10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE Money In The Bank

1. The Injury Rate Is Shockingly Low

Cody Rhodes Money In The Bank
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WWE has promoted 28 Money In The Bank Ladder matches.

The Ladder match is something a lot of wrestlers hate doing because you can not, in fact, learn how to fall off a 20 foot ladder. Jon Moxley hates Ladder matches, and he took an explosion to the face at AEW Double Or Nothing 2023.

You might think that a wrestler being injured in such a match is a statistical inevitability, particularly since it's the one night per year that the in-house restrictions appear not to be a factor. WWE allows/encourages its performers to go nuts in those matches. The stunts are wild, given the third-gear pacing of your average TV affair.

And yet, not a single major injury has occurred as a result of it. Sin Cara was only storyline injured at the 2011 event in an angle designed to write him off television as cover for a Wellness Policy violation.

Scrapes, bruises, hardway blood loss: nobody leaves the match in perfect nick, but this stat underscores how the danger of wrestling is mostly superficial, bad-faith discourse. Most major injuries are suffered at random, and the cumulative effect of bumping is the biggest inherent danger. Look Hulk Hogan and Randy Orton.

Their backs are in an awful state, and they're the methodical ones.

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Michael Sidgwick is an editor, writer and podcaster for WhatCulture Wrestling. With over seven years of experience in wrestling analysis, Michael was published in the influential institution that was Power Slam magazine, and specialises in providing insights into All Elite Wrestling - so much so that he wrote a book about the subject. You can order Becoming All Elite: The Rise Of AEW on Amazon. Possessing a deep knowledge also of WWE, WCW, ECW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, Michael’s work has been publicly praised by former AEW World Champions Kenny Omega and MJF, and current Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes. When he isn’t putting your finger on why things are the way they are in the endlessly fascinating world of professional wrestling, Michael wraps his own around a hand grinder to explore the world of specialty coffee. Follow Michael on X (formerly known as Twitter) @MSidgwick for more!