It was just a few nights ago on SmackDown when GUNTHER won The Last Time Is Now tournament. The Ring General now gets to fight John Cena in his retirement match this weekend (Dec. 13) at Saturday Night’s Main Event. Earlier on SmackDown, GUNTHER cut a promo warning Cena to pay attention to the way he wins the final tournament match. The move he used to secure the tap out win was similar to Cena’s STFU finisher, except it actually looked good. In that moment it became quite apparent where this story is going; John Cena has made a career out of the phrase “Never Give Up,” but GUNTHER plans to make him finally give up in his WWE retirement match.

GUNTHER gets a big spotlight on tonight’s episode of Raw to cut a promo on Cena, where he will go into more details on how he plans to end John’s WWE career with a tap out. GUNTHER’s promo will essentially be the entire build to their match, unless someone like Ron Cena interrupts him to catch a beatdown. I’m sure GUNTHER will remind everyone that he already sent Goldberg into retirement this year as a loser, and now it’s Cena’s turn to suffer the same fate. John has no more dates left on Raw. AJ Styles & Dragon Lee want to be fighting champions, so they are defending the world tag team titles tonight against the War Raiders. Erik and Ivar typically don’t get much time on Raw, so it looks like this match is here to continue building up the champs until some other team emerges as an actual threat.