WWE’s Bayley, Liv Morgan and More React to John Cena’s Retirement

WWE’s finest and brightest are celebrating the impression and legacy of John Cena after the professional wrestling legend introduced plans to retire.

“I can’t take this! I can’t take this, man,” Montez Ford completely informed Us Weekly on the L.A. premiere of Netflix’s Receiver on Tuesday, July 9. “Have you learnt what number of cherished recollections he’s given us all through the years? And now it’s coming to an finish? I can’t take this. My coronary heart, my feelings, my thoughts!”

Cena, 47, made the announcement at WWE’s Cash Within the Financial institution on Saturday, June 29, telling followers he’ll step away from in-ring motion someday in 2025. “Thanks a lot for letting me play in the home that you just constructed for therefore a few years,” Cena informed the capability crowd at Toronto’s Scotiabank Enviornment.

Bianca Belair gushed about Cena’s impression and the little nuggets of recommendation he supplied her alongside the way in which, together with one which got here when she wanted it probably the most. 

“The largest gem he ever gave me was after SummerSlam [in 2021] once I misplaced in 26 seconds,” Belair, 35, recalled. “I had simply fundamental evented WrestleMania. I gained a title. I used to be on an enormous roll, had all this momentum, after which misplaced in 26 seconds. I used to be so defeated. He pulled me apart and actually spoke life into me. He informed me in regards to the ins and outs of the enterprise and how you can go from the underside to the highest.”

Belair continued, “You noticed him do this again and again in his profession. He was at all times reinventing himself.”

WWE girls’s champion Bayley shared the same sentiment about Cena and recalled how she just lately labored up the motivation to “shoot my shot” with the 16-time champion. 

“I mentioned, ‘John, if there’s something you assume is lacking from the ladies’s division or something particular you assume I ought to work on, what ought to or not it’s?’” Bayley, 35, informed Us on the premiere. “It became this hour-long dialog and all of it got here right down to storytelling. What’s the story we’re making an attempt to inform tonight? Don’t take into consideration what they need, what he needs, what you need. It’s all about storytelling.”

She continued, “He needs to provide again in a means that not everyone does. He has such distinctive info that he can share. It brings us again to why we obtained into it. Having him round to have conversations has been actually nice.”

WWE girls’s world champion Liv Morgan mentioned she was “obsessive about John Cena rising up,” so his departure is a bittersweet second. 

“He’s been fixed, simple, at all times there,” Morgan, 30, mentioned. “You may at all times depend on John Cena being there. He’s had a tremendous, unparalleled profession. I feel he deserves to dwell the remainder of his life precisely how he needs. He’s given a lot and we’ll actually miss him.”

Baron Corbin, who signed with WWE in 2012, has fashioned a particular bond with Cena throughout his decade-plus within the enterprise. 

“We dwell 10 minutes from one another,” Corbin, 39, informed Us. “I work out at his fitness center. I might see him on a weekly foundation earlier than he was doing all of the Hollywood stuff. After I would get pissed off, he turned a mentor, in a way. He would say, ‘Let’s go to dinner. Let’s every steak and burnt Brussels sprouts, have some wine and we’ll speak by way of this and determine it out.”

Corbin continued, “That’s why John Cena is who he’s.”

Receiver — a documentary collection which profiles the NFL’s George Kittle, Amon-Ra St. Brown, Justin Jefferson, Davante Adams and Deebo Samuel — is on the market to stream now on Netflix.