John Cena on his decision to retire: “Time is undefeated, my body is getting weaker”
While speaking to the Happy Sad Confused podcast, John Cena discussed his decision to retire from professional wrestling. Here is what Cena had to say…
“I’m 49. I’m slower. My vertical jump was down. My overall strength was down, which means my body—essentially, time is undefeated. My body is getting weaker, and it takes longer to perform, longer to warm up to perform, and longer to recover between performances.
All of these things are data that’s hitting me in the face. And those times, those numbers, the strength numbers are never going back up. The times are never going to get smaller. It’s going to take longer and longer.
Not to say that I still don’t have good performances left. I could probably get in there and still do some stuff.
But when is the math going to not work? And at that point, gosh, people are paying a lot for tickets, and I’m robbing them of that investment.
So I just looked at the data. I looked at the schedule. A lot of stuff is going on, and I’m passionate about what I’m doing. I don’t want to take away from people on the production side who invested all this money in me. I don’t want to take away from that.
Let’s close this chapter while we still can do great work and hopefully tell a year-long, riveting story. And it was.”