10 Wildest Spots In The History Of The WWE Money In The Bank Match

5. The Ultimate Air Bourne

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The Shooting Star Press has had many different variations over the years. Some wrestlers do it from a standing position, some wrestlers do it with a corkscrew, and some wrestlers named Brock Lesnar do it directly onto their own head.

Few people can hit the Press quite like Matt Sydal, or Evan Bourne as he was known during his WWE tenure. Bourne's version of the move - hilariously named the "Air Bourne" - is perhaps most famous for being countered by Randy Orton into an RKO. But this instance has to come in at a close second.

During Money In The Bank 2011's Raw match, all the participants had a game of "who can do the biggest jump" and Evan, not being one to slouch, decided he was going to win.

He climbed a ladder outside the ring and proceeded to hit Air Bourne from the top of said ladder onto everybody standing below him. Bourne flawlessly pulled off the Shooting Star Press, even under these unusual circumstances, and it stands out as the high point of this match.

Bourne's WWE career may not have been as decorated as perhaps it should have been, but he definitely made up for it in memorable moments.

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