. CM Punk coming out and doing the
- 36:59whole thing and then John Cena coming out and doing the the
- 37:04pipe bomb. Redoing the pipe bomb was fun
- 37:08because they recreated everything and start saying like
- 37:10Hyundai economic. Hi, Zack Ryder.
- 37:12Yeah. Matt Cardona and then they both
- 37:15show up for the right, which is fun.
- 37:19Yeah, yeah, that those those look for a fun moment and, you
- 37:28know, really enjoy that. So like anything from your
- 37:34perspective, did you enjoy? You know, from, from this
- 37:41retirement tour, I think I when, when Jay won the Royal Rumble,
- 37:51you know, John Cena, you know, gave him his props.
- 37:56You know, I like that. I like that even though he lost,
- 38:01he still gives respect to the ones he lost to.
- 38:06Yeah. You know, I think that just
- 38:10shows his, you know, what kind of a man he is that even though
- 38:15he know he lost, he lost to somebody who, you know, deserved
- 38:21it, you know, or gave, you know, if not deserved it.
- 38:25They gave him a run for his money.
- 38:28Yeah. So it was like, you know, all of
- 38:30his matches, even the ones that he lost were, they were really
- 38:35good matches. You know, I, I love the one with
- 38:39him and AJ Styles because, excuse me, I got to actually see
- 38:44one, you know, but I, I thought it was pretty awesome that they
- 38:50did all these different finishers from other wrestlers.
- 38:56And I'm like, oh, I know that one.
- 38:57Yeah, I know that one. You know, so it's like I
- 39:00actually got to see, you know, I mean, they they were, it was a
- 39:03really good match. Yeah.
- 39:06So I I think that. John Cena was doing matches
- 39:12finishers from his feud. And styles.
- 39:14Doing finishers from his feud and TNA.
- 39:18OK. So you had seen some James Storm
- 39:22superkick, well obviously Shawn Michaels superkick but James
- 39:26Storm does it also. OK.
- 39:30Is like all his stuff that he he his best friends basically.
- 39:34Like he still talks to him. OK, there.
- 39:37The Kazarian move, everything, every other move that was out
- 39:40there. The fallen Angel move.
- 39:41Yeah, that's the one. OK.
- 39:44And then somebody just says, like, oh, you know, he's paid a
- 39:47module. Every wrestler out there, he's
- 39:49paying homage to Michelle Mccool.
- 39:55So wait, how? I was like, oh, Styles Clash.
- 39:59OK, whatever dude. It was that her move.
- 40:04That she stole from him. Oh, thank you.
- 40:08That was that was, you know, the time that I stopped watching,
- 40:12but OK. Yeah, around that time.
- 40:18So yeah, those were like, I love that one match too.
- 40:21I loved all the matches that he was in.
- 40:23Yeah. I hated the fact that we had
- 40:25dates instead of matches. Yeah, You know, like I have 50
- 40:28dates left. Yeah.
- 40:30Not 50 matches left. Right.
- 40:33So damn it, OK. Yeah, I, I think for, for his
- 40:40retirement tour, it should have been, you know, matches, not
- 40:46necessarily dates. You know, of course we knew that
- 40:52he would be in all of the PL. ES, which, you know, that's
- 40:56great. You know, the fact that he put
- 40:59himself in like Elimination Chamber, it's kind of that to
- 41:05me. That was a little shady.
- 41:06But you know, they're going to let him do what he wants.
- 41:09But but you know, yeah. For him to be a part of every
- 41:15PLE that was this year, I thought that was awesome.
- 41:20I wish that it yeah, it was matches.
- 41:25I think it would have been cool for him, you know, to be on
- 41:29certain, you know, Raws and Smack kind of like be on both
- 41:35shows. You know which I think he, I
- 41:38think he was on both shows because he for a while had the
- 41:44Smackdown belt, you know, the the championship belt from
- 41:47Smackdown. And then he had the IC champion,
- 41:51the QB one, the QB one belt. Yeah.
- 41:54Oh. Yeah.
- 42:00But yeah, so I I like that. So I think overall this year was
- 42:07a really good, you know, this tour was good.
- 42:10It was a good one, you know, and like I said, I hope they have
- 42:14him win on Saturday because he he needs to go out on top with
- 42:23with a win, you know, and then and of course, you know, it's
- 42:27going to be the last match of the night.
- 42:29So they may shorten all the other matches just to give John
- 42:34Cena as much time as he wants. So let's do it.
- 42:41Let's you know, let's have him go out with a win all.
- 42:46Right, I have two things here. I have his greatest views of all
- 42:51time and his greatest matches of all time.
- 42:53OK. OK.
- 42:56OK all. Right, all right, I'm tricky
- 42:59universe. Grab your never give up towels,
- 43:02lace up your bright orange sneakers and queue up the
- 43:05trumpets because tonight we're saying goodbye to a man who has
- 43:07been to heartbeat at the for over 20 years.
- 43:10This side is the final chapter John Cena's entering career and
- 43:12before the bell rings on the last hustle, loyalty and
- 43:15respect. We're taking you through his
- 43:17greatest feud of all time. Some made him, some nearly broke
- 43:22him, and some define an entire era of wrestling at #10 I have
- 43:29John Cena versus JBL gears. It was in 2004 to 2005.
- 43:37Why it mattered? Because this feud took Cena from
- 43:40promising midcard rapper to full-fledged main event
- 43:43superstar. From the brutal I quit match to
- 43:46Cena finally the droning JBL for his first WE championship.
- 43:50This rivalry Burton the Cena era.
- 43:53One of the most iconic moments from this feud was Cena walking
- 43:57out with the spinner belt, a symbol of a brand new era.
- 44:01You know, the simplest spinner. Yeah, I've seen it, Yeah.
- 44:04Nobody likes all right and #9 John Cena was a big show from
- 44:122003 to 2009. This showed was show big show
- 44:19with Cena's first giant test. the US title match at
- 44:22WrestleMania 20 lit the fuse for Cena's rise, the iconic moment.
- 44:29And this was Cena AA ING a 441 LB Big show when people said he
- 44:33couldn't. So like just his feast of
- 44:39strength is just not holding the big show up.
- 44:42And I was like wow, this, this man is freaking amazing.
- 44:47Yeah, like. This is where Super Cena comes
- 44:49in, because he he did it at #8 John Cena versus Zumaga from
- 44:582006 to 2007. This feud proved Cena wasn't
- 45:02just charisma. He could go to war.
- 45:04Their Last Man Standing match at the Royal Rumble is still one of
- 45:07the most violent classics. The iconic moment was Gina
- 45:12choking Amaga out with the ring rope.
- 45:16It was savage. It was crazy at #7 John Cena
- 45:22versus Kevin Owens in 2015. The perfect rookie takes down
- 45:27the veteran moment. Owens Pensina clean in the first
- 45:30match on the main roster. He'd obviously seen it, this the
- 45:35whole, you know, open challenge for the US title.
- 45:39Kevin Owens comes out, everybody's all freaking out.
- 45:44Iconic moment in this was seen as selling chaos, a threat,
- 45:47helping him make him a top guy instantly.
- 45:53And the reason why he, like he says it's on the ESPN interview,
- 45:57the reason why he wanted to work with Kevin Owens sent me saying
- 46:01AJ Styles, all the people is because he kept hearing like,
- 46:05you know, you can't wrestle, like you can't wrestle you have
- 46:085 moves of doom and all that stuff.
- 46:10So he asked for these guys specifically so he can, they
- 46:13could teach him, like they can show him, they can add to his
- 46:16repertoire and stuff and you know, all that stuff.
- 46:20So he says in the interview as well at #6 John's Dena was Rusev
- 46:252014 to 2015, a modern patriotic feud at his peak.
- 46:30Rusev came in unstoppable, undefeated and riding a tank,
- 46:33Cena finally handing him his first loss at WrestleMania 31.
- 46:37The iconic moment in this was the tank entrance.
- 46:42Prior an actual tank. Yes, an actual.
- 46:45Tank OK. Just boom.
- 46:48Prior to this Rusev was unstoppable.
- 46:51He came out like every time. Him and his wife forgot her
- 46:57name. Lana.
- 46:58He Lana. Yeah.
- 47:00There you go, Lana. Every time Rusa would come out
- 47:04and just, like, beat up every American wrestler and they would
- 47:08say like, you know, Russia this, Russia that, Russia this, Russia
- 47:11that. So, Mark Henry, there was Jack
- 47:21Swagger, there was Big Show. Nobody could defeat Rusev up
- 47:26until John Cena came in. Just like, all right, You know,
- 47:29we're doing this for the USA. Yeah.
- 47:32So real quick, was he an actual, was he actually active on the
- 47:36roster at that time or was he kind of John Cena?
- 47:40Yeah. Oh, OK.
- 47:43Because I know for a while while I from what I saw, it looked
- 47:48like he would come in like on a part time basis when he didn't
- 47:52was shooting movies or. This is WrestleMania 31.
- 47:57This is around a year after the second Rock match.
- 48:03OK. So he had a full year to fight
- 48:07with Brock Lesnar. All them people #5 John Cena was
- 48:13Edge 2006 to 2009. This rivalry to find mid 2030
- 48:19cashews, TLC chaos, personal attacks.
- 48:23Edge was Cena's perfect villain. Iconic moment in this was TLC
- 48:28matchup Unforgiven in edges hometown Cena 8 AA's him off a
- 48:32ladder through 2 tables. Epic.
- 48:36It was very epic. It was about amazing.
- 48:41It's one of the greatest feuds ever.
- 48:42John Cena was Edge. OK.
- 48:45So like, that's why they want Edge to come back.
- 48:49And like does that. The next few five are going to
- 48:52be like, Yep, Yep, Yep, Yep. OK. #4 John Cena was Randy
- 48:58Orton. 2. 1007 to 2020 it's the Rock Austin of the PG era.
- 49:07Longevity, chemistry and rivalry that last over a decade.
- 49:11Again, every time one of them changed their style, this John
- 49:15Cena versus this Randy Orton. This John Cena you can't see me
- 49:19versus Randy Orton. I hear voices or Randy Orton the
- 49:23legend Killer hustle loyalty T and respect John Cena versus I
- 49:29hear voices Randy Orton heal John Cena versus what bulky
- 49:38Randy Orton. Yeah, big boy.
- 49:42Big boy Randy Orton. Big boy Orton.
- 49:44There it is. Yeah.
- 49:46So like, the fact that like, the last four are his greatest feud,
- 49:51Randy Orton is his greatest feud, and it's the Rock versus
- 49:55Austin iconic moment with Ironman match where the entire
- 49:59preview was essentially Cena versus Orton.
- 50:02The movie, The entire pay-per-view, everything was
- 50:07backstage. Cena versus Norton, everything
- 50:09was on there at #3 Superman versus Doomsday, John Cena
- 50:18versus Brock Lesnar, 20/12/2014 And then 2002 and 2003, when
- 50:26Brock returned, he didn't ease in.
- 50:28He tried to rearrange Cena's face.
- 50:31He. John Cena was bleeding all that
- 50:33stuff. Yeah, iconic moment with Summer
- 50:35Slam 2014 Brock suplex Cena into another dimension.
- 50:39The math change of these whole presentation style.
- 50:43And Cena says it in his promo this past year.
- 50:47Like he invented suplex city because it came out of him like
- 50:53every time he got suplexed, like Brock would be like, yeah,
- 50:57suplex city bitch. And like, that's where the whole
- 51:02thing, the whole 1, 2-3 suplexes, my suplexes,
- 51:06everything, that's where he comes in because he just
- 51:09destroyed your Superman, your superhero.
- 51:13And if and when I say Superman versus Doomsday, it felt like,
- 51:19you know, the death of Superman when Brock Lesnar beat him and
- 51:23made him bloody and everything. Yeah.
- 51:26All the kids were crying. Sure.
- 51:29They were poor babies. Like at this year's was it the
- 51:36plant? When did effective?
- 51:38Oh, wrestle Palooza, Yeah. One little kid was crying.
- 51:42Yeah, one plant. Oh, you mean against Brock
- 51:46Lesnar? Yes, yes.
- 51:49You mean the five second match that happened like didn't really
- 51:51matter? Yeah, it never happened again.
- 51:54Like we didn't get a rematch out of that.
- 51:56Yeah, I guess how you last anyway.
- 52:04Anyway, sorry go. Ahead #2 John Cena versus AJ
- 52:08Styles 2016 to 2017. The dream match once in the
- 52:11generation chemistry This feud gave us pure wrestling.
- 52:14No gimmicks, no nonsense, just two icons proving who was best.
- 52:18This were the whole you can't wrestle now came into John Cena
- 52:23versus AJ Styles. He did all kinds of move.
- 52:25He did some elbow drops, he does some pop rock he did to a
- 52:31piranhas. Yeah.
- 52:34Like Jonathan never does that and then when he does.
- 52:37Like he's. Like 06 move of doom iconic
- 52:44moment came in Royal Rumble 2017.
- 52:47Cena wins his 16th world title after an all time classic.
- 52:50So imagine that 2017 was the 16 time world title.
- 52:55That's crazy. 25 is the 17th time so he waited a whole 8
- 53:02years for. The.
- 53:03For this moment and like, nobody can say anything.
- 53:06And finally #1 John Cena versus who do you think it is?
- 53:11Roman, huh? I say Roman, but.
- 53:17Really, Roman? Yeah, I've seen clips of their
- 53:21matches, but you know, I'm partial.
- 53:24I know, right? I would maybe, maybe Triple H.
- 53:33No, no. John Cena versus The Rock.
- 53:37OK. 11/20/13 Once in lifetime, twice we know stadium shaking,
- 53:45pop culture crossover, ego versus ego at the fine entire
- 53:48generation of fans people it was it went out there and like you
- 53:54know, the guy from the Marine versus the Rock.
- 53:58Oh, OK, you. Know all that stuff 2 Hollywood
- 54:03icons are. Handling.
- 54:05It out the rock using his wrist to read in a his.
- 54:12Promo. Really.
- 54:15You don't know about that. No.
- 54:17Well, I heard that that was Roman.
- 54:21That Roman had it here, That. Was a rock and John Cena called
- 54:26him out on it because somebody had said in the back, OK, I was
- 54:30like, hey, you see the Rock hold doing his promo from his wrist?
- 54:36Wow. And the way that they filmed
- 54:38that part, right? There, Yeah.
- 54:40John Cena says like, yeah, And I was told that the The Rock was
- 54:43filmed reading the thing from his wrist is Mitt is sitting
- 54:47there with him. And they didn't say his name.
- 54:51It came from him. But the fact that they filmed it
- 54:53and it's like, oh, yeah, somebody told me this.
- 54:55It's like the minute standing right there.
- 55:01So he does his whole thing where he takes off his saying and he's
- 55:03like, it's like, you know, I don't read my freaking promo
- 55:06from my wrist. Yeah.
- 55:08Rock is fuming. Yeah.
- 55:11Alright, motherfucker, let's go. You know that like you don't
- 55:16don't disrespect me just like then don't come in here and
- 55:18disrespect the the. Business, Yeah, yeah.
- 55:21And like, that's the first one. So Rock wins that one, and then
- 55:26John Cena wins the next one. OK, so this one was WrestleMania
- 55:3028. Rock pin Cena that he felt in
- 55:32his soul. Then WrestleMania 29 twice in a
- 55:35lifetime. Rock Pete Cena pins the Rock to
- 55:39win the championship. And OK, yeah.
- 55:42Yeah, that was it. So those were the matches.
- 55:49Awesome. Those were the fuse.
- 55:51I'm sorry, those were the fuse, right?
- 55:52Right. The matches.
- 55:56Hold on. OK.
- 56:08The matches are top 10 greatest matches.
- 56:11John Cena #10 John Cena was Kurt Angle OK at the event was
- 56:17Smackdown June 27th 2002. It was Cena's debut, the birth
- 56:22of rootless aggression. OK.
- 56:26So like you need to watch these matches OK Cena's answer Cena
- 56:32answers angles, open challenge and slapped him across the face.
- 56:35Right. That's the moment that took Cena
- 56:38from nobody to future main eventer in 30 seconds.
- 56:42The locker room scene afterwards, would Undertaker
- 56:44call him Killer was filmed because they knew this kid with
- 56:47money and like, you know, shook his hand and everything.
- 56:51At the time, the Undertaker was doing this whole American badass
- 56:56thing. So like, every time he entered
- 56:58the room, everybody be like, oh, here he comes.
- 57:01Oh no, hold on, hold on, hold on.
- 57:04OK, Like, Oh no, here he comes. So he just came in and told
- 57:09Dina. I was like a good job, man.
- 57:10All right, cool. At #9 John Cena was JBL.
- 57:15I quit match it came from judgment day 2005.
- 57:22This is the first time seen a blood and guts blood all over
- 57:28first blood and guts war that proved he could headline as
- 57:31serious champion. The rich tyrant was a Street
- 57:35Fighter from West Newbury is established, seen as toughness
- 57:41and his willingness to bleed buckets in the non PG window and
- 57:47then JBL said it's the most violent match of his career.
- 57:50And. This is where the whole Super
- 57:53Cena comes in. Big match, big match John, I'm
- 57:56sorry, not Super Cena, but big match on every time.
- 57:59Like he would face somebody. It was like a big match #8 John
- 58:06Cena versus Lumaga, Last man standing from Royal Rumble 2007.
- 58:11It's like this is like Hulk Hogan versus Under the Giant,
- 58:15the immovable object versus the unstoppable force.
- 58:19So this is Cena's greatest immovable object fight.
- 58:22Umaga would not. Umaga doesn't sell anything.
- 58:28Umaga was undefeated. Cena was outmatched physically.
- 58:32The spot with the ring rope STFU is legendary.
- 58:36So he does. The whole STFU with the ring
- 58:39rope on him and just like makes them pass out.
- 58:43And this is the match that made Super Cena a real talking point
- 58:48at #7 John Cena was Brock Lesnar at Extreme Rules 2012.
- 58:55This is the part. This is why.
- 58:57This is the part right here. This is Lesnar's first match
- 59:00back after leaving the in 2004. You said 2012. 2004 there's 3
- 59:07rules. 2012 yeah, this is Lester's first match back after
- 59:12leaving WE in 2004. So Lesnar comes back the night
- 59:17after WrestleMania after John Cena had beaten The Rock, and
- 59:23it's all like, hey, you know, I'm here, blah blah.
- 59:25Like so Lesnar comes out and like John Cena's like oh wow,
- 59:29look at that. And John Cena thinks he's gonna
- 59:31shake his hand. Brock just fucking F5 some.
- 59:37Yeah, sounds alright. Just like Nah, we're doing this,
- 59:43we're doing the F5. Brock returned to destroy the PG
- 59:47era because there was nothing, nothing PG about Brock Lesnar,
- 59:53no duplex city. He bloodies him.
- 59:55It was brutal, brutal. Real MMA style reset
- 1:00:00expectations for WI this could look like and Brock legitimately
- 1:00:06busted seen open the first minute.
- 1:00:07Thanks. Like bam, Cena starts the
- 1:00:13bleeding buckets and you know, like everybody's crying because
- 1:00:18Cena, this is the whole Superman versus Doomsday.
- 1:00:21This is why because John Cena dies here.
- 1:00:26It's like, oh I don't like this number six John Cena versus Edge
- 1:00:32TLC match had Unforgiven 2006. It was Agentina's feud defined
- 1:00:38mid 22,000 event EWE. It was Agentina's feud and it
- 1:00:43defined the mid 2070. Edge defended his title in his
- 1:00:49hometown. Cena had never done TLC, and
- 1:00:54Cena wins on enemy turf through absolute chaos.
- 1:00:57The Attitude Adjustment off the ladder to table is still a top
- 1:01:00five TLC moment #5 John Cena versus AJ Styles at Royal Rumble
- 1:01:092017. It was a dream match delivered
- 1:01:13at WrestleMania level. AJ Styles just wanted to beat up
- 1:01:17John Cena. AJ said Cena can't hang with
- 1:01:22real wrestlers. And he was right.
- 1:01:27And then Cena decided like, all right, hold my belt.
- 1:01:31One of Cena's most polished matches ever, and this tied Ric
- 1:01:35Flair's 16 titles officially. So 2017 and then 2020 25 happens
- 1:01:40and he beat Ric Flair's 17 at #4 John Cena versus Daniel Bryan at
- 1:01:49SummerSlam 2013. This is where the US movie
- 1:01:52begins. At the time, all you kept
- 1:01:59hearing was no, but Daniel Bryan was doing the yes movement, and
- 1:02:03he's like yes, yes, yes. And then I'll tell you in a
- 1:02:10minute, Cena chose Bryan as a challenger out of respect.
- 1:02:15Bryan wins clean. Triple H was the special
- 1:02:19referee. Sheamus had won the Money in the
- 1:02:24Bank. Triple H turns heel.
- 1:02:32Captain. Yeah, Cash is in.
- 1:02:35Beats him. Everything Cena wrestled with
- 1:02:40legit grotesque elbow injury. He hit it for the sake of the
- 1:02:42match and you get to see it later on in his career.
- 1:02:46Like the next few nights on Raw is like freaking.
- 1:02:49Singh was out to here. It was nasty.
- 1:02:52He had to go. He had to take a break and
- 1:02:53everything. He had to get that, like,
- 1:02:56drained. That's crazy.
- 1:03:01Yeah, it was that bad. Yeah #3 John Cena versus Shawn
- 1:03:07Michaels, April 23, 2007 in London.
- 1:03:12It was a 45 minute classic on Free TV and it was a
- 1:03:16WrestleMania 23 meet rematch, but it was longer, cleaner and
- 1:03:20better. Yeah.
- 1:03:22And one of the best TV matches in WE history.
- 1:03:28They went long because someone earlier on the show went short.
- 1:03:31So CNN HBK improvised like, all right, let's do this now.
- 1:03:35OK, still have more. We still have more minutes.
- 1:03:37All right, let's do this now at #2 John Cena versus CM Punk or
- 1:03:44WE title Money in the Bank 2011, the match of Cena's career Punk
- 1:03:50legally at midnight with the belt.
- 1:03:56It was the whole kiss that you see on in the pictures where CM
- 1:04:01Punk winces he evidence Chicago and you know, obviously the
- 1:04:07whole like if Cena wins, we riot.
- 1:04:09So Punk had to win electric Chicago crowd.
- 1:04:14Perfect storyline storytelling of Dave Meltzer gave it of five
- 1:04:21star. Incredibly rare for the then.
- 1:04:25And it defined the end of Cena, Super Cena era because right
- 1:04:29after that we get the CM Punk Summer of Punk.
- 1:04:39Honorable mentions Cena versus Sorrow for the US Open challenge
- 1:04:43on Raw 2015, a technical match showing Cena adapting to newer
- 1:04:47styles. Like I said, he can't.
- 1:04:50People said he can't wrestle, so he's asked Cesaro, AJ Styles,
- 1:04:55Kevin Owens, all the people like show me Cena versus Kevin Owens
- 1:05:01Elimination Chamber 2015 Owens beat Cena clean instead of the
- 1:05:04pay-per-view debut. Cena versus Edge versus Big Show
- 1:05:09WrestleMania 25 the beginnings of Cena's chaotic multi man era.
- 1:05:15He also had the big show over his shoulder.
- 1:05:18And then? Edge try to climb over and like
- 1:05:21try to jump on there and he got both a big show and edge on his
- 1:05:24shoulder and just a AA wow as you move first and then big show
- 1:05:33gets slammed. Oh.
- 1:05:36God, that's good. It would it would have been
- 1:05:39horrible, yeah. Cena and HBK versus Undertaker
- 1:05:42and Batista at No Way Out 2007 Mega Team tag chaos and then
- 1:05:50Cena versus Seth Rollins. SummerSlam 2015 title for title
- 1:05:53match. Jon Stewart.
- 1:05:54He'll turn on Cena. There's no reason for Jon
- 1:05:58Stewart to come out, but he comes out anyways and cost Cena
- 1:06:03a title, Turns heel, and I'm like, why?
- 1:06:10Yeah. All right, who?
- 1:06:13What is the number one match? Who do you think?
- 1:06:19Well, the rock. The Rock John Cena versus The
- 1:06:29Rock Once in a lifetime WrestleMania 2526282012 This is
- 1:06:36the moment that's solidified Cena's the face of an entire
- 1:06:39generation. It was modern Era's top divers
- 1:06:42attitude, era's biggest icon, which is The Rock.
- 1:06:47Not the best technical match, but historically massive.
- 1:06:50It was advertised as a once in a lifetime.
- 1:06:52Then they ran it again their next year.
- 1:06:56Twice in a lifetime. Twice in a lifetime.
- 1:06:59The feud raised, they'll use mainstream profile again.
- 1:07:02So there you have it. That's all the matches.
- 1:07:06Cool, I have some homework. Yes, you do, Yes.
- 1:07:10You do. How much time do we have?
- 1:07:14Hold on. What?
- 1:07:16We're at 1:00. 75 minutes so. We're at one hour and 15.
- 1:07:21Yeah. You want to do What's your
- 1:07:23favorite John Cena match? That's about you.
- 1:07:26Sure. Yeah, hopefully it's not that.
- 1:07:29Yeah, it is. All right, I'll go through them
- 1:07:32real quick. John Cena versus CM Punk, Money
- 1:07:35in the Bank, 2011. We just talked about it.
- 1:07:37Which is. About you You love drama, not
- 1:07:40wrestling drama. Flip the table.
- 1:07:42Refresh Twitter every 30 seconds drama.
- 1:07:45That's exactly what people did. This is why if I don't have, if
- 1:07:48I don't have the pay per views, if I can't watch the pay per
- 1:07:50views, I'll do every 30 seconds. Yeah, and.
- 1:07:53That was crazy at the time during the Royal Rumbles, like,
- 1:07:56trying to figure out who wins and like, you know, Jericho won.
- 1:08:02Did Jericho really win? No.
- 1:08:03Sheamus did like, oh, damn it. OK, you believe pie bombs are
- 1:08:09literature. You still argue about the Summer
- 1:08:11of Punk like it was a constitutional amendment.
- 1:08:13You probably also say things like this is what wrestling is
- 1:08:16supposed to be at least twice a month.
- 1:08:21John Cena versus AJ Styles Robo 2017.
- 1:08:24What it says about you. You're classy.
- 1:08:25You like good matches, good pacing, clean storytelling, and
- 1:08:29you brag about having taste like you're a mollier of, Suplex
- 1:08:33says. Smile.
- 1:08:35Yay. Sommelier of Super.
- 1:08:37Thank you. He also bring this match up
- 1:08:39anytime someone claims Cena can't wrestle.
- 1:08:41Like you're pulling out a court document.
- 1:08:45Did it just, like, tell me that I did this?
- 1:08:48Yeah. No, he said himself.
- 1:08:50He said himself. He asked AJ Styles, Kevin Owens
- 1:08:53and Cesaro and all them people. John Cena versus The Rock, both
- 1:08:57Wrestlemanias. What it says about you.
- 1:08:59You love blockbusters. You treat wrestling like the
- 1:09:01MCU. You were absolutely quoting once
- 1:09:05in a lifetime knowing them while they lied.
- 1:09:11Also you still argue which man has the bigger biceps and you're
- 1:09:14wrong twice. John Cena versus Edge to TLC
- 1:09:222006 or literally any Edge for you?
- 1:09:24Just John Cena versus Edge, all of them.
- 1:09:27What it says about you. You're toxic in a fun way.
- 1:09:32You live for chaos, cheating, interference, wild stipulation,
- 1:09:35and as being the nastiest, most unhinged manners of 2006.
- 1:09:41You probably cheered when Cena got thrown into the Long Island
- 1:09:44Sound. Be honest.
- 1:09:50John's Dena versus Brock Lesnar Summersime 2014 is that about
- 1:09:53you? You enjoy destruction.
- 1:09:55Probably watched Man versus Food.
- 1:09:57Ironically you like to see God bleed, heroes crushed, and 16
- 1:10:02German suplexes. I felt like a sport documentary.
- 1:10:06That's crazy. 1616 and they all counted.
- 1:10:12Oh, I bet. 16 because the fans were counting.
- 1:10:16Oh, I bet. You also still gasp when someone
- 1:10:20brings up Suplex City. Because you have a mental image
- 1:10:30of that whole night. Yeah.
- 1:10:33Just nothing but suplexes. No fighting.
- 1:10:36Just you know what? Come on, I'm gonna make you
- 1:10:39bleed, and then I'm gonna give you suplexes. 12340 Wait, here
- 1:10:46comes Cena with a punch. No.
- 1:10:52That's crazy. Was that one Simpsons stop?
- 1:10:57He's already dead. Yeah.
- 1:11:02That was that was this. Just like every time.
- 1:11:06The Twitter moment every 30 seconds is what we were talking
- 1:11:09about. Sure.
- 1:11:11Make a stop. He's already dead.
- 1:11:13He was poor. Guy, you're hurting him.
- 1:11:19See, there was Zumaga, Lesman's dad in 2007, which says about
- 1:11:23you. You love violent storytelling.
- 1:11:26You love when Cena turns into the final boss of a video game.
- 1:11:29He also believed it's one of the best magic in his career and
- 1:11:32will preach the gospel to strangers at Target.
- 1:11:34What the hell? Cena versus Daniel Bryan Summer
- 1:11:38Slam 2013. What it says about you.
- 1:11:40You believe in underdogs, good guys, and pure wrestling magic.
- 1:11:43You cried when Bryan won, then cried again with Triple H Ruin
- 1:11:48your night. Kick to the gut pedigree.
- 1:11:59You also think this was peaks in a work rate era?
- 1:12:02You're right. Cash in Triple H, kick to the
- 1:12:08gut pedigree, cash in 123. No, it wasn't shameless.
- 1:12:11It was Randy Orton, and that's what the whole authority comes
- 1:12:14in. Oh, OK.
- 1:12:16Yeah, this is what I remember. It wasn't.
- 1:12:18It was Randy Orton. Cash is in, beats Daniel Bryan.
- 1:12:24The whole authority happens. We get Seth Rollins, we get
- 1:12:30Randy Orton, we get Kane. God, it was horrible.
- 1:12:35It was a horrible. Year.
- 1:12:37Oh wow. Cena's Open Challenge 2015 US
- 1:12:42title run where it says about you.
- 1:12:44You're a sucker for consistency. You show up to work early.
- 1:12:47You have a besides your binders. No, I don't.
- 1:12:54No, I don't. No you don't.
- 1:12:56They're just color coordinated. You also believe everybody
- 1:13:01deserve the chance except Rusev for some reason because he was
- 1:13:08scene over Kevin Owens 2015 trilogy.
- 1:13:11What it says about you. You love pure chaotic debut
- 1:13:13energy. You love when someone talks
- 1:13:16trash and then actually backs it up.
- 1:13:18You respect man who power bombs scene on the apron and then
- 1:13:20walks out like he just clocked out of Walmart.
- 1:13:27C Numbers Gray, Wyatt, Firefly Funhouse Match, 2020.
- 1:13:31I remember that one. Damn it.
- 1:13:33WrestleMania. Yeah.
- 1:13:36What it says about you. You're weird, in a good way.
- 1:13:38You like symbolism, metaphors and the kind of storytelling
- 1:13:41that makes the chat argue for three weeks straight.
- 1:13:44OK, you tell. People, I did see that one and I
- 1:13:49did not understand it. So there's, I mean, that's the
- 1:13:53reason why I because I didn't know anything that was going on
- 1:13:57about it. OK.
- 1:14:00And I tried to ask somebody and he didn't really it was weird
- 1:14:03explain anything though. It was so weird it.
- 1:14:05Was just. Like, yeah.
- 1:14:08All I remember was the NWO team and like you tell people that
- 1:14:14Matt change wrestling like it was an A 24 horror film.
- 1:14:21Bonus if your favorite imagine. Anything.
- 1:14:22There's Randy Orton. What it says about you, You're
- 1:14:27loyal, stubborn and very patient.
- 1:14:29Extremely patient. Like hospitality industry
- 1:14:33patient. You're also absolutely lying
- 1:14:36when you say you remember which match was which.
- 1:14:38Oh, I don't remember this. I don't remember which match.
- 1:14:46A double bonus if your favorite match.
- 1:14:48Is there anything Tina does? What it says about you?
- 1:14:50You're a lifer. He cried during the retirement
- 1:14:52announcement. You.
- 1:14:55Yeah. The champ is here at Suspecting
- 1:14:56Pets. You think his entire career is a
- 1:14:59match? There it is.
- 1:15:01And there it is guys. There it is.
- 1:15:04We're done. It's all over.
- 1:15:08His time is now done. I'm going to put his this shirt,
- 1:15:13like I said it already, I'm going to.
- 1:15:15Put his. Shirt on his on himself.
- 1:15:19On him. Like it was like a shirt, like a
- 1:15:23jersey being retired and putting.
- 1:15:24It on yeah, yeah. So it's happening.
- 1:15:29It's happening. All right?
- 1:15:33Look, Sarah isn't just another match.
- 1:15:34It's the last time that iconic horn hit and the whole arena
- 1:15:41jumps out of her seat. The last time the neon merch
- 1:15:44glows under the lights like it's 2007 again.
- 1:15:46The last time the Doctor Takanomics, the face that runs
- 1:15:50the place, the last real champion John freaking Cena
- 1:15:54laces up his boots. It's going to get wild that
- 1:15:57night. I am sure I'm going to.
- 1:16:00Turn. Up the freaking volume on the TV
- 1:16:02and my neighbors are going to be upset.
- 1:16:04I don't care. This is your moment, yeah.
- 1:16:14The most granted. Make a wish.
- 1:16:16We all going to be crying. We all going to be crying.
- 1:16:18Yeah, we're all going to be crying.
- 1:16:20The most granted Make a wish. Supporter, superstar in history,
- 1:16:24the 17 time world champion, the guy who carried this company in
- 1:16:27his back through eras where he could have collapsed.
- 1:16:29He gave us classics, chaos, corny as jokes.
- 1:16:36But he's never seen 17. Never seen 17?
- 1:16:41Great. This is of all time Dad, dad
- 1:16:44level rizz, purple shirts, spinner belts, 5 moves of doom
- 1:16:50and more heart than the business ever deserved.
- 1:16:53Whether you loved him or boot him, you respected him.
- 1:16:56And this Saturday, we watched the final chapter of a man who
- 1:16:59built an empire off 3 simple words.
- 1:17:03Never give up. You can't see me.
- 1:17:14You can't see me. You can't see me, Peekaboo.
- 1:17:24And just like that, the show comes to close.
- 1:17:26We've reached the end of another episode of the M3P podcast and
- 1:17:29the end of a wrestling era. If you stuck with us through the
- 1:17:32chaos of 2025 storylines, the wild heel turns, shock returns,
- 1:17:36factions crumbling, bookings that made no sense, booking that
- 1:17:39made too much sense, and everything that said us to see
- 1:17:41those final stand. Congratulations, you survived a
- 1:17:45year. You earn your striped.
- 1:17:46You've officially prestige level your fandom.
- 1:17:49Tonight felt like flipping through rustling greatest hits,
- 1:17:52the betrayals that broke us, the matches that went way harder
- 1:17:55than advertised and the ones we still pretend never happened.
- 1:17:59And now we March into Saturday night's Main event, live from
- 1:18:02the Capital One Arena, streaming on Peacock, where John Cena
- 1:18:05stepped through that curtain one last time.
- 1:18:07Love him, hate him, Boo him. You can't deny him the GOAT, the
- 1:18:11workhorse, the franchise. The last time is now.
- 1:18:18Before we wrap this and let the countdown to the final ball
- 1:18:21begin, we want you to sound off. Drop your all time favorite Cena
- 1:18:25matches, moments, promos, feud, anything that defines his legacy
- 1:18:28for you. Doctor Taganomics U.S.
- 1:18:33Open challenges, the champ is here.
- 1:18:36The fire promo on Roman both times.
- 1:18:43Yeah. The next is burial.
- 1:18:45You still defend what could have happened.
- 1:18:50Lay it all out. We'll read you your we'll read
- 1:18:53your favorites on the next episode, but also give us your
- 1:18:57early 2026 predictions. Who becomes the new face of the
- 1:19:00company? Which storyline explodes next?
- 1:19:04Who's getting rocked to the moon?
- 1:19:05Who's getting sent back to catering?
- 1:19:08And who's turning heel just because the vibes says so?
- 1:19:12Let the community cook. And before we officially tap out
- 1:19:17for the night, if you're watching the video version, yes,
- 1:19:19I will absolutely be showcasing all the Cena merch.
- 1:19:22There you go. The shirt I'm wearing, the 36
- 1:19:27inch Cena figure in the background, the shelf of seated
- 1:19:34toys behind me. There's a few in there and maybe
- 1:19:37one or two relics from the spinner belt there.
- 1:19:39I don't have it. It's OK though.
- 1:19:41Consider it the shrine, the museum, the hollow.
- 1:19:43Hustle, loyalty and respect. Before you go show some love, do
- 1:19:50a solid and keep this community growing.
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- 1:20:05too fast, too loud or too unhinged or when menace goes
- 1:20:09off. Wow, if I go off there has to be
- 1:20:20a reason it's true. It's true.
- 1:20:25All right. Thank you for stopping and
- 1:20:30hanging out. With me OK, always, as long as
- 1:20:37you'll have me so. We're going to, we're going to
- 1:20:44find our people one Saturday. We're going to need each other.
- 1:20:46And yeah, I'm not going to cry yet.
- 1:20:48It's going to cry when it actually happens and stuff.
- 1:20:53All right, this has been the M3P podcast where community
- 1:20:55creativity and and end of an era goosebumps collide every single
- 1:20:59week. I got to do this.
- 1:21:06Enjoy Paradise main event, enjoy seeing his last entrance, and
- 1:21:09enjoy the moment because we don't get endings this big very
- 1:21:12often. Be safe, be hydrated, keep your
- 1:21:15signs above shoulder level, and if the pyro goes off late, don't
- 1:21:21worry, it's probably still part of the storyline menace.
- 1:21:27We'll see you next week. All righty bye everyone.
- 1:21:32Have a great night guys, enjoy this episode.
- 1:21:35Have fun. Bye.
- 1:21:38No, no time is now. Do it.
- 1:21:43Do it with me. Do it with me.
- 1:21:45You can't see me. You can't see me.
- 1:21:47Shuffle. No, don't do that.
- 1:21:49Never mind. Just like this.
- 1:21:53There you go.