WWE is reportedly considering matches with more than two wrestlers for the John Cena Classic, which is set for December 14. It would be a way to get more wrestlers on the card.
According to Joey Votes of WrestleVotes Radio on Fightful Select, the idea has been floated internally. The idea is that the show, which won’t have brackets as Cena has explained, could feature “some multi person matches in an effort to get more talent involved.”
Cena told The Rich Eisen Show that he got the idea for the John Cena Classic from the December 13, 2025, Saturday Night’s Main Event in Washington, D.C. The show featured Cena’s retirement match and saw main roster stars face off against NXT wrestlers. One of those matches was a tag team bout, with AJ Styles and Dragon Lee retaining the World Tag Team Championship against Je’Von Evans and Leon Slater.
Noam Dar and Romeo Moreno are the only ones invited as a team so far. Having won the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic, the two were invited to the event by Cena on Tuesday’s NXT. On the same night, NXT Women’s Champion Kelani Jordan was added to the list, joining Cody Rhodes and Zilla Fatu.
If the idea goes through, every wrestler added to a match would mean another name for Club WWE members to vote for, with the fan vote set to determine the men’s and women’s John Cena Classic Champions. That’s because all participants are eligible to be voted champion, even if they lose their match.
Cena is set to appear on Friday’s SmackDown, Monday’s Raw and Survivor Series: WarGames on November 28 in Houston, Texas, to announce more participants. The John Cena Classic will be a special episode of Raw, streaming live on Netflix from the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.