John Cena Explains Why He Wanted to Retire at Saturday Night’s Main Event in December
John Cena gives his thoughts on retiring at the end of the year.
During an appearance on the No-Contest Wrestling podcast, John Cena gave his reasons why he chose to call it quits last December at Saturday Night’s Main Event vs. Gunther instead of retiring at WrestleMania.
“There is a lot of stuff going on in December and in the WWE calendar, like, Survivor Series is the last one and then everyone waits for the Rumble. December is like a month in limbo. They’ve never really been able to crack that code. And with people on holiday, there’s until the holiday season is over until like the 26th, tickets are tough to sell because people are spending on holiday presents,” he explained.
“[I told] Nick, from a business perspective, the data that I’ve gathered over 23 years of doing business is December is soft. WrestleMania is going to sell itself. So, retiring at WrestleMania is selfish. It doesn’t do anything for the business. We retire in December, our weakest month, and we take the middle of December — the dry zone, that that desert from the end of Survivor Series to the beginning of the Rumble — we put it like right in the middle of December because I know once you do the holiday tour, the houses will come back. You guys will make money. Let’s show a profit in Q4,” Cena said.
Cena would go on to submit to Gunther, thus ending his illustrious and legendary career last December where Cody Rhodes and CM Punk had the GOAT wear their titles one last time before he hung up both the jorts and sneakers.
h/t to Wrestling Inc for the transcription.
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