\u201cAnd then you look at the age graphic, and you\u2019re like, \u2018Oh, man.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Cena admitted he started thinking about retirement when he was 45, and while he could have found a way to keep going, it didn\u2019t feel it was the \u201crespectful\u201d thing to do.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe game just looks too fast for me, because it is.<\/p>\n
\u201cI could change my style at the risk of ruining that energy that WWE invested in me. And that\u2019s tough, because from an ego standpoint, you\u2019ve got to step away from the audience.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love it. It\u2019s great, but that\u2019s not respectful to the fans, and it\u2019s not respectful to the company.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cena is still involved in WWE, having appeared as the host of WrestleMania 42 last month, and at Backlash earlier this month, where he announced plans for the John Cena Classic event, which will showcase the stars of the future.<\/p>\n
Away from wrestling, the 17-time world champion has recently been diagnosed with Demodex blepharitis, also known as eyelid mites, having teamed up with Tarsus Pharmaceuticals to promote its \u201cFDA-approved treatment\u201d.<\/p>\n
He explained: \u201cI\u2019m 49, I read a lot, and I started reading pages three times. I also had itchy eyes, red eyes, eye crusties. We all get them.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was self-diagnosing like an idiot. I was like, \u2018I\u2019m getting old. This is just how my life is.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cI went to an eye doctor. The eye doctor was like, \u2018Yep, you\u2019re right, your eyes are gone.\u2019 He also said something I didn\u2019t know: \u2018You have eyelid mites.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
He was prescribed Tarsus\u2019 Xdemvy eyedrops, which have helped with the condition.<\/p>\n
He told People magazine: \u201cNow, I still need my readers, but I don\u2019t have that redness, that itchiness and certainly not waking up with the crusties.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAnd then you look at the age graphic, and you\u2019re like, \u2018Oh, man.\u2019\u201d Cena admitted he started thinking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[91142,3105,156,71,1351,692,16718,221,5126,111,139,69,46440,12860,1517,2044,61,6859,15370],"class_list":["post-437814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cena","tag-data","tag-entertainment","tag-from","tag-had","tag-he","tag-him","tag-how","tag-john","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-retire","tag-revealed","tag-reveals","tag-time","tag-to","tag-told","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}