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The day has finally arrived, for the first time since WrestleManina 37, WWE is back on the road for a pay-per-view and will emanate live from Fort Worth, Texas tonight for WWE Money in The Bank. This will be the first non-maina pay-per-view outside of the performance center or Thunderdome in over 16 months.
Tonight will surely be an action-packed night, as WWE will be featuring a total of 5 championship matches, along with it's two Money in the Bank Ladder matches.
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Without further ado, let's quickly run through the card and predict the results of WWE Money in the Bank:
WWE's Tag Team Championship Matches
Projected Winners: The Usos & AJ Styles / Omos
WWE The tag team division has had a significant amount of hills and valleys to work through in the past few years. Between popular teams breaking up, injuries, and questionable throw-together-partnerships, the tag division on both RAW and SmackDown sometimes feels like the red-headed step child of WWE Creative.
However, at the moment both the show's tag team champions have some things going for them. They are entertaining to watch from an in-ring and character perspective, and each seem to have legitimate challenges coming after them. A combination not felt in the tag team division in some time.
With that said, the SmackDown tag team championships are coming off the father-son duo of Rey Mysterio and Dominik, and will finally be returning to the Uso Penatenturay once more, and Jimmy and Jey will be able to stand behind their tribal chief as tag team champs on Smackdown.
On the flip side, AJ Styles and Omos will be walking out of WWE's Money in the Bank with tag titles firmly in hand. The duo seem to be really hitting their strive, and it would be an unwise decision to take the belts off them, just as live fans are getting the chance to react to their team chemistry for the first time. Their break up will come eventually - just not now.
WWE RAW Women's Championship Match
Projected Winner: New WWE RAW Women's Champion Charlotte Flair
Charlotte Flair and WWE RAW Women's Champion Rhea Ripley seem to be in a never-ending feud with each other, as WWE creative clearly view this feud as one that is a major draw.
While it seemed like Ripley was poised to get her win back from WrestleMania 36 against Flair at WWE Hell in a Cell, Ripley would go on to lose the title via disqualification. Thus prompting Sonya Deville to schedule a rematch.
With the feud being given some extra time to breathe, it is fair to say that WWE may be setting up for Ripley to really get her big win back at a bigger pay-per-view down the road.
To achieve this, WWE needs to take the title off of her, and give it to WWE's resident queen. While fans will surely not want to hear this take, this move does set up Ripley to beat Flair on a bigger stage at SummerSlam - a pay-per-view that some are speculating will have "WrestleMania-type hype" attached.
WWE Universal Championship & WWE Championship Matches
Projected Winners: WWE World Champions Roman Reigns & Bobby Lashley
In the words of Paul Heyman, these are not predictions, these are spoilers. Simply put, Smackdown's WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns and RAW's WWE Champion Bobby Lashley are not losing their championships for a very long time. Money in the Bank is certainly not the place for either man to drop their respective belts.
First we have Bobby Lashley, who has only just begun to show us what he can really do with the WWE Championship. He has so far delivered on all marks, and is providing fans with a "Brock Lesnar-Like" monster heel champ
Lashley seems unstoppable right now, and while Kofi Kingston is a strong competitor and former WWE Champion in his own right, he is simply no match for The Almighty.
Next is Roman Reigns, who some say is currently one of the best world champions in professional wrestling today. Reigns' time as Universal Champion has been a breath of fresh air and a real treat for the WWE Universe. However, his opponent Edge is a much, much bigger hill for him to climb than he's used to
Edge has been hot on Reigns' tail since he won the 2020 Royal Rumble match. While Edge did get his title match against Reigns at WrestleMania, Daniel Bryan's interjection into the match made Edge sour on it. Edge is finally getting the one-on-one match he says he deserves.
While Edge's passion, grit and overwhelming fan appeal make him an attractive winner of this bout, there is no way that WWE is taking the title off of Reigns to give it to The Rated R Superstar.
Edge is over 10 years Reign's senior, and the time frame for Edge sticking around in WWE as an active competitor is slowly going away. While Edge may find himself wearing gold around his waist one more time before he hangs up the boots for good, it will not be at Roman Reign's expense - at least not now anyway.
WWE Male & Female Money in the Bank Matches
Projected Winners: WWE's Mr and Mrs. Money in the Bank Drew McIntyre & Zelina Vega
These projected winners will certainly have people buzzing, as the current favorites are Big E and Alexa Bliss. However, when one thinks about it for a second, McIntyre and Vega as winners makes the most sense.
Vega was released from her contract with WWE last November, after a dispute over WWE's control of her Twitch account and other "Third-Party Affliations".
After some intense fan backlash, and Vega being extremely vocal on voicing her displeasure with the way she was released, many fans assumed that WWE and Vega would simply never find each other again.
But, to everyone's surprise earlier this month, Vega returned to WWE on the SmackDown brand, immediately declaring herself a participant in the Women's Money in the Bank match.
For Vega to come back, WWE had to prove to her that they would use her to her full potential as an in-ring competitor, and what better way to do that than to give her the MITB briefcase.
Vega's current character would work perfectly as Ms. Money in the Bank; and both her winning the case, as well as her eventual cash-in, would cement her as a main event star in WWE's women's division.
When it comes to the men, Drew McIntyre is both the safest bet and the one that WWE most needs. Right now, there are almost zero threats to Bobby Lashley or Roman Reigns' titles.
But if McIntyre is lurking in the shadows and ready to strike at a moment's notice, WWE has more flexibility with its creative strategy for both champions. Reigns and Lashley can continue to dominate, but if WWE sees things getting stale? BOOM, Claymore, and McIntyre is back in the picture.
Depending on how the MITB contract sits with McIntyre's stipulation that he can't challenge for the WWE Title as long as Lashley has it, that is.
Also an eventual cash-in and possible title win, by McIntyre gives the Scottish Psychopath the championship victory that he deserves to have in front of a live WWE crowd.
Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, he was robbed of this moment at WrestleMania 36. But with WWE back on the road and an MITB briefcase firmly in hand, that moment can happen anytime and anywhere.
