10 Hidden Meanings Behind WWE Money In The Bank 2019 Attires
Green With Envy.
Wrestlers are a lovely looking bunch.
This isn't a "nowadays" slight on the modern crop through a nostalgic longing for a grizzlier time - merely a comment on an important element of the industry Vince McMahon completely reshaped when he took over it in the mid-1980s.
Aesthetics were everything to McMahon - massive muscles were worth him eventually going to court for, height and good hair were nailed on to secure a contract ahead of headlocks and counter-holds, whilst slick gear stood talent in far better stead than the scabby trunks and boots that once denoted who was the toughest or most talented.
2019's crop grew up watching these changes enacted, spotting trends and colours and styles and choices through endless rewatches of the most visually pleasing crop of wrestl...Sports Entertainers ever. What they lack in star power as Superstars themselves (thanks mostly to WWE's modern micromanagement), they've thankfully made up for in sartorial swagger.
The wrestlers are often robbed of creative agency by the group, their prime years pillaged by an empire caring only for content output rather than the output of their content. How they look is, for the most part at least, still up to them. In that regard, it's worth celebrating the most...
10. The New Daniel Bryan
Daniel Bryan blessed the Money In The Bank Kickoff with a performance worthy of the main card because of course he did, but his gear was bang on brand too.
Sporting the black, gold and green branding of the Money In The Bank pay-per-view on his trunks and kneepads, this could well have been a hypocritical nod to the greed and over-indulgence typified by this particular pay-per-view - though uber-heel Bryan would almost definitely claim it as an attempt to claim back the shades for his beloved planet.