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Passionate about sport, cinema and television (on screen and behind) since his childhood, Bernard has been a journalist for 10 Sport since 2018. More skilled with the keyboard in hand than with the ball on his feet, he decides to mainly cover a beloved sport, criticized and hated at the same time (football) and a sport that is not one (wrestling).
As John Cena begins his WWE farewell tour in 2025, Kevin Owens longs to relive a key moment in his career with the wrestling legend. Ten years after their first meeting in the ring, the Canadian hopes to mark this anniversary with one last fight against John Cena, already very popular.
It's a special year ahead of us. WWE. 2025 will be associated with the retirement of John Cena, who has decided to put his acting career, which he began a few years ago, on hold to properly conclude his wrestling career. “ I gave the year 2025 to WWEhe confided last summer to Collider. I will retire in 2025 and start this farewell tour in January. I will finish it in December and there will be around 36 dates around the world to thank the WWE audiences around the world “. Potential adversaries of John Cena jostle since the announcement of his retirement, each wanting to be part of this highly symbolic year for the queen organization of wrestling and its gondola head for two decades. Kevin Owens adds himself to the long list, with an argument.
“I want to be part of it”
In 2015, Kevin Owens had managed to earn his place in the big shows of the WWE after a first rivalry with John Cena. Ten years later, the Canadian hopes to celebrate their anniversary in the ring. “ Yes, I want to be a part of it, but I was lucky enough to share the ring with him many times during my first year in WWE. We wrestled against each other three times a week for several months and it was incredible. I would really like to be in the ring with him at some specific time because in May 2025, the end of May, more precisely, will mark ten years since our first match », confides Kevin Owens in an interview given to TalkSport.
See you in May 2025?
The former world champion is referring here to their confrontation which took place at Elimination Chamber on May 31, 2015, a key moment in the career of Kevin Owens who had beaten the living wrestling legend: “ I believe the tenth anniversary of our first match falls on a Saturday night and, you know, WWE often does shows on Saturday nights. If there's a way to do a match for the tenth anniversary of our first match, that would be great – or around that time, just to celebrate a match that meant a lot to me, and always will In my opinion. »
The invitation is launched, and if it remains unanswered, Kevin Owens relativizes in advance: “ If it doesn't happen again, I feel very lucky to have been in a lot of his matches. I teamed up with him, I wrestled against him, we were in the ring together, we shared the mic. I have many fond memories of my career with John. Even though I played a small role in his career, he played a huge role in mine. »
