10 WWE Storylines We'd Like To See In 2019
6. A New Money In The Bank Sub-Fund
The Money In The Bank briefcase has entered liquidation in recent years: used as an increasingly tired means of getting a chickensh*t heel over, or most recently barely used it all, it has come to embody WWE's dismal wider approach. The holder is appointed arbitrarily, is often jobbed out because they hold the briefcase and, hey, f*ck it, they can always win later...
...when stigmatised as a loser.
We'd like to see the trope mean something again. We'd like to see a down on their luck babyface use it to inspire confidence in themselves and their fans alike. We'd like to see said babyface cash in the briefcase, in advance, on a major show. We'd like to see WWE leave the Gollums in the production truck.
We'd like to see Finn Bálor as this babyface.
Bálor experienced a dismal 2018; from Kane to Baron Corbin to Bobby Lashley, Bálor sold rest holds and chair shots for larger and considerably less talented performers as, all the while, his credentials as a top-level performer disintegrated. Capturing the briefcase would negate all this and steel his focus from happy-to-be-there goon to a man determined to avenge the two year-long nightmare he is infuriatingly oblivious to.
Make clear just how vivid a nightmare this was, and tease - but do not deliver - the heel turn such an arc usually fosters. This serves to humanise the character with a relatable conflict and, by subverting the usual, will allow us to believe in a performer it is not merely impossible to care about, but dangerous.