Big Match John
Tonight’s gauntlet match marked only the 16th time in more than ten years that John Cena has lost clean in a televised singles match in WWE. The others include:
- Shawn Michaels (Raw – 4/23/2007)
- The Great Khali (Saturday Night’s Main Event – 6/2/2007)
- Triple H (Night Of Champions – 6/29/2008)
- Batista (SummerSlam 8/17/2008)
- Big Show (Raw – 3/30/2009)
- Triple H (Raw – 10/19/2009)
- The Rock (WrestleMania 28 – 4/1/2012)
- Daniel Bryan (Summerslam 8/28/2013)
- Brock Lesnar (Summerslam – 8/17/2014)
- Kevin Owens (Elimination Chamber – 5/31/2015)
- Alberto Del Rio (Hell in a Cell – 10/25/2015)
- AJ Styles (Summerslam – 8/21/2016)
- Dean Ambrose (Smackdown – 9/20/2016)
- Shinsuke Nakamura (Smackdown – 8/1/2017)
- Roman Reigns (No Mercy – 9/24/2017)
Not only that, but tonight’s gauntlet match loss marked the first time in more than eight years that Cena has lost clean on RAW.
WWE RAW
The opening of tonight’s episode of RAW saw WWE hold a moment of silence for the victims in last week’s Parkland, Florida shooting: