WWE: Seth Rollins owns Money in the Bank Pay-Per-Views

From year to year, Seth Rollins’ best performances in WWE have come at the Money in the Bank PPV. Let’s break each match down bit by bit.

Some WWE Superstars have signature PPVs. A place where every year, they bring their A game like nobody’s business and steal the show. The Undertaker owned WrestleMania. Bret Hart owned Survivor Series. An argument can be made for Seth Rollins being the current undisputed king of Money in the Bank.

It all started at the 2013 show, where Seth Rollins technically wasn’t even on the main card. Him and the other half of the Tag Team Championships, Roman Reigns, were on the pre-show against The Usos.

It was clear that all parties involved were determined to make WWE regret ever putting them on the Kickoff Show. In fact, as Rollins reflected on the match earlier this year in a tweet, he confirmed that all four of them had “a chip on [their] shoulder” for getting the pre-show spot.

What followed was what was not only the best match of the night, but a match that still gets praised as one of the best tag team matches that WWE has aired in the past decade. “Don’t think I’ve been on a kickoff since,” Rollins added in the same tweet. And rightfully so.

Rollins’ MITB hot streak continued the following year. This time by breaking out as a singles star in his first post-Shield match, which was the match of the same name where he won his coveted briefcase. It was a performance where Rollins gave us just a taste of his bright future.

The year after, he entered the show in the main event and as WWE Champion, revisiting the same Ladder Match contest by defending against the artist formerly known as Dean Ambrose. While the ending of the match was questionable (on a night of several questionable quote-on-quote Dusty finishes) with mixed reactions, Moxley and Rollins’ chemistry was strong enough to still produce a very good main event.

The next 2016 event showcased Rollins’ biggest challenge to date. In his first PPV back from injury after being on the shelf since the following November, he had the main event spot again. This time against his ex-tag team partner who he had a chip on his shoulder with three years prior: then-WWE Champion Roman Reigns.

The lights were on bright and the pressure was on. Everyone wanted to see if Rollins still had it in him to produce an instant classic. Despite not wrestling a big match like this in eight months, Rollins showed no ring rust at all. Together, Reigns and Rollins had one of the best matches of either man’s career.

Even better, Rollins captured his second WWE Championship of his career thus far, even though he only held it for a couple minutes before the afformentioned Ambrose cashed in Money in the Bank. But seeing all three former Shield members become World Champion in the same night back to back made for a wonderful moment in itself.

Rollins missed the 2017 event, but came back in 2018 to really showcase just how high his ability is by helping Elias deliver the best match of the latter’s career. It’s still the best match on Elias’ resume thus far.

The past back to back years in 2019 and 2020 have seen Rollins give us two Match of the Year candidates (2019 being my personal favorite from last year). 2019 in a successful Universal Championship match against AJ Styles.

And last night, he produced a special kind of magic with Drew McIntyre. On the surface for Rollins, it was a failed attempt to capture a third WWE Championship. But beyond that, especially thanks to a post-match handshake, it was an official passing of the torch for McIntyre to become the new leading flagbearer of Monday Night Raw.

Rollins was the perfect first PPV challenger for McIntyre as it gives The Scottish Psychopath a great first title defense to put on his resume, kicking this reign off in style.

Whatever it is about the Money in the Bank PPV, it has allowed Rollins time and time again to deliver some of the very best performances of his career, and last night was no exception.