Ex-WWE Tag Team Champions Announce Retirement After John Cena
A pair of former WWE Tag Team Champions have announced they’ll be hanging up their boots not long after John Cena does the same.
2025 has been the year of John Cena in WWE as the iconic star, dubbed by the company as the greatest of all time, gets ready for retirement from the ring.
Cena shocked the world with a heel turn at the beginning of the year, aligning himself with The Rock and Travis Scott, before he broke his tie with Ric Flair and became a 17-time WWE Champion at WrestleMania 41. With the heel turn not being received as well as some might have expected, it was abandoned before he lost his title back to Cody Rhodes at SummerSlam.
John Cena was not done in his title quest, however, and on Raw in Boston, he captured the Intercontinental Title in an impromptu championship match from Dominik Mysterio. This made Cena a Grand Slam Champion in WWE just weeks before his final match.
That bout will take place at Saturday Night’s Main Event on December 13th, with Cena’s opponent yet to be determined.
Now, a pair of former WWE Tag Team Champions have followed in Cena’s footsteps and announced when their own in-ring careers will end.
Ex-WWE Stars The Headbangers Announce Last Match
Taking to social media, Mosh and Thrasher, collectively known as The Headbangers, revealed that their time in the ring is coming to an end in 2026:
Just like the #JohnCena The Time is Now tour is coming to an end, the infamous run of the Headbangers will be coming to a close next year in Wildwood! More details to come, but if you’d like to get one of the last matches – contact me at [email protected] #WWERAW.
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The Headbangers emerged as part of WWE in early 1997, and in September of that year, they captured the WWE Tag Team Championship at In Your House: Ground Zero. They held the title for just 2 weeks before losing the gold to The Godwinns at In Your House: Badd Blood.
Bizarrely, in 1998, the pair became NWA Tag Team Champions on WWE television as the promotion was given a platform on Raw. They captured that gold from The Rock ‘n’ Roll Express before losing it to The New Midnight Express, comprising Bart Gunn and Bob Holly. In 2016, the team made a brief return to WWE as part of the SmackDown brand.