10 Times WWE Got The Money In The Bank Winner Wrong
9. Randy Orton (2013)
Randy Orton is as subjective a wrestler as you'll get. One side of Wrestling Twitter will tweet daily that he's the most undervalued sports entertainer ever, while the other side will start up a debate about how the RKO is as pointless as a Terry Funk retirement match.
He's divisive, to say the least - but not between 2013 and 2015.
The God-awful Authority storyline was the result of a Randy Orton Money in the Bank victory. Orton was already a certified WWE main event lifer with gobs of WWE and World Heavyweight Championships to his name and although the MITB match itself was a lot of fun, its result wasn't what anybody had wanted. WWE gained nothing from his win.
Rob Van Dam, who returned to the company on this night, was the more desirable winner. Although RVD had already won the match seven years prior, he'd never been given the rub by WWE. His WWE Championship run was nothing and his time as WWECW Champion was too ineffective, acting solely as a means of having a recognisable ECW stalwart to head up their reboot of the brand. Red-hot and still wrestling out of the nineties, he'd have been a splatter of colour to the grey landscape of 2013 WWE.