10 Times WWE Repeated History
10. The Ultimate Opportunist
It was harder to fail than succeed with the original Money In The Bank cash-in. Bona fide firsts in wrestling are always so cool, holder Edge had never worn the company's top prize, and John Cena was becoming a figure of such disdain that f*cking 2001 X-Pac would have got a pop for beating him.
The responsibility of the shock-and-awe moment being given back to the original perpetrator was a tremendous solution to an unexpected problem when the third 'Mr Money In The Bank' Mr Kennedy was shelved for a period everybody believed would take him past the expiry date.
The less said about his Unlucky Alf year the better (suffice to say, Kennedy was back less than two months after an injury that had initially been thought to take him out for a year), but 'The Rated-R Superstar' was a sublime sh*thouse choice to take his place.
A beaten and battered Undertaker was a long way from the loathed Cena, too - everything about Edge's sensational second bite was crueler than the first.