Money in the Bank - 2020 Ladder Match
Added 2024-10-29 19:00:07 +0000 UTCWatch: https://streamable.com/rafkcp
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I think some people remember this MITB unfavorably for a few reasons, but honestly I loved the choice to go wild and silly with it instead of doing crazy ladder spots to no crowd in an empty arena to either silence or canned applause. As a compromise of it's time, I love the direction of this match, regardless of the booking of the winners
G_Rez
2025-02-13 19:22:56 +0000 UTCAfter Wrestlemania 36 it all went down hill for Shayna
WWE Jay Gaming
2024-10-30 15:53:26 +0000 UTCWhich they just never explained on the show. It wasn’t until the next Raw where Michael Cole said they landed on a smaller roof underneath the one they were on.
Steamed Ham Champion Dillon Haggett
2024-10-30 15:52:54 +0000 UTCI still think Shayna had some potential to be put back on the right track. If she had won this match I think her aura could have been recaptured. Really she should have beat Becky at Mania 36. I really gave up any hope that they’d do anything with her when they put her with Jax after this show.
Steamed Ham Champion Dillon Haggett
2024-10-30 15:51:57 +0000 UTCFirefly Funhouse Match was also great.
Steamed Ham Champion Dillon Haggett
2024-10-30 15:50:37 +0000 UTCAh it’s funny that Josh accidentally called Otis winning within thirty seconds of him showing up. Shayna was still cool at this time. I remember thinking she should have won the women’s MITB and Aleister Black or AJ should have won the men’s. Also, Aleister Black and Andrade were the reason I wanted to grow my hair long and have the sides and back shaved bald like they did. Dana Brooke was at Bound For Glory. She’s Ash by Elegance now. Guy in the white suit was Bruce Prichard dressed as his Brother Love character. Brother Love was actually Undertakers original manager before Taker joined up with Paul Bearer. Brother Love fucking sucked though. Stephanie’s cameo was clearly filmed in a completely different location and added in lol. They didn’t even try to make it fit. AJ stopping when he saw Undertaker was because this happened right after the Boneyard Match between them at WrestleMania. I remember when this happened thinking the bit in Vince’s office was really funny but woo boy, recent events makes that a lot less funny. Just so you guys know, Bryan won the briefcase in 2011 and Corbin won it in 2017.
Steamed Ham Champion Dillon Haggett
2024-10-30 15:39:15 +0000 UTCI assume you really meant to say that the best cinematic match of all time was The Greatest Match Ever. 😉
aloneinabox
2024-10-30 09:08:16 +0000 UTCI think there's always a place for this kind of silliness in wrestling. If the whole show was full of it, then I might start getting tired of it. In small amounts though they can be a lot of fun. Could totally understand why one might not be into it though if it breaks your immersion.
aloneinabox
2024-10-30 09:07:37 +0000 UTCI'm one of the few people who feel more fondly of this match. I think the concept is a lot better than a lot of people give it credit for and it was pulled off fairly well. It was early pandemic wrestling and WWE was trying new things to see what would work. There are plenty of things that don't work (random cameos that don't age well at all, the end of the men's portion) but I commend them for trying to do something different. Honestly, I don't know if I would rather this than what it would have been if they just did a normal MITB event, which would have been good ladder matches performed in front of a mostly empty building. I rarely ever go back to pandemic era wrestling because it just feels very dystopian and strange to me but the cinematic matches like this and the ones at Wrestlemania 36 are much easier to go back to in my experience.
Zakk219
2024-10-30 08:55:06 +0000 UTCI'm glad you did! It was cool to see the way they approached the pandemic era stuff
Dport
2024-10-30 04:00:28 +0000 UTCIve been waiting for this day for so long. I suggested this match as kind of a break from all the great matches that people have suggested. I obviously liked the match for what it was. I went into it knowing it would be exactly what it was and basically threw all the standards and everything that I want my wrestling to be out the window and just accept the off the wall creativity during a time where we all needed a laugh and some good old fashioned fun in a way no one could have ever predicted. I feel like I've gotten to know you a little bit from your videos and out of all the great matches on my list to suggest, this one quickly made it to the top because I wanted to bring something different as a change of pace and also because I had a feeling you, too, would enjoy it the same way I did. And your comments during the watch along that ultimately became true by the end, made the watch along even better.
Daniel Carpio
2024-10-30 02:15:05 +0000 UTCAbsolutely. That Boneyard match was peak. It wasn't a goofy gimmick either, it was a street fight/buried alive mixture of a match with a cinematic flare and they did it well.
Johnny Williams
2024-10-30 01:52:16 +0000 UTCI absolutely love this match. It was so much fun during what was a dark time for many of us
Drew Or Die
2024-10-29 23:49:34 +0000 UTCOh, and Dana Brooke is in TNA as Ash by Elegance now, so you saw her recently.
Adam Nelson
2024-10-29 21:54:17 +0000 UTCThe music and shots in this hurt my brain lol. I forgot. RIP black and mysterio ofc
Diruroru
2024-10-29 21:26:55 +0000 UTCI respect what they were trying to do here. I don't think it completely worked out, but it was early enough in the pandemic era that they were still trying to figure stuff out. This was recorded a month before the PPV aired. The rest of the matches were live at the Performance Center in Orlando with no audience.
Adam Nelson
2024-10-29 21:26:34 +0000 UTCI think this match rocks lol, definitely my favorite cinematic match WWE did during this time. So stupid and nonsensical in the best of ways, was laughing the whole way through the first time I watched it.
Lucas Biersack
2024-10-29 21:13:05 +0000 UTCI'm surprised they never added it in a game
Christopher Barnes
2024-10-29 21:04:56 +0000 UTCIf there ever was an example of why I’m glad I wasn’t watching wrestling after like the age of 12 and then picked it up again recently this is it. This ain’t the kind of thing I want in my wrestling it’s just goofy. This kind of match is peak Vince’s brain is melting and nobody could tell him hey man this is crazy and is stupid. The only good cinematic match ever done has been the boneyard match. If you haven’t seen the Undertakers last match it blows every other cinematic thing away. The portion of the Taker documentary where they talk about the match is powerful as hell.
John Coffey
2024-10-29 21:04:08 +0000 UTCAnd Aleister Black
Christopher Barnes
2024-10-29 19:59:09 +0000 UTCThis is like a long action scene from a movie. When you had the thought of Otis winning, I was anticipating your reaction at the end. 1:58 The reason AJ Styles was staring at that Undertaker picture was because they had a match at Wrestlemania earlier in the year in a Boneyard match. Of course they would show highlights of it after I typed it, but I'm keeping it in. The guy that you thought was Jim Cornette is John Laurinaitis. Former wrestler, VP of talent relations, briefly an on screen character in WWE In 2011/2012. I low key wish they would do this type of match again. Not the Money in The Bank match. It doesn't have to be that match (I wouldn't mind it) but it could be with any multiple person match.
Christopher Barnes
2024-10-29 19:57:20 +0000 UTCOh wow. Lots to unpack here 😅 he deserves much more than a pie to the face lol
Tallywags
2024-10-29 19:43:48 +0000 UTCShayna Baszler wwe already fucked her up at this point. Its just her NXT run she was amazing. Her in NXT she was so dangerous, everytime she made her entrance my arm actually started hurting thats how dangerous and awesome she was.
WWE Jay Gaming
2024-10-29 19:41:41 +0000 UTCWatching this whole match again feels like a fever dream. It’s like something straight out of an old Smackdown vs. Raw game lmao
Snazzyway
2024-10-29 19:37:54 +0000 UTCThe guy you thought was Jim Cornette was actually John Loranitus. He was the guy always involved with Vince when he was doing all those nightmarish things to Janel Grant, the one from the big lawsuit. He’s also Bryan Danielson’s father in law.
Gai Valentine
2024-10-29 19:17:44 +0000 UTC“Can you imagine Otis with the briefcase?” Well, you didn’t have to imagine for very long.
Gai Valentine
2024-10-29 19:05:51 +0000 UTCR.I.P Mysterio got thrown off a building by Corbin
Jakob Micheal
2024-10-29 19:04:22 +0000 UTC
