10 Wrestlers Who Won Despite Taking The Finish
4. JBL (No Way Out 2005)
A fairly inspired finish on the last night the company would really need one for the JBL character, WWE produced a believable way for the SmackDown steward to undeservedly escape with his title one final time at No Way Out 2005.
Teddy Long had booked a barbed wire cage match with The Big Show to - at long last - force John Bradshaw Layfield to either fight to keep his prize or suffer some serious consequences losing it. The visual wasn't quite as terrifying as the possibility (barbed wire only bordered the top of the structure rather than slotting itself between the mesh), but it was enough of a trap for the rat...until he slipped through yet another hole.
Literally, in this case. Bradshaw was chokeslammed through the ring, but Big Show took his time escaping due to the wire on the cage and the padlock on the door. By the time he'd ripped that off, Layfield had crawled to safety from under the ring.