10 Wrestlers Who Got Hit With A Car (And WHO DID IT!)

8. John Cena (By JBL)

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John Cena and John Bradshaw Layfield somehow managed to engage in some car sh*t more infamous than this brutal assault on 'The Champ' by 'The Wrestling God' during their 2008 rivalry.

It speaks to just how detested Cena was as WWE's PG poster boy that the shot of him scrawling "JBL IS POOPY" across the side of the Texan's limo is seen as a bigger crime against wrestling than 'Big Match John' himself being splattered across Bradshaw's bumper.

This was the harrowing scene we were left to contemplate as the July 14th 2008 edition of Monday Night Raw went off the air. With Cena propped up against another car, JBL smashed his own motor right into his rival's face then took a long lingering look at the aftermath before shambling off into the night.

Cena appeared without a mark on him six days later in their New York Parking Lot Brawl at The Bash, but made repeated mentions to JBL "knocking him out and running him over", suggesting that the former car did connect even if it wasn't strong enough (!) to actually do any long-lasting damage.

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