5 Times Money in the Bank Changed a Superstar’s Career and 5 Times It Did Nothing for the Winner

#7 Did Nothing: Jack Swagger

Jack Swagger didn't enjoy much career progress based on Money in the Bank.

Jack Swagger tends to feel like a big missed opportunity for WWE. He was a big, athletic, powerful guy with significant amateur wrestling credentials behind him. As such, he seemed like he really could have been a top star for the company. After a largely dominant run in WWE’s ECW, Swagger moved up the more proper main roster and promptly became just another guy.

His fortunes seemed to change when he unexpectedly won the Money in the Bank briefcase at WrestleMania 26, only to successfully cash in days later. However, Swagger’s World Heavyweight Championship run would wind up completely forgettable. He never had a signature victory to his name and wound up quietly dropping the title to Rey Mysterio in a Fatal Fourway Match.

Swagger would get one more shot at a big push three years later opposite Alberto Del Rio, and come up short then, too. It’s not clear what WWE’s rationale was, but Money in the Bank, and even a successful cash in, feel like little more than footnotes to Swagger’s totally underwhelming WWE tenure.