"This is so disrespectful" - WWE under fire for John Cena's retirement match; veteran furious

WWE legend John Cena is at the tail end of his professional wrestling career. He will hang up his boots after one final match at Saturday Night's Main Event on December 13, 2025. Wrestling veteran Jonathan Coachman recently talked about a major problem with Cena's final bout.

The Triple H-led creative team is holding a Last Time Is Now tournament, in which 16 men will participate to earn a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to face John Cena in his final match on December 13. WWE RAW Superstar LA Knight will face a mystery opponent in the tournament on next week's SmackDown. Cena has already teased that the tournament will feature opponents from his past. It will be interesting to see who will come out to face Knight on next week's blue brand's show.

Wrestling veteran Jonathan Coachman recently took to X/Twitter to reply to a tweet that suggested Saturday Night's Main Event hasn't sold out yet, despite Cena's last match being the main attraction of the show. Coachman wrote that it was a big problem that many people were in the waiting room to buy tickets for the event, but they didn't go through with the purchase.

The veteran also called out WWE, highlighting that the main issue was the massive increase in ticket prices by the TKO-led company, which he believed was disrespectful to The Cenation Leader.

"Wait, Ben. Wait for all of the trolls to come at you. I said this a week ago when 57,000 get into the waiting room, and it doesn’t sell out, that’s a problem. The same week, we were all told the events are 'appropriately priced.' This is so disrespectful to a man that I respect about as much as anyone ever in wrestling.

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Former WWE star Damien Sandow talked about John Cena's retirement match

During a recent edition of the Lazy Booking Podcast on the A2D Radio Show, former WWE star Damien Sandow ruled out the possibility of returning to the Stamford-based promotion to participate in the Last Time Is Now tournament for John Cena's final opponent.

Sandow highlighted that a lot of time had passed since his feud with Cena, and the latter has had several good storylines with different opponents since then.

"That’s highly unlikely. A lot has happened between whatever that was and now, and I think John has had a lot of feuds with other people. I don’t think that’s going to be coming down the pipe," he said.

It remains to be seen what the Triple H-led creative team has planned for John Cena's final WWE match.

Edited by Aashrit Satija