5 Signs the Firefly Fun House match was John Cena's last match in WWE

WWE Superstars John Cena and Bray Wyatt
WWE Superstars John Cena and Bray Wyatt
WWE John Cena and Bray Wyatt
WWE John Cena and Bray Wyatt

John Cena and The Fiend faced off in the first-ever Firefly Fun House match, and it was quite something... although most of us are left wondering what it really was. The match, if you could even call it that, interspersed Cena's career achievements and events with his feud with Wyatt.

WWE dropped a few hints along the way that could possibly signal the end of John Cena's career in the promotion.

Let's take a look at 5 signs the Firefly Fun House match was John Cena's last match in WWE:


#5 Ruthless Aggression questions repeated

John Cena and the Vince McMahon-based puppet
John Cena and the Vince McMahon-based puppet

When John Cena opened the door after entering the Firefly Fun House, he encountered the Vince McMahon-based character, Mr. Mcbossman in the Fun House, who asked Cena some pointed questions. The question that Vince McMahon asked his Superstars nearly two decades ago after the end of Attitude Era if they had "ruthless aggression", was repeated by the Vince McMahon character in the segment.

Cena, at the start of his career, was one of the many Superstars that was trying to carve a career for himself and grab opportunities that existed following the end of the Attitude Era.

In the Firefly Fun House match, WWE went back to that era, where Kurt Angle challenged the Superstars in the back and asked them if they had "ruthless aggression". This challenge was answered by Cena. WWE used that segment, with Wyatt playing the Angle character. Cena tried to knock out Wyatt, but the former Universal Champion ducked, mocking Cena about how this ineptitude would have got him fired back then.

With WWE going back to that part of Cena's career, perhaps the underlying clue was that those questions were now asked of Cena and it is time for a new era in WWE. An era that doesn't include the 16-time World Champion in it.

#4 The Muscle Man Dance failure

John Cena doing the Muscle Man Dance
John Cena doing the Muscle Man Dance

After the Ruthless Aggression segment, we saw WWE recreate Saturday Night’s Main Event program from the 80s, where Bray Wyatt played the Hulk Hogan character. Wyatt cut a promo before Cena entered the fray with two dumbbells in his hands.

Wyatt introduced Cena as his tag team partner named Johnny Largemeat. Cena tried to hype himself and spoke about the "cream rising to the top" while doing the Muscle Man Dance, pumping iron while shouting. He then increased his speed to show that he's up for it.

Cena, or Johnny Largemeat, though ran out of energy and his hands fell down from the speed dumbbell workout. The McMahon puppet ordered Cena to keep his "hands up" when they were dropping to the floor.

Wyatt then spoke in his Hogan-like character and said "whatcha gonna do when you realize the egomaniac has been running wild on you" and threw him out. This section of the match perhaps hints at Cena's ego being too big and that it was time to leave, and also possibly hints at Cena not being able to do it in the ring anymore.

#3 Wyatt's impassioned "chances" promo

Bray Wyatt
Bray Wyatt

Next, John Cena transitioned to his Doctor of Thuganomics gimmick where he tried to bury Wyatt by saying that the former Universal Champion was a "s*** for opportunity". He also said that Wyatt blew the chances he had in WWE.

Wyatt replied to Cena by saying that he had to earn every opportunity in his career and said that "they are still taking it from me", perhaps hinting at WWE taking away opportunities despite being the best gimmick in the company. Wyatt said Cena is not a hero and is, in fact, a bully, despite Cena being "untouchable" in WWE.

Wyatt then said that Cena would do "anything for fame" and exploits the weaknesses of his opponents and mocks them. Wyatt said "this is your last chance, man" and then gave Cena the spotlight to say what he wants to say. Could Wyatt have tacitly implied that this was Cena's last chance at a WrestleMania moment?

Although Cena looked sad at the things that he said to Wyatt, that quickly turned to anger and then attacked Wyatt, before Wyatt hit Cena with his lock necklace.

#2 End to the WrestleMania 30 story

John Cena and Bray Wyatt
John Cena and Bray Wyatt

Bray Wyatt then transformed into The Wyatt Family leader from 2014 where John Cena and Wyatt had a singles match at WrestleMania 30. Wyatt asked Cena why he wasn't listening to the fans back at WrestleMania 30. Wyatt told Cena to hear them now and said that they wanted and needed him more than Cena back then.

In that match, Wyatt had offered Cena a steel chair to hit him with, but the 16-time Champion refused to do so back then.

Now, Wyatt attacked Cena and then was about to land the Sister Abigail, but didn't finish the move. He told a shocked Cena that "that's not enough to end this", and then offered a steel chair, and then said that Cena made the wrong choice of not hitting him with the chair at WrestleMania 30.

Six years ago, Wyatt gave Cena the chair and shouted "finish me" and he repeated the same, this time telling Cena to "fix it". This puts a lid on a storyline that should have ended with Wyatt being the winner all those years ago and is perhaps a symbol that everything Cena had to achieve in WWE is over.

#1 "Destroy the most overhyped, overvalued, overprivileged WWE Superstar in existence"

John Cena in the Mandible Claw
John Cena in the Mandible Claw

The last part of the match had John Cena as part of the nWo, with Bray Wyatt as WCW boss Eric Bischoff. Cena and Wyatt seemed to be on the same team before Cena turned on Wyatt and attacked him.

While attacking Wyatt, videos of Cena's low points in his WWE career were intercut. These included his loss to The Miz at WrestleMania 27, CM Punk winning the title from him at Money in the Bank 2011, losing to Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam in 2014, and passing the proverbial torch to Roman Reigns at No Mercy in 2017.

These past visuals enraged Cena, but he stopped and had a realization and looked remorseful, perhaps at all the harm he has done over the years.

Wyatt attacked Cena and put him in the Mandible Claw, and what followed next was the biggest hint that Cena's career in WWE is over. An audio of Cena's was played from a few weeks ago when he cut a promo on Wyatt:

"At WrestleMania, I will finish the job that should’ve been done six years ago and destroy the most overhyped, overvalued, overprivileged WWE Superstar in existence."

This is probably WWE's way of putting a nail in the coffin of Cena's in-ring career.

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