GUNTHER Views His Win Over John Cena In Cena’s Final Match As ‘Maybe’ The Most Meaningful Win Of His Career

GUNTHER’s first media appearance after retiring John Cena.

The 26-year pro wrestling career of John Cena came to an end at WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event. Cena’s final match was against two-time WWE World Heavyweight Champion GUNTHER, and the bout concluded with Cena tapping out to GUNTHER’s sleeper hold.

For the first time since the match, GUNTHER made a media appearance, and he stopped by TMZ’s Inside The Ring podcast. To start, he was asked for his general thoughts about retiring John Cena.

“It feels very good. You just mentioned 20 years, funny enough, in November, I had my 20-year anniversary as a wrestler so I can claim I prepared all those 20 years to make John Cena tap out so, fits into each other.”

He touched on the aftermath of the match and being swarmed by people as he was exiting the venue. GUNTHER said he wanted to embrace that reaction.

“Oh yeah, I wanted to embrace it a little bit. I mean, could have hidden more or something but, felt good walking through the anger of the people,” he laughed.

He went on to call the victory over Cena ‘maybe’ the most meaningful win of his career. Looking back at the start of that day, GUNTHER said he could feel how tense it was.

“It was definitely the — yeah — the biggest or the most meaningful win, maybe, of my career, or the win with the biggest reaction afterwards. That I can definitely say. I think, yeah, it’s hard to compare to anything else because John Cena… he’s such a legendary figure in WWE, but the wrestling world in general. It’s really hard to compare. The whole day I could tell people were really tense and very serious about everything. It almost felt more important than WrestleMania to a lot of people backstage, if I can compare it to that and yeah, I knew what I was gonna do anyway so, the clock was ticking. It almost felt like a time bomb to explode at the end of the day, and yeah, well, it did, and yeah, thankfully to my advantage.”

GUNTHER appeared on the December 15th Monday Night Raw to address the crowd. He stated that John Cena tapped out like ‘a little b*tch’ and continuously went back to the ring to taunt the crowd.

If the quotes in this article are used, please credit TMZ’s Inside The Ring podcast with an H/T to Fightful for the transcriptions.