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 Money in the Bank is a multi man ladder match that debuted at Wrestlemania 21 in 2005 as the idea of Chris Jericho in which a briefcase containing a contract for a shot at the WWE championship is suspended over the ring. There are no refs, no DQs and no rules. The man who gets the briefcase has one (1) year to cash it in and he may do so at any time he chooses without restriction. Obviously this means the holder has a huge advantage and can choose his time to strike. I decided to do this review of all MITB matches because first my work schedule changed and I have a few free hours to kill now and second the matches are all at least pretty good if only because of the train wreck appeal of them. Hopefully a match will be posted at most every three days. However I reserve the right to get bored of this and just quit. #1: Wrestlemania 21. April 3, 2005 in Los Angeles, California. Participants: Chris Jericho, Edge, Christian (with Tyson Tomko), Chris Benoit (RIP), Kane, Shelton Benjamin (RIP). This was during the Brand Split so all wrestlers are on the RAW brand. A huge slugfest in the aisle starts the match off. Kane beats up everyone but eventually the numbers take over and Benoit and Shelton take him out. Christian takes the opportunity to get a ladder but while he's pulling it in the ring through the ropes Jericho jumps on the end driving it like a see saw into his face. Shelton and Jericho pair off while JR explains the concept of the match for a third time. Edge and Benoit climb up on the apron but Jericho hits a springboard dropkick sending them down to the floor and then Jericho jumps out after them. Then Christian hits a splash onto the three of them and THEN Benjamin hits a Hilo on them AND THEN KANE jumps off the turnbuckle onto them. Kane brings out a ladder from under the ring and starts smashing people until Jericho hits a middle rope dropkick on him. Then Jericho takes over with the ladder hitting Edge and Shelton. Benoit runs in and absolutely murders Jericho with a German suplex while Jericho is still holding the ladder causing the ladder to fly out of the ring in a cool visual. Benoit sets up a ladder and starts climbing up only to get chokelsammed off by Kane. However, Benoit reverses it and drops down into the Crippler Crossface and Kane taps out to no avail. Edge drags Benoit off Kane but also gets caught in the Crossface. Benoit is just killing people in there. Kane uses the ladder like a battering ram into Benoit's head to end that. Kane repeatedly slams Benoits arm between the ladder legs but gets speared by Edge when he turns around. Edge and Christian team up and sandwich Kane between two ladders but then get hit by a springboard clothesline from Benjamin. A cool spot where Shelton hits his Dragon Whip on Christian when Edge ducks it. Edge sets up a ladder in the corner and whips Shelton into it but when he goes for a spear Shelton flapjacks him into the ladder. Crowd is now chanting Sheltons name. Shelton sets up Edge and hits an impressive looking Stinger Splash. Edge falls out and Shelton is all alone climbing the ladder and touching the briefcase. One of the flaws of these types of matches comes up where the person on the ladder has to obviously not grab the briefcase while waiting for the next segment. Jericho scales the other side and they start slugging it out. Eventually more ladders get set up and everyone but Kane is clustered underneath the briefcase chopping and punching each other. It's pretty obvious Shelton does not fit in at all as he's the only American in the group. Christian and Benoit are taken out as Christian hits a DDT/armbreaker thing from the top of the ladder down to the mat. Next goes Jericho off some simple punches and finally Shelton hits his finisher, a T-Bone suplex, on Edge off of the ladder popping the crowd huge. Christian jams a ladder into the rungs of the sole standing ladder so it forms a ramp and then gets his head rammed into by Jericho. Jericho claims up the opposite side and reaches for the briefcase but Shelton runs up the ladderramp and clotheslines Jericho off the top in a cool visual. We get a view of that bump from the birds eye camera by the briefcase, dubbed the Wile E. Coyote camera by Lawler. Shelton climbs but gets knocked off by Christian who in turn gets booted by Kane. Kane tries to chokelsam Shelton over the top rope but they gently caress it up and Shelton gets caught up in the top rope. Tyson Tomko solves that problem by running in and kicking Kane down. He sets up the ladder and helps Christian up by putting him on his shoulders. Kane recovers and takes out Tomko. Kane then tips the ladder over spilling Christian outside the ring onto Tomko. Kane has his hands on the briefcase but again has to stand up there as Jericho is late climbing up to stop him. Jericho was also at fault the first time it happened. Kane and Jericho both kind just lean to the side and tip the ladder over and take themselves out. Kane is left alone lying in the middle of the ring. Benoit, selling the hurt arm from earlier, sets up a ladder in the corner and climbs up and hits his falling headbutt and then goes into convulsions from the 16 foot drop. Benoit is bleeding from his nose and his stitches from earlier shows have also split and blood is coming from his forehead. Chris Benoit killed his wife and child in 2007. Benoit sets up a ladder and climbs it but KANE SITS UP. Kane climbs up but Benoit fends him off with a bunch of headbutts. Crowd cheers Benoits victory but Edge comes in and knocks Benoit off with a chair shot to the injured arm and claims the briefcase and becomes the inaugural MITB winner while Benoit lays on the mat and bleeds and screams. Benoit was such a good wrestler. Edge celebrates and so ends the first MITB. Any comments or suggestions are welcome whether in the thread or through PMs. Should I go on and say how the briefcase was cashed in and on whom and the result? Should there be any type of video package description? Help me help you make this better. For brevity sake, I will start using abbreviations SUAL: sets up a ladder SUALACI: and climbs it GKOTL: gets knocked off the ladder I hope people enjoyed this and it becomes a good thread. 
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Grifter posted:As a non wrestling person, where did the ladder match in general come from? As far as I know, the first ladder match was done in Stampede Wrestling up in Canada in the early 70s
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MysticalMachineGun posted:I love MITB so looking forward to more reviews. Thanks
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Jerusalem posted:I think that would be good, Edge's cash-in was pretty loving spectacular and really cemented him after years of teasing as a main event level guy. Thanks
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Cavauro posted:money in the thanks for this thread. You god drat little guy. i dont know what size you are really. hell if i know. Damned if i know Thanks?
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#2: Wrestlemania 22. April 2, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois. Participants: Matt Hardy, Shelton Benjamin (with the Intercontinental Championship), Finlay (with shillelagh), Rob Van Dam, "The Boss" Bobby Lashley, "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair. Commentators: Michael Cole (SmackDown), Tazz (SmackDown), Jerry "The King" Lawler (Raw), Jim "JR" Ross (Raw). The most obvious change for the second ever MITB is that now it has wrestlers from both brands and so logically all four commentators are working the match. For the record Flair is 57 years old in this match. Big brawl to start off as JR explains that there's no rules to the match. Lashley takes control quickly and the announcers crow about the SHEER POWER of Lashley followed seconds later by Lashley being unable to properly press Ric Flair for a slam. Shelton catches Lashley with a sweet kick to the head which takes Lashley out. Meanwhile Hardy is grabbing a ladder from the aisle way. Matt sets it on the apron and RVD dropkicks it into his stomach. He follows that up with a plancha onto Matt and the ladder in a good bump. Shelton beats Finlay down with a ladder and then drapes it across the top rope forming a ramp to the outside. He plays to the crowd for a second and then runs up the ramp and hits a senton (diving somersault) onto Hardy, RVD and Lashley. That leaves Flair and Finlay in the ring to battle it out. Flair SUALACI but he's way the gently caress out of position. Hardy scrambles up the other side and then suplexes Flair up and over to crash onto the mat. Flair screams in pain and the refs check on him and call for medical help. JR reminds us that Flair legitimately broke his back back in 1975. Flair is helped to the back while the crowd chants his name. Back in the ring, RVD drop toeholds Shelton face first onto a ladder and then goes for the Rolling Thunder but Shelton moves and RVD thuds right on the ladder. We get a replay of the suplex bump from the Wile E. Coyote cam. Meanwhile, Lashley SUALACI but only goes about halfway up the ladder and then stares at the briefcase. The announcers suspect Lashley suffers from acrophobia. Shelton runs up the opposite side and goes for a sunset flip powerbomb but Lashley hold onto the ladder. Hardy and Finlay come over and help Shelton hit the powerbomb. The spot is more about showing off the SHEER POWER of Lashley by talking about the fact it took three men to get him off (heh) but the spot probably would have been more impressive if Shelton had just hit the powerbomb in the first place. The mics manage to pick up Lashley calling Finlay a bathturd. Finlay takes out Shelton by normal means but gets pushed back into the corner by Hardy who then leans a ladder against him. The crowd chants for RVD during all this. Hardy charges across the ring but Finlay just tosses the ladder back at Hardy and catches him in a good looking spot. RVD slithers into the ring and reaches for the briefcase even though he's on his knees on the mat and it makes me laugh. Finlay takes him out and is left all alone in the ring. He starts setting up a ladder but the crowd starts WOOing and we see Ric Flair walking the aisle back down the ring. Finlay jumps out of the ring and right into a vicious chop and then gets sent into the barricade. Tazz questions the legality of Flair returning to the match which allows the other commentators to explain the rules, or lack thereof, of the match and how anything goes. Hardy and Benjamin both try to keep Flair from stylin and profilin up the ladder but he just chops the poo poo out of both of them. Shelton takes an over the top rope bump off a chop. Flair climbs up and the crowd roars but Finlay uses his shillelagh and coldcocks Flair who tumbles down. Shelton and Finlay slug it out on the ladder but Lashley uses his SHEER POWER to hit the ladder with another ladder and knock it all down. Lashley hits the Dominator on Shelton. Lashley SUALACI cautiously but RVD hits a Van Daminator off the top turnbuckle into Lashley's back. Hardy pushes RVD out of the ring and then hits a leg drop on Lashley from about 3/4 of the way up the ladder. Hardy SUALACI but Finlay scrambles up the same side. Matt turns around so they're dancing cheek to cheek (Hardy in green) and then hits a Side Effect off the ladder in a nice visual. Everyone is down so RVD takes this opportunity to climb to the very top of a ladder and splashes Finlay. It was meant to be a 5* Frogsplash but he more or less just fell off rather than jumped but I'm sure the ladder isn't the most stable of surfaces to try that move from. Crowd chants ECW. RVD climbs and almost has the briefcase but in a cool shot Shelton just jumps in from offscreen and lands opposite RVD on the ladder. He springboarded (sprungboard?) off the top rope but like I said its got a good element of surprise for the viewer. While RVD and Shelton fight, Matt SUALACI and now there's a 3-way going on. RVD pushes over the ladder holding the other two and they spill to the outside. RVD is left alone and claims the briefcase. RVD would go on to cash in his shot on John Cena at ECW One Night Stand that June and win, becoming the only man to hold both the ECW World Heavyweight Title and the WWE Title. One month later RVD, along with Sabu, would be arrested for possession of marijuana and Vicodin. He would lose both titles and be suspended for a month. RVD was charged with possession while Sabu was charged with homicide and genocide. Final Thoughts: A good match overall. It serves as a showcase for Lashley who was still new while Benjamin and Hardy have experience with these types of matches. Flair and Finlay seem like the odd men out but Flair leaving and returning later is a good moment and gets a great reaction from the crowd. The star obviously is Rob Van Dam as this match starts his push to become the top guy and its too bad his reign got cut short due to a dumb decision. Next time: a major change impacts the MITB as we know it.
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# 3: Wrestlemania 23. April 1, 2007 in Detroit, Michigan. Participants: Jeff Hardy (with Matt Hardy), King Booker (with Queen Sharmell), Finlay (with shillelagh), CM Punk (RIP), Kennedy (KENNEDY) (with mic) (RIP), Matt Hardy (with Jeff Hardy), Randy Orton, Edge. Commentators: Jim Ross (Raw), Jerry "The King" Lawler (Raw), Michael Cole (Smackdown), JBL (Smackdown), Joey Styles (ECW), Tazz (ECW). First things first: There are now 3 brands competing so we have six announcers. This also means we have 8 competitors which is a smart move in my opinion. More people means less downtime as people recover and the bumps are able to be spread around more hopefully cutting down on injury. This is the first MITB to have a returning winner (Edge) and this is the 2nd MITB for three contestants (Matt and Finlay). Kennedy, as probably the least familiar to people who aren't big into wrestling, was a guy who got over on his mic skills which were at least unique, if not actually good. His gimmick was he would repeat his last name twice. That's pretty much it but at least it was different and brought in some crowd participation. Kennedy was pegged to be a pretty big star by management but a reputation (rightfully deserved) of getting injured, being disliked by top guys, and getting caught up in the steroid scandal of the late 2000s got him released and he ended up in TNA. The complaint from top guys, such as Cena and Orton and HBK, was that Kennedy would do things "realistically", such as wiggling around during a bodyslam, which was a danger to both himself and his opponent. Kennedy's defense of this was that if wrestling was supposed to be real, it would make sense to try to fight back during these types of maneuvers. I'll let you decide who was in the right. Anyway, after injuring Cena on a hip toss, that was the last straw and Kennedy died the next year. So endeth the tale of MR Kennedy. KENNEDY Bell rings and we are underway. Everyone stands in a big circle staring at the briefcase and each other for about 10 seconds until we have a big brawl and JR explains the rules of the match. Cole clarifies that the winner can challenger for any World Title of their choosing and JR counters by reminding us that there are NO COUNTOUTS OR DISQUALIFICATIONS. We end up with Finlay jumping off the top to the outside, taking out everyone but Edge and Matt Hardy. Edge hosed Matt Hardy's girlfriend Lita and then drove him off of RAW and then out of the WWE. They tussle in-ring for a bit and spill to the outside. This allows Finlay and Orton to climb a ladder and begin trading blows (punches). They knock each other off and spill to the outside. This allows Jeff and Kennedy to climb in the ring and start fighting. They spill to the outside whilst Booker grabs a ladder from under the ring but it turns out to be a step-ladder about 3 feet high which CM Punk takes from him and starts using as a weapon. A nice bit of foreshadowing. Edge, the ULTIMATE OPPORTUNIST, takes the ladder and just throws it into Punk's head which busts him open. Everyone pairs off while Booker climbs into the ring and then people just calmly walk up to him and get spinebustered in a row, ninja-style. The ring clear and everyone down, Booker takes the opportunity to do a spinaroonie instead of trying to win the match. Edge and the Hardy Boys take down Booker and then Matt gives Edge the Side Effect. Something something Edge gives Lita the Side Effect. This leaves the Hardys and whether they're going to fight. JBL mentions that they have never been in a ladder match where they opposed each other which is an outright loving lie. They decide to beat Edge's rear end some more and set a ladder down horizontally and then drape another ladder over it. Jeff goes up top but gets jerked off (heh) by Finlay so Edge takes the opportunity to suplex Matt onto the ladders. Kennedy runs in and cleans house and set up Matt on a ladder and goes for the Kenton Bomb but Matt moves and Kennedy hits the ladder. While Kennedy writhes in pain, Jeff goes ahead and hits the Stanton Bomb on him. The Hardys each take an end of a ladder and start walloping anything that moves and then SUALACI. However, there can be only one so they start fighting it out on the ladder getting a good reaction from the crowd. Finlay pushes the ladder over and Matt and Jeff crash down to earth hardyway. Finlay clotheslines the poo poo of everyone. Finlay always had really good looking clotheslines, probably second to only Chris Benoit who murdered his wife and child in 2007. JBL uses one of his favorite phrases "lights on bright" to describe Wrestlemania. Despite all of his rear end-kicking, Finlay gets speared by Edge, much like Lita got speared by Edge repeatedly. Edge spears Orton! Edge spears Booker! Edge spears Kennedy! Edge spears Hardy! Edge spears the other Hardy! He tries to spear Punk but Punk leapfrogs and Edge hits the turnbuckle face-first. Punk and Orton have done nothing this entire match. Punk puts the ladder on his shoulders with his head coming through the rungs and starts spinning around, taking out everyone. Then, in a cool spot, Edge spears Punk knocking him backwards which in turn drives the ladder into Orton and Finlay. Edge stands triumphant and alone in the ring. He goes outside and gets a bigger ladder while the announcers giggle about how size does matter in life. Ladder looks to be about 12 feet tall or so. High enough so you wouldn't have to reach for the briefcase. Edge climbs up but gets pushed over and out of the ring by Orton who takes a face-first suplex from Jeff Hardy. Matt drapes Edge across a ladder that has been set up as a bridge between the ring and barricade and Jeff climbs up the tall ladder and just jumps right onto Edge killing himself, Edge, and the ladder. Crowd loves it and JBL berates Jeff for not winning the match when he had the chance. With all the insane bumps Jeff has taken for the last 25 years, I'm amazed he can walk. Math grinds to a halt as the refs check on Jeff and Edge and we get a replay. The EMTs come down while JBL damns Jeff Hardy to hell, STRAIGHT TO HELL, for being a human highlight reel. Both Edge and Jeff Hardy are taken away. JR, who 30 seconds ago was lamenting the possible end of these two young men's careers, notes that the match must go on and starts calling the action again. RKO for Matt Hardy! Orton stares up at the briefcase. Finlay spins him around. RKO for Finlay! Orton stares up at the briefcase. Kennedy spins him around. RKO for Kennedy! Orton finally thinks to SUALACI but Punk catches him in the back with a ladder. Punk SUALACI right next to Orton's and the commentators note how neither ladder is actually under the briefcase. Can't Measure Punk. Orton returns and RKOs Punk off the ladder in a cool spot. JBL mentions cordwood. All alone, Booker climbs the ladder but doesn't bother to put it in the correct position. Orton returns and goes for the RKO off the ladder but Booker fights back and hits a Rock Bottom off the ladder. Booker climbs again and Hardy scales the other side to fight him. Sharmell runs into the ring and pulls on Hardy's leg so he jumps down and threatens to Twist of Fate her. Booker is caight in a moral quandary between saving his wife or getting the briefcase. In a nice bit of character development, Booker jumps down to save her while JBL calls him a fool. Hardy gives Booker the Twist of Fate. Finlay runs in and pushes the ladder over and then gives Matt a Celtic Cross on the ladder. Finlay has been busted open from above the eye and the top of the head and has a pretty good amount of blood going. Finlay's hair is white so its a good color contrast. Hornswoggle, Finlay's leprechaun or midget depending on who you ask, runs in and starts climbing up the ladder while Finlay cheers him on. Kennedy kicks Finlay in the face and climbs up. He glares at Hornswoggle who slaps him twice. Kennedy no-sells and gives Hornswoggle the Pittsburgh Plunge off the ladder! Finlay nails Kennedy with a ladder and goes up but Punk hits a dropkick on the ladder and Finlay and the ladder both go down. Punk SUALACI but Kennedy runs up and they slug it out. Punk headbutts Kennedy off but then Kennedy uses the ladder as a battering ram to knock off Punk. Kennedy climbs and claims the briecase! Your winner: MR KENNEDY KENNEDY JR notes that both winners of the first 2 MITB would cash in and become champions and ponders if Kennedy will follow suit. he wont Kennedy announced he would cash in at the next Wrestlemania. However, during a match with Edge in which his MITB title shot was at stake, Kennedy was injured and was projected to be out for a while. That's the end of the MITB storyline for Kennedy. Final Thoughts: Like I said, going to 8 people was an improvement just because more bodies equals more action. This MITB had the first huge bump with the splash Jeff did to Edge but the ending of it was kind of anti-climactic. Lots of finishers like the spears and the RKOs is always a hit and I really like Booker's decision to save Sharmell as so many times heels are just out for themselves. Hornswoggle taking the big bump was cool and the Hardys are always good in matches like these.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ulob_LR-kIs A clip of Kennedy suplexing Orton and Orton obviously getting pissed off
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Aphrodite posted:He had some events mixed up. Kennedy actually wasn't fired until May 2009. He doesn't seem to have been especially punished for the Cena injury. He went into a Jeff Hardy feud, then HBK. Although I appreciate the clarification I must remind you that I am always totally correct and never make any mistakes
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#4: Wrestlemania 24. March 30, 2008 in Orlando, Florida. Participants: John Morrison (with one half of the WWE Tag Team Championship), Carlito (with an Apple), "The Gold Standard" Shelton Benjamin (RIP), CM Punk (RIP), Kennedy (KENNEDY) (RIP), MVP (with Entrance Tunnel) (with the US Championship), Chris Jericho (with the Intercontinental Championship). Commentators: Jim "JR" Ross (with still living wife) (Raw), Jerry "The King" Lawler (Raw), Jonathan "The Coach" Coachman (Smackdown), Michael Cole (Smackdown), Tazz (ECW), Joey Styles (ECW). There are 7 (seven) men in this matchup and yes, JR explained the rules during the introductions. This is at least the 2nd time for 4 men and Kennedy is the only previous winner. This is also before Jericho got his pectus excavatum. I would be remiss if I didn't complain about 3 of the titles not being defended on the show because the title holders are competing in this match. Need I remind you that THERE ARE NO RULES in this match. Coach is a terrible terrible commentator but at least he never seems to talk during this match. Bell rings and everyone dives outside to try and grab a ladder except for MVP who stays in the ring and keeps watch (tick tock IM COMIN). John Morrison, who I keep wanting to call Johnny Nitro, slides a small ladder in but gets kicked in the loving face and sent outside. Same happens to CM Punk. Ditto for Kennedy. Shelton. Carlito. While MVP celebrates, Jericho sneaks in with a regular ladder and takes MVP out who rolls the the outside. Nitro, which is the name I'm going to use for Morrison, slides in behind Jericho's back and tosses a ladder at Jericho when he turns around. During all this, everyone has congregated to a spot outside the ring and Nitro climbs the top turnbuckle and moonsaults out onto them while holding the ladder!! EVERYONE IS DOWN. Everyone but Kennedy, that is. Kennedy SUAL but before he can ACI Jericho attacks and tries the Walls of Jericho. He instead catapults Kennedy into the ladder but Kennedy adapts and begins climbing it in a nice fluid transition. Which reminds me, I need some transmission fluid. Kennedy has his hands on the case and beats off Jericho (heh) when he climbs up. Nitro has a ladder vertical while he stands on the turnbuckle and rides it to Kennedys ladder. At the same time he jumps onto Kennedy's ladder he pushes the ladder he's riding into Jericho's head, knocking him down. Nice. Nitro and Kennedy slug it out atop the ladder. Benjamin SUALACI right next to them and all three exchange punches. They hit a Tower of Doom. If you don't know what is, imagine Kennedy is trying to suplex Nitro up and over the ladder. While he does that, Shelton hops over and somersaults down the ladder while grabbing Kennedy by the hips to sunset-flip powerbomb him. So Shelton powerbombs Kennedy off the ladder which in turn brings Nitro over in the suplex. It's always a cool looking spot imo. Shelton is hurt the least so he climbs up but Carlito tips it over. However, Shelton balances on the top rope. Like the Undertaker's Old-School but he's also holding a ladder. He pushes it back into Carlito's head and then jumps from the rope to the ladder. The spot gets botched and Shelton takes an ugly ugly fall. Punk SUALACI but gets stopped by Kennedy. He fights off Kennedy and gets jumped by Shelton. Shelton tries to climb but Punk pulls him off and catches him in midair and hits the GTS. Kennedy attacks and hits a Pittsburgh Plunge on a ladder. Carlito is climbing and almost at the top but MVP runs up the other side and knocks him off. MVP goes for the Yakuza Kick on Carlito in the corner but he dodges leaving MVP caught with his foot draped on the turnbuckle. Carlito grabs a ladder and takes out MVP's knee from behind, drawing an "OOHHHH" from the crowd. All alone, Carlito ascends but Shelton cuts him off. They battle and Shelton hits the Dragon Whip. Shelton climbs and is up top when Kennedy and Carlito both grab the bottom of the ladder and ever so slowly tip it over, letting the moment stretch out and its just great. Shelton crashes through a ladder draped between the ring and barricade and he is dead. Carlito has a semi-horrified look on his face while Kennedy doesn't seem to give a poo poo. They both climb up the same side of the ladder while Jericho climbs up the other side. Jericho seems closest to the case which makes sense. He not only came up with the concept and was in the first one, he also has prior ladder match experience. He was in a really good ladder match at Royal Rumble 2001 with Chris Benoit who murdered his wife and child and then killed himself in 2007. MVP runs in and pushes the ladder over spilling all 3 (three) men to the ground and outside the ring. Funny moment as the camera is zoomed in on MVP and he turns around and a ladder just flies in from off-screen smacking him in the face. The culprit turns out to be Johnny Nitro. Nitro SUALACI but Jericho has recovered and climbs up behind him. He manages to apply the Walls while on top of the ladder so Nitro is bent over the top facing the sky. It's not really the Walls but its what the commentary team calls it so I will too. Kennedy SUALACI right next to them. RIght after I type that whole sentence Lawler calls it the Liontamer which I don't think it was ever called in WWE. Except for this instance of Lawler calling it the Liontamer during this match. Jericho releases Nitro who tumbles down and turns his attention to Kennedy. Camera is at an angle where we can see Kennedy's body shot doesn't even come close to connecting. Punk and Carlito springboard from the top rope to the ladders in a cool visual. So its Punk/Jericho on one side of the ladder and Carlito/Kennedy on the other. Kennedy hits a Flatliner on Punk from the top and Jericho pushes off Carlito who lands on his feet and runs around and hits a Backstabber from the top of the ladder. The Ultimate Backstabber. A Wrestlemania Backstabber according to JR but he says it with this weird cadence. EVERYONE IS DOWN. Everyone but MVP, that is. MVP looks around happily at the fact EVERYONE IS DOWN and climbs up. Then, to a HUGE reaction, Matt Hardy runs out of the crowd! He Twists of Fate MVP off the ladder! IIRC, this was the time Matt was a face and MVP was a heel but they had a relationship going where they didn't really like each other but tagged sometimes for some reason. MVP was profess his friendship for Matt but both he and the audience knew it was fake. So finally MVP takes out Matt with a knee injury late in 2007 so this is the first time we've seen Matt in like 4 or 5 months. I'm sure Aphrodite will be more than happy to point out any mistakes Ive made in that little recap. Really good moment for Matt and the crowd loves it and gives him a standing ovation as he leaves. Jericho manages to grab a ladder and hits some people. Then he jams the ladder between the rungs of a ladder set up in the corner so imagine two ladders forming a "V. Jericho manages to flapjack Carlito onto the ladder in the middle of the ring so now the "V" shifts over and the ladder in the corner is now vertical and Carlito is laying on the lower ladder steadying it. Morrison runs straight up the vertical ladder drawing appreciative OOHs from the crowd. Carlito and Jericho lift up the ladder on the ground, shifting the "V" back and throwing off Morrison who gets crotches on the rope and also beaning CM Punk in the head who had wandered over into the corner. I hope that all makes sense because its a really cool sequence. Jericho disentangles the ladders and SUALACI. Carlito climbs up and spits apple in his eye. Carlito, for those who don't know, had a gimmick where he was REALLY COOL. In fact, his theme music, which was only like 20 seconds long so it looped over and over on entrances like this match where there was a long ramp to walk down, started off with him saying he spit in the faces of people who don't want to be cool. Which was weird, because wouldn't everyone WANT to be cool? I mean, the argument could be made that someone wasn't actually cool and thus deserved to have apple spat at them but he specifically says people who don't want to be cool. LIke given the choice, they would refuse to be cool. Needless to say, pretty much every conversation Carlito had with anyone ended with him spitting apple in their faces. In fact, his original name was Carlito Caribbean Cool, he was just that cool. I remember in a backstage skit, Carlito had a petition on a clipboard to get Teddy Long fired form his position as GM and was talking to Batista about it. Batista declined to sign it so Carlito nods and takes a big bite of his apple and then there's a long pause as they stare at each other. Batista threatens to shove the clipboard up Carlito's rear end if he spits that apple so Carlito just swallows it. He wasn't that crude about it but that was definitely the point he was making. Batista rules. BATISTA RULES Anyway, Carlito has almost got the case until Kennedy pushes him off onto the ladder still set up in the corner. Then Punk uses a ladder like a battering ram and knocks Kennedy off THEN Jericho gives Punk a Codebreaker while Punk is still holding the ladder. Jericho almost has the case but Punk scraps his way back up and they fight. The case is swinging back and forth. Jericho headbutts Punk down but Punk pulls Jericho's leg through a rung trapping Jericho. Punk climbs up and claims the case. Your winner: CM Punk. Punk was on the ECW brand at this time and would be traded over to Raw in June. On a Raw soon after, Punk cashed in on Edge after he got his rear end whipped by Batista (Batista rules). A few months later, Punk was in a Championship Scramble match to defend but was taken out backstage before the match and forfeited the title. He wasn't actually hurt or anything that I recall so I'm not sure why it went down like that. Punk and the WWE enjoy a mutually beneficial relationship to this day. This was a really good match. Inventive and visually interesting spots, surprise returns and a face winning all add up to an enjoyable match. The only knock I can think of was the botch on Shelton's jump onto the ladder and there was the old problem of a guy at the top of the ladder having to pretend he can't just unhook the case while waiting for the nest guy. This was especially noticeable with MVP having to wait for the Matt Hardy appearance. But still, good poo poo.
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Hello friends sorry I broke my update promise after only 4 posts but I should have one up tomorrow don't stop believing in me and I'm very sorry but I'm going through 3 divorces right now 
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#5. Wrestlemania 25. April 5, 2009 in Houston, Texas. Participants: CM Punk, Mark Henry (with Tony Atlas), MVP (with US Championship) (without Entrance Tunnel), Finlay (with Hornswoggle) (with shillelagh) (with weird cheap Demolition jacket knockoff), Shelton Benjamin (with "The Gold Standard" moniker), Kofi Kingston (with fake Jamaican accent), Christian, Kane. Announcers: Michael Cole (Smackdown) Jerry "The King Lawler" (Raw) Jim "JR" Ross (Raw) Justin Roberts explains the rules to us before the entrants come out. This is, of course, the 25th Anniversary of Wrestlemania and our commentators are dressed to the nines. 6 of our 8 contestants have previous MITB experience but Punk is the only one who has won before. 4 of our 8 contestants are black. Michael Cole explains the rules to us during Kane's long walk down the ramp. Cutting down the number of announcers was probably a good move as too many people just tend to talk over each other and get in the way. Jim Ross explains the rules to us after Kane gets in the ring but before the bell rings. The bell rings. For those curious the briefcase is 20 feet above the ring and we start off with a big brawl. The ring clears and we are left with Kane and Mark Henry. Mark slowly kicks Kane. Mark slowly punches Kane in the corner. Mark slowly whips Kane to the other corner and Kofi SUALACI but Finlay tosses him out of the ring and then takes a big boot from the Big Red Machine. Kane and Mark both climb the ladder but get swarmed by the other wrestlers. Kane gets dumped. Mark gets dumped. Two ladders are set up and Shelton, Finlay, Punk, MVP and Kofi are all fighting on top. Punk is straddling two ladders up there. Kane and Mark recover and push the ladders aside sending everyone flying. JR makes a biblical reference to parting the Red Sea. Kane knocks Mark out of the ring and disposes of one ladder. JR calls the ladder a "ring." Kane ascends but Mark comes in and pushes it over hotshotting Kane on the top rope. He tosses a ladder at Finlay but misses and the ladder flies to the outside and comes pretty close to hitting the announce table which would automatically make this the best MITB match. Finlay manages to take Mark down and then suicide dives out onto Kane and Shelton. Captain Charisma hits a springboard splash onto them. Then MVP hits a Ballin Somersault onto them. THEN Kofi and Punk hit stereo suicide dives onto them. Everyone is down. Everyone but Shelton Benjamin, that is. Shelton is on the penultimate rung of a 15 foot ladder and swantons out onto the crowd but somehow the only person who seems to catch him is Kofi and maybe Punk. Everyone else does kind of a bowling pin thing where they get knocked over for no real good reason. Perhaps you've noticed Mark Henry has been absent. Well perhaps you should shut the gently caress up and Ill tell you what he's doing. He's climbing onto the top turnbuckle to dive out onto everyone else and the crowd starts buzzing. But Finlay ruins the fun by walloping Mark with the Shillelagh so he is draped over the turnbuckle and then knocking Tony Atlas off the apron when he protests. The crowd is not happy with Finlay. Hornswoggle runs in and sets up a stepladder in the corner by Mark Henry. Finlay helps Hornswoggle climb up and onto Henry's back and then hits a Tadpole Splash taking out everyone in a funny visual the crowd enjoys. And me too. Finlay hits Mark with the stepladder in the loving face and Mark falls to the floor. Finlay is all alone so he SUALACI but stops to beat down Kofi. Hornswoggle is referred to as Finlay's son. Cool spot as Finlay is between the legs of the ladder and Kofi jumps up and through the legs to dropkick Finlay. Then Kofi reaches behind and pulls the ladder down onto Finlay's head. Kofi tries to splash Finlay but gets caught by the stepladder right in the stomach. Punk enters the fray but takes a Pittsburgh Plunge on the stepladder and Finlay really gets some mileage out of that stepladder by knocking Christian and Kane down off the apron as well. Finlay climbs but Kofi hits Trouble in Paradise and knocks Finlay off the ladder. Finlay is good in these matches but where he really shines is good old fashioned hard hitting mat wrestling. He comes across as a grandpa who could really kick rear end in a bar fight. He's had some classic battles with Chris Benoit, who murdered his wife and child and then killed himself in a terrible act where everyone a few days later kind of said "yeah its not THAT surprising though" Finlay is down and Kofi takes advantage both sexually and by climbing the ladder. Mark stops that pretty quick and headbutts Kofi down. Mark is holding the ladder vertical under the briefcase but hasn't actually spread the legs (heh) so Kofi just climbs up the ladder while Mark holds it and almost gets the briefcase. Really cool spot and gets a pop from the crowd. Mark pushes the ladder down and Kofi falls into his arms and takes a Worlds Strongest Slam on the ladder. MVP attacks with a ladder and then jams it sideways so the ladder is draped across the top rope and the other end pushed into the rungs of the standing ladder. MVP beats down Mark but then he and Shelton get it on. MVP tries to suplex Shelton onto the ladder but Shelton lands on his feet and goes for a neckbreaker. MVP counters THAT and pushes Shelton into the draped ladder but Shelton COUNTERS THAT and slides under. He goes for a hurricanrana jumping off the ladder but MVP turns it into a powerbomb. MVP is almost at the top but Punk cuts him off and Christina pulls him down and takes him out. Punk and Christian fight standing on the horizontal ladder and after some counters, including Punk going for a GTS, Christian hits The Unprettier off the ladder onto the mat and both men are motionless. MVP starts to climb. At some point, a ladder on the outside was jammed into the horizontal ladder. So Shelton runs up the vertical ladder on the outside, runs across the horizontal ladder and then up the ladder in the middle of the ring and attacks MVP. Shelton goes for the sunset flip powerbomb but something Foochs up and it ends badly. I think MVP didn't time letting it go right so it just LOOKS BAD. There was a spot planned for that powerbomb though so BY GOD they are gonna do it until they get it right. They slug it out and Benjamin powerbombs MVP over the top rope onto Kofi, Mark and Tony Atlas. It looks like Tony hits the back of his head on a ladder when they fall down, like he was out of position. You'd think an Atlas would never be lost. Shelton and Finlay both climb and Shelton just slugs Finlay down and he crashes onto the horizontal ladder. Looks painful. Shelton and Christian have two ladders side by side and are at the top.They shift their weight and the ladder topples to the side and Shelton spills out over the top rope. Christian, however, balances on the rope and pushes himself back over so he stands alone on the ladder within easy grasp of the case. The crowd goes insane cheering for him. That piece of poo poo Punk springboards on the ladder and tries to persecute an innocent Christian but gets knocked down and gets his foot caught in the ladder, just like how that happening to Jericho last year allowed Punk to win. Kane comes back and hits a lovely chokeslam taking Christian down. Christian bleeding somewhat heavily from the nose. Punk untangles himself and gets goozled by Kane. Punk kicks Kane down off the ladder and grabs the case. Your winner: CM Punk. Punk becomes the first person to win two MITB matches and the only person to win back to back. Punk would cash in on Jeff Hardy at the end of the Extreme Rules PPV who had just won a ladder match against Edge. This led to Punks heel turn where he noted the crowd cheered him doing exactly this last year against a heel but now boos him when he does it against a face. This was also the feud where Jeff left shortly after and was arrested for having all the drugs in the world. Another solid match but for some reason felt less exciting. Maybe at this point the MITB concept was becoming somewhat routine or I'm watching too many in too short a period but there's a definitely something lacking. This is not to say that the matches are not worth fun to watch. Kane and Mark were in there as props mainly for the smaller guys to use and Kane seemed like a non entity for much of the match. With Kofi and Shelton in there there were some cool displays of athleticism and Finlay again is entertaining the whole time without looking like a star or overshadowing anything. Mostly though I didn't notice any spot where the person on the ladder had to move in super slow motion waiting on someone else and this can safely be attributed to the fact Chris Jericho was not in this match.
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MysticalMachineGun posted:
They can't all be homeruns, friend
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That's right my friends. My update schedule gets worse and worse but it still continues and we are all still here and there are many, many MANY more matches to recap and lets face it my death will surely happen before I get through all of them. #6. WrestleMania 26.March 28, 2010 in Phoenix, Arizona. Participants: Kofi Kingston (with fake Jamaican accent) (with controlled frenzy), MVP, Evan Bourne (with fake weed), Jack Swagger (with Kurt Angle's clothes), "The Gold Standard" Shelton Benjamin, Matt Hardy, Dolph Ziggler (with the eternal hatred of PSP), "The Chosen One" Drew McIntyre (with the Intercontinental Championship), Kane (with a black eye), Christian (with peeps). Commentators: Michael Cole, Jerry "The King" Lawler, Matt Striker. 10 (ten) men in the match this time making this our biggest MITB match yet. Shelton has been in every single MITB match and has won 0 (zero) of them. Cole mentions this is the 3rd (third) time MVP has been in this match but the closed captions reads as 1st (first) time. I'm not joking about Swagger's apparel either, it literally looks like he just got an XL version of Kurt's hoodie and ring gear. Cole says that Matt Hardy is perhaps the innovator of the ladder match which I can't even begin to understand. Striker mentions that Ziggler has the most sinister of minds of anyone in this match which is strange considering another contestant is Kane but Striker is prone to hyperbole, or to be less polite, stupid bullshit. As Kane comes down, Striker mentions that he is the only former World Champion in the match but I remember UT winning the RR in 07 and getting to choose which world title he wanted to go for and "The Boss" Bobby Lashley, then ECW Champion at the time, was one of the opponents he could have chosen from and since Matt Hardy, as well as Jack Swagger, as well as Christian, is a former ECW Champion I would think he would also qualify as a World Champion so either WWE isn't recognizing it as a World Title right now or Striker is flat-out wrong. BTW I'm probably going to use the phrase "Striker mentions" a bunch because he says a lot of hyperbolic sentences. The commentators talk up Christian's experience in ladder matches and I believe he actually has more ladder matches under his belt than Matt Hardy but for some reason he isn't given any credit for innovating the ladder match. I'd be remiss in saying that Savannah was the ring announcer and I don't remember her at all. I'd be even more remiss if I failed to mention that Savannah explained the rules during the introduction and Michael Cole wastes no time explaining the rules as the match starts. The match starts and we got a brawl! Lots of slugging it out. Cole asks what kind of strategy is best to use and Striker opines that you need to clear the ring, set up a ladder and then grab the briefcase while Lawler believes its more like a battle royal, at least until you have to use a ladder, and everyone should try to "stay healthy." The Ch-Ch-Ch-Chosen One stands alone and SUALACI but Hardy pushes him down and then he and Bourne doubleteam Drew who ends up taking a Twist of Fate. MVP also hits the Yakuza Kick and sends Drew out of the ring to drive home the point that nobody likes Eventually people get cleared out and Kane chokeslams Bourne over the top rope onto MVP and Shelton. Hardy and Swagger fight atop the ladder but Kofi throws a ladder into that ladder and they tumble down. King notes that we all see how the strategy of the match changed once the ladder came into play in an attempt to justify his dumbass "strategy" from earlier. Christian whips Hardy and Swagger into the same corner and then tosses a ladder at them THEN he monkey flips Kofi into the ladder and all three men, and the ladder, are down. Christian SUALACI but Dolph runs up the ladder and hits a Zig Zag. It actually looks kind of lovely but I'm sure in concept it looked much better backstage. Dolph's hair is more white/platinum than blonde at this point. Dolph climbs but gets jerked off (heh) by MVP. Kane goes for the chokeslam on MVP but Shelton and Kofi hit him with ladders and then all three men, in a biting commentary on race relations on the United States, ram a ladder in his tum tum. MVP and Shelton hold the ladder on Kane's stomach so its like a ramp and a chain of events needs to be described here. Kofi readies himself in the corner and begins to charge Kane as Striker mentions that Kofi is a favorite to win the match although all evidence points to the contrary. Kofi starts to run up the ladder but instead trips halfway through and falls down as Cole exclaims that this is one of the reasons why he's a favorite. Anyway, Kofi awkwardly puts himself in a hurricanrana position and Kane quickly tosses him backward onto the ladder. Kane knocks down Shelton but takes a Yakuza Kick and powders out. Shelton hits a Lie Detector (called a Paydirt) on MVP and SUALACI while Striker mentions that RAW has won the MITB match 3 out of 5 times which I choose to believe is a joke about race. Swagger rams Shelton off with a ladder and fends off Kane and MVP until Bourne hits a knee off the top rope. Swagger recovers and beats Bourne down but is standing underneath the ladder so Hardy, in an innovate maneuver, and Christian, in a trite and tired maneuver, each shove a ladder horizontally through a rung on each side and start hitting him. It looks pretty painful and about the only thing I can think of more painful would to be put in a Crippler Crossface and strangled to death which is how former WWE Champion Chris Benoit killed his son Daniel Benoit as well as his wife Nancy Benoit before committing suicide in 2007. Christian and Matt jump onto the horizontal ladders and its Bourne again jumping up the side of the vertical ladder drawing appreciative sounds from the crowd. They fight and Swagger pushes the ladder out from under Matt sending him crashing down where it hurts inside. Christian engages the killswitch but Bourne fights out. He kicks Christian down and instead of going for the case, decides to hit Air Bourne which while impressive is not staying healthy. Bourne climbs back up but Hardy catches him and helps him get over by hiptossing him off the top of the ladder in a very cool visual. Matt goes for the case but Swagger climbs up behind him. Matt kicks him in the loving face and Im sure Swagger was supposed to push him over but instead it looks like the sheer force of Matt's loving face kick propels Hardy over the ladder and he somersaults down onto the ladder on the other side. EVERYONE IS DOWN. Everyone but Shelton and MVP, that is. They both scamper up and slug it out. MVP falls but runs over and tries to powerbomb Shelton off the ladder and over the top rope but gets caught in the hurricanrana and both men go over. Kane re-emerges and hits people with a ladder and Cole wonders what dastardly deeds are on his mind but I'm more concerned with what sinister situations Dolph is pondering. Speak of the devils favorite demon, Ziggler catches Kane as he starts to climb and climbs over Kane to the top. Ziggler reaches bit Kane pushes the ladder over and Dolph hotshots himself. Kane waits for Dolph to get erect and tosses the ladder at him. Dolph ducks and the ladder flies over the top rope and the entire front row puts their hands up for protection but (un)luckily the ladder doesn't hit anyone. Kane chokeslams Dolph onto a ladder and then places Dolph between the legs ands starts slamming it down onto Dolph until it breaks. Kofi runs in and hits Trouble in Paradise. Kofi grabs the two halves of the broken ladder and sets them up in the corner. He then uses them like stilts and walks to the middle of the ring to the roar of the crowd and the delight of the announcers who commend Kofi on his ingenuousness even though this is plainly a bad way to try to win the match and Kofi had a ladder propped up on the top rope he could have used in 1/10th (one-tenth) of the time. Holy poo poo Drew McIntyre, who I forgot was in this match or even existed to be honest, tosses Kofi out of the ring and SUALACI. Drew once again has to do the bit where he obviously waits to unhook the briefcase even though he clearly can while someone climbs up to stop him. That someone turns out to be Matt Hardy who is holding his back the entire time which is either good selling or a bad back. Drew fights Hardy off so Hardy pushes the ladder and Drew gets crotched on the top rope. Hardy climbs and has to pretend he cant unhook the case while Kane and Christian set up ladders and climb. Kane goozles both but they punch out and kick Kane down. Christian hits his reverse DDT that Cole calls a Twist of Fate for some reason. Striker idly wonders who will carry the WWE into the first century. Christian ascends but Swagger climbs up and pushes the briefcase into Christian's head, knocking him off and winning the match in a pretty anti-climactic fashion. Your winner: Jumpin Jack Swagger. Swagger would cash in 5 days later on Smackdown on suit-wearing slow-talking champion Chris Jericho and become suit-wearing slow-lisping champion Jack Swagger. This gimmick change wasn't really successful for Swagger and from what I remember he lost a bunch and looked bad lol. He would lose it to Rey Mysterio at Fatal 4-Way in a fatal 4 (four) way match in June. Not one of the better matches. I wish Finlay was in this one. McIntyre, Bourne, and Swagger all felt like non-factors in the match and the spots seemed less inventive which has mostly to do with the frequency of these kinds of matches. To wow a crowd with these types of matches, a ladder must be used sparingly. Having a MITB match a year seems special but only if there are no TLC matches or regular ladder matches during the rest of the year. Hopefully WWE shows restraint with this type of match and learns that less is more. Coming up: MITB gets its own PPV later that year with 2 matches on the show!
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MysticalMachineGun posted:RIP Swagger's Soaring Eagle The soaring eagle came a few months later unless you mean to just mourn the soaring eagle regardless of whether it came during his title reign in which case I agree.
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I want to state for the record that I wrote Shelton had been in every mitb match because i trusted the announcers but they were wrong. Shelton was not in the third one. I apologize.
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#7. Money in the Bank. July 18, 2010 in Kansas City, Missouri. Participants: Kofi Kingston (with the Intercontinental Championship) (without fake Jamaican accent), Dolph Ziggler, Christian (with peeps), "Dashing" Cody Rhodes (with mirror), Matt Hardy, "The Chosen One" Drew McIntyre, Kane (with the search for who attacked his brother The Undertaker and put him into a vegetative state), Well Its The Big Show (with a big smile on his face). Commentators: Michael Cole, Jerry "The King" Lawler, Matt Striker. Yes my friends, MITB now has its own PPV! Instead of being a once yearly spectacle to add to the grandeur of Wrestlemania, WWE must have figured more people would buy a middling summer PPV if they were promised 2 MITB matches on it and you know what they were probably right but I'm not gonna bother to look up buy rates comparing MITB to whatever the previous PPV was, probably Judgment Day or Fallback or Paydirt or something who fuckin cares. I would be remiss if I didn't point out that Tony Chimel explained the rules to us as he announced the competitors and I would be even remisser if Michael Cole didn't explain the stipulation to us about 10 (ten) seconds after Chimel finished. They must have read my recap written days ago of a match they commentated live 7 (seven) years ago because now Striker compliments Christian as being a pioneer of the ladder match when they said nothing of the sort at Wrestlemania. The announcers ponder whether Cody will sacrifice his beautiful beautiful face to win the briefcase, or the briefface to save time. This is Kofi's 3rd (third) and Matt, Kane and Christian's 4th (fourth) MITB match. Once all the contestants are in the ring, Cole decides to go over the rules one more time. This is the Smackdown match and it opens the show. Big brawl to start off and Kane and Big Show are the targets for everyone else. Only CoRho decides to grab a ladder and start climbing while everyone is distracted. The big guys easily dispose of the little ones and then each smack the poo poo out of CoRho. With all the vanilla (and 1 (one) chocolate) midget down, the crowd gets to see what they paid for, Big Show and Kane slugging it out. PUNCH! PUNCH! SHOULDERBLOCK! As the biggest and therefore the best wrestler, Show takes control but the very first rung breaks when he steps on it and his look of frustration is pretty good. Show hits a rung in annoyance and that rung also breaks off in his hand. Show tosses it aside and shakes his head. I've always thought Show was good at character work and is one of the more personable people in-ring which is somewhat of a backhanded compliment as most of the wrestlers show a lot more charisma when they're not being constrained by the live WWE TV productions. Also Show takes every opportunity to poo poo on WWE Creative in shoot interviews so he's OK by me. ANYWAY, Show gives up on the ladder as everyone runs in and he takes them all down with chops and headbutts and tosses a ladder over the rope at Kane. He gets swarmed on the outside again and everyone pushes him into the STEEL steps and he hurts his knee. Another brawl and McIntyre ends up on control after slingshotting Christian into a ladder. He SUALACI but Matt catches him with a ladder to the back and sends him outside. Christian runs in and they brawl to the outside. CoRho takes the opportunity to scramble up but gets stopped and taken out by Kofi. Kofi climbs up but gets jerked off (heh) by Ziggler. Dolph comes dangerously close to winning until Christian cuts him off. The announcers mention the case is 20 (twenty) feet above the ring as Christian hiptosses Ziggler off the ladder Matt enters the fray (good band) again and brings Christian down(ward spiral) to the ground. They battle until Kofi and CoRho charge in and Kofi ends up taking a Side Effect and CoRho takes a reverse DDT. Kane goozles both but gets kicked and takes a double DDT. Cole points out how MITB veterans Christian and Hardy have taken control but says nothing about how MITB veterans Kofi and Kane have not taken control. Kane gets erect and Christian and Matt sandwich him between two ladders and Kane powders out. Dueling ladders but Matt ends up getting flapjacked onto a ladder. Christian pushes that piece of garbage Matt Hardy out of the ring and SUALACI but CoRho pushes the ladder over and Christian flies out onto Big Show who had finally gotten up and sends him back down. Kane staggers into the ring and takes a Beautiful Disaster then a Trouble in Paradise and THEN a Twist of Fate. EVERYONE IS DOWN. Everyone but Kofi Kingston, that is. Kofi sets up an 8 (eight)-foot ladder which will not work but takes a backdrop suplex from Rhodes. Rhodes and Hardy climb the same wrong ladder and slug it out. McIntyre, the Sinister Scotsman (taking the sinister attribute away from Ziggler I guess) pushes them down and climbs up and also beats down Ziggler when he comes in to argue about how HE's the sinister one in this match and McIntyre better give it back right away. Kane drags Drew outside and kicks him in the loving face. He brings a ladder to ringside but Kofi dropkicks it into his face. Drew is taking a breather on the announce table and Kofi nails him with Trouble in Paradise. The crowd cheers as Kofi looks at a ladder next to the table. Kofi ascends and hits the Boom Drop on Drew through the table!! Lawler says that Drew's head has been crushed. RIP Drew McIntyre. Actually the next shot shows Drew's head and it appears to be uncrushed. UnRIP Drew McIntyre. Dolph is all alone in the ring and has hands on the case but just can't seem to unhook it. Show comes in and pushes the ladder out from underneath Dolph and catches him in the goozle on the way down and hits a NICE chokeslam. He turns around and walks into Kane who tries his own chokeslam but Show fights out and sandwiches Kane in the corner with a ladder and then splashes the ladder. Matt and Christian bash Show with a ladder in the back but when he turns around and they try again he overpowers them down so they are on the mat with the ladder on their chests. Show splashes them. Matt and Christian write around in agony on the floor which vaguely reminds me of something. What is it? Oh yeah I remember, it is probably similar to how Daniel and Nancy Benoit acted when they were being brutally murdered by Chris Benoit in 2007 at their home in Fayetteville, Georgia. The crowd likes the big splash and cheers on Big Show. Show goes outside and grabs something under the ring. Its his own specially designed structurally reinforced ladder which weighs 350 (three hundred and fifty) pounds. Its also gold. Show spends about a minute dragging it out from under the ring and trying to get it inside the ropes. The crowd good naturedly laughs at his difficulties and then cheers him on to his eventual success  . Show, finally ready to climb, sets on one foot on the ladder and then gets clipped from behind with a ladder by Rhodes. The announcers mention how Show has a knee brace on as well as having been injured by Jack Swagger's anklelock recently. CoRho climbs and it really is a giant loving ladder. Dolph attacks and hits Cody with an electric chair drop, but not from off the ladder. Cody's head appears to have hit a ladder when he landed. The announcers remind us that the briefcase has been cashed in 6 (six) times and 6 (six) times there's been a new champion.Show catches Dolph on the ladder and with his FRYING-PAN-LIKE hand, chops Dolph off the ladder. He also takes out Hardy but keeps stopping to check on his injured ankle/foot/leg. MEANWHILE, Kofi springboards onto the ladder on the opposite side of Big Show. Show comes over and pulls Kofi off but Kofi turns into it into a mid-air DDT and Show is down. Kofi climbs up but Rhodes hits him with a missile dropkick. Rhodes drags Kofi over to a prone ladder and hits the CrossRhodes but appears to hit his head AGAIN on the ladder when he lands. Rhodes is sacrificing his head to win this match. Rhodes climbs but Dolph runs in and jumps at Rhodes but totally whiffs. He recovers and drags Cody down and the hits the ZigZag, driving Cody backwards into the ladder. Cody appears to hit his head for a 3rd (THIRD) TIME on the ladder. Show is back up and clears the ring and slowly, gingerly, climbs up again. A few rungs up and Kane runs in and tips the ladder over and Show goes over the top rope to the outside. Its a good bump but less impressive than it sounds because Show hits the mat and momentum takes him up and over the rope, he doesn't fly over the top rope. Everyone buries Big Show under about 8 ladders or so. Show's ladder remains and everyone but Dolph and Drew try to climb it. Kane hits the chokeslams on Christian and Matt that he wanted earlier and clears out Kofi and Cody. Kane is almost up when Dolph climbs up OVER Kane and reaches for the case. Kane battles back and Dolph switches to his "patented" sleeper hold while still on the ladder. Kane rams his (Dolph) head into the ladder and they both tumble down. Kane tosses Dolph over the top rope but he lands on the apron so Kane just pushes him (Dolph) backwards and he lands right on Big Show and his ladders. Kane is all alone. Kane was all alone but gets dragged out by Cody and Kofi. He easily beats them both down and drags Kofi over to Show and Dolph and the ladders, which is also the name of my new sitcom Im trying to sell. He chokeslams Kofi onto the pile and turns his attention to Cody. Cody tries to run away but Kane chases him down and lawn darts him into an armored truck parked next to the ramp. Kane runs back into the ring just in time to stop Christian and Matt from climbing the ladder but they team up and powerbomb him off the ladder down to the mat. Both men climb and Striker stops playing favorites and calls both men pioneers of the ladder match. They both get hands on the case and tussle over it, each seconds away from victory. They spend a good 30 (thirty) seconds on top of the ladder fighting while holding the case. Holy poo poo Drew McIntyre, who I forgot was in this match or even existed to be honest, re-emerges and slowly climbs up. He has hands on the case but Kane goes up and chokeslams him off the ladder. Its more of a light push and pretty anti-climactic (but enough about my sex life) but it allows Kane to unhook the briefcase. You winner: Kane. Kane would cash in later that night on Rey Mysterio after Rey beat the previous MITB winner, Jumpin Jack Swagger. He would then go on to give the people what they wanted, what they needed, 3 (three) lovely PPV matches in a terrible but good feud with his brother The Undertaker. As I said in the introductions, Kane was searching for his brother's unknown attacker who had put the Undertaker in an unresponsive coma. That person would turn out to be Kane. Good match this time. Show brought in some comedy with his ladder spots and I liked the burial of ladders and Dolph and Kofi's spots on top of them. Everyone had a chance to look good except for maybe Drew and Cody was sort of forgettable but Kane/Christian/Matt seemed to control the flow of the match and while it wasn't mindblowing it was entertaining. oldpainless fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Jul 20, 2017 |
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Kane UT was, I think, awarded worst feud of the year but it's the only time Kane beat UT clean and had the return of Paul bearer to the undertakers side who he then betrayed at the next ppv probsbly because UT buried him alive in concrete in 2004 and then at SurSer the Nexus helped Kane bury the undertaker alive and it was never brought up again and when Kane was asked years later about what the angle with nexus was leading to he was like lol I dunno
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KungFu Grip posted:i dont remember, was the raw one better? i'm assuming no Stay tuned and we just might find out! 😙
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#8. Money in the Bank. July 18, 2010 in Kansas City, Missouri. Participants: Randy Orton, The Miz (with the United States Championship), Mark Henry, Ted Dibiase (with Maryse and the Million Dollar Belt), Johnny Nitro (with slo-mo entrance), Chris Jericho, Evan Bourne (with certificate for graduating from the 6th (sixth) grade), Edge. Commentators: Michael Cole, Jerry "The King" Lawler, Matt Stryker. The RAW MITB match is up next and lets see how it compares. This is the first MITB match for Miz and Dibiase. For those unaware, Ted Dibiase is the son of the REAL Ted Dibiase, the Million Dollar Man. However, apparently Vince Mcmahon hates people being called "Junior", just like Indiana Jones, so he's just Ted Dibiase. In an effort to make sure people knew he wasn't some Junior and was different from his old man, WWE proceeded to give him the Million Dollar Belt and brought back Virgil to act as his bodyguard exactly as his old man's gimmick was. Shockingly, SHOCKINGLY, Teddy Junior or "TJ" as he is now named failed to get over with this gimmick. He was soon repackaged and had The Dibiase Posse which I believe was mainly him tailgating with fans until he quit in 2013. This is the kind of information I would put in the ending paragraph talking about the winner of the match so I hope I'm not spoiling anything when I say TJ doesn't win. There is no on-screen relationship between Miz and Maryse and I don't know about their personal lives at this point either. I would be remiss if I didn't point out Michael Cole explains the rules to us before the participants come down the ramp. Edge slides a ladder into the ring before he enters. Lets start the match! The bell rings and Edge immediately ducks out. Everyone eyes the ladder suspiciously. Everyone eyes each other suspiciously. Each other eyes everyone suspiciously. The ladder eyes everyone suspiciously. Mark Henry steps on the ladder to keep it from being used and is ganged up on. He uses the headbutt on Bourne. He headbutts Orton. Nitro takes a headbutt. The headbutt is utilized alot by Mark Henry is what Im trying to say here. Due to frenetic camerawork, its hard to keep track of everything but Mark ends up in the corner on the mat. Stryker believes Henry with his "decade of effort" has a strong chance at winning despite Edge and Jericho also having a decade of effort and much more experience in ladder matches and also inventing the match and also actually winning 2 suitcases and cashing them in previously. Everyone spills to the outside which lets the ULTIMATE OPPORTUNIST Edge SUALACI but Orton catches him and tosses him to the outside. He mounts Edge (heh) and rains down blows. In-ring, Nitro and TJ tussle. Nitro charges the ropes but Dibiase follows him in so when Nitro rebounds Dibiase is behind him and clotheslines him down onto the ladder. Its a nice spot and 1 (one) I always enjoy. TJ knocks Orton off the apron with a ladder but Bourne dropkicks the ladder into his chest. Miz attacks Bourne from behind and tosses him out. Miz and Jericho start battling but Henry tosses a ladder at the both of them and they're down. Cole and Lawler start cracking on Striker who remains silent. Henry hits his jump through the ropes manuever on Miz. Mark takes the (ultimate) opportunity to celebrate and takes a ladder to the head from Jericho. Henry is wearing a bright red body suit and its just like the most unflattering thing ever. In-ring, its Bourne again with an enziguri on Jericho and he SUALACI. He gets stopped by Edge, who not only is the ULTIMATE OPPORTUNIST but is also a MASTER PSYCHOLOGIST, but Bourne kicks him to the outside. Orton comes in and beats Bourne badly. He hits his middle rope DDT but does it off the ladder instead which I assume looked good. I have to assume that because the camera decided to zoom in on Randy's face when he was setting it up and then Orton drops out of view for a split second and the new camera angle shows us we missed the whole goddamn thing jesus loving christ are you making GBS threads me. Nitro, called Morrison for some reason by the announcers, charges in and catches Randy with a flash kick right in the loving face. NItro stumbles into a ladder knocking it down and seems a little out of sorts which Striker attributes to X-factors, so yo thats what we're dealing with. TJ comes back in and assaults Nitro and is soon helped by Nitro's former tag team partner The Miz. They drape a ladder horizontally across the middle rope in the corner and whip Nitro in but he slides to stop his momentum and Miz gets flapjacked onto the ladder. TJ takes a drop toehold into the ladder. NItro SUALACI but its off the side for some reason which the announcers wonder about. Striker opines that because the case swings, Nitro put it there so the case will swing directly into his sexy sexy hands which Cole rightfully calls pretty stupid. Edge runs up the ladder and they fight. Jericho SUALACI during this and is soon joined by Orton. All 4 (four) men slug it out until Mark Henry comes over and stands between the ladders and pushes them down. Stryker calls him Hercules while Cole says he's parting the sea but I would have gone with a reference to Samson in the Book of Judges as he pushed down the pillars in the temple of Dagon, killing both himself and 3,000 Philistines. Speaking of killing and murdering, Samson would probably have a lot to talk about with Chris Benoit, a man who murdered his wife and his son before killing himself and putting a Bible by his sons corpse. Did you know that the Bible Benoit used was actually opened to the Book of Judges and the chapters concerning Samson? I mean, I just made that up but can you imagine if it was true?! Couldn't you just die? Anyway, Mark staggers around the ring and Bourne rides a ladder from the top rope and knees him in the loving face before rolling to the outside. EVERYONE IS DOWN. Everyone but Maryse, that is. After checking on that loser TJ, Maryse decides, like Thanos, to do it herself. She's close to the case before NItro grabs her and tells her to leave. With his back turned, TJ sneaks up the ladder behind Nitro but sneezes loudly, drawing Nitro's attention back. Nitro and TJ scrabble with Nitro getting the upper hand before Miz attacks on the outside with a ladder. He then braces the ladder up against the post, still on the outside. He tries to slingshot Nitro into the ladder but Nitro spidermans onto the ladder and up it. Then he rides a ladder placed against the post but on the in-side of the ring over to a ladder in the middle of the ring to meet Edge who has been trying to get the case with everyone either down or fighting on the outside. Edge jumps off and pulls Nitro through the rungs so he's caught horizontally. Miz runs in and together they each grab an end of a ladder and start bringing it down onto Morrison's chest. Edge then pushes the ladder into Miz's face, drawing a pop from the crowd. Then he pushes the ladder, with Morrison still stretched across the middle, over drawing another pop. Edge SUAL but TJ catches him in the gut with another ladder. TJ cleans house on Edge, Orton and Jericho and the ring ends up with Edge's ladder under the case, a ladder next to that one but upside down so its like a V, and then a third ladder locked into the upside down ladder at a 45 (forty-five) degree Kurt Angle. TJ climbs up but jumps into Mark Henry's waiting arms and takes the World's Strongest Slam from the World's Strongest Man. Mark kicks a ladder into Jericho's face so Jericho is prone with the ladder across him. Mark presses Miz onto Jericho's ladder. Mark starts to climb but Bourne jumps on his back with a sleeper so Mark just climbs with Bourne on his back applying a sleeper. Team Rated RKO start attacking Henry which allows Bourne to scramble up the ladder and try for the case. After disposing of Henry, Orton and Edge press Bourne outside onto Henry who catches him and hits yet another World's Strongest Slam. When Henry stands up, Nitro is there to hit a flash kick in his loving face off of the apron. As Henry is dazed, Jericho hits the Codebreaker. As Henry is even more dazed, he turns around into a spear from Edge. Everyone left standing starts climbing up the ladders described earlier and fighting it out. TJ slides another ladder in opposite the upside down ladder forming a bridge from the top rope to the main ladder. Dibiase gets beaten down and laid across the bridge and then they just push the bridge back out over the top rope and TJ crashes to the floor. Cool spot but it could have been ugly. Crowd likes it though. RKO for Edge! Jericho kicks Orton to the outside and its Nitro and Jericho battling on the ladder. Jericho gets knocked down and gets his feet tangled in the rungs and dangles helplessly which, if you've been reading the thread, is a familiar position for him. Orton is back in and pulls Nitro off the ladder and hits an RKO but when Orton lands on the mat Bourne is there and hits him with a Shooting Star Press in a really sweet little spot. This is a receipt from Monday Night RAW where Bourne tried a SSP but Orton countered it into an RKO at the last second. Crowd goes crazy. Bourne climbs and Jericho is still stuck in the ladder. The old annoying spot where Bourne pretends he can't unhook the briefcase for 20 (twenty) seconds comes back because Jericho takes a while to unfuck himself but unfuck himself he does and interrupts Bourne. Jericho slams the case into Bourne's head and Bourne is down and out. Edge clambers up and E&C battle. Edge rams Jericho's head into the ladder and Jericho drops a few steps and leans to the side and right into an RKO from Orton. Orton pushes Edge off and the crowd is going crazy for Randy. He's got hands on the case until Miz pushes the ladder out from under him. Orton is down and Miz is up and claims the case. Your winner: Mike "The Miz" Mizanin If you weren't watching around this point, you need to know that WWE was really pushing Miz hard during 2010. He got mic time and segments and backstage parts on pretty much every TV show and PPV. He was a double champion and Mr MITB. If you watched WWE around this time, you were gonna see the Miz a good amount and many people were good with that. Miz would go on to cash in on Randy Orton in November and would look like a weak chickenshit at every opportunity, needing help from Alex Riley and even Michael Cole to defeat anyone including Jerry Lawler during a match on RAW. This was also during the phase of Michael Cole being over the top annoying in his lavish praise of Miz and the much-hated Heel Cole phase. He would be almost a non-factor in his own Wrestlemania main event, taking backseat to John Cena and The Rock as they received all the attention. In February, one month before main-eventing Wrestlemania against John Cena with special guest host The Rock, Miz would wrestle commentator Jerry Lawler. Why they would commit so much time and resources in building and pushing Miz only to make him look like poo poo once he actually became the champ remains unknown to this day. However, people seemed to like his Wrestlemania entrance and video.
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To me, it's not about match quality at that point. It's about a guy you presumably want to make a main eventer being a month away from defending the title in the main event st what's supposed to be the biggest wrestlemania ever and he's feuding with a retired 60 year old commentator.
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