5 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Money In The Bank 2025 (Results & Review)

1. Cody Can’t Carry It All

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Poor Cody Rhodes. For 80% of the main event, the American Nightmare had to mostly stand on the apron and watch the three other men in the tag match deliver a snoozer.

John Cena and Logan Paul conducted a one-dimensional extended heat segment on World Heavyweight Champion Jey Uso, replete with chinlocks, punches, and other basic offense. Everything moved along at such a glacial pace that when Rhodes tagged in, his frenzied offense whipsawed the audience as he unloaded on both Paul and Cena. This fed into a spirited finisher spam sequence, which ultimately led to Jey spearing Cena on the announce desk and Logan moonsaulting Uso through the table.

That frenzy, as well as R-Truth’s return, almost made up for what preceded the last five minutes, but it’s impossible to discount how boring the match was before Cody’s hot tag, despite the bout involving the two current world champions and a social media mogul that WWE insists is an electrifying prodigy in the ring.

WWE should not be getting a pass for its main event being a poorly executed, boring, basic match for more than three-quarters of its run before finally snapping to life because everyone can see the finish line in sight. Nor should a shock return whitewash the boredom away.

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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.