The WWE has been in full celebration mode in 2025, honoring the final days of legend John Cena’s storied career as it winds down.
Chief Content Officer Triple H stood in the ring to welcome the 17-time world champion home, as the Boston crowd grew louder and louder in anticipation.
Cena spoke about wanting the final Saturday Night Main Event to focus on the future — featuring NXT superstars, WWE’s developmental brand.
That’s when the future arrived. The song “It Is My Time” hit, and out came the long-haired, mustache-wearing Intercontinental Champion and AAA Mega Campeón, Dominik Mysterio.
“Everyone in the arena is thinking this moment is about John and for John, but I'm the only one in there thinking, ‘Naw, this is for me and this is about me,’ so I had to make it about me,” Mysterio admitted.
Mysterio walked right past Cena and went straight to Triple H, demanding answers after being interrupted by his “deadbeat father,” Rey Mysterio, a week earlier. The elder Mysterio had crashed Dominik’s celebration following his Intercontinental Championship defense against Rusev and Penta, attacking him and hitting the signature 619.
Furious that his father tried to upstage him again, Dominik wanted an explanation.
“I go to the boss man, straight up, right?” Mysterio said. “Try to figure this out and I get put in an impromptu match with John Cena, and I end up being a part of his farewell tour.”
Cena stepped forward, face-to-face with Mysterio.
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“This isn’t about you or Boston,” Mysterio said to Cena. “Why don’t you go sit in that corner and let the grown folk handle business. And speak when you are spoken to—or…I will put you down.”
Cena’s expression hardened as he reminded the young Mysterio where he was standing.
“If it was any other night in any other city, I would give you a chance,” Cena said. “Tonight you don’t have a chance. Tonight I am invincible!”
Cena offered him one last chance to walk away and forget it ever happened — but the smug Mysterio only laughed.
“I am not at my peak yet and I am already better than you ever were in your prime,” Mysterio said. “Any time. Any place. Any era I would have whooped John Cena’s ass.”
There was one championship Cena had never captured — the Intercontinental Title wrapped around Mysterio’s waist. Winning it would make Cena a Grand Slam Champion, just three matches away from retirement.
Triple H stepped up, placed his hand on the belt, and made the match official — sending Boston’s TD Garden into a deafening roar.
The match was a battle from start to finish.
Late in the bout, Mysterio removed a turnbuckle pad and distracted the referee as he pretended to fix it. He slipped outside, grabbed a chair, and tossed it to Cena before collapsing to the mat, faking a hit — a classic Eddie Guerrero trick.
But Cena turned the tables, throwing the chair aside and falling down himself as if he had been struck. As the referee checked on Mysterio, Cena gave him a wink.
Mysterio argued with the referee, pleading his case. Cena seized the opening, hoisted Mysterio for the Attitude Adjustment — but in the chaos, his legs knocked the referee out of the ring. Cena locked in the STF, forcing Mysterio to tap, but no official was there to see it.
When Cena stood to celebrate, he noticed the referee was still down. Mysterio grabbed his title belt and tried to strike, but Cena dodged, countered with another AA, and nearly got the three-count before Mysterio’s shoulder lifted at the last moment.
Mysterio rallied, hitting Cena with the 619 — “made famous by his deadbeat” — followed by a frog splash in tribute to Guerrero. Cena rolled through, countered, and delivered one final AA for the pin.
The Boston Garden erupted like the Celtics had just won their 19th championship, the crowd chanting Cena’s name in unison.
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Backstage, a frustrated Mysterio was met by cameras.
“Where were the Judgment Day?” he asked.
The faction — made up of Mysterio, Finn Balor, JD McDonagh, Raquel Rodriguez, and Roxanne Perez — hadn’t come to his aid.
“I understand Raquel had Women's World Heavyweight Championship match that she had to worry about, so I'm also giving her some slack,” Mysterio said. “But where was, where was Roxanne, right? Like, what was she doing all night?”
One person Dominik did expect would be there was Liv Morgan — the woman he’s been with since SummerSlam 2024, when he turned on Rhea Ripley to help Morgan retain her championship.
Morgan’s been sidelined with a dislocated and separated shoulder since June.
“I feel like she would have been the only one there for me on Monday, right?” Mysterio said of Morgan. “Because that's what she that's what she does. That's what she's done for me.”
Tension within The Judgment Day has been mounting, especially after Mysterio’s conversation with general manager Adam Pearce led to McDonagh and Balor getting a Raw Tag Team Championship rematch — which they lost to AJ Styles and Dragon Lee.
Mysterio believes Morgan’s absence has played a big role in the group’s recent issues.
“So I definitely do need her back,” Mysterio said. “I think it's important for her to come back. She was part of the glue of the Judgment Day that kept us all together.”
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Then on Tuesday morning, Balor tweeted, “I woke up and I’m having a wonderful day!” — something fans took as a subtle jab at Mysterio.
“I just want to assume that he woke up and saw a beautiful sunny day and, you know, went and enjoyed his day in the beach,” Mysterio said of Balor. “I know Finn is a big fan of eating celery, so I hope he had a stick of celery, and I hope he ate it. I want to assume that's why he was having a good day, but we'll get to the bottom of it.”
Families fight — and Mysterio plans to hash it out with his “family” next week on Monday Night Raw.
As for reclaiming his Intercontinental Championship, Mysterio already has a location in mind.
“We did it in his backyard,” Mysterio said. “Let's do it in mine. He had home field advantage. I don't believe in home field advantage, because I believe everywhere I am, I have the advantage. But at the end of the day, we are in beautiful San Diego. So that'd be really cool, but I don't care where it happens.”
Cena has three dates left before riding off into the sunset — Monday, November 17th at Madison Square Garden, Survivor Series for his final PLE, and Saturday Night Main Event in Washington, D.C.
Survivor Series will be in Mysterio’s hometown, and he hopes to get the championship rematch at Petco Park. Whether that happens should be clear by next Monday night.
For now, Mysterio is focused on getting answers, regaining his title, and maybe chasing even bigger gold as 2026 approaches.
“At the end of the day, I'm still the AAA Mega Campeon and I got to figure out my way back to the IC title,” Mysterio said.
