John Cena match placement still in flux for WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event

John Cena will have his retirement bout on WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event this weekend, but where that match will be placed is still unknown.

Recently, an update had emerged that Cena was set to open the show in Washington, D.C. However, according to our Bryan Alvarez on Thursday’s Wrestling Observer Live, Cena’s match placement on the show is still in flux.

“They could open with anything they want on Saturday night. The day the show is going to come, someone may say, ‘You know what? What are we doing? Let’s put the John Cena match on last.’ All I can tell you is 100% the idea was 100% that John Cena’s match was going on first,” Alvarez noted. “Now, whether it does, we’ll find out the day of the show. There are a lot of arguments for and against.”

“John Cena wants to go on first. It’s John Cena’s retirement match. He wants to open the show. He has said this publicly. He has said this privately. Whatever everyone else’s arguments are about where the match should take place, John Cena wants to go on first.”

Alvarez also noted that Cena did not want the show to revolve around him and always wanted to showcase the NXT performers.

“John Cena legitimately wanted NXT wrestlers on the show so that they could be showcased for his final appearance, his final Saturday night’s main event. He said this countless times, ‘I don’t want this show to be about me. I am going to have my final match on this show, but I want this match to be a springboard for other people as well.’ And so in his mind, he wants to open the show so that the NXT wrestlers can be seen as the main eventers.”

On the upcoming Saturday Night’s Main Event show, Cena will face Gunther in his final match while Cody Rhodes takes on NXT Champion Oba Femi, Bayley faces rising NXT star Sol Ruca, and Je’Von Evans and Leon Slater challenge AJ Styles & Dragon Lee for the WWE World Tag Team titles.