WWE Money in the Bank: Top 10 Greatest MITB Winners Of All Time
By Mark Justice
WWE Money In The Bank 2020 will take place on May 10 at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT live on the WWE Network with the kickoff show beginning at 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT.
The following will rank and analyze the top 10 greatest WWE Money in the Bank winners of all time, based on the shock value, memorability, and booking quality of their historic MITB Ladder Match victory and MITB cash-in.
Money in the Bank! Like WrestleMania and Royal Rumble, this PPV had plenty of memorable moments in WWE history. Thanks to the many illustrious MITB Briefcase holders of the past, it is quite difficult yet plausible to impartially rank the greatest MITB winners of all time.
Some of these MITB Briefcase holders not only had memorable ladder match victories and cash-ins but also made the MITB Briefcase itself prestigious while holding it. When a superstar can make a MITB Briefcase prestigious, it is a promising sign that superstar can make a main card championship prestigious.
If it wasn’t for AEW’s Chris Jericho, WWE’s MITB concept would not exist (fourth wall broken), despite the fact that the MITB concept has changed for this year’s MITB PPV.
With WWE MITB 2020 approaching this Sunday, let’s reminisce and impartially rank the top ten greatest MITB Winners of all time (2005-present), based on shock value, memorability, and booking quality.
Honorable Mention: Brock Lesnar
Even though he was not originally scheduled for the ladder match, Brock Lesnar won the MITB Briefcase in 2019 and cashed in one month later at WWE Extreme Rules 2019 to retrieve the Universal Championship from Seth Rollins.
For the duration of that month, DJ Brock Lesnar was having a Brock Party by turning the MITB Briefcase into a boombox. Using the MITB Briefcase as a boombox was quite goofy, creative, and entertaining, especially for a superstar as serious and intimidating as Brock Lesnar.
Although Brock Lesnar did not need to win the briefcase, he made MITB memorable by eliciting heel heat with his unnecessary and vexatious victory, adding entertainment value to the product with his boombox dances, and later pushing Rollins as a formidable Universal Champion at WWE SummerSlam 2019.
Shock Value: 2.5 Stars (C-)
Memorability: 2.5 Stars (C-)
Booking Quality: 2.5 Stars (C-)