10 Best Money In The Bank Cash-Ins Ever

10. Daniel Bryan

Few eventual headlining WWE superstars have had as much difficulty reaching the top of the company as Daniel Bryan. At 2011's Money in the Bank event (one of the best shows in WWE history), Bryan won the World Heavyweight Title MITB match in a great bout, but according to later reports, he was originally supposed to be the first man to cash in his briefcase and fail to win the title.

At the TLC Pay-Per-View in December of that year, WWE's decision-makers changed their minds. The day of the show, they decided that they wanted to put Bryan over for the title that very evening, and so they contacted the future legend and told him the new plan. Bryan wasn't even at the show, but he was doing an appearance close enough that he could make it there in time.

In the event's World Heavyweight Title match, The Big Show defeated Mark Henry to capture the belt. Immediately afterwards though, Henry gave Show a DDT onto a steel chair. That brought out Bryan - who had been portrayed as Show's friend on TV - with his briefcase. He cashed it in, flipped Show on his back, and pinned him to win the belt.

The crowd went crazy for Bryan, but that was only the beginning of the story. By turning on his friend, Bryan had planted the seeds for a heel turn. Within a month, he was the most entertaining bad guy on WWE's roster, and his road to superstardom had begun.