#9 Cena vs. Del Rio - WWE Championship, Vengeance 2011 (Last Man Standing)
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Just 77 days after winning the WWE Championship for the 8th time (10th World Title overall), Cena lost the title to CM Punk in the classic clash at Money in the Bank 2011 in Chicago. Sadly that entire saga became a shameful mess, but that is in the past.
Cena would go on to win the WWE Title for the 9th time, which was technically only the interim championship, when he defeated Rey Mysterio on an episode of Monday Night RAW shortly after Punk won the title and “left the company”.
He then lost to Punk again at SummerSlam only 20 days later, then won the belt back at Night of Champions just shortly over one month later, for WWE Championship number 10. He held the belt for a mere 2 weeks before losing it in a triple threat Hell in a Cell match to Alberto Del Rio (also featuring CM Punk).
He got yet another shot later on in that same month but didn’t win his 11th WWE Title, losing a Last Man Standing match to Del Rio. That 11th title reign didn’t come for another year and a half, and he was stuck well shy of Ric Flair’s record, as a 12-time World Champion (WWE Title 10 times, World Heavyweight Title 2 times).
