10 Wrestling Moments That Couldn't Live Up To The Hype
9. Money In The Bank 2020
We're all guilty of recency bias. The last great thing you saw feels like the best thing, the emotional high can't be topped and you're never coming down and so on. Vince McMahon relies on it now. The company produces a lot of dross, but the thrill of something - anything - resembling the show you fell in love with (any era counts - 2020 is on as big an island as that place hosting all the UFC shows) keeps you coming back.
Money In The Bank 2020 felt like a very active attempt to chase people away.
The build was impossibly intoxicating. A look inside the company's fabled headquarters, the possibility of sight gags and cameos so vast you could fill a suggestion box as big as the building, and the ridiculous tease of somebody getting thrown off the roof they seemed determined to sell as another major reason to watch.
The end product was the worst version of both. The appearances were lame, the set pieces typically weren't even standard issue jokes, and King Corbin's attempted murders of Rey Mysterio and Aleister Black were played down so spectacularly that it made him look - fittingly - like a massive !*$%. This was hard evidence that WrestleMania was an outlier - WWE could not do this, and they were charged with continuing for the rest of the year.