5 Superstars Who Should've Won Money in the Bank

The Money in the Bank Briefcase has always been a great way to transition a Superstar from the midcard to the main event and has been instrumental in the careers of the wrestlers who've won it.

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Edge, Rob Van Dam, CM Punk and many others may have never gotten the chance to become a world champion without winning the Money in the Bank match and WWE would be a lot less interesting because of it.

Getting a chance to challenge a world champion at any time is a feat worth fighting for and the chaos that takes place in the Money in the Bank match drives the point home that "Anything can happen in the WWE."

However, for every time wrestler whose benefited from Money in the Bank, there have been others who the company wasted the opportunity on.

In fact, there were a lot of wrestlers who would've benefited a lot more from winning the briefcase then some of the wrestlers WWE chose.

So. this article will look back at previous Money in the Bank participants, who should've won, and when.

#5 Becky Lynch 2017

If you're a fan of Carmella and what she's done thus far as the SmackDown Women's Champion, you probably won't like this entry.

While Becky Lynch is the inaugural SmackDown Women's Champion, her title reign only served as a launching point for Alexa Bliss.

Since losing the title, Lynch has yet to do anything of interest on SmackDown and has spent most of her time wrestling tag team matches and losing title opportunities.

Winning Money in the Bank and becoming a world champion again would've made SmackDown's Women's Division much more interesting in 2017 than it was watching Naomi and Natalya with the title.

WWE may right this wrong by having her win the 2018 Women's Money in the Bank match, but that's probably just a pipe dream.

#4 Kofi Kingston - 2010

In a match where Christian, Kane, MVP, Shelton Benjamin, Dolph Ziggler, and Drew McIntyre were competing for a chance at a world title, having Jack Swagger win the briefcase was a bad idea.

It was only a few months before WWE put the World Heavyweight Championship on Kane, but watching Swagger vs. The Big Show wasn't salvageable in the slightest.

If the company was gonna put the title on someone for a few months, it may as well have been on a wrestler who was over with the audience like Kofi Kingston.

Kingston showed promise as a singles star during the early years of his career and having him become world champion would've made for a much more interesting title reign.

As long as they avoided the Big Show, Kingston could've had some great matches with Chris Jericho and Rey Mysterio before Kane emerged with his Money in the Bank Briefcase.

#3 Cody Rhodes - 2013

The Definition of a Missed Oppportunity — The Definition of a Missed Opportunity

Even before the days of Stardust, Cody Rhodes was a wrestler many considered to be a severely underutilized talent in WWE.

The closest Rhodes came to a legitimate world championship opportunity was in his performance in the 2013 SmackDown Money in the Bank match.

In a match mostly filled with non-world champions and heels, Rhodes won fans over with his incredible performance and was fingertips away from winning the briefcase before Damien Sandow knocked him off the ladder.

With the WWE Championship and World Heavyweight Championship being unified later on that year, the company should've considered running with Rhodes as a world champion rather than relying on John Cena for another match with Randy Orton.

Orton and Rhodes showed fans that they had chemistry a few weeks after that year's SummerSlam and seeing them do a little bit more with Rhodes would've been fun to watch.

It might have cost us some of his tag team matches with Goldust, but they could've always gone back to the team in 2014.

#2 Wade Barrett - 2010

One missed step in legitimizing The Nexus

With the first Money in the Bank pay-per-view taking places weeks after The Nexus debuted, this would seem like the perfect setup to make a new star.

The Nexus was on fire during the summer and the company should've put all their effort into making the members of the group into stars - starting with the leader, Wade Barrett.

The Miz went on to win the WWE Championship Money in the Bank match, but what would've happened if Barrett and The Nexus stormed the ring laying waste to everyone at ringside while Barrett climbed the ladder to secure the briefcase.

Then Barrett uses The Nexus to stop anyone from interfering in his cash-in match as he pins Sheamus or Randy Orton to become WWE Champion.

All the WWE would need to do to make this work is have The Nexus beat Team Cena at SummerSlam and the NXT rookies could reach their potential as a stable with their leader holding the company's most important title.

#1 Jinder Mahal - 2017

Many wrestling fans held nothing but contempt for Jinder Mahal's reign as WWE Champion in 2017 and there were a lot of reasons for this.

After losing hundreds of matches and displaying no noticeable improvement outside of his physique, WWE plucked Mahal from obscurity and asked the fans to ignore his years of losses and accept him as a genuine world champion-level competitor.

WWE could've gone about elevating Mahal a lot better had they took their time and given Mahal the 2017 Money in the Bank briefcase.

With SmackDown being "The Land of Opportunity," it would make sense that a man like Mahal could reinvigorate his career and become a world champion. But that change would have to take effect over the course of months, not weeks.

Mahal could've easily secured significant wins against wrestlers like Dolph Ziggler, Sami Zayn, and others during the summer of 2017 and finally get his hands on the Money in the Bank briefcase and cash it in at SummerSlam.

Especially if it would end up being wasted on a failed cash-in by Baron Corbin that lead to no character development or interesting feuds.