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John Cena’s Saturday Night’s Main Event Challenger Set, Steel Cage Match Added

May 16, 2025

John Cena’s challenger for this month’s Saturday Night’s Main Event was set, and it’s none other than R-Truth.

During tonight’s WWE SmackDown, R-Truth said he would be the one going up against Cena later this month. In an interview with Wade Barrett, Truth was asked about Cena putting him through a table after WWE Backlash.

Truth said that, for years, Cena has been someone everyone could always look up to. Truth took no credit for Cena beating Randy Orton at Backlash, and said that that wasn’t Cena who put him through the table.

He said the Cena that he knows wouldn’t be talking about ruining wrestling. He doesn’t want to fight John, though. But if he has to “beat him back to his senses,” Truth said, he will. He’ll never give up, and will continue to live by three words: hustle, loyalty, and respect.

“If I have to beat him back to his senses, then I'll do it”

R-Truth believes @JohnCena is in need of an ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT! Will he be able to deliver at #SNME? ?

@RonKillings #SmackDown pic.twitter.com/lWxufIwVMm
— WWE (@WWE) May 17, 2025

Big Steel Cage Match added to Saturday Night’s Main Event

Elsewhere in the show, Damian Priest and Drew McIntyre will also take to the ring. This time, though, the two feuding superstars will be in a Steel Cage. In a vignette, Priest said he’s pissed off at himself for letting himself be brought down into McIntyre’s “bulls—.”

Priest said it’s time for them to end the feud, and that he wants to beat McIntyre as badly as possible. The only place that kind of stuff can happen is in a Steel Cage, so that’s where they’ll face off.