Update on WWE PLE schedule for 2025 & how John Cena is affected
The end of the road for WWE megastar John Cena is less than five months away and how WWE’s premium live event schedule has evolved this year has essentially confirmed when his final match will take place.
On Thursday’s Wrestling Observer Live, our Bryan Alvarez reported that with the creation of July’s Evolution and by adding a second night of SummerSlam, WWE will satisfy their 2025 commitment of PLEs to Peacock with November’s Survivor Series.
That leaves December wide open for the final Saturday Night’s Main Event of 2025 which, at this point Alvarez said, will feature Cena’s final match airing live on NBC and Peacock.
Cena himself said in July that his retirement match is scheduled for mid-December and that “they are still trying to find a place for it.” However, his own father told a local news outlet in May that the match will take place at Boston’s TD Garden, less than an hour away from where Cena grew up. WWE has yet to announce anything.
Our Dave Meltzer has reported that if that is indeed the case, Saturday, December 13th would be the date to watch. The Garden has nothing publicly scheduled for that night.
As of this writing, Cena has 12 appearances left through the end of 2025.
Since 2011, Josh has been a contributing editor to Wrestling Observer/F4WOnline.com and also hosts the Punch-Out podcast. He has also written for Fight Magazine, Bloody Elbow, Bleacher Report, and other websites. He's a 2000 graduate of the University of Maine, worked in pro sports, and once was an indie ring announcer.