10 Over-Hyped Wrestling Main Events NOBODY Even Remembers Now
8. WWE Money In The Bank 2020
"Climb The Corporate Ladder!" the ghoulish entity declared, having just released and/or furloughed literally hundreds of people at the very start of a global pandemic with no solution nor end in sight.
Had WWE not chosen the very worst way of making unnecessary budget cuts back in 2020, critics might have been kinder to the novel concept of multiple wrestlers fighting their way up Titan Tower until they reached a briefcase containing all their dreams. But they didn't, and they weren't, and the match completely stunk anyway.
Proof if proof be needed be that the company was incapable of stretching Vince McMahon's risible comedic tastes out over the course of one match, the contest was a creatively barren mess of cameos, unfinished ideas and ghostly and unsatisfactory payoffs. Asuka claimed a case that was later revealed to contain the belt itself as Becky Lynch took maternity leave, while Otis lucked his way into victory by catching a case dropped by rightful winner AJ Styles. An opportunity he lost to The Miz later that year when McMahon decided that the joke simply wasn't funny anymore.
It's a shame he didn't think that about every single pathetic attempt at one here