Every Money In the Bank Competitor, Except One, States His Case
With the WWE Championship Contract Money In the Bank Briefcase hanging above the ring and a ladder inside the ring, Daniel Bryan came out to state his case on why he would win the WWE Championship Contract Money In the Bank Ladder Match at the upcoming WWE event, Money In the Bank. Then, all the rest of the competitors for this match came out, which consists of Sheamus O’Shaunessy, Randy Orton, Kane, Christian, and CM Punk. The only one who was conspicuous by his absence was Rob Van Dam. After all the rest of the men stated their cases, chaos followed when Orton struck Kane with his signature maneuver “The RKO”.
Kane Gets Some Unwanted Assistance
Backstage, Daniel Bryan informed his former Team Hell No tag team partner Kane that Raw Managing Supervisor Vickie Guerrero made a match between Kane and Randy Orton with Daniel Bryan as the special guest referee. I am a fan of both Kane and Orton and was not sure who to root for in this one. As for the match, at one point, Orton kind of shoved Bryan, leading to Bryan disqualifying Orton in the process; however, Kane refused to take the win like that and demanded that Bryan restart the match, which Bryan eventually agreed to. In the end, right when Orton was looking to strike Kane with “The RKO”, Bryan steps in Orton’s path. After Bryan moves out of the way, Kane hits Orton with one of his maneuvers “The Big Boot”. Kane then covers Orton and Bryan does a fast 1-2-3 count to give Kane the pin and the win. After the match, Kane is not happy with Bryan and grabs Bryan by the throat, but has second thoughts of doing anything to Bryan and walks off in frustration. Orton, on the other hand, did not hesitate one bit to hit Bryan with “The RKO”. After the events that had transpired in this match, due to the fact that Bryan has been obsessed with proving that he was not the “weak link” in Team Hell No, perhaps Bryan was trying to portray Kane as the “weak link” of the team by implying that Kane needed his help? Whatever the case may be, I’m not going to say that Bryan has turned heel just yet, but I will say he is on probation because what he did in this match was not right.
Fandango Returns, Then Runs
Sheamus went one-on-one with the returning Fandango (accompanied by Summer Rae). In the end, after Fandango ends up outside the ring, he walks off with Summer and the referee counts to ten, which gives Sheamus the win via count-out.
Ryback or Cryback?
The Miz went one-on-one with Ryback, while Ryback’s Money In the Bank opponent Chris Jericho was on commentary during the match. At one point in the match, Miz started going to work on the leg of Ryback that was still feeling the effects from a match from Smackdown the previous Friday. In the end, to the shock of everybody, Ryback actually demanded the referee to stop the match. The referee obliged and Miz got the win by forfeit. After the match, Jericho came in and hit Ryback with his signature maneuver “The Codebreaker”. I cannot believe the way that WWE is portraying Ryback; I mean during his rise to super-stardom, his chant was “Feed Me More!”, which caught on with the WWE Universe. But following WrestleMania 29, WWE put a halt to all of that and turned him heel. Now, they’re portraying him as a quitter? Come on, this is ridiculous, Ryback was just fine the way he was up to WrestleMania 29. The WWE needs to fix this ASAP.
CM Punk Does the Damage, But Curtis Axel Picks Up the Scraps
Prior to the tag team match between the team of CM Punk and Intercontinental Champion Curtis Axel (accompanied by Paul Heyman) and The Prime Time Players (Titus O’Neil & Darren Young), Punk told Heyman that he trusts him, but not Axel. Throughout the entire match, Punk and Axel had issues co-existing; in the end, it was Punk who hit Young with his signature maneuver “The GTS (Go To Sleep)”, but afterwards, Axel tagged himself in and picked up Punk’s scraps by pinning Young and getting the win for his team. Punk did not take too kindly to this and refused to celebrate the win with Axel and Heyman.
AJ Lee and The Bella Twins Bring Trouble to the Divas Roster
Kaitlyn (accompanied by Layla El) went one-on-one with Alicia Fox. While I was a fan of both these women, I was rooting for Kaitlyn in this one. In the end, it was Kaitlyn who hit Alicia with her signature maneuver “The Spear” to get the pin and the win. Immediately following the match, WWE Divas Champion AJ Lee (accompanied by Big E Langston) came out and showed the world a heavily-doctored “modeling photo” from Kaitlyn’s pre-WWE days on the titantron. Unlike the last few times with AJ’s mind games, this did little to faze Kaitlyn, knowing full well as everybody else that the photo was clearly phony. Speaking of the divas, backstage, The Bella Twins (Nikki & Brie) gathered the rest of the cast of the upcoming E! reality show Total Divas for a meeting. Besides The Bellas, the cast also consists of Natalya Neidhart, The Funkadactyls (Naomi & Cameron Lynn), and WWE’s newest divas Jo-Jo Offerman and Eva Marie. The reason The Bellas gathered the cast for the meeting was to make it clear to the other divas that they are the stars of the show and that they are the main women in charge. Natalya responded by letting The Bellas know that she and the rest of the divas are fed up with their bratty behaviors before The Bellas walked off. I think it is pretty clear that the rest of the divas roster needs to teach both AJ and The Bellas some manners.
Job Evaluation Time For Vickie Guerrero
After both WWE Chairman and CEO Vincent K. McMahon and WWE Chief Operating Officer Triple H questioned Raw Managing Supervisor Vickie Guerrero’s managerial supervision, WWE Executive Vice President of Creative Stephanie McMahon informed Vickie that she would be subject to a formal job evaluation the following week on Raw. Stephanie then told Vickie that she could possibly get promoted to be permanent Raw General Manager or lose her job altogether. Man, I sure hope this is the end of Vickie once and for all and we will no longer have to brace ourselves for her irritating voice and hit the mute button in the process. The WWE will definitely be much better with her gone.
Heel vs. Heel
In a match between two heels, one-half of Team Rhodes Scholars Cody Rhodes (accompanied by the other half of Team Rhodes Scholars Damien Sandow) went one-on-one with Antonio Cesaro (accompanied by Zeb Colter and the returning Jack Swagger). While I am not a fan of neither one of these guys, I was rooting against Cesaro in this one. In the end, it was Cesaro who hit Rhodes with his signature maneuver “The Neutralizer” to get the pin and the win, unbeknownst to Sandow, who was pre-occupied with lecturing the announce team at ringside.
Did Mark Henry choose to strike?
In the main event, it was a non-title Champion vs. Champion Match between WWE Champion John Cena and World Heavyweight Champion Alberto Del Rio. After both their respective opponents for Money In the Bank, Mark Henry and Dolph Ziggler, made their presences felt at ringside, it was Cena who hit Del Rio with his signature maneuver “The Attitude Adjustment” to get the pin and the win. After the match, Henry grabbed Cena’s WWE Championship belt and threatened to nail Cena with it, but instead, Henry simply dropped the belt to the ring mat and walked off. It was pretty clear that Henry was playing mind games with Cena.
