John Cena’s publicly documented relationship history includes marriages to Elizabeth Huberdeau and Shay Shariatzadeh, as well as a high-profile engagement to Nikki Bella. The available record supports a concise timeline—not ten distinct, lesser-known facts. Here are the milestones that can be substantiated, with Bella’s first-date story clearly identified as her own recollection.
Elizabeth Huberdeau: Cena’s first marriage
They married in 2009
Biography.com reports that Cena and Elizabeth Huberdeau married in July 2009. Their divorce settlement came in July 2012, according to the same timeline; E! also dates their divorce to 2012. Biography.com’s relationship timeline and E!’s retrospective document the marriage and its end, but do not establish a reliable private explanation for their separation.
Nikki Bella: dating, a proposal and an ended engagement
The relationship began in 2012
Biography.com dates the start of Cena and Nikki Bella’s relationship to 2012. Some of their relationship events appeared on Total Divas, as WWE notes in its interview with Bella. That confirms televised coverage; it does not establish that the show captured every private detail or that the relationship itself was scripted. WWE’s interview with Bella provides that context.
Cena proposed at WrestleMania 33
In April 2017, after Cena and Bella competed in a mixed tag-team match against The Miz and Maryse at WrestleMania 33, Cena proposed in the ring. Biography.com dates the proposal to that event, and Us Weekly’s retrospective also recounts the public proposal.
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The engagement ended in April 2018
Biography.com’s timeline says the engagement ended in April 2018. The available sources establish the timing, not a definitive private motive for the breakup; assigning one would go beyond what they document.
Bella recalled an early date at a steakhouse
In WWE’s first-person Q&A, Bella said Cena picked her up for an early date at a steakhouse. They talked for hours and danced at the restaurant. Bella recalled: “That first one went into the second one where we just had an amazing dance in the middle of the restaurant.” This is Bella’s account of the date, not an independently verified reconstruction. Read her recollection at WWE.
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They met while Cena was filming a movie
Biography.com reports that Cena met engineer Shay Shariatzadeh in Vancouver in March 2019, while he was filming Playing with Fire. The timeline says they appeared together on a red carpet in October 2019 and married in October 2020. These dates are reported in Biography.com’s account.
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