10 WWE Money In The Bank Firsts

1. First To Win Without Pinning The Champion

Seth Rollins managed to pull off a trifecta of firsts when he cashed in his Money in the Bank briefcase at WrestleMania XXXI earlier this year. 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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fOJGZ-NVXE As it turned out, we now have a situation where Lesnar lost his title without being pinned €“ and he clearly is angry and going to want revenge €“ and Reigns had his title opportunity swiped from him, so he would love nothing more than to win the MITB briefcase Sunday and return the favor. With the Money in the Bank ladder match Sunday and Lesnar expected back on Raw the following night, things could get very interesting in WWE very soon.
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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.