Much has been said about the possibility of former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon and President Donald Trump being in attendance for John Cena's final match next weekend.
Saturday Night's Main Event takes place on December 13 in Washington, D.C., and the Leader of the Cenation's official send-off is an undeniably huge deal. However, with McMahon still embroiled in the sexual misconduct lawsuit filed by former WWE employee Janel Grant, would now really be a good time to return?
According to Bryan Alvarez, the current feeling is that McMahon will not be there. "The current feeling [is] that the chances McMahon attends are 'increasingly unlikely — not impossible, but unlikely,'" the report points out.
The last time we saw McMahon on WWE programming was, ironically, to introduce Cena for his 20th anniversary (that was way back in 2022).
Cena will face either Gunther or LA Knight at Saturday Night's Main Event, and some big guest stars are expected to be in attendance. Will Trump be among them? Recently, Logan Paul sat down with Fox News and said, "We have talked about it. I have no idea. It seems like something that could happen. I think it'd be awesome. But I don't know how political the WWE wants to get, so I’m not sure."
Now, the former United States Champion has clarified what he meant by those remarks:
Speaking with Bill Simmons this week, Cena shared his original hopes for his final year in WWE. "'Hey man, 36 dates must have been easy this year.' I did too many jobs," he started. "I was in Budapest, flying to Indy, do Indy, fly back, land, go film. Doing that until post-WrestleMania. Back and forth to Morocco, Budapest, all these crazy places that weren’t easy commutes."
"You think you can do it, 'I’ll sleep on the plane.' You don’t. It doesn’t happen. Then, you get upside down and you’re super fatigued. I threaded the needle just enough."
"The plan, originally, was to do a full year. This goes to show my ignorance of the business. I wanted to do 220 dates. Just take the year off from everything, hop on a bus, do a full WWE calendar, and totally say goodbye," Cena continued. "Thank goodness the business isn’t like that anymore. I’d be done. They only needed me for 36."
Stay tuned for more on Cena's retirement as we have it.