I’m sure I can’t be the only person who’s noticed this but I’ve never seen it mentioned anywhere. We all know that the night Ambrose cashed in, every member of the SHIELD held the title in the same night. But another cool thing is that Roman’s first ever title win was after pinning Dean (final of that tournament for the vacant title), Dean’s first ever title win was after pinning Seth (MITB cash in), and Seth’s first ever title win was after pinning Roman (heist of the century). Best faction ever
I'm confused... I looked up the results of that night. From what I read, Lashley beat down Seth and then Theory attempted the cash in. I'm not seeing anything about an open challenge. Am I missing something?
Knowing that the first Money in the Bank was nearly 20 years ago, really makes me feel old. In my opinion though, in those early matches, Shelton Benjamin really put that match on the map.
Shelton was incredible. I became a fan of him while he was in OVW around 2000, and got to meet and talk to him several times. Dude was really nice and humble. I remember telling him once he was name dropped in an issue of WWE magazine (in a piece on Lesnar while he was also still in OVW), and told him that’s a good sign, and eventually he’d be there. But he seemed like he wasn’t good enough to make it. No man, you’re going to be there, you are way better than anyone they currently have. 😂 But it’s a shame WWE never did more with him. I get he wasn’t the greatest on the mic or with character work, but they worked around all that for Lesnar, they could have done the same for him. Could have had Shelton be a Paul Heyman guy and have Heyman do all the talking for him. Could have had an incredible fued with him and Brock, but who’s to say that wasn’t in the plans before Lesnar decided he wanted to play football. They say Scott Hall is the best to never win a world title, I disagree. Sheltons in ring work far exceeded any short comings he had, to the point I would rank him above Hall. With all due respect to the bad guy 🤘
Crazy how many careers Brock has burried and done nothing to push younger talent. So happy that's he's gone from wwe, definitely not missing him as he wasn't on weekly shows anyways.
I really think we as a wrestling community should replace the term "stripped" because now I can only think of Mr Kennedy doing an in-ring strip-tease after winning the briefcase
Having the ad break placed directly between the two "Kennedy"'s was absolutely perfect... One of the very few rare moments where I actually enjoyed a commercial break
Gable winning the men's MITB match and cashing-in on Gunther after he wins the World Heavyweight Championship from Priest with the help of the new Alpha Academy (Creed Brothers and Ivy Nile) would be amazing
Baron didn't fail, he just got involved in a small backstage heat which took his whole career down. Since then people backstage always love him due to change in attitude maybe, but now WWE has Damian Priest in place of Baron Corbin, while Corbin is wasting his time on SmackDown 😢😢
Surprised no one has said when miz brags about beating john cena , no one has said yeah well you dont even remember it, ya know cause he had a concussion
I like how Corbin's wasn't exactly 'cursed' and was more so him being punished by the soulless higher ups of WWE because he called out a crooked doctor about concussions.
Another tidbit from the 2020 one that I was a tiny bit surprised didn't get mentioned was Corbin trying to stop Asuka from getting the Women's briefcase
People who hated Carmella's MitB run clearly have no idea how a heel holder should be portrayed. She made the briefcase her gimmick and always made it about her and her future cash-in. She was one of the better holders in the recent 10+ years and her cash-in was still really good because it not only pushed her but also gave Peyton and Billie more hype and credibility. The ONLY thing that was bad about it was their use of James (first winning the briefcase for her AND then being her pet... weird) but overall the best MitB holder on the women side side high up in general.
Her overall run with MITB wasn't bad, but her reign as Champ was. That didn't have much to do with her, though. The mistake of Charlotte beating Auska at that year's WM, then having Carmella cash-in after the IIconics laid Charlotte out, only to have Carmella beat Asuka mostly clean (other than Ellsworth wearing Auska's outfit to somehow confuse Auska to the point of being frozen in place) put a sour taste in fans mouths. Then she dropped it back to Charlotte when Becky Lynch got super over, which made her into an afterthought. Oli is really conflating the post-cash-in with the pre-cash-in.
@alexbessolo3328 her reign was terrible... but they really can't book scaredy vat evasive champions right. She was not really a threat, just lucky and had her minions. She's supposed to be the smart champion but she just looked too dependant on James.
Yeah, the pre-WM21 history is very off in the video. Basically, the original plan was a match called the "Hollywood Dream Make A Wish Battle Royal" (no relation to the Make-A-Wish organization) & it was supposed to be both Raw & SD. WM 21 did have a battle royal before the show won by Booker T. WT is using a lot of revisionist history to simplify the story. Like claiming Christian replaced RVD when Jericho always mentions him as his first pick to be included after himself. Oli also skips over Edge tearing his pec in the Fall of 2005, which caused both his feud with Ric Flair & his cash-in on Cena to be delayed by several months, which is why Edge's first reign only lasted a couple weeks.
I'm not against the MITB holder cashing in on a midcard title, but I'd rather it be part of a storyline, like (and I'm not saying this is what I want to happen now) if LA Knight won and cashed in on Logan Paul for the US title. It would at least further a story than and be able to capitalise on it right away.
There's also another unmentioned curse: winners who won their first world title via a cash-in and would go on to win the other world title would eventually get cashed in on for the other title. Edge and Del Rio cashed in for the WWE title but got cashed in on holding the WHC. Punk and Bryan cashed in for the WHC, got cashed in on holding the WWE title. Even Rollins technically won both titles when they were unified as a single title and was cashed in on when he won it a second time.
I think they should scrap MITB since they've had really poor ideas for the winners cash in scenarios over the past few years. Most of it the time, its a failed cash in or they just hold the briefcase forever with no direction or plan for them to actually cash in
The booking of the money in the bank, shows the psychosis of Vince McMan, it’s the full gambit, booking people weak because they got over in their own way (cm punk, Damian Sandow,ziggi) weird this is the next big thing ( Austin theory, Mr. Kennedy, miz) extreme masculinity (Brock winning, while Ali just sits there, a man winning the first women’s MITB) terrible booking decision ( Big E, Jon moxly, Edge first time around, baron corbin, bran stromen) It feels so weird, like what did we live through The way the booking just kept getting worse as the years went on, awful stuff glad it’s over
Corbin didn't trip over the rope, Cena tripped him as Baron cashed in after a John & Jinder snoozefest and was "jawjacking" with Cena all the way to the ring, I remember bc Cena Heel Turn Confrimdod IWC went feral. Means up until Brock stopped Braun, Cena was involved in every failed MITB cash-in, and if you count Miz's 2020 "oh but Morrison cashed in not me!" shenanigans as a failed cash in despite him getting the case back, Cena is in half of all MITB fails
I think WWE should make MITB an occasional PLE that they should do once in a while when they have a solid plan to follow. Because even though it's a cool concept, it takes a lot of planning beforehand to make a cash-in successful in long-term. Following questions should already have answers before doing a MITB event :- -Who's winning (preferably a mid-carder who's on the cusp of breakthrough). -When will the cash-in take place and on whom. -How will the subsequent title reign look like? Will it be a short reign or a longer one? -Will the cash-in be just a moment or if it will have an impact in big picture leading to a storyline. Also not doing it every year would make it less oversaturated and would bring back it's prestige.
MAJOR pet peeve of mine is the fact that whenever someone wins the briefcase they are referred to as "Mr. Money in the Bank".. It does NOT make any sense! The nickname started with RVD's win, whose moniker was "Mr. Monday Night" it was a clever twist on THAT nick name.. however, EVERYONE ELSE has kept that nickname and it DOES NOT MAKE SENSE AND IT MAKES ME MAD, IT DRIVES ME INSANE AND I NEED A TYLNOL NOW
Great opening. You have to have the look of shock and bewilderment on your face while climbing. Almost like you didn't know you where in an advertised, PLE, main event, ladder match.
i dont understand why couldnt they keep the briefcase on Kennedy. Yeah, he was expected to be out injured for 7 months. SO? The briefcase has a 1 year window, they could've made it work without problem. Asuming what the timeline says in which they made those decisions, they could've prepared a cash-in return for Kennedy 7-8 months later.
The 'cursed' history of the stipulation that has crowned more world champions than any other stipulation? Save maybe the Royal Rumble. Sign me up for that curse.
Some of the trouble comes down to quantity, really. You've got a Royal Rumble, Money in the Bank (some years had two of these) and sometimes a King of the Ring. All on paper, good ways to make a new credible main eventer. But thats also way too many guaranteed shots (and generally expected wins, otherwise they're "buried") to be using in a single year. Particularly with a healthier, more long lasting roster (unlike the Attitude Era, where Rock and Austin and Makind basically had 5 year runs, we now have main event guys lasting a decade or more). Trying to have 5 or more world champions in a single year (allowing for any more organic ones or existing main events) starts getting hot potato.
Ollie is supposedly a Punk fan yet using revisionist history, Punk’s reigns had NOTHING to do with his attitude. He was not supported by management because they never saw him as world champion material.
Imagine if Swagger and Miz had had the briefcase concurrently though, like in retrospect that seems like a missed opportunity. Granted the chosen winners would have limited it greatly but like if you didn't book Morrison in a random tag match at Mania could we have seen a Miz and Morrison briefcase unification ladder match at the 2010 Summerslam?
Funny thing Oli doesn't note here, according to Edge, the original plans by the writers were to have him cash it in like RVD later would. To just guarantee a title shot at a PPV, but then he went to Vince said "Well I'm a heel. I should cash this in when someone is beaten up so bad they can't fight back. That's what the character would do." and somehow, bafflingly, Vince was the only person to agree with him. What Vince says goes, so he steamrolls that through and declares the cash in personally. When Edge hands him the briefcase, you can see Vince say something to him. According to Edge, he told him "Prove me right." Hilarious to think that the briefcase is only used in the way it is because Edge was a villain.
This was fun to watch I enjoyed seeing Liv Morgan win a Money in the Bank match, it was also interesting with the match with AJ Styles he had to have dropped a briefcase on purpose! After unhooking it he still should have won. Michael Cole had to make up an ending for that match!! 😆 and the sad part was WWE didn’t do anything significant with Otis having that briefcase. 💼
I've been waiting for a group to "invade" a MitB ladder match and take everyone out and just leave with the briefcase. There's been a couple of groups that I thought could/should have done this in the past, this year it could be the Bloodline. They could lose the tag match with Rhodes, Orton, and Owens, then come in after 20 minutes of the ladder match to take out the last few people and take the briefcase for Solo
The most notable thing about Jack Swagger winning MITB was he was suppose to Cash in on John Cena the Raw after WM26, win and then hold the WWE Championship until SummerSlam but Cena flat out refused to drop the belt to Swagger so it was pivoted to him holding the World Title till SummerSlam...then his fued with Big Show was so bad Vince pulled the plug on Swagger's push months before SummerSlam...
I heard that Mr. Kennedy got fired for almost breaking Randy's neck and Randy Orton went into Vince's office and said he goes where I go. That's what I heard about him dropping the briefcase
I feel like at this point if you're having multi year champions and doesn't want them the title to drop, MITB doesn't make much sense. It just weakens whoever is cashing in unsuccessfully.
I've seen the last two men's MITB cash-ins in person. Damian Priest's was an awesome moment in that crowd . Theory's felt like a fever dream. The best part was seeing my friend's confused as to what was actually going on.
0:18 CLIMB THAT LADDER, KID! MAKE YOURSELF FAMOUS
Hearing with Jim Ross voice
Hearing with Lord Alfred Hayes voice
Hearing with Frank Sinatra’s voice.
The accuracy of that opening skit 😂
“Mr Kennedy”
*goes to ad*
*comes back from ad*
“Kennedy”
Well played
Luke climbing a ladder just the way a wrestler should😂😂
That opening bit is something else man 😂
"No, don't go down..."
So hilariously accurate 😂
@@michaeld1889I mean that is how you climb for later after all.
I’m sure I can’t be the only person who’s noticed this but I’ve never seen it mentioned anywhere. We all know that the night Ambrose cashed in, every member of the SHIELD held the title in the same night. But another cool thing is that Roman’s first ever title win was after pinning Dean (final of that tournament for the vacant title), Dean’s first ever title win was after pinning Seth (MITB cash in), and Seth’s first ever title win was after pinning Roman (heist of the century). Best faction ever
I never noticed that but you’re right. Man their story was so poetic.
27:30 you forgot the most important part: he cashed in on an open challenge 😂
I'm confused...
I looked up the results of that night. From what I read, Lashley beat down Seth and then Theory attempted the cash in. I'm not seeing anything about an open challenge. Am I missing something?
@@Nintendofan4000 Yeah, Seth, before Lashley's beatdown, issued an open challenge for the night for anyone to accept
The accuracy of that opening skit god bless You Luke😂😂😂
Knowing that the first Money in the Bank was nearly 20 years ago, really makes me feel old. In my opinion though, in those early matches, Shelton Benjamin really put that match on the map.
Shelton was incredible. I became a fan of him while he was in OVW around 2000, and got to meet and talk to him several times. Dude was really nice and humble. I remember telling him once he was name dropped in an issue of WWE magazine (in a piece on Lesnar while he was also still in OVW), and told him that’s a good sign, and eventually he’d be there. But he seemed like he wasn’t good enough to make it. No man, you’re going to be there, you are way better than anyone they currently have. 😂
But it’s a shame WWE never did more with him. I get he wasn’t the greatest on the mic or with character work, but they worked around all that for Lesnar, they could have done the same for him. Could have had Shelton be a Paul Heyman guy and have Heyman do all the talking for him. Could have had an incredible fued with him and Brock, but who’s to say that wasn’t in the plans before Lesnar decided he wanted to play football. They say Scott Hall is the best to never win a world title, I disagree. Sheltons in ring work far exceeded any short comings he had, to the point I would rank him above Hall. With all due respect to the bad guy 🤘
Remember cm punk won it 2 times
“No don’t go back down”
Some say Luke is still climbing the ladder to this day. Climb high my son.
The opening is Too Funny 😂😂
sometimes you go high, sometimes you go low, sometimes you reach the top... and then brock lesnar's music hits and you suddenly freeze.
According to Ace Attorney, that's a stepladder.
When Luke started climbing, I knew he wasn’t the one that could actually pull the lightbulb down
Not gonna lie, I thought Tempest was going to give Luke a Canadian Destroyer off the ladder.
The match where edge got his nickname, "ultimate opportunist".
The Sandow loss still hurts. You're telling me he couldnt have a week long reign!
The loss percentage prior to the briefcase was a great touch
Do it, Luke!!! make yourself famous kid!!
-J.R probably
Crazy how many careers Brock has burried and done nothing to push younger talent. So happy that's he's gone from wwe, definitely not missing him as he wasn't on weekly shows anyways.
Perfect way to start a Saturday…WrestleTalk Essay…now just to figure out how Luke got so damn good at climbing a ladder
10/10 ladder joke, I do that everytime I climb a ladder at work.
A 69 day reign. Nice!
0:52 *TODAY LUKE, TODAY!!*
That opening alone got my like. Great work!
"Dammit, Luke-stop reading Oli's teleprompter!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That opening ladder spot had me tears. 😂
I forgot how bad they did Big E man. He deserved so much more.
How did he deserve anything?
Looking the US Presidential Debate memes is crazy how money in the bank has become a mainstream concept
I remember being so deflated after Theory won MitB 2022, and then he cashed it in for the US title… and LOST! Felt like a waste of a winner tbh
Im still pissed that Kennedy didnt reach his full potential in wwe
I really think we as a wrestling community should replace the term "stripped" because now I can only think of Mr Kennedy doing an in-ring strip-tease after winning the briefcase
Ahh mr.kennedy and edge 2 mitb winners who have been stripped one way or another
The ad placement between the two "Kennedy"s was really great
I don't know about curses but Kennedy had terrible injury luck, Rob liked weed, and Swagger just... bad Swagger.
Tiffany Stratton wins the MITB briefcase and cashes in at Wrestlemania in Las Vegas on, I assume, Charlotte Flair.
Having the ad break placed directly between the two "Kennedy"'s was absolutely perfect... One of the very few rare moments where I actually enjoyed a commercial break
Bro i DID NOT get an ad during that part so i was sooo confused 😭😭
Math>Pipebomb
John Carpenter Anthology shirt>Ollie's hypnotic arm hair.
Math > Pipebomb
Been really enjoying these videos lately, good job lads! 👏
MITB has slowly gotten worse. Same with the Rumble. So many people winning these matches and then losing the cash in / mania match
Another great video! I love these documentary videos!
LOL!! THE FIRST 30 SECONDS IS MONEY! 😂😂😂
Gable winning the men's MITB match and cashing-in on Gunther after he wins the World Heavyweight Championship from Priest with the help of the new Alpha Academy (Creed Brothers and Ivy Nile) would be amazing
Baron didn't fail, he just got involved in a small backstage heat which took his whole career down. Since then people backstage always love him due to change in attitude maybe, but now WWE has Damian Priest in place of Baron Corbin, while Corbin is wasting his time on SmackDown 😢😢
Surprised no one has said when miz brags about beating john cena , no one has said yeah well you dont even remember it, ya know cause he had a concussion
Excellent sketch at the start.
Love the channel and the amazing videos you guys put out and continue to do. Keep up the great content guys
Unpopular opinion: I really enjoy the 2020 MITB match… was it crap.. yes… but did i enjoy it… absolutely!
I feel like this whole video is trying to answer the joke of how many wrestletalk personalities does it take to change a lightbulb
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Corbin, much like his hairline (and mine unfortunately), failed
I like how Corbin's wasn't exactly 'cursed' and was more so him being punished by the soulless higher ups of WWE because he called out a crooked doctor about concussions.
Women's mitb matches are so mediocre compared to the men's.
The women kllled the vibe by cashing in the same night every year
Another tidbit from the 2020 one that I was a tiny bit surprised didn't get mentioned was Corbin trying to stop Asuka from getting the Women's briefcase
People who hated Carmella's MitB run clearly have no idea how a heel holder should be portrayed. She made the briefcase her gimmick and always made it about her and her future cash-in. She was one of the better holders in the recent 10+ years and her cash-in was still really good because it not only pushed her but also gave Peyton and Billie more hype and credibility. The ONLY thing that was bad about it was their use of James (first winning the briefcase for her AND then being her pet... weird) but overall the best MitB holder on the women side side high up in general.
Her overall run with MITB wasn't bad, but her reign as Champ was. That didn't have much to do with her, though. The mistake of Charlotte beating Auska at that year's WM, then having Carmella cash-in after the IIconics laid Charlotte out, only to have Carmella beat Asuka mostly clean (other than Ellsworth wearing Auska's outfit to somehow confuse Auska to the point of being frozen in place) put a sour taste in fans mouths. Then she dropped it back to Charlotte when Becky Lynch got super over, which made her into an afterthought. Oli is really conflating the post-cash-in with the pre-cash-in.
@alexbessolo3328 her reign was terrible... but they really can't book scaredy vat evasive champions right. She was not really a threat, just lucky and had her minions. She's supposed to be the smart champion but she just looked too dependant on James.
One of the best ones yet from this channel, which is indeed saying a lot. Great gag’s throughout too!
“Damnit Luke stop reading my teleprompter!”
Now that's how you do a show-long storyline!
How was Rob Van Dam gonna win the first ever Money In The Bank when he was on Smackdown and MITB was exclusive to Raw the first year……
Yeah, the pre-WM21 history is very off in the video. Basically, the original plan was a match called the "Hollywood Dream Make A Wish Battle Royal" (no relation to the Make-A-Wish organization) & it was supposed to be both Raw & SD. WM 21 did have a battle royal before the show won by Booker T. WT is using a lot of revisionist history to simplify the story. Like claiming Christian replaced RVD when Jericho always mentions him as his first pick to be included after himself. Oli also skips over Edge tearing his pec in the Fall of 2005, which caused both his feud with Ric Flair & his cash-in on Cena to be delayed by several months, which is why Edge's first reign only lasted a couple weeks.
Say no to covid MITB slander!
Really like an Oli video essay
1:48
What is that song from?! I feel like ive heard it in a game but cant remember what game and it is driving me nuts for 2 days now 😂
I thought one of the GTA games but I couldn't find it.
Maybe it's just a royalty free song and I've heard RUclipsrs use is?
I'm not against the MITB holder cashing in on a midcard title, but I'd rather it be part of a storyline, like (and I'm not saying this is what I want to happen now) if LA Knight won and cashed in on Logan Paul for the US title. It would at least further a story than and be able to capitalise on it right away.
lol wanted to be the first one to come in
There's also another unmentioned curse: winners who won their first world title via a cash-in and would go on to win the other world title would eventually get cashed in on for the other title. Edge and Del Rio cashed in for the WWE title but got cashed in on holding the WHC. Punk and Bryan cashed in for the WHC, got cashed in on holding the WWE title. Even Rollins technically won both titles when they were unified as a single title and was cashed in on when he won it a second time.
Fun as this video was, I was more distracted by Luke wearing that John Carpenter t-shirt. Classy man
The opening genuinely made me laugh out loud
"Mr. Kennedy.."
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"...Kennedy"
That opening bit was perfect XD
Hearing Oli yelling “god damn it Luke” always pops me
YES I WAS JUST REFRESHING FOR SOMETHING TO WATCH JUST GOT TO WORK THANKS GUYS 😎 have a great weekend !
Luke “climbing” the ladder had me dead 😂
I thought the 2020 MITB match was great...everybody looked like they had a lot of fun filming it. Wish they'd done a repeat.
I think they should scrap MITB since they've had really poor ideas for the winners cash in scenarios over the past few years. Most of it the time, its a failed cash in or they just hold the briefcase forever with no direction or plan for them to actually cash in
The editing on this video was fantastic, your editor needs a pay raise!
The booking of the money in the bank, shows the psychosis of Vince McMan, it’s the full gambit, booking people weak because they got over in their own way (cm punk, Damian Sandow,ziggi) weird this is the next big thing ( Austin theory, Mr. Kennedy, miz) extreme masculinity (Brock winning, while Ali just sits there, a man winning the first women’s MITB) terrible booking decision ( Big E, Jon moxly, Edge first time around, baron corbin, bran stromen)
It feels so weird, like what did we live through
The way the booking just kept getting worse as the years went on, awful stuff glad it’s over
Corbin didn't trip over the rope, Cena tripped him as Baron cashed in after a John & Jinder snoozefest and was "jawjacking" with Cena all the way to the ring, I remember bc Cena Heel Turn Confrimdod IWC went feral. Means up until Brock stopped Braun, Cena was involved in every failed MITB cash-in, and if you count Miz's 2020 "oh but Morrison cashed in not me!" shenanigans as a failed cash in despite him getting the case back, Cena is in half of all MITB fails
I think WWE should make MITB an occasional PLE that they should do once in a while when they have a solid plan to follow. Because even though it's a cool concept, it takes a lot of planning beforehand to make a cash-in successful in long-term.
Following questions should already have answers before doing a MITB event :-
-Who's winning (preferably a mid-carder who's on the cusp of breakthrough).
-When will the cash-in take place and on whom.
-How will the subsequent title reign look like? Will it be a short reign or a longer one?
-Will the cash-in be just a moment or if it will have an impact in big picture leading to a storyline.
Also not doing it every year would make it less oversaturated and would bring back it's prestige.
MAJOR pet peeve of mine is the fact that whenever someone wins the briefcase they are referred to as "Mr. Money in the Bank".. It does NOT make any sense! The nickname started with RVD's win, whose moniker was "Mr. Monday Night" it was a clever twist on THAT nick name.. however, EVERYONE ELSE has kept that nickname and it DOES NOT MAKE SENSE AND IT MAKES ME MAD, IT DRIVES ME INSANE AND I NEED A TYLNOL NOW
28:24 damn man, time really flies. I thought MITB 2023 was one year ago but it's already been two years since MITB 2023.
Great opening. You have to have the look of shock and bewilderment on your face while climbing. Almost like you didn't know you where in an advertised, PLE, main event, ladder match.
i dont understand why couldnt they keep the briefcase on Kennedy. Yeah, he was expected to be out injured for 7 months. SO? The briefcase has a 1 year window, they could've made it work without problem. Asuming what the timeline says in which they made those decisions, they could've prepared a cash-in return for Kennedy 7-8 months later.
The 'cursed' history of the stipulation that has crowned more world champions than any other stipulation? Save maybe the Royal Rumble. Sign me up for that curse.
Some of the trouble comes down to quantity, really.
You've got a Royal Rumble, Money in the Bank (some years had two of these) and sometimes a King of the Ring.
All on paper, good ways to make a new credible main eventer.
But thats also way too many guaranteed shots (and generally expected wins, otherwise they're "buried") to be using in a single year. Particularly with a healthier, more long lasting roster (unlike the Attitude Era, where Rock and Austin and Makind basically had 5 year runs, we now have main event guys lasting a decade or more). Trying to have 5 or more world champions in a single year (allowing for any more organic ones or existing main events) starts getting hot potato.
Ollie is supposedly a Punk fan yet using revisionist history, Punk’s reigns had NOTHING to do with his attitude. He was not supported by management because they never saw him as world champion material.
Imagine if Swagger and Miz had had the briefcase concurrently though, like in retrospect that seems like a missed opportunity.
Granted the chosen winners would have limited it greatly but like if you didn't book Morrison in a random tag match at Mania could we have seen a Miz and Morrison briefcase unification ladder match at the 2010 Summerslam?
Funny thing Oli doesn't note here, according to Edge, the original plans by the writers were to have him cash it in like RVD later would. To just guarantee a title shot at a PPV, but then he went to Vince said "Well I'm a heel. I should cash this in when someone is beaten up so bad they can't fight back. That's what the character would do." and somehow, bafflingly, Vince was the only person to agree with him. What Vince says goes, so he steamrolls that through and declares the cash in personally. When Edge hands him the briefcase, you can see Vince say something to him. According to Edge, he told him "Prove me right."
Hilarious to think that the briefcase is only used in the way it is because Edge was a villain.
This was fun to watch I enjoyed seeing Liv Morgan win a Money in the Bank match, it was also interesting with the match with AJ Styles he had to have dropped a briefcase on purpose! After unhooking it he still should have won. Michael Cole had to make up an ending for that match!! 😆 and the sad part was WWE didn’t do anything significant with Otis having that briefcase. 💼
Was really hoping Tempest would pull off the lightbulb change... guess there's always next year.
One day we're gonna have the conversation about the effects of Becky Lynch burying Shayna Baszler in 2020.
I've been waiting for a group to "invade" a MitB ladder match and take everyone out and just leave with the briefcase. There's been a couple of groups that I thought could/should have done this in the past, this year it could be the Bloodline.
They could lose the tag match with Rhodes, Orton, and Owens, then come in after 20 minutes of the ladder match to take out the last few people and take the briefcase for Solo
The most notable thing about Jack Swagger winning MITB was he was suppose to Cash in on John Cena the Raw after WM26, win and then hold the WWE Championship until SummerSlam but Cena flat out refused to drop the belt to Swagger so it was pivoted to him holding the World Title till SummerSlam...then his fued with Big Show was so bad Vince pulled the plug on Swagger's push months before SummerSlam...
14:05 Fact check, Henry wasn’t medically cleared because of a leg injury. Not because of the KO Punch
I heard that Mr. Kennedy got fired for almost breaking Randy's neck and Randy Orton went into Vince's office and said he goes where I go. That's what I heard about him dropping the briefcase
I feel like at this point if you're having multi year champions and doesn't want them the title to drop, MITB doesn't make much sense. It just weakens whoever is cashing in unsuccessfully.
Something I always thought with Money in the Bank is why when the Title is vacated why don’t the MITB holder just cash in and become champion.
Getting screwed by Lashley on his cash in attempt was the best thing to happen for Austin Theory. Of course WWE screwed it up...
This may be the best acting from Oli in the channel history. Pete, Luke and El Fakidor have trained Him well 😂💪🏻
I've seen the last two men's MITB cash-ins in person. Damian Priest's was an awesome moment in that crowd . Theory's felt like a fever dream. The best part was seeing my friend's confused as to what was actually going on.
So we need to wait till Monday to hear your guys thoughts on what just happened on Friday night smackdown 🤦🏽♂️