6. John Cena And The Money In The Bank Curse
WWE.comThe first champion to ever have the Money In The Bank briefcase cashed in on him was one John Cena, when Edge, after a nine month tease holding the briefcase, delivered on the promise that his nickname, The Ultimate Opportunist stood for, and pinned Cena following a spear as the champ lay bloody and beaten after winning a brutal Elimination Chamber match at the New Years Revolution pay-per-view in early January 2006. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_2H6vIZR4g& Thats a nasty way to lose a title, but Cena would win it back again at the Royal Rumble only three weeks later. However, Money In The Bank wasnt through with Cena. Only a few months later at Wrestlemania 22, Rob Van Dam was to win the second MITB match and firmly set out his stall he was to take on John Cena for the WWE Championship at the One Night Stand ECW tribute pay-per-view in June. RVD had a little help, but he ended up pinning the champ in front of possibly Cenas most hostile crowd ever at New Yorks Hammerstein Ballroom, sometime home of the original ECW. Six years later, Cena was involved in his own Money In The Bank match at the pay-per-view of the same name in 2012, winning the briefcase and his own shot at the title. The next night, goody-two-shoes Cena announced the date that he intended to cash the contract in, as RVD had before him the following week on the 1000th episode of RAW, on champion CM Punk. Sadly, Money In The Bank
still wasnt through with Cena. He became the first person ever to win MITB, cash the briefcase in for a shot at the title and lose. Whats more, the following year, MITB winner Damien Sandow challenged him for the title and cashed in the briefcase while Cenas arm was apparently (kayfabe) injured following a hammering from Alberto Del Rios cross armbreaker at the Hell In A Cell pay-per-view the night before. With three people now cashing in the MITB briefcase on John Cena and his own failed attempt to cash the briefcase in, it seemed as though Money In The Bank was cursed for the WWEs top name. That is, until it became clear that Sandow was actually booked to fall to WWEs own Superman, as Cena beat the odds yet again, retained the title and lifted the Curse Of Money In The Bank until, perhaps, it returns again this year? Let's see...