During the Ruthless Aggression Era, Batista and John Cena were two of the biggest stars on the WWE roster. Both of them left their mark on professional wrestling, and Batista wrapped up his career at WrestleMania 35 after he was defeated by Triple H.
John Cena is still active, but back in July he announced that he will be going on a retirement tour in 2025 and that he’ll officially be hanging up his boots for good when the year comes to an end.
Recently Batista spoke to Chris Van Vliet about John Cena’s plan to go on a retirement tour, and he explained why it’s not something he could see himself doing.
“I get along with John. I respect John a lot, a lot more than people think I do for some reason. I think the internet and I think fans have built this rivalry between us, which there really isn’t, but this is how we’re different,” he said. “I would never do this [retirement tour]. I wouldn’t, I couldn’t. It would feel disingenuous to me to go around and I just couldn’t.”
“He wants to go around and he wants to personally thank all the fans, but there’s just something in me where I just couldn’t do it. It would feel uncomfortable to me, accolades feel uncomfortable to me. I could never be the type of babyface who was saying good stuff because I wanted to get the crowd to cheer for me. I couldn’t be that guy.”
“So I love and respect what he’s doing with his whole tour to say thank you to the fans, but we’re just different that way. I couldn’t do it. I went out the way I wanted. I retired the way I wanted. I didn’t want to make a big deal out of it. I announced my retirement on Instagram and I knew I was going to do it. I just didn’t want to tell anybody I was going to do it because I didn’t want anybody to say, no, no, you got to come in, you got to give a speech, you know, the fans. I don’t know, just something about it would have felt false to me. I couldn’t do it.”
H/T F4Wonline.com
