5 Best Case Scenario WWE Money In The Bank 2021 Winners (And 5 Worst)
WWE will have crowds back for their annual briefcase scramble, but who will scale the dizzy heights?
The Money In The Bank pay-per-view's move back away from that panicked post-WrestleMania slot into July has been a rare and much-needed reminder that sometimes WWE still understands the value of anticiaption.
The gimmick is something many fans still treasure despite the bastardisation of the briefcase once too often over the last decade or so, mostly because it's one of the only remaining clear signposts that somebody you might like is getting a sizeable push. Or in the case of Otis, is making Vince McMahon laugh right this second but don't count on it lasting until SummerSlam, PAL.
Former Heavy Machinery heavyweight aside, the contract still matters to most, and with Money In The Bank set to be the first supershow with crowds back since WrestleMania, it's impossible to rule out anybody just yet.
Let's try that here.
John Cena's set to appear on on the go-home SmackDown, but surely there's too many ways to slot him into something meaningful elsewhere. Finn Bálor could be main roster-bound, so him making up for some lost time isn't a wild bet. Edge made the stipulation as the stipulation made him, and Ruthless Aggression era sh*t is inexplicably still all the rage, so perhaps the show will be Rated-R for "return"?
But if they're ruled out, just who might WWE slot in?
10. Worst - Jaxson Ryker
Jaxson Ryker is the exact sort of punt (punt) Vince McMahon might take based on little other than a misplaced hunch.
Outside of this middling main roster run alongside Elias, the biggest moment in Ryker's WWE run took place in a multi-man ladder match at NXT TakeOver: XXV. There, he was unsuccessful in helping his Forgotten Sons partners snatch the Tag Team Championships, but he was given a dominant spell as the contest's true danger. Mainly because he was jacked as f*ck and bigger than everybody else out there.
Which brings us to Money In The Bank 2021.
As an oversized underdog, he'd be the sort to unleash fury on some of the favourites as a way to get over in front of the returning live audience members that don't remember his Twitter history. It wouldn't take a lot to construct a match around his eventual victory, but Ryker just doesn't have much beyond the rippling biceps. Just because WWE could, it doesn't mean they should.