What did you think of John Cena's retirement tour and his final match? Is there anything you would have changed, matches you would have added or removed? Or did you think the whole thing was booked perfectly?

Swing and a miss! I get waht they were going for but woof.

I just hate Gunther.

I only watched the recap of the final few seconds when he was being choked and gave a little smile and it made me happy that he went out the way he wanted to. I was never really into wrestling, but I know it must be hard for an athlete and showman like that to know when it's time to pack it up. I feel like he ended it on his terms, which is rare for something like that.

I would've changed that ending. I understand why they did it but still, it would've been better if Cena won, especially over Gunther.

Gunther sold the hell out of it on Raw the following night, which helped. I think it was probably the right outcome/idea, but badly executed (that little smile as he tapped was f**king awful), and made so much worse by so much of the retirement tour being pretty bad. It's been enjoyable since the match with Cody at Summerslam, AJ was great, but ALL the heel stuff besides the turn itself, plus the match with Brock, was such a disaster that it was always going to be hard to stick any kind of landing.

22 hours ago, James Hunt said:

Gunther sold the hell out of it on Raw the following night, which helped. I think it was probably the right outcome/idea, but badly executed (that little smile as he tapped was f**king awful), and made so much worse by so much of the retirement tour being pretty bad. It's been enjoyable since the match with Cody at Summerslam, AJ was great, but ALL the heel stuff besides the turn itself, plus the match with Brock, was such a disaster that it was always going to be hard to stick any kind of landing.

The match with Lesnar was such an embarrassment, and with zero follow up in any way. The SummerSlam match was the highlight of the whole retirement tour and in my head I’m just gonna say the whole thing ended there 🙂‍↕️

The heel run was a major blemish for me, and was mostly thanks to a dumb decision to juice up Elimination Chamber with Rock and Travis Scott on board, which then left them in a lurch when both of them decided not to show up and do anything else. When they pivoted, it was actually pretty solid, especially in the rematch with Cody and the matches with Dominik, which were fun and put over one of the best heels in WWE. That said, the crowning moment was Cena vs AJ. It was full of awesome homages to other wrestling greats, a tribute to Bray Wyatt, and an actually great match on its own.

I get people wanting Cena to win, but it was never going to happen. Cena is old school in that regard, and wrestlers typically (aside from Sting) go out putting someone else over, not winning. I did love that Cena put over so many NXT people on his way out of active competition though.

I liked it! It really was a poetic way to end it. Don't like Gunther, but he's the right one to carry all the boos. In retrospect, it would've ruined anyone else.

As Gunther's number one fan, I appreciate the heat he is now getting but man, could have been done a little better overall.