With 2025 nearing its end, WWE has now announced John Cena’s last match in Australia.
In his final year as a wrestler, Cena is set to compete in his last WrestleMania and a few other matches throughout 2025, before hanging up his boots by the end of this year. Last year, reports emerged about WWE visiting Australia later this year to host more shows there.
Now, during WrestleMania 41, the promotion announced their upcoming Australia tour in October 2025. Perth was announced to host Cena’s final match in Australia. The city of Perth will also host an episode of SmackDown, followed by an unannounced PLE, and a Raw episode on Netflix.
More details about this are scheduled to be released later this month.
WWE previously hosted WWE Elimination Chamber 2024 in Perth, Australia.
John Cena Reveals The Reason For His WWE Retirement Tour Decision
Recently, during an interview with UFC legend Daniel Cormier for ESPN, John Cena explained how the decision to announce his retirement tour was born.
“What I was trying to do is state facts and me being honest with my record basically led me to be like ‘I got to retire.’ The reason I hadn’t had a lot of success in the WWE is because I’m a part-time participant. This needs to consume your life to be great.
Not only consume your life but like you really have to be curious, passionate, open, humble. Man, I can only imagine that if you are not fully focused, coachable, and 100% involved in fight training. So in me trying to split time and thinking that I can do both. I just did this a lot less and less and was used accordingly.
As you are ushered on the way out, you’re supposed to build all this energy and then give it away. That’s the cycle of life in sports entertainment. If you leave with the energy, you have robbed the business. So me saying this over and over again, I was like, ‘Man, I haven’t won a match since this. I’m going to be 48 next week.’ So I was like, ‘Oh man, it’s time to retire.’ That’s when I was like, ‘I’d like to do this farewell tour.’”
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In recent news, John Cena has been confirmed for the upcoming WWE Clash in Paris PLE.