There has been a lot of chatter in the pro wrestling discourse about whether or not WWE made a good choice in booking GUNTHER to be John Cena’s final opponent
in his retirement match this weekend (Dec. 13) at Saturday Night’s Main Event.GUNTHER somehow pulled a decent retirement match out of Goldberg earlier this year, so perhaps that impressive performance was a factor in WWE’s decision-making for Cena’s send-off. Regardless, GUNTHER indicated to the New York Post that he isn’t phased by any criticism
of his status as Cena’s final opponent. As far as his own expectations for John’s final match go, he’s raising the bar from the Goldberg standard, for obvious reasons.
“Yeah Goldberg, I was very pleased with the outcome of that, I think. Obviously, I had different expectations in that match than I have with the match on Saturday. I’m expecting, obviously, a little bit more out of that because John is such a way more skilled wrestler than Goldberg was. He was very limited in what he could do. So, very different scenarios, I think.”
The Ring General thinks he got as much out of Goldberg’s aging body as humanly possible.
“I think so. And like I said, without diminishing him or something, he was never known to be the guy with the biggest repertoire, or something like that. He was the guy who had to do two or three things really well, and he’s done that. For all the circumstances, I think yeah, I was very pleased with the match we had.”
We’ve seen Cena have some clunkers and fantastic matches during his WWE farewell tour this year. Which side of the spectrum do you expect his last WWE match ever against GUNTHER is more likely to end up on? Let me know in the comments below, Cagesiders.
