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Anybody Else Hate Money In The Bank?

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#1 · (Edited)
been thinking lately about MITB and i have come to terms how much i hate it and it doesn't really help the talent that win it

first of all everyone uses it when the champ is down and had a grueling match so in essence their title win has a flukeness about it and they are not seen as true champions

and aren't treated as the guy when they win it via money in the bank cash in and they usually lose the title a couple months later and are demoted back to the mid card only for them to have to be rebuilt back up it since their title wins were flukes,they never were booked in a way where they were seen as legetimate and lost the title not much after they won it and sent back to where they were before winning mitb

swagger still isn't main event
neither is the miz who was sent back to ic title scene
ADR had to win the title a second time on smackdown to become somewhat a main eventer
wtf is ziggler doing now lol
punk had to win the title for his 2nd time without mitb to be seen as a true main eventer he is today
edge had to win the title again from jericho to truly be a main eventer and have his long reign on top on smackdown

i feel it hurts the talent more than it helps

in my opinion only RVD really benefited from MITB cash in since he fought a fresh opponent and was cashed in via contract signing but his own fuck ups cost him the title
 
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#3 ·
As a PPV it ends up normally being one of the best of the year, the MITB matches also end up being quality and are normally somewhere in the top 10-20 matches of the year. That alone means it should stay in my opinion, although I do agree that the briefcase hasn't always been used too well, that lies with creative though, maybe it'll be better now there's only one world title to go for. I'm guessing they will either just have one MITB match or have the other for the Intercontinental championship, either way I think that could be better.
 
#6 ·
not saying matches aren't good or the cash ins are'nt exciting but WWE books the talent so bad after the fact that it hurts the talent and puts them in a worse position and making the talent less over by having them keep losing

ziggler had mitb for 9 months and finally cashed it in only to lose title in 69 days and then go to lose to sandow and fandango in the mid card
 
#9 ·
MITB gets a lot of flak, but honestly its a fantastic idea with poor execution. Instead of using it as a way for main eventers to get their hands on a title, the give the briefcases to mid carders with no push or buildup, which is the WWE's fault.
 
#10 ·
A match that allows for an up and coming talent or mid-carder to burst through and get a shot at a major title? Yeah...why would we want that? Let's just have Punk/Orton/Cena trade the titles off on a continuous loop forever. MITB is a brilliant idea that is (most of the time) executed poorly. But it has helped escalate the careers of some of the guys in the business who were jerked around for so long (Edge obviously being the first to come to mind.)
 
#12 ·
A match that allows for an up and coming talent or mid-carder to burst through and get a shot at a major title? Yeah...why would we want that? Let's just have Punk/Orton/Cena trade the titles off on a continuous loop forever. MITB is a brilliant idea that is (most of the time) executed poorly. But it has helped escalate the careers of some of the guys in the business who were jerked around for so long (Edge obviously being the first to come to mind.)
yeah it sure helped swagger,ziggler,bryan,miz become main event stars:confused:

ziggler is back in mid card losing to sandow and fandango
miz was sent back to ic title division feuding with kofi
swagger is now in the tag team division with cesaro
and now bryan is with the wyatts

and guys like del rio,edge,punk didn't become stars till they won the title again at a later date on their own without mitb
 
#11 ·
Surprise cash ins are always fun to watch. When Edge cashed in against Cena (the very first one), it was so damn great. When I saw that, I knew the MITB concept was here to stay.

Still today, whenever somebody cashes in, I'm all excited about it. Ziggler in 2013 was a great moment, especially cause Del Rio surprisingly had a chance of winning.

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#15 ·
I don't hate Money in the Bank. The matches are always great and the concept is good, even if it has lost a bit of its excitement over the last few years (mainly because there have been two briefcases floating around). If WWE keeps the concept around, which I suspect that they will, I could see things being quite a bit different from here on out now that there is only one world title. I'd say it'll be less often that you see a mid-carder winning the briefcase and situations like when Cena and Orton won the briefcase will become more common.

Guys like Cena, Orton, Punk and Bryan could all win the briefcase again, with the endgame of setting up a WWE World Heavyweight Championship match.

One thing that I would like to see them start to move away from, though, is all of the surprise cash-ins. Now, I thought the surprise cash-in worked the very first time with Edge because I'm not sure if anyone was really expecting it to go down like that. And it definitely played into the creation of the "Ultimate Opportunist" aspect of his character. After that, though, the surprise cash ins didn't really do anything for me until Orton cashed in at SummerSlam.

I'd like to see them do more cash ins like Rob Van Dam's. It makes the Money in the Bank winner look so much better when they cash in in a legit fashion and win the title, as opposed to earning a cheap title victory by attacking the champion when he is weak. For example, say CM Punk wins the briefcase and he walks around with it for a few months, biding his time. Then, maybe on RAW you have a few guys arguing over who should be the #1 Contender. And just before a match is about to be made to decide who it should be, Punk comes out and declares "There's no need for a match. I'm the #1 Contender. I'm cashing in my Money in the Bank for a title opportunity."

Just my two cents.
 
#16 ·
Love the match itself, hate how the WWE books the winners.

First of all, only people who have never been world champ before should be allowed to compete. No fucking people like Cena and Orton who can get a titleshot by cutting a 5-second promo saying they want it. Whoever does win it needs to be booked strong. No "He's Mr. MITB so he will still look strong after losing a million times" mentality, that just doesn't make sense.

Just fucking have a match with 6 or 8 strongly booked midcard/uppermidcarders, whoever wins is booked strongly till they cash in, and then be a strong champ for several months. It ain't hard, WWE.
 
#17 · (Edited)
It needs to go away. We've seen the surprise cash in happen too many times, it's boring now, they bury the winner, and the kicker of it all is, now that there's only one title, unless it's Reigns, ANYONE who holds that briefcase is going to lose and have nothing come from it just like Sandow did. Get rid of it. If they insist on burying the roster by having only one champion and only one guy on the roster they want to push, at least build him up instead of doing this overplayed gimmick.

At one time it was necessary because they were only giving the new guys their world titles through MITB, but now they're not gonna win them at all, so just scrap it.
 
#20 ·
I'd just add a few concepts to it. For example, have the winner win matches against each of the other participants he beat before cashing in. If he loses one match, there will be a rematch, if his opponent beats him again, he'll win the briefcase from him. I just realized this might take too long and might be really confusing. Point is, I like the concept, but it has to be executed better than it has been so far and adding a few stipulations might help.
 
#22 ·
MitB concept is great if is used wisely, that means ONCE A YEAR, the moment they have 2 MitB contracts ( in 2010 they had 3 :no: ) kinda lost its magic, imagine if they were 2 Royal Rumble per year... now that there's only one world title they are forced to only have ONE briefcase, I hope this time they plan they winner at least 3 months before the PPV and the talent they choose ends up being a REAL main eventer / credible champion and not a paper champion.
 
#23 ·
Having the talent cash in different ways would better and improve the appeal of it. Sandow's cash in was great until he lost as it was different. It made him look great as he did the damage to Cena himself and was not relying on someone else's handy work.
 
#24 ·
It's overkill to a degree, they should have more then just the "surprise" cash in, but much like most things in WWE, almost everybody does it. With only 1 MitB & Royal Rumble, you have 2 guaranteed shots at the world title. Royal Rumble winner goes to Wrestlemania & fights the champ, that's been established. So I think MitB should be a second half of the year thing, hell have the MitB match at Wrestlemania again like they used to.

Cool scenario would be something like Punk winning the MitB match at Wrestlemania, turning heel in the process by cheap shotting Bryan, Cena winning the world title at Wrestlemania in the main event, only to have Punk come out afterwards, with Paul Heyman holding the briefcase, and challenge Cena to a match at Summerslam. (Which is supposed to be WWE's second biggest PPV of the year)

Things like that would be cool, which is why it won't happen.
 
#26 ·
I absolutely love MITB. It is probably my favourite thing about WWE. What i HATE is how the champs are booked, specifically the SD WHC winners. They were all booked as weak a*s champs and there small and short runs went the same way.

MITB is a great concept and should be an easy way to create a storyline for a guy and to get him over but they've went about it the wrong way and they think JUST by having the briefcase is enough storyline.

The best thing they done with MITB is have Cena and Ziggler fight for it, admittedly it made no sense at all but it elevated it and gave it that aura of respect.

I still can't think of MITB without having a sob about Sandow's cash in. WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHY VINCE, DAAAAAAAMN YOOOOOOOU TO HELLLLLL
 
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