10 WWE Money In The Bank Firsts

1. First To Win Without Pinning The Champion

Rollins Money in the Bank
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Seth Rollins managed to pull off another first when he cashed in his Money in the Bank briefcase at WrestleMania 31. Not only did he cash in during a match and did it at WrestleMania, he won by pinning someone other than the champion.

To be fair, since Rollins is the only one to join an in-progress world title match, he’s the only one who has had the opportunity to win by pinning a different opponent. Still, it’s reasonable to have thought at the time that Rollins was only entering the match so Roman Reigns could win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship without Brock Lesnar being pinned.

Rollins of course would go on to hold the world title all the way until November 2015, when a freak injury forced him to vacate the title. Rollins would later end up having Dean Ambrose cash in on him in 2016 as he returned from that injury, completing the circle.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.