Reason behind John Cena's questionable booking in his final run, according to ex-WWE writer

WWE Saturday Night's Main Event marks the end of John Cena's career as an in-ring performer following his retirement tour. Meanwhile, Vince Russo claimed that someone from the company informed him why the final run didn't live up to people's expectations.

John Cena started his last-ever run in January and shockingly turned heel for the first time in two decades, leading up to WrestleMania 41 in Nevada. However, The Rock and Travis Scott were no longer in The Franchise Player's corner, and the 17-time WWE World Champion continued the heel run on his own until he dropped it before his rematch with Cody Rhodes in August.

Speaking on Behind The Turnbuckle Studios' The Coach and Bro Show, Vince Russo claimed that a talent informed him that John Cena initially made his own creative choices. Based on the information Russo received, the wrestling veteran stated that Cena was no longer making his own choices and was going with whatever the management and creative team pitched to him.

"At the beginning of this [Retirement tour], I spoke to a talent at WWE, and it's an established name. And he assured me at the beginning of this thing, Cena was calling the shots. Cena was laying out the creative... Because I was told he was fully in control of the creative. I think when The Rock and [Triple H] Hunter thing went down, and this went totally AWOL, and he had to make chicken salad out of chicken s**t, I think at that point Cena said, 'Bro, do whatever you want. We killed this with The Rock thing. We're not going to rebound from this. Do whatever you want.' I think at that point, he just went along with whatever they gave him," Russo said.

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John Cena signed a new deal with WWE

John Cena's monumental WWE career as an in-ring performer will come to an emotional end over the weekend. The Franchise Player will no longer face challenges twice his size inside the ring and will ride into the sunset. However, he's not done as a talent in the company.

In a conversation with Tom Rinaldi following Monday Night RAW, the Men's Grand Slam Champion revealed that he signed a new five-year deal with WWE and would work as an ambassador. It'll be interesting to witness a new chapter in John Cena's life in the Stamford-based promotion.

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