John Cena Classic Announced For 12/14 at Disney World & New John Cena Classic Championship Belt Revealed, Cody Rhodes Revealed As First Competitor

Monday’s WWE RAW show at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York featured John Cena giving three major announcements regarding his upcoming John Cena Classic tournament.

The first announcement was the event taking place on December 14 at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Disney World in Orlando, Florida.

It was also announced that this upcoming show will as part of a special two WWE RAW shows that same day with the first being from Perth, Australia in the morning and the second being the John Cena Classic RAW special from Disney World in the night.

The second announcement was the unveiling of the new John Cena Classic Championship and the fan voting to be open to Club WWE subscribers.

BREAKING NEWS: @JohnCena just announced the John Cena Classic will take place on Dec. 14 at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex! https://t.co/VZk9lam17L

— WWE (@WWE) November 3, 2026

The third announcement was Cody Rhodes being the first official competitor invited for the tournament. Cena stated that he will be making further announcements regarding who is invited for his tournament at upcoming WWE shows starting with this Wednesday’s WWE NXT show.

The FIRST invitee to the John Cena Classic is… https://t.co/m7a1BMCc1D

— WWE (@WWE) November 3, 2026

Current field for John Cena Classic:

• Cody Rhodes