You don't always get the closure you want. But if you're lucky, you get closure that feels right. As 48-year-old John Cena —the current Intercontinental Champion of WWE, with single-digit appearances left in his pro wrestling career—stood in the middle of Madison Square Garden , I found the will to accept what I'll never see and appreciate all that I already have.

The November 17 episode of Monday Night Raw , WWE's weekly flagship series (which migrated from cable television to Netflix streaming in a big way earlier this year) , was held inside Madison Square Garden in New York City, a venue and a city with too much importance to professional wrestling. The night was billed as a special one, being the final-ever Raw appearance of John Cena. Since his debut in 2002 and rise to m

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