Money in the Bank 2019 - 5 Things we learned at Money in the Bank

WWE really didn't want to create a new star from the men's ladder match

Every performer gave their best in the men's ladder match.

Prior to Money in the Bank, a rumor emerged from WrestleVotes which revealed that WWE felt that they had botched the men's winner over the past two years. Because of that, they really wanted to make a star out of this year's winner. With the field set on the Raw before the PPV, any number of men could have been that new star.

Andrade had been having great matches nightly while Ricochet and Ali took the term 'show-stealing' to new heights with their exciting, high-flying moves in every one of their matches. Sami Zayn had been doing great heel work since his return to the WWE, but he was quickly eliminated from the match before it even happened. Darn you, Braun Strowman!

Finn Balor took a lot of tough bumps onto ladders while Baron Corbin and Drew McIntyre did a lot of the literal heavy lifting of throwing superstars around. Even Randy Orton looked like a different man at times during the match. But all that was thrown out the window once 'The Beast' returned and retrieved the briefcase. It was not a welcome surprise and it might cause the ratings to continually plummet.

The exact problem of not creating new stars was WWE's own fault for either picking the wrong superstar to win the briefcase over the past two years or not pushing people (Rusev) at the right time.

Having someone like Bray Wyatt constantly lose most of his feuds didn't help either. Things could become clearer over the course of this week, but on the initial surface, it was a huge missed opportunity to truly give a deserving superstar the push forward.