Mark Henry on John Cena’s Retirement Announcement: He Should Be Revered. Mark Henry holds brilliant respect for John Cena.
On July 6, sixteen-time global champion John Cena introduced his upcoming retirement from professional wrestling. Before formally stepping faraway from the ring, Cena has deliberate a 12-month retirement tour, walking from January to December 2025. In an interview with TV Insider, Cena’s former rival, Mark Henry, shared his mind on this extensive declaration.
“I suppose it’s super. I’m so happy for [John Cena],” Henry said. “I suppose that now he’ll be capable of be liked the manner he must be liked. People wanted John Cena to turn heel. John Cena and Ricky Steamboat, lifetime babyfaces. That’s who they’re. That is what they had been designed to be. They stuck to their weapons. The New Day, too.”
“Embrace it, find it irresistible, don’t call it goody shoes. The people that booed John Cena and needed violence upon him again then, you all want a whooping. He ought to be revered,” Henry brought.
Eleven years before Cena’s declaration, Mark Henry made his very own retirement statement in his now-well-known salmon-colored jacket. As an emotional Henry regarded ready to include John Cena within the ring, he as an alternative surprised each person via hitting him with a World’s Strongest Slam and proclaimed that he had “a lot left in the tank.” Henry persevered his in-ring profession for another five years, together with his final match taking vicinity on the 2018 WWE Greatest Royal Rumble.