10 Best WWE Pay-Per-Views Of The Decade
5. Money In The Bank 2011
CM Punk and John Cena had marginally better matches as the years progressed, but few benefited from their chemistry quite as much as the Allstate Arena crowd awash with Chicago pride. A white hot atmosphere buoyed the battle from something potentially pedestrian into positively pulsating. Punk's victory and departure with the WWE Championship was at very least the majestic scene the evocative angle had promised.
Time's been a little unkind to both the pay-per-view and the match in which 'The Voice Of The Voiceless' iconically collapsed Vince McMahon's house of cards with a single blown kiss. The company's miserable mishandling of the moment in the aftermath did much to deflate the tension created by the legendary Las Vegas "Pipe Bomb". Bottled though, the show overflows with magic as result of the moment.
Alberto Del Rio won a Money In The Bank ladder match in which he was by far the least interesting proponent, Daniel Bryan surprisingly won another in which he was, and Randy Orton and Christian continued their astonishingly entertaining feud with another exceptional and understated pay-per-view gem.
Beyond these, the show is stuffed with filler, but Punk had Hulkdust up his sleeve that night - almost of all of it gets over.