John Cena: I’m hoping to come back to ‘my family’ for one last WWE run

One final WWE stint for John Cena sounds like a real possibility for 2025.

John Cena got to play his part in the very popular Night 2 main event Sunday at WrestleMania 40, even if it was just a cameo. It’s fair for fans to wonder if they’ll ever see him in a similar match in a starring role again, but Cena may have seen the success The Rock had this year and thought, “I’d like some of that for myself.”

At the very least, the idea of one last legitimate WWE run before he calls it a career is something Cena is entertaining. The only problem” His busy Hollywood schedule. Cena isn’t on The Rock’s level yet as an actor and movie star, but he’s been taking on an increasing number of roles and broadening his range.

Still, he’s hopeful he can reconcile the worlds of entertainment and pro wrestling in a way that allows him to give WWE a proper farewell, as he explained as a guest on “The Pat McAfee Show” Monday in Philadelphia.

“I’m crossing my fingers and toes and my heart that maybe, maybe just maybe, I can tell the Hollywood world to pump the brakes for a while and come back to my family for one last run,” Cena told a delighted McAfee.

Cena later doubled down on that sentiment on social media, vowing to “do my best and walk the talk” to make it happen.

McAfee and the fans present at WWE World also suggested that Cena could go for another world title, to which he responded that “those shots gotta be earned” and made a self-deprecating crack about his win-loss record over the past three years.

Cena said his filming schedule is full “through just about Christmas,” which would mean the earliest his “one last run” could occur would be the very end of 2024 into the start of 2025. The upside is that using The Rock’s involvement this year as a blueprint, that could position him very nicely for a program that would lead to something big at WrestleMania 41.

It’s a bit too early to get excited about that, but Cena chooses his words carefully and wouldn’t likely put this idea out there if he didn’t intend to see it through. That makes it feel it’s a question of when and not if WWE fans will see him back in the ring as a leading man instead of a supporting player.

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