John Cena has loved essentially the most storied profession in sports activities leisure historical past however his web price is nicely behind that of one other WWE icon
John Cena brings the curtain down on his glittering WWE profession at Saturday Night time’s Principal Occasion.
Extensively thought to be the best performer in sports activities leisure historical past, Cena will lace his boots for one remaining time when he faces former World Heavyweight Champion Gunther. The Austrian grappler gained the Final Time Is Now event for the proper to face the 48-year-old in entrance of a sell-out crowd at Washington DC’s Capital One Area.
Nonetheless, for all Cena has achieved throughout his 23-year WWE profession, he is a great distance in need of being the richest professional wrestling star. That honour belongs to a person who had a a lot shorter in-ring profession earlier than turning into the largest film star on the planet – Dwayne Johnson, AKA The Rock.
Johnson, 53, who lately starred within the acclaimed The Smashing Machine, boasts an unbelievable web price of £600million. In the meantime, Cena, who has starred in a number of blockbusters himself, has an estimated web price of £60m, 10 instances much less.
Cena is stepping away from the ring following a year-long farewell tour. It has featured a shock heel flip when he turned on Cody Rhodes on the behest of The Rock and a file seventeenth reign as world champion after beating Rhodes at WrestleMania 41.
Cena has additionally locked horns with a few of his largest rivals for a remaining time, together with Randy Orton, CM Punk and Brock Lesnar.
After reverting to being a child face (an excellent man) once more, he picked up the one main title to have eluded him, the Intercontinental Championship, after beating Soiled Dominik Mysterio, who promptly reclaimed the belt eventually month’s Survivor Collection after interference from Mysterio’s on-screen girlfriend Liv Morgan.
Cena’s remaining match represents the passing of the torch, with stars of WWE’s improvement model, NXT, that includes on the present. Bayley, a legend of the ladies’s division, faces NXT star Sol Ruca. One other icon of sports activities leisure, AJ Types and Dragon Lee defend their world tag staff title towards Je’Von Evans and Leon Slater.
In the meantime, Undisputed WWE Champion Rhodes faces NXT Champion Oba Femi in a Champion vs Champion showdown. Nonetheless, the highlight, for one remaining time, will shine brightest on Cena, who has firmly dominated out a future comeback.
There had been hypothesis that Cena vs Gunther would open the present. Nonetheless, that principle has been squashed by Cena, who advised The Pat McAfee Present: “We’re final. I do not know the way the hearsay began.
“I believe some people with credibility prefer to kick the hornet’s nest each every now and then and get folks chattering.”
Saturday Night time’s Principal Occasion is scheduled to start at 1am UK time on Sunday, December 14. It’s out there to observe at no cost on WWE’s YouTube channel.
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