WWE headed into Money in the Bank with a lot of potential swerves and fun options on the table. Fans instead got some odd booking decisions that left the event feeling a little flat. Consider that Rollins went from sniveling heel who needed four guys to win his bouts to a guy who powerbombed Dean Ambrose into the barricade multiple times en route to winning on his own. John Cena ended Kevin Owens WWE PPV win streak at one. We crowned new WWE Tag Team Champions with barely any build and a super-short match. We saw the 2015 King of the Ring lose another head-to-head match. Brie Bella interfered in a match and the ref waived it off because she looks like Nikki Bella? None of the potential twists and turns that could have happened did. One rumor was that if Roman Reigns won the briefcase, he could have sought revenge on Seth Rollins or turned on Dean Ambrose, had Dean won the world title. Owens could have beaten Cena to solidify himself as a top guy just two PPV matches into his WWE career. So instead of a PPV that produced a memorable, signature moment, we got a solid-if-unspectacular event. There was nothing offensive, but nothing that will encourage you to watch all three hours again.
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.
