{"id":13260,"date":"2024-07-13T20:57:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T20:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=13260"},"modified":"2024-07-13T20:57:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T20:57:28","slug":"wwe-takes-a-cut-of-everything-john-cena-earns-even-after-he-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=13260","title":{"rendered":"WWE takes a cut of everything John Cena earns even after he retires"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Cena is stepping back from the WWE ring but it wont stop the business from taking a slice of all his career earnings<\/h2>\n

John Cena is one of the greatest WWE superstars of all time. For some, he is the out and out GOAT.<\/p>\n

But despite being the go-to man when it comes to selling the business across the world for almost two and a half decades, the\u00a0wrestling company<\/a>\u00a0consistently takes a percentage of\u00a0Cena’s<\/a>\u00a0earnings from outside of the WWE.<\/p>\n

And that will still be the case once the professional wrestler-turned-actor hangs up his boots (or whatever wrestlers hang up) at the end of next year, with\u00a0Cena officially retiring from in-ring competition<\/a> when 2025 comes to a close.<\/p>\n

Cena has been part-time in\u00a0the WWE<\/a>\u00a0since 2018 as the 47-year-old started the slow walk towards retirement and taking up other business ventures, such as acting, on a full-time basis.<\/p>\n

He wouldn’t be the first, with\u00a0The Rock<\/a>\u00a0quitting WWE back in 2004 to focus on a full-time career in show business under his real name of\u00a0Dwayne Johnson<\/a>. More recently, WWE superstar Batista moving in to full-time acting under his real name, Dave Bautista, starring in the\u00a0Marvel Cinematic Universe<\/a>\u00a0as Drax the Destroyer as well as other flicks such as\u00a0Dune\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.<\/em><\/p>\n

With Cena, his acting career began back in 2006 with\u00a0The Marine<\/em>. Since then, he’s starred in the likes of\u00a0Daddy’s Home 2, Blockers, The Suicide Squad, Fast X,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Ricky Stanicky.\u00a0<\/em>On the small screen, Cena has also starred in\u00a0Peacemaker<\/em>, a show based off his Cena’s character of the same name that appeared in\u00a0The Suicide Squad.<\/em><\/p>\n

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His time in the ring is now – but it’ll soon be over for good (Ronald Martinez\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

The difference between someone like Cena and Johnson is that The Rock didn’t compete in the wrestling industry under his real name. On the flipside,\u00a0John Cena<\/a>\u00a0is John Cena’s birth name.<\/p>\n

As a result, the WWE gained rights to the title which he’s since gone on to use for his acting career. Cena discussed WWE’s ownership of his name during an interview on\u00a0The Howard Stern Show.<\/em><\/p>\n

He confirmed that the wrestling firm gets a cut of all of his movies as a result of who owns the name from a moniker point of view. When asked whether having his name owned by the WWE bothered him, Cena said: “Absolutely not.”<\/p>\n

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Cena’s move in to the acting world has been a slow burner as he remains committed to the WWE as long as his body allows it (Todd Owyoung\/NBC via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

He explained: “Howard, before this I was a kid in a small Massachusetts town mowing lawns for a golf course. I don’t mind kicking a percentage of my earnings to the person who gave me a chance and an opportunity.<\/p>\n

“If anything that’s a sign of respect, I owe [them] a lot.”<\/p>\n

Cena did admit that not owning the rights to his name is a ‘weird concept, in a way’.<\/p>\n

Investigative journalist Tom Colohue spoke further about WWE’s ownership of names during an episode of\u00a0Dropkick Discussions<\/em>, where he claimed Cena isn’t the only one subject to the intellectual property rule.<\/p>\n

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One last WrestleMania appearance is on the cards (Ronald Martinez\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Colohue said: “To cite an example, the WWE owns the name John Cena and that is John Cena\u2019s actual name.<\/p>\n

“That means whenever John Cena is filming, whenever he is credited in a film, the WWE gets a pay cut. They get a cut of the profits.<\/p>\n

“There are some people currently working for the WWE whose names are owned by the WWE. I don\u2019t know who, I don\u2019t have a distinctive list. I haven\u2019t read everybody\u2019s contract but those people know who they are.”<\/p>\n

As a result, it means that even when Cena’s WWE days are long behind him, the wrestling company that helped make him a household name across the world will still get a percentage of any work he does under his real name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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