John Cena Addresses Legendary Rival Missing His WWE Retirement Tour

John Cena appears to be okay about one of his greatest WWE rivals missing Cena’s retirement tour.

During John Cena’s WWE retirement tour in 2025, he had matches with some of his greatest rivals of all time, including Randy Orton, CM Punk, and AJ Styles. Cena also got to wrestle some of WWE’s current stars like Cody Rhodes, Logan Paul, and Dominik Mysterio, to name a few.

However, there are still some wrestlers that fans really wanted to see Cena against one more time, but it didn’t happen. The name at the top of most fans’ wish list was AEW’s Adam Copeland, who many WWE fans know as WWE Hall of Famer Edge.

It was more than 20 years ago, in January 2006, when Edge cashed in the first Money in the Bank contract on John Cena at New Year’s Revolution 2006 for what was Edge’s first WWE Championship win.

In the years that followed, the babyface Cena and the heel Edge feuded over the WWE Title, with many legendary matches and moments.

Since Adam Copeland signed with AEW in October 2023, he hasn’t appeared on WWE TV since then. Despite that, Cena paid tribute to his friend in a SmackDown match when he did a Spear like Edge. Copeland responded with a Five Knuckle Shuffle at the AEW All Out 2025 PPV.

John Cena Is Still Close Friends With Edge

While speaking to Sports Illustrated’s The Takedown, John Cena revealed that he stays in touch with Adam Copeland.

“I talk to Adam all the time. I have great respect for him. We refer to each other as ‘old shoe’ because Adam’s got a very special place in my heart.”

Regarding the WWE schedule he had in his final year, Cena said he couldn’t work with everyone he wanted to for various reasons.

“Now here we both are, celebrating a long living space in a wonderful business. So I talk to him often. I think both of us understood about something like (the retirement tour) it is the sports entertainment business. But then again, I only had 36 dates.

I can’t work with everybody. Gosh, I had tons of fun with Khali, all of my opponents, Shawn Michaels, Triple H, Batista. You name it, we could have just run the gambit of folks. I would run out of time trying to tell you the people I wanted to face.”

While reflecting on his time working with Adam Copeland, John Cena said he felt comfortable with his friend.

“But I talk to Adam often. We are a pair of old shoes. And the reason we use those words is because the first time we stepped in the ring, it just felt comfortable, and that’s really rare. We just fit like an old pair of shoes. And we had a million matches since then and I’m so grateful for everything we could do for each other.”

John Cena’s final WWE match took place at Saturday Night’s Main Event on December 13, 2025, when he tapped out to Gunther’s Sleeper hold. Cena has said numerous times that he has no intentions to ever wrestle again.