John Cena is in the final year of his in-ring career ... and once wrestling fans can't "see him" anymore, Booker T tells TMZ Sports he will be remembered as someone who took what he was given and turned it into an all-time career.
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00:00Is this the most popular the WWE has ever been?
00:05I feel like everywhere you go, it's on Netflix now.
00:07It's selling, Royal Rumble's selling outstanding.
00:09Is this the most popular it's ever been?
00:10I don't know if it's as popular as it's ever been,
00:15but it's bigger than it's ever been, I can say that.
00:19I can say it's getting back to that popularity that it had once upon a time
00:26to where everybody was tuned into it.
00:29You go to a bar and it's on and grown men are drinking beer and watching wrestling.
00:35We're getting back to that point right now where it's not just kid friendly anymore.
00:42So I think, yeah, we're getting close.
00:45We're getting so close to that point now with this next Netflix deal.
00:49It's gonna only get bigger and better.
00:52I can only imagine what it's gonna look like here in the next 365 days.
00:56Exactly.
00:57And obviously, someone you know well, John Cena, he's on his farewell tour right now.
01:02I wanna ask you, is there one name that he has to face in this retirement tour?
01:08I know everyone's all about title number 17, but
01:10is there a name that sticks out to you that's like, it's gotta be seen?
01:15You know what, I really never thought about that.
01:17I really never thought about that.
01:18You know, just because I'm on the other side, man, I've done this before.
01:26So I was thinking, I was trying to figure out how
01:30Jack could get out of this not too beat up.
01:33I wanted to be able to walk away from this thing, man.
01:39My partner that I do my radio show with, he was talking about, man,
01:43I wanna see him work this guy, I wanna see him work this guy.
01:46And this guy was like, are you crazy?
01:48Are you, so I don't know, man, I don't know.
01:52It's gonna be for the fans to actually decide who they want John to see.
01:56And hopefully, he'll have enough gas left in the tank to actually get it done.
02:00What's his legacy gonna be when he officially does hang it up?
02:06The man who took what he had and
02:09made the best out of it and took it all the way to the top.
02:14That's how John's gonna be remembered.
02:16Wasn't the best wrestler in the world or anything like that.
02:18I always talk about that as far as John Cena goes.
02:20And it's not out of disrespect or anything like that.
02:23But John Cena, he knew how to go out and do, I always talk to my students.
02:28I say, there's no wrong way of doing it, as long as you do it right.
02:33And that's John Cena.