John Cena's reputation as a good guy was as sure as the sun coming up, taxes, and somebody shouting, "You can't see me" at every WWE pay-per-view.

Another reason the heel turn is so newsworthy is that Cena is currently in the midst of a retirement tour with WWE. Instead of facing Rhodes at WrestleMania in a matchup of babyfaces (the wrestling term for a good guy), it now appears he’ll enter WWE’s biggest event of the year as one of the company’s top heels.

The John Cena retirement tour just took an unexpected but incredible new direction and set the table for multiple new avenues to tell this story.