5 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE Money In The Bank 2024
Ups…
5. Building Drama
The outcome of the men’s Money in the Bank ladder match might have seemed like a foregone conclusion to some – with Drew McIntyre having perhaps the best case for winning the briefcase – but that didn’t stop WWE from injecting a good dose of doubt into the mix Saturday night.
MITB ladder matches always have a series of wrestlers climbing and getting knocked to the ground in increasingly violent manners, but the men’s match Saturday really ramped things up in the waning moments, with fan favorites being taken out in dramatic fashion.
Andrade took himself and Carmelo Hayes out with a sunset bomb onto a ladder bridge, immediately followed by Chad Gable eliminating LA Knight with a belly-to-belly suplex over the top rope through another ladder bridge. That’s when things got tense.
Gable not only got his hands on the briefcase, he pulled off the Jeff Hardy spot, hanging from the briefcase when Jey Uso removed the ladder and then speared Gable – albeit after Chad fell to the mat. Uso found himself in the most advantageous spot, alone at the top of the ladder with an empty ring leaving fans to suspend disbelief for a minute… until McIntyre threw a ladder like a javelin to knock Jey down.
This was a great climax to the obvious finish, keeping fans on their toes until Drew successfully retrieved the case.