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Insight with Chris Van Vliet

John Cena On His Heel Turn, Farewell Tour, The Rock, Fav Matches, 17th Championship, Brock Lesnar

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Business, Sports, Mental Health, Wrestling, Health & Fitness, Entrepreneurship

4.93.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

John Cena (@JohnCena) is a professional wrestler and actor signed to WWE. He sits down with Chris Van Vliet at West Coast Creative Studio in Hollywood, CA to discuss the last match of his legendary career, planning his Farewell Tour for 3 years, turning heel and the criticism from fans, what winning a 17th WWE Championship meant to him, becoming the Intercontinental Champion, why his match with Brock Lesnar at Wrestlepalooza was so short, his love letter to wrestling with his match against AJ Styles, wrestling Dominik Mysterio in 3 of his last 4 matches, who he feels is his wrestling soulmate, and more!

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Flea!

0:05.0

Yeah.

0:06.0

Thank you so much for coming in here. We meet again. We meet again. What a year this has been. Right? Yeah. It's almost up. It's almost up. The year ends for me on December 13th, which is weird because that's like the inverse of the 31st. Oh. Ah, the number junkies out there. That's the end of my calendar here.

0:39.3

Are you able to put into words how you're feeling going in this last match?

0:42.9

Great.

0:44.8

Truly great.

0:45.9

We've been able to put programming that's held the attention of folks out there for a year.

1:05.0

Been able to leverage individual intellectual property and create attention through things like the Time is Now tournament, stuff like that's important. Even when you can't be there, you're

1:09.5

kind of helping get eyes on the

1:11.2

product. Gosh, I'm super excited about the 13th because they bought what I sold them. I would

1:18.6

love for it to be rather than just a tribute show. I want it to be a look ahead. And I'll have my

1:26.5

last in-ring performance. is for certain i'm not doing

1:29.4

anything after that but in doing so in the night too we're going to get um big w w superstar so they

1:35.7

can say they were on the card in a non-canon exhibition matches against the best and brightest we got

1:41.8

in nxte so gosh what a way, gosh, what a way to go out.

1:46.4

What a way to go out.

1:47.5

Using those few hours that Peacock has given us in Netflix internationally to be able to say goodbye to a

1:56.8

chapter in my life that's very important. And in doing so, hopefully get eyes on what could be the next two-decade run

2:07.7

or maybe give somebody that boot in the butt that like,

2:11.3

yo, this is what the noise sounds like.

2:13.6

You know, like I'm really, really happy, man.

2:16.9

I feel great.

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