John Cena Responds To Criticism Of WWE Retirement Tour

John Cena has responded to criticism of his WWE retirement tour following The Rock and Travis Scott exiting the story.

When John Cena turned heel at WWE Elimination Chamber, he did so alongside The Rock and Travis Scott in a moment designed to shock fans in the arena.

Following the segment, The Rock would not make another appearance for the rest of the year, while Travis Scott’s only other appearance took place in the main event of WrestleMania, before he also exited the story following the show.

With the story of Rock and Scott’s involvement left unfinished, fans had been critical of Cena’s retirement tour, and he has now responded to those criticising his tour.

Speaking on What Do You Wanna Talk About?, Cena responded to fans criticising his run due to Rock and Travis Scott not being part of it.

He said:

“Lets walk down hypothetical street. Lets say everyone who showed up at the Chamber is active until August. That robs us of John Cena Randy Orton, that robs us of John Cena CM Punk, John Cena Ron Cena, John Cena AJ Styles, John Cena Logan Paul, me and you for the last one, mano a mano.

“So yes, the story that might have been might have had star power, and gravity and who knows what, but what we got by just being like ‘these are the pieces left’. What we got, for me personally, was beautiful.

“I’m not trying to change anybody’s mind. I’ve released art into the world, they can think what they want about it. I’m just also saying that like, is it a wise investment in time, and what I’ve learned about like credible wrestling critiques, of course it is because you want chatter and clickbait.

“But lets analyse what happened, I was in the ring with you, I was in the ring with Randy and Punk and Ron Cena, Logan Paul, AJ Styles, and it was really loud. So, judging by the wise man Shawn Michaels, does that mean we did okay?

“Sometimes all these hypothetical things, lets just figure out what it is, why we’re doing it, and climb that hill in front of you man, because it’s gonna change. They’re gonna have a plan for (Cody), and it’s gonna change.

“Here’s the thing, the WWE audience, the people who critique our work, they’re so understanding when the reason is injury. Someone gets injured, they can’t compete, okay, we gotta give that up. Totally blows the story, injury, I get it.

“What if it’s an emotional injury? What if we deem things aren’t working out? What if somebody says I just can’t make it? I just doesn’t work sometimes, and instead of bitching about what we could have had, the imaginary thing, look at what we got.

“Again, when I reflect on Saturday, I went peacefully, I closed this chapter peacefully, and man, fun, fun stuff.”

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