Every WWE 'I Quit' Match Ranked - From Worst To Best

2. John Cena Vs. John 'Bradshaw' Layfield - Judgment Day 2005

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This match was brutal, to say the least.

One year after Eddie Guerrero faced JBL and ended up drenched in his own blood, John Cena stepped up to the plate to take the place of Latino Heat. Cena and JBL had a hugely underwhelming match at WrestleMania 21, so in some way this was redemption for the duo.

It was redemption in the shape of violence however, and could arguably go down in history as the first great John Cena match. JBL absolutely demolishes him throughout the first half of this match, to the point where it becomes difficult to look at Cena. The man is quite literally covered in his own blood just halfway through, and the most likely outcome seems to be that Cena will die before he can quit.

Super Cena eventually turns the tide however and after a vicious onslaught against his challenger it is the threat of a metal pipe attack that causes the former Acolyte to quit. This was Cena's first truly great match and arguably the best match of JBL's career.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.