10 Best WWE Matches of the Year 2005

Some excellent encounters
Some excellent encounters

#8 John Cena vs. John Bradshaw Layfield - Judgement Day

Another bloody Judgement Day for JBL
Another bloody Judgement Day for JBL

For the second year in a row at Judgement Day, John Bradshaw Layfield has another bloody but career-best showing match. Surprisingly, this was actually the first I Quit match since The Rock and Mankind one at the 1999 Royal Rumble.

Some back and forth action started this one off. They took each other to the outside and made use of the steel steps and barricade before JBL hit a swinging neckbreaker on Cena.

A lot of things in this match that you would never see today, such as when JBL got the belt off the timekeeper and he choked Cena around the ring post with the belt. Cena fought back and gave JBL a back body drop from the English table through the Spanish table.

When both men got up, JBL whacked Cena in the head with a chair, busting him wide open. JBL beat up Cena for a while, making him even more bloody and asking several times for him to say I Quit.

He chocked Cena again, this time with a cable, but Cena got out of it by hitting JBL in the head with a microphone and JBL went crashing through a table that happened to be there. Cena pulled off a huge steel exhaust pipe that was on the truck.

As he was about to hit him with it, JBL yelled I Quit several times.

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