WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event Finds New US Home, John Cena’s Final Match
WWE has a brand new home for Saturday Night’s Main Event, and that is the show that will see John Cena’s last-ever match take place.
WWE has announced an early end to its current Peacock deal as ESPN becomes the new home for the company’s PLEs in the United States.
The new deal with ESPN will see WWE Wrestlepalooza take place on September 20th, marking the first time a WWE main roster PLE has gone head-to-head with AEW as All Out takes place in Toronto on the same date. Brock Lesnar vs. John Cena is widely expected to headline Wrestlepalooza. But as far as Cena’s final match in the company, a date for that has now been set.
Date For John Cena’s Last Match Made Official
WWE and Peacock might have ended their PLE deal early, but NBC’s streaming service has now become the exclusive home to Saturday Night’s Main Event. A press release from NBC gives more details on the deal and confirms that John Cena’s final match will take place on Saturday Night’s Main Event on December 13th 2025:
STAMFORD, Conn. – Aug. 20, 2025 – Peacock and WWE®, part of TKO Group Holdings (NYSE: TKO), today announced a multi-year partnership agreement to exclusively stream the iconic Saturday Night’s Main Event series live on Peacock.
Saturday Night’s Main Event will stream in primetime exclusively on Peacock four times each year, featuring WWE’s top Superstars, rivalries, championship matches, and more.
Peacock will exclusively stream two nights of Saturday Night’s Main Events this year, with the first taking place on November 1. Additionally, Saturday Night’s Main Event on Dec. 13 will feature John Cena in his retirement match.
The WWE Network library will remain available on Peacock through the end of 2025, and NXT Premium Live Events will be available on Peacock until March 2026.
Throughout the term of the partnership, the SmackDown library will remain on Peacock on a 30-day delay and USA Network will continue as the live exclusive home of SmackDown on Friday nights.
“We’re excited to bring Saturday Night’s Main Event exclusively to Peacock beginning this fall,” said WWE Chief Content Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque. “NBCU have been terrific longtime partners, and we look forward to continuing to work with them for years to come.”
“Peacock has had a wonderful relationship with the WWE and we’re excited to see it continue far into the future,” said Rick Cordella, President, NBC Sports. “Saturday Night’s Main Event is some of the most premium content the WWE produces, including John Cena’s upcoming retirement match, and it will be all live and exclusive on Peacock.”
Saturday Night’s Main Event originally premiered on NBC in 1985, and ran on the network until 1991. The popular event returned to NBCUniversal in September 2024 with a special Saturday Night’s Main Event on NBC and Peacock from Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Long Island, N.Y., the site of the first-ever Saturday Night’s Main Event.
This means that despite suggestions otherwise, WWE will not be moving December’s Saturday Night Main Event to go head-to-head with AEW Worlds End later in December.