With WWE's Money In The Bank 2021 coming up, Adam Blampied takes a look back at the best and worst the event has to offer.
What are your predictions for Money In The Bank 2021?
0:00 - Introduction
BEST
1:09 - #5
3:14 - #4
5:11 - #3
7:24 - #2
9:22 - #1
WORST
2:10 - #5
4:13 - #4
6:16 - #3
8:19 - #2
10:24 - #1
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What are your predictions for Money In The Bank 2021?
0:00 - Introduction
BEST
1:09 - #5
3:14 - #4
5:11 - #3
7:24 - #2
9:22 - #1
WORST
2:10 - #5
4:13 - #4
6:16 - #3
8:19 - #2
10:24 - #1
#WWE #WWETop10 #MoneyInTheBank
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00:00Briefcases are great. You can keep lots of things in a briefcase. Files, lunch, the affection
00:05you withhold from your son which inevitably leads him to try and fail to become an entertainer
00:09in his adult years, did I already say lunch, and also a contract for a world title match
00:13at the time of your choosing.
00:14Money in the Bank remains the most significant addition to WWE in the last 15 years with
00:18other wrestling companies getting in on the whole briefcase equals opportunity visual
00:22storytelling and like anything that's been around for 15 years it's had some real highs
00:25and lows. Edge's first ever cash-in set a fairly high standard. It's been used to
00:29execute multiple great heel turns and no matter what you say I cannot dunk on Brock
00:33using it as a boom Brocks and shucking and jiving like Friedrich Von Trapp grew up and
00:38became Vanilla Ice.
00:39To celebrate the upcoming PPV we've decided to try a slightly different kind of list looking
00:44at both the best and the worst cash-ins. Let us know if you like it or prefer a straight
00:4710. These are the 5 best and 5 worst Money in the Bank cash-ins.
00:52And while you're here did you know you can cash in your subscribe in a bank briefcase?
00:58If you click subscribe to the video you've cashed it in. And well done.
01:06No, well done.
01:09Best number 5, Bayley. Bayley is the f***ing best. As a heel with the most wonderfully
01:14obnoxious catchphrase ever or as a babyface genuinely bringing grown ass humans to tears
01:19with her courage and fortitude WWE occasionally forgets about Bayley but she always delivers
01:24so it makes sense she'd have one of the most triumphant cash-ins of all time and easily
01:28the best of the win-it-and-cash-it-on-the-same night brigade. Sorry Kane, sorry Alexa, sorry
01:32Dean.
01:33Wrestling is at its best when the crowd all furiously chant for one thing and that one
01:37thing happens. Case in point, Money in the Bank 2019. Bayley won the briefcase earlier
01:42in the show after WWE had forgotten about her for a bit, then Charlotte beat Becky for
01:46the Smackdown belt with the help of her dad's favourite granddaughter Lacey Evans, the crowd
01:50chanted for Bayley and then out she came. Babyface of babyfaces not biding her time,
01:56not lying in wait, riding in from the east to help a friend. An exact righteous vengeance
02:01on Charlotte who could have taken her title and gone home but had to be a goddamn flair
02:05about it. Absolutely brilliant and a moment you should all rewatch now.
02:10Worst number 5, Asuka. No, look, look, it's sweet. It was a very nice moment of Asuka
02:18being super happy for Becky at a super nice time but putting all of that empathy to one
02:22side, giving someone a title belt in wrestling is fucking bollocks. I don't care if you're
02:28New Day and Street Profits swapping tag belts like panini stickers, Jeff Jarrett giving
02:32Mark Henry the European title cos he did him a favour or Andre gifting the Winged Eagle
02:37to Dibiase, you don't buy a title like you would an Emmy. Win it, bastard. Which makes
02:42it all the more disappointing that Asuka, at the peak of her unpredictable dancer-slash-murderer
02:47split personality phase, was just handed the title in a gift bag after leaving Becky's
02:52impromptu baby shower. Proof positive of two things, one, that children are the worst,
02:56they take every good thing from us, and two, Money in the Bank 2020 was fucking cursed
03:01as Otis would turn his briefcase into a lunchbox, lose both it and his best friend to the Miz
03:06who would then cash it in in what's possibly the least effectual successful cash-in ever,
03:10losing the title to Bungle's lollipop after only 8 days.
03:14Best number 4, Randy Orton. Oh, WWE, how you play with our emotions. The Money in the Bank
03:20briefcase is one of WWE's favourite ways of giving the fans something and then yanking
03:24it away like a dollar on a string. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, sometimes it is,
03:28here's looking at you Alberto Del Rio interrupting the Summer of Punk for no good fucking reason,
03:32but sometimes it's a heartbreaker in all the best ways. Cue Randall Keith Orton turning
03:36heel alongside Triple H at Summerslam 2013 to form the authority and crush Daniel Bryan's
03:41still confetti-plastered dreams into a smooth nutritional paste. It's one of the best
03:45emotional bait-and-switches that WWE's ever done, proper eye-watering triumph to nauseous
03:50horror to unbridled rage all being felt by the audience by design, which is something
03:55of a rarity these days. With the actual consequences of the cash-in lasting for years to come,
04:00indirectly giving us the main event of WrestleMania 30, the break-up of The Shield, Team Cena
04:04vs Team Authority all pinging off each other in one big authority angle that served to
04:08make 2014 WWE's best overall calendar year of the 2010s.
04:144. John Cena
04:16Everything about Cena's Money in the Bank reign was bollocks, wasn't it? First of
04:19all, the handle broke when he won the thing, and I don't care if it was gimmick, that
04:22was weak. Second, of all the people in WWE history who does not need a bit of paper to
04:27get a title shot, it's John show-up-and-book-myself-in-the-main-event-Cena. After winning the briefcase at Money
04:32in the Bank 2012, Cena booked his title match for the main event of Raw 1000, and you know
04:37what? That whole concept was good. Didn't need the briefcase to do it of course, but
04:40Punk vs Cena is always a money match. But then, well, it's the big show. Audible
04:46sigh. The first Money in the Bank cash-in to fail, via DQ at that. See, up until that
04:52point there had been something of an aura around cash-ins, even ones booked in advance,
04:55that the cash-in elevated the subsequent match into something guaranteed to be a blockbuster,
05:00sealed off where big and important things happen. For WWE to bottle it and give us a
05:04cheap DQ finish is further proof that strapping the case on Johnny C was a huge waste.
05:09Case number three, RVD. Now, let's talk about a cash-in that was booked in advance
05:13and done right. A cash-in so magical it brought ECW back from the dead. Actually, oh no, on
05:19second thoughts, I hate it. Ronald Van Donald won the briefcase at Mania 22, decorating
05:23it like Money in the Banksy, before announcing he was cashing it in for Cena's strap at
05:27One Night Stand 2006. RVD was the beloved underdog and throwback to a cherished time
05:32for ECW fans, and he was up against the face of sports entertainment on ECW's home turf.
05:38It's one of the most highly charged, rawly entertaining crowd work matches of all time,
05:43with the amount of hatred and bloodlust in the air akin to Christian open mic night at
05:47the Coliseum. Yes, there were shenanigans, Edge's interference, and Heyman counting
05:51the fall dented the triumph slightly. It's not exactly a ringing endorsement of your
05:55new brand when their big triumph is preceded by Joey Styles saying, uh, we'll take it,
05:59but my god that crowd. So much hate, so much love, the actual threat of actual danger if
06:06the booking had gone another way. Those Hammerstein Ballroom fans would have decapitated John
06:09Cena with a full bottle of piss. I believe that. It is the pinnacle of what proper emotional
06:14pro wrestling can be.
06:16Worst number three, Braun Strowman. It still baffles me that Braun Strowman doesn't work
06:21for WWE anymore. From 2017 to 2018, he was genuinely the hottest property in the company,
06:26flipping ambulances, adored by the fans, was tipped to be a potential company figurehead,
06:31and now he's gone. It's even more heartbreaking when you consider the ginormous pop that he
06:35got at SummerSlam 2018, two months after winning the briefcase, when he showed up to
06:39announce he was cashing in post-match. From that point, so began a series of mistakes
06:43that permanently dimmed Strowman's shine. First, the SummerSlam cash-in never actually
06:47happened as Lesnar beat him up, strike one. Then he turned heel and suddenly needed backup
06:51from Ziggler and McIntyre against The Shield. The man who kicked out of six people pinning
06:55him at Elimination Chamber earlier that year suddenly needed Dolph as a running buddy,
06:59strike two. Finally, the cash-in, in advance, at Hell in a Cell, where Brock Lesnar arrived,
07:03killed both men, ending a Hell in a Cell match in a fucking no contest. Lesnar killed
07:07Strowman again in Saudi Arabia, and not even beating Goldberg for the Universal title ever
07:12made Braun as big a deal or as popular as he had been that one night at SummerSlam where
07:17his music played and he strode down to the ring with a briefcase. What a goddamn shame.
07:22Best number two, Dolph Ziggler. Sometimes one glorious day is enough. You might not
07:27spend the rest of your career as a main event, you might have your title taken from you as
07:30a result of a terribly timed concussion, you might spend the rest of your life screaming
07:34it should have been me, but you'd all finally cashed in money in the bank after holding
07:38it for 267 days and it soaking up more battle damage than Reinhardt. Look at me making Overwatch
07:44references five years too late. Finger on the pulse, please subscribe. It's a joyous
07:48moment where WWE teased just enough that perennial bridesmaid Ziggler would fail one more time,
07:54locking him in a terrifying armbar before he clawed his way to freedom. Only one cash-in
07:59tops it, you probably know what it is. But first, worst number two, Damien Sandow.
08:04Oh dear. Damien Sandow was really good, lads. Aaron Stevens is still very good in the NWA
08:09to be clear, but the saviour of the unwashed masses gimmick was my jam. Can't think why
08:14an arrogant, self-consciously overtly articulate dick would appeal to me and I refuse to examine
08:19it any further. Point is, Damien Sandow won the Money in the Bank briefcase in 2013, turned
08:24it into a leather briefcase, and I couldn't possibly love him anymore. But then, but then.
08:30After feuding with Cody Rhodes over the summer, losing that feud, then not appearing on the
08:33next two PPVs, the night after Hell in a Cell, Sandow cashed in on John Cena, which is the
08:38epitome of tugging on Superman's cape. Despite bludgeoned brothering Cena's arm, destroying
08:43his own briefcase in the grimmest foreshadowing imaginable, the two men had a really good
08:48match, because again, cash-in matches should always be a big deal, before injured Cena
08:51scooped Sandow up, planted him with the AA, and handed Sandow the first failed cash-in
08:56by actually being beaten in Money in the Bank history. Then Sandow immediately plummeted
09:01down the card, and it's a shame. Why are all these things such a shame?
09:05Best Number 1, Seth Rollins. Yeah, of course it is. The heist of the century, one of the
09:09best parachute pull bits of booking in wrestling history. At main-year 31, Money in the Bank's
09:1310th birthday as a concept no less, WWE pulled off two never-before-seen feats. It was the
09:18first time the briefcase was used to alter an already happening match, and it was the
09:21first time it had been cashed in at WrestleMania. See, sometimes a cash-in passes you by. You
09:26miss a random episode of Raw, and who'd skip an episode of Raw, that'd be madness
09:30am I right? And you missed a cash-in. Not this year. The main event of WrestleMania,
09:35with every single wrestling fan in the world watching, something we never saw coming, but
09:39that fixed every single problem with the WrestleMania main event with a simple snap of the fingers
09:43that protected everyone, even the guy who we thought didn't need protecting, and perfectly
09:48aligned with Rollins' character as the second coming of the ultimate opportunist.
09:52Like the road to the WrestleMania 30 main event the year before, it's a golden example
09:56of how WWE so often presents us with the unthinkable, so that when they relent at the last minute,
10:00it suddenly feels all the more euphoric. Which is a pretty messed up relationship to have
10:04with your fanbase the more you think about it, but here we go.
10:07And worst Number 1, Baron Corbin. Wop wop, don't get into fights with doctors I suppose.
10:13So the long-standing rumour is that backstage, Baron Corbin got into a heated argument with
10:17WWE's head of medical, who was giving the superstars a talk downplaying the effects
10:21of concussions and their effect on CTE, which the Lone Wolf, as a former NFL player, took
10:26reasonable exception to. Unfortunately, putting the doc on blast in front of the boys drew
10:30a ton of heat on Corbin, which, armed with him also calling a member of the troops a
10:34loser on Twitter, gave birth to this utter humiliation. Corbin won the briefcase at Money
10:39in the Bank 2017, then the Smackdown before Summerslam, cashed it in on a beat down Jinder
10:44Mahal.
10:45Definitely the worst cash-in of all time, I will never understand WWE's habit of disciplining
10:49people by severely compromising their character in public, but here we go. The world's most
10:53wasted briefcase, and I've made myself sad.
10:57And that's our list. What are your favourite and least favourite Money in the Bank cash-ins?
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