In early 2004, Cena participated in the Royal Rumble matchat the 2004 Royal Rumble,[46] making it to the final six before being eliminated by Big Show and the Match being won byChris Benoit.[47] The Royal Rumble elimination led to a feud with Big Show,[48][49] which Cena won the United States Championship from Big Show at WrestleMania XX.[50] The reign ended almost four months later, when he was stripped of the belt on July 8 by Angle after he accidentally knocked him over, thus attacking an official.[51] Cena won the championship back defeating Booker T in a best of five series that culminated at No Mercy,[52] only to lose it to the débutingCarlito Caribbean Cool the next week.[53] After the loss to Carlito, the duo began a feud, which Cena was stabbed in thekidney while at a Boston-area nightclub by Carlito'sbodyguard, Jesús.[54][55] This worked injury was used to keep Cena out of action for a month, while Cena was filming The Marine.[34] Immediately on his return in November, Cena won the United States Championship back from Carlito.[56][57]
Cena took part in the 2005 Royal Rumble match, making it to the final two. Cena and Batista went over the top rope at the same time, ostensibly ending the match. The match was restarted in which Batista eliminated Cena to win.[58] The next month, Cena defeated Kurt Angle to earn a spot in the SmackDown brand's WrestleMania 21 main event match,[59]beginning a feud with WWE Champion John "Bradshaw" Layfield (JBL) and his Cabinet in the process. In the early stages of the feud, Cena lost his US belt to Cabinet member Orlando Jordan,[60] Cena defeated JBL at WrestleMania winning the WWE Championship, giving Cena his first world championship.[61] Cena then had a spinner WWE Championship belt made,[62]while JBL took the original belt and claimed to still be WWE Champion,[62] until Cena reclaimed the original belt in an "I Quit" match at Judgment Day.[63]
Cena was drafted to the Raw brand on June 6, 2005, becoming the first wrestler selected in the annual draft lottery.[64] Cena immediately entered a feud with Eric Bischoff, after refusing to participate in the "war" against the Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) roster at One Night Stand.[65] With Bischoff vowing to make Cena's stint on Raw difficult, he hand picked Jericho to take Cena's championship from him.[66] During their feud, even though Cena was portrayed as the fan favorite and Jericho as the villain, a vocal section of live crowds, nonetheless, were booing Cena during their matches.[67] More crowds followed suit during Cena's next feud with Kurt Angle,[68] who took over as Bischoff's hand-picked number-one contender after Cena defeated Jericho in a You're Fired match on the August 22 Raw.[69] As the feud continued and the dissenters grew more vocal, sometimes seeming to outnumber fans by wide margins,[70] the announce team was forced to acknowledge the booing on television and began calling Cena a "controversial champion", claiming some people disliking him on account of his "in-ring style" and his chosen fashion.[71] Despite the mixed and negative reactions, Cena held on to his championship through his feud with Angle, losing to him by disqualification[72] – which titles do not change hands in WWE – at Unforgiven andpinning him at Survivor Series.[73] The feud with Angle also saw Cena add a secondary, submission based, finishing maneuver – the STFU (a Stepover Toehold Sleeper, though named for a Stepover Toehold Facelock) – when he was put into a Triple Threat Submissions Only match on the November 28 Raw.[74]
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