Five most notable Money in the Bank cash-ins in WWE history
WWE’s Money in the Bank Premium Live Event is scheduled for the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, California, on Saturday, June 7, and this piece reviews five of the company’s most memorable briefcase cash-ins. The list highlights instances when the contract led directly to World Championship wins.
Money in the Bank winners climb a ladder to retrieve a briefcase that contains a contract granting a future title shot; that opportunity has altered careers when used successfully to capture World Championships. The contract’s potential to immediately change a title picture is the reason the cash-in moment is often remembered as pivotal for rising superstars.
Kane won the Money in the Bank ladder match amid his 2010 storyline search for The Undertaker’s attacker, climbed the ladder and unhooked the briefcase, then returned later that night to cash in on World Champion Rey Mysterio after Mysterio’s title defense; Kane made quick work of Mysterio and won the title, becoming the first man to cash in the Money in the Bank contract on the same night he won it.
Seven years after Kane’s cash-in, Alexa Bliss won the Money in the Bank ladder match at the start of the show and later that evening cashed in on an ongoing RAW Women’s title match between Ronda Rousey and Nia Jax; Bliss took advantage of a weakened Jax and became the new champion in mere moments.
Edge was the inaugural Money in the Bank winner, securing the contract in a ladder match at WrestleMania 21; he waited for close to 280 days and chose to cash in just after John Cena survived an Elimination Chamber match, delivering two spears and winning his first-ever World Championship in WWE.
Dolph Ziggler, who won the Money in the Bank from the SmackDown side in 2012, cashed in on the RAW after WrestleMania 29 when Alberto Del Rio had just survived a match and was barely able to stand; Ziggler’s entry drew a huge pop and he executed the Zig-Zag on Del Rio to win the World Championship.
Seth “Freakin” Rollins captured the MITB contract in 2014 with assistance from Triple H and The Authority and, months later, cashed in during the main event of WrestleMania 31 between Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar; Rollins stomped Reigns’ head into the mat and pinned him to win his first-ever championship, a moment billed as "The Heist of the Century."
The Premium Live Event at the Intuit Dome on Saturday, June 7, will again stage the Money in the Bank ladder match, a night that the promoter says promises to alter the careers of two superstars who will climb the top of the ladder and retrieve the briefcase with the golden opportunity.
