WWE: John Cena Farewell Tour to Begin on WWE RAW Premiere Show on Netflix, CM Punk Thanks Fans & WWE Crew After His First WWE Holiday Tour Events In Over Decade, More News

Dec 31, 2024

John Cena Farewell Tour to Begin on WWE RAW Premiere Show on Netflix

As noted before, John Cena will be holding a retirement tour for his in-ring wrestling career in 2025.

During Monday’s WWE RAW show in Houston, Texas, it was announced that Cena’s Farewell Tour will be officially starting on next week’s WWE RAW premiere show on Netflix on January 6, 2025.

La promo del inicio del tour de retiro de John Cena en el primer #WWERAW en Netflix. No estoy preparado para este 2025. pic.twitter.com/uYcUGuIVcZ
— LuigiWrestling (@LuigiWrestling) December 31, 2024

CM Punk Thanks Fans & WWE Crew After His First WWE Holiday Tour Events In Over Decade

CM Punk recently reflected on Instagram about him competing in his first WWE Holiday Tour events in over a decade and thanked both the fans who attended the shows and WWE’s crew for their hard work and making it all possible.

“New York, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Chicago. Thank you to everyone who bought a ticket to see us. Chicago. What can I say? I love you with all my heart. Been over ten years since I was able to wrestle in what I will always call the Rosemont Horizon. It is my privilege. Two million dollar houses, on our way to a third in Houston. Proud of everyone on the crew who worked hard and made it all possible, except little Dominik Mysterio who is the greasy twat.
– Chicago Made Punk”

WWE News & Notes

Monday’s WWE RAW show in Houston, Texas was notable for being the final RAW show of the USA Network. Lyra Valkyria defeated IYO SKY in a WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship Tournament Semifinal Round match in the final match held for RAW’s USA Network era.

Monday’s WWE RAW show in Houston also featured Judgement Day debuting a new entrance theme song for the group.

WWE reportedly had sold and distributed around 14,500 tickets for Monday’s WWE RAW show at the Toyota Center in Houston, according to WrestleTix.

WWE announced that Joe Tessitore, Wade Barrett, and Big E will be the hosts for the WWE Raw on Netflix premiere post-show on January 6, 2025 on WWE’s YouTube channel and Netflix.

As noted before, former ESPN Senior VP of Production Lee Fitting was hired by WWE as their new Head of Media and Production this past January following his firing from ESPN over allegations of him committing misconduct, including making sexually suggestive comments and objectifying comments, for years towards female employees. Wrestlenomics’ Brandon Thurston recently released an article detailing what WWE’s hiring and support of Fitting says about the company and WWE President Nick Khan in wake of the reason for Fitting’s firing from ESPN being made public.

Lucha Blog reported that the recent rumors and reports of WWE being interested in signing Lucha Libre AAA talent La Hiedra and her contract with AAA had expired is not true. Lucha Blog stated that this rumor was just something being done for social media engagement farming that was picked up by Mexican wrestling engagement accounts spreading the fake rumor for similar reasons.

WWE recently released five new videos on their WWE Vault channel on YouTube. The first new video was a “Over 45 minutes of John Cena on Velocity.” The second new video was a “Randy Orton – Evolution of a Predator” full documentary. The third new video was an ECW World Tag Team Championship match of Sabu & Mikey Whipwreck vs. The Eliminators (Kronus & Saturn) (c) from ECW Heat Wave 1996. The fourth new video was a WWE World Heavyweight Championship match of Shawn Michaels vs. Triple H (c). The fifth new video was an ECW World Television Championship match of Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Taz (c) from ECW Living Dangerously 1998.

Former WWE wrestler Maven recently posted a new video on his YouTube channel. One of the topics discussed included Maven’s thoughts about how Paul “Triple H” Levesque would protect his opponents when it came to them taking his Pedigree move safely. Maven stated “For anybody that wants to know what the Pedigree, if it hurts or not, not at all. When he has your arms back and he comes down, it looks like he’s holding your arms, driving your face into the mat, but as you’re coming up and going down, he’s releasing your arms, which gives you the time to go down and take the face bump, not completely on your face and protect yourself.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)