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Money in the Bank PPV has become one of the biggest shows of the year. The contract match has the potential to establish the next top star of WWE.
Different people have handled the briefcase in very different ways. Some people never had it long enough for it to matter, others tried to downplay the fact that they even had it so people wouldn’t expect a cash in, and some treated the briefcase like the title itself.
We have seen a variety of success stories from cashing in the contract, some men have “failed” to make that next step to the main event, and some didn't. So, which five men have managed to get the most success from winning the contract? Let's take a look.
#5 Seth Rollins
Money in the bank in 2014 marked Seth Rollins’ true rise to superstardom in the WWE. Going against the five other competitors including his Shield-brother Dean Ambrose, Rollins became the first member of the Shield to win the Money in the Bank Ladder match.
The chaos that ensued would prove to be one of the most personal and chaotic rivalries of 2014. The Architect of The Shield against The Lunatic Fringe.
After weeks of attacking each other, and interfering in each other’s matches, Rollins and Ambrose would clash for the first time in the Money In The Bank ladder match, and it was absolutely fantastic to witness.
As always, it was spectacularly brutal, with Rollins, in particular, taking some ridiculous bumps. The finish of the match came when Kane came out to shatter the dreams of Dean Ambrose and help Rollins retrieve the briefcase.
Rollins spent almost a year with that briefcase before finally deciding to make the move at the Grandest Stage Of Them All.
After being defeated at the hands of The Viper earlier in the night, Rollins cashed in on the WWE World Heavyweight Championship main event between Reigns and Lesnar.
Rollins entered the ring mid-March and cashed in his MITB briefcase and made the match a triple threat.
He would then knock Lesnar out of the ring, hit a curb stomp on Reigns to win the championship and leave WrestleMania as the first MITB holder to ever cash in at WrestleMania.
#4 Rob Van Dam
The second person to win the briefcase after Edge won it a year ago. He possessed the briefcase for a couple of months and defended it in a match where not only the briefcase was on the line, but the Intercontinental Championship as well.
RVD eventually challenged the WWE Champion John Cena with the deck stacked in RVD’s favour on his home-turf, ECW.
He is the only person to announce his cash in and win, the other person to do it was John Cena, the man Van Dam beat for the title. For being such a man of firsts, Van Dam earns the number four spots.
#3 Dolph Ziggler
Dolph Ziggler won the briefcase in 2012 and waited almost a year to finally make a move. The 2012 Smackdown's Money in the bank match was fantabulous in its own right, even though it was obscured by John Cena winning the RAW match.
The Showoff, never got stale while holding the briefcase, he owned it with an amount of egocentrism that wouldn’t be seen again until Rollins won it at WrestleMania. He even put it on the line a couple of times.
He’s one of the very few people to hold the briefcase while taking part in the Royal Rumble match.
Ziggler’s style made him a great winner, and hopefully, we’ll get to see him with that briefcase again in the future.
#2 CM Punk
Edge may have cashed in twice, but only one person has ever won the Money in the Bank ladder match twice, and to top it off he did it back to back.
CM Punk won Money in the Bank at WrestleMania 24 and then again at WrestleMania 25. The first briefcase he cashed in on Edge, marking the ultimate karma for Edge, to finally taste his own medicine, while the second time he cashed in Jeff Hardy, who had just won the title from Edge.
His second run with the contract set the stage for the hottest feud of 2009 against Jeff Hardy. The cash in on Hardy who won a hard fought ladder match against Edge was perfect. It set the scene up for a series of very personal matches that culminated in a TLC match at SummerSlam.
CM Punk was never supposed to be the top dog, just a placeholder, but his showings in these ladder matches help him become a big name in WWE, something he would hold on to until he left the company.
CM Punk has become synonymous with Money in the Bank, making it fitting he won the WWE Championship at the PPV of the same name. No one will ever do what Punk did, and for that Punk takes the number one spot on this list.
#1 Edge
The first man to win the briefcase waited a long time to cash in. At January’s New Year’s Revolution show, Edge shocked the world by defeating Cena for the WWE title after Cena went through the Elimination Chamber.
Edge’s initial title run didn’t end too well, he lost the title back to Cena three weeks later.
However, a determined Edge impressed against Mick Foley at WrestleMania 22 and proved he deserved to be a main eventer, winning the world titles 11 times in his Hall Of Fame career.
Without Edge, Money In The Bank wouldn’t have that unexpected moment that left you speechless.
