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

#2 Career Changing: The Miz

The Miz's career changed when he took the WWE Championship off Randy Orton.

Over the first years of The Miz’s WWE tenure, something remarkable happened. The former reality TV star whom no one took all that seriously paved a way for himself as one of the best talkers of his era and a reasonable worker. He got over, particularly in tag teams with John Morrison and then The Big Show, until winning Money in the Bank felt reasonable for him.

And yet the question loomed—would WWE actually go all the way with him winning a world title? Despite his progress, especially in 2010 when he won the briefcase, Miz still didn’t feel like the kind of talent anyone could buy pinning a world champion. Money in the Bank offered the perfect set up for him to do just that, taking the title off of Randy Orton on an episode of Monday Night Raw.

The world title reign to follow, which included winning a WrestleMania main event, set up Miz as a surefire Hall of Fame guy. His road was rocky in the years to follow, but there’s a legitimate case to be made that Money in the Bank in 2010 set up the foundation for Miz’s sustained success from 2016 to the present.