WWE legend and former world heavyweight champion finally confirms his retirement five years since his last match

A WWE fable has ruled retired coming backmost for John Cena's status matches.

Cena, 47, is set to telephone it quits astatine the extremity of 2025.

First, helium volition person a bid of status matches arsenic helium says goodbye to the promotion.

Kurt Angle, however, volition not instrumentality to look Cena.

Angle, 55, retired successful April 2019 aft facing Baron Corbin astatine WrestleMania 35 successful New Jersey.

While appearing connected the Notsam Wrestling podcast, Angle was asked astir perchance entering the ringing 1 past clip for Cena's status matches.

In response, Angle admitted that, portion helium reckons helium could get it booked, his assemblage simply wouldn't clasp up to it.

The WWE fable said: "Listen, I'm definite if I made a call, I could marque it happen.

"But there's nary mode I tin bash it. But I would emotion to beryllium 1 of John Cena's status matches."

Angle past revealed that he'd wanted Cena to beryllium his past hostile earlier retirement, lone for Vince McMahon to person had different ideas.

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"I mean, I'm the 1 [with whom] helium had his archetypal match," Angle added. "I wanted John to beryllium my status match.

"I don't cognize if you knew that, but I requested that to Vince. 'You're gonna person to hold till adjacent twelvemonth due to the fact that you person a programme with Baron Corbin.'

"So I was like, 'Okay! I don't deliberation I tin spell different year, Vince!' He said, Well, past it is what it is!'"

Angle besides claimed that helium felt his erstwhile 2006 WWE departure had near a sour sensation with McMahon.

He said: "I emotion Baron Corbin, but I conscionable felt that my 2nd clip successful WWE, I wasn’t truthful overmuch appreciated.

"I deliberation it has a batch to bash with maine leaving the institution precocious and adust successful 2006 and going consecutive to TNA.

"I was expected to spell backmost to WWE successful six months. Vince wanted maine to instrumentality six months disconnected and travel back. So literally, erstwhile I near his bureau and I quit, I called TNA and got a declaration that day.

"I didn’t hold a second. I knew what I wanted to bash and wherever I wanted to spell and I deliberation they was like, ‘Okay, good if helium comes backmost we’re going to thatch him a small lesson,’ which is fine.

"I understood… I emotion my TNA run.

"I deliberation I came into my ain close astir 2006 erstwhile I was having my champion wrestling, and that’s erstwhile I moved implicit to TNA."