Natalya Compares John Cena’s Retirement To Seinfeld Ending In 1998
Natalya discusses John Cena’s final match.
A ton of major names from the world of wrestling have weighed in on John Cena’s final match, including but not limited to Rob Van Dam, Dominik Mysterio, and CJ Perry.
In a new interview with the Toronto Sun, Natalya spoke about the internet’s feelings surrounding Cena’s final match.
“Here’s the thing, I think it’s really important to validate feelings. People online are upset, people feel angry. A lot of people are just sad and hurt and pissed that he’s retiring. Yeah, we knew that weren’t going to get John Cena wrestling forever, but we were like, damn, this last year, he gave us some of his best work. I loved his match with AJ Styles. John’s just been doing some of his best work. People felt like, John, I don’t want you to go, you can still do it.”
Natalya went on to compare Cena’s retirement to the series finale of Seinfeld in 1998. For those who are not aware, Jerry Seinfeld felt like it was the right time to bring the show to an end despite continued success.
“What I really love about John’s ending is that he left on his terms. I talk about this in my book, about beating the house. Very very few professional athletes gets to beat the house. Very few get to leave on their own terms. Most people leave because they’re forced into it. John did what Jerry Seinfeld did. Jerry Seinfeld stop doing his own show when he was like the number one show on television. I remember when I was a kid, I used to love Seinfeld, we loved that show and I was devastated when Seinfeld when off the the air like, they were the number one show on TV at at the time. Jerry Seinfeld said, ‘Yeah, we want to leave on top. We don’t want to leave when the ratings tank.’ You see with John, he did it on his own terms but people are just feeling everything. I don’t think people are happy because at the end of the day, nobody really wanted to see John leave and they didn’t like the way he left. We all wanted see him win. I do think John is a company guy, I do think he would have gone into war over that ending. I think the way that John is, just knowing the person that he is, he just wants to keep paying it forward. He wants to make sure that he leaves the business better than he came in.”
In a separate interview, Natalya recently stated that she took advice from Becky Lynch and Bret Hart while writing her book. Fans can check out her full comments by clicking here.
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