10 Most INSANE Spots In WWE Money In The Bank History

5. Knock Out Blow

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The flat-back bump to the canvas is a painful enough prospect for the armchair pundit, designed though it is to minimise pain. With the impact absorbed over a wide, relatively sturdy surface area - the upper back - the pain is nonetheless sufficient for Rob Van Dam to have compared it, it in a 2009 interview with Power Slam magazine, to being struck by a car.

In the titular 2016 Money In The Bank Ladder Match, Kevin Owens sought to pop an increasingly jaded crowd aware of the dark arts of bumping by performing one utterly devoid of any illusion. He took Sami Zayn's Blue Thunder Bomb across the thin rails of the ladder, allowing no scope whatsoever to spread out the searing pain.

His reward? Both Shane and Stephanie McMahon treated him as a goof in the two years since.

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