Seth Rollins backs John Cena’s WWE farewell loss forward of Netflix NFL broadcast

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WWE fans are nonetheless in mourning after John Cena, who preached to "By no means Give Up," gave up in his ultimate match.

Cena, 48, went up against Gunther at Saturday Night time's Major Occasion earlier this month for his ultimate time within the ring after a farewell tour that started when he introduced his in-ring retirement in the summertime of 2024.

Cena tapped out, and WWE's chief content material officer was booed upon popping out to congratulate Cena on a legendary profession. He was additionally hit with chants of "you f---ed up," referencing his obvious determination to have Cena lose.

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John Cena and Seth Rollins face off throughout Night time Of Champions at Kingdom Enviornment on June 28, 2025, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Joe Maher/WWE through Getty Pictures)

Nonetheless, WWE celebrity Seth Rollins hinted that Cena had no drawback with the supposed determination, particularly contemplating that legends normally lose their final match to cross the torch.

"If John Cena had simply received the match, you would not be asking any questions on it. We’re not even having the dialog. Nobody can be saying the title Gunther. None of this may be occurring. On the finish of the day, it is at all times about what's subsequent, and John understood that higher than anyone," Rollins advised Fox Information Digital in a latest interview. "He understood that it was by no means about what you are doing within the second, it is about what's coming subsequent. And it's a must to put together for the long run.

"The enterprise rolls on. The exhibits hold coming. The viewers adjustments. The machine powers by way of. So my feeling is I noticed John smile earlier than he tapped out, and I feel he knew precisely what he was doing."

A lot of Cena's farewell tour was seen reside on Netflix , because the WWE and the streaming service reached a deal to broadcast "Monday Night time Uncooked" starting this previous January — the Netflix debut additionally occurred to be Hulk Hogan's final WWE look.

Seth Rollins enters the world throughout "Monday Night time Uncooked" at RAC Enviornment on Oct. 13, 2025, in Perth, Australia. (Georgiana Dallas/WWE through Getty Pictures)

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But it surely was one more manner for Netflix to faucet into sports activities and leisure, because it has performed with boxing, the NFL, and, beginning subsequent 12 months, Main League Baseball.

Rollins, a Chicago Bears fan, might be behind the mic for Christmas Day's Detroit Lions-Minnesota Vikings game on Netflix.

"I’ll be clad and looking out good and saying Merry Christmas to the world on Netflix whereas speaking about soccer, and I will attempt to scoot again residence and spend the night with my ladies," Rollins mentioned.

Rollins has appeared on "Good Morning Soccer" and even hosted "The Wealthy Eisen Present" as a part of his "Ruse of the Century."

"I've received a considerable quantity of broadcasting background," Rollins joked. "It has been a cool 12 months for me to have the ability to sit down and speak soccer with some individuals who actually know a factor or two about soccer. So I am wanting ahead to taking my expertise to the large stage on Netflix on Christmas Day and hopefully I can sustain with the girls and boys who know greater than I do."

With Cena’s wild 12 months that went from face to heel again to face, it appeared like if anybody have been to win their ultimate match in WWE, it could be Cena, contemplating his farewell tour dubbed him the "final actual champion."

But when Cena would not do it, Rollins cannot think about anybody will.

John Cena makes his entrance throughout Crown Jewel at RAC Enviornment on October 11, 2025 in Perth, Australia. (Wealthy Freeda/WWE through Getty Pictures)

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"What you might not get ever once more is that this Derek Jeter, Kobe Bryant-type retirement. I feel that is the factor, is as soon as it is performed, nobody else is gonna do it, and John was the proper particular person to say, as a result of he is John, ‘I'll retire on the finish of subsequent 12 months, I am gonna do a full calendar, after which I am performed, and that is it.’ And he is by no means coming again," Rollins mentioned.

"You already know, you see all these guys, they undergo these retirements, after which they arrive again and have 16 completely different unretirement matches and re-retirement matches, no matter. He isn't going to do this. John, I promise you'll by no means wrestle one other match in his profession, and I feel you'll not get to see one other prime expertise do what John has performed. I do not know if any expertise would wish to. You already know, John's the sort of man that is like, ‘I wished to go to all these locations that I have been for 20-plus years and provides the followers yet one more alternative to work together with me and to see me carry out.’ And so I do not know that we'll ever get that once more. And it was a really particular 12 months. It will be very unhappy to see what the WWE appears like with no John Cena for the foreseeable future."