Gunther on WWE SNME victory: ‘John Cena tapped out like a little b****’
This weekend, Gunther defeated John Cena in the latter’s retirement match. Tonight’s episode of Monday Night Raw opened with a segment suggesting who Gunther’s next opponent might be.
Gunther came out to celebrate his win, climbing on the announce desk before entering the ring to speak.
“I did what I said I would do,” Gunther said. “I made John Cena give up. And when he gave up, he tapped out like a little bitch.”
Gunther then started to leave before returning to the announce desk to repeat his claims.
“I made John Cena tap out like a little b****,” he said. “It is my time now. I will forever be the man that made John Cena give up.”
When he finally went backstage, Gunther was confronted by Raw general manager Adam Pearce.
“You go to the ring against the greatest of all time, you beat John Cena right in the middle, you send him into retirement,” Pearce said. “And then you show up tonight and you walk all over that man’s legacy because you know he’s not coming back. You think you’ve got it all figured out.”
“I do,” Gunther confirmed.
“Doing that, Gunther, does not make you the Ring General,” Pearce replied. “It makes you an *ssh*le.” Pearce then told Gunther he was done for the night and kicked him out of the building.
Gunther, all too happy to call it a night, approached his car, where he found AJ Styles waiting for him.
Styles, of course, is one of Cena’s most notable rivals—he lost to Cena at Crown Jewel 2025 in October.
“Is there anything you want to tell me?” Gunther asked? Styles said nothing, silently gesturing toward Gunther’s car. Gunther drove away, stopping to flash Cena’s “You Can’t See Me” taunt at Styles before cackling and driving away.
Styles and Gunther have wrestled a handful of times before—Gunther defended the Intercontinental championship against Styles on a pair of house shows in 2022, then defended the World title against him in steel cage matches on a tour of Germany this spring.
Styles has said that he is close to retirement himself. He could be the third notable wrestler to wrestle his last match against Gunther, joining Cena and Bill Goldberg, whose last match was a loss to Gunther in Atlanta last July.
