While fans in the arena booed the finish and booed Paul “Triple H” Levesque when he led the locker room down to the ring for the post-match celebration of Cena’s career, as well as the online discourse that continues about the decision for Cena to tap, the “Leader of the Cenation” is at peace. He described the finish of the bout, as well as the look on his face at the end, to Rhodes.

“You realize, ‘I’ve connected with everybody I love. Physically, I feel great. I think it’s time to take that last breath,'” Cena said, continuing his metaphor. “And that’s that. That’s that, I hate to keep going back morbidly to obituaries, but ‘this person died peacefully…’ And knowing that like, ‘Man. We are in a good place. We’re going to be great going forward.’ The bottom of the t-shirt says, ‘I gave everything. Thank you for everything.’ In that one moment, that was that. Going peacefully.”

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