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At TLC tonight, The Miz made good on his threat to cash his Money in the Bank briefcase during the WWE Championship Match. Drew McIntyre defended, originally, in a TLC Match against AJ Styles.
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Near the end, The Miz made his move and did his best to steal the WWE Championship from The Scottish Psychopath and The Phenomenal One. How did that go? Well, judging by the name of this list, it's kind of obvious. We'll get to that later, though.
Today, we'll take a look at the five failed Money in the Bank briefcase cash-ins so far in WWE history. We start things off with a bonafide first ballot WWE Hall of Famer.
#1 John Cena - WWE RAW 1000
Oddly enough, the first to fail a Money in the Bank cash-in was the 16-time WWE Champion himself, John Cena. The Leader of the Cenation was in the middle of his epic feud with CM Punk, and unlike most competitors to hold the briefcase, called his shot. He challenged the then WWE Champion to a match on RAW 1000 on July 23rd, 2012 (catch the full match in the video above).
As Cena had the Voice of the Voiceless in the STFU, Big Show ran to the ring and broke it up, ending the match in a DQ win for Cena. Though he won the match, he actually failed to win the title, making him the first to cash in his briefcase and not walk out with the championship.
Punk refused to help Cena as he was beaten by the World's Largest Athlete, and would cement his heel turn when The Rock rushed to Cena's aid. After he took Show to the floor, Punk attacked the Great One, setting up a feud six months in the making.
It is genuinely quite surprising to look back and see that one of the greatest WWE Superstars of all time would start this list. That goes to show that when WWE wants to be, they're truly unpredictable.
#2 Damien Sandow - WWE RAW 2013
For a few years there, WWE had two Money in the Bank briefcases. Unlike how it works now, though, it wasn't separated between the men and women's divisions. There was a briefcase for RAW (WWE Championship) and SmackDown (WWE World Heavyweight Championship).
At Money in the Bank 2013, Randy Orton won the case for RAW, while Damien Sandow outlasted Cesaro, Cody Rhodes, Jon Moxley, Fandango, Jake Hager, and Wade Barrett to win the blue case.
Following a feud against his former Rhodes Scholar partner Cody Rhodes, Damien Sandow attempted to cash his shot in on the man we just discussed, John Cena. Now, you've already seen the year, which means you know what happens to these titles as we moved into WrestleMania XXX.
Unfortunately, Sandow was unable to beat John Cena despite The Champ having an injured arm. Though Cena was the first to fail, Sandow was actually the first to lose his cash-in attempt.
Check out the full segment below:
The fans weren't exactly behind the future Mizdow then as they were a few years later, and if they were, this one might have turned out a bit differently for The Enlightened One. Just a step in a long line of wasted moments for Damien Sandow in WWE.
#3 Baron Corbin - WWE SmackDown 2017
Is it strange to anyone else that three out of the five cash-ins on this list involved John Cena in some way? The Golden Boy of WWE certainly loved to make history, and this was another example. In 2017, Baron Corbin captured the Money in the Bank briefcase, and being on the SmackDown brand, he was poised to cash in on WWE Champion Jinder Mahal.
The Maharaja Mackdaddy had a rough night on August 15th, 2017. He opened the show with an Independence Day Championship Celebration, only for it to be ruined by his SummerSlam challenger Shinsuke Nakamura.
Not only that, but Mahal had to face John Cena in the main event later on that night. Somehow, Mahal managed to avoid getting pinned after a handful of Attitude Adjustments but would ultimately lose by DQ when Baron Corbin interfered.
Things turned up for the Modern Day Maharaja, though, as John Cena distracted the Lone Wolf, allowing Jinder Mahal to roll up Mr. Money in the Bank and steal the win.
Corbin and Cena weren't through there, as they would have a match at SummerSlam five days later, where Cena would completely squash and embarrass Corbin. It was a rough week for him, certainly, though he did turn things around with a WWE US Championship run later on in the year. Still, this is a list that nobody wants to be on.
#4 Braun Strowman - WWE Hell in a Cell 2018
There were a few years there where WWE kept ending Hell in a Cell matches by DQ or no contest. It's never been a popular decision, with the latest one being that Seth Rollins-The Fiend fiasco that left fans chanting "AEW", "Restart the match", and "We want refunds" afterward. Because of that, fans tend to forget the event the year prior.
Roman Reigns had finally taken the WWE Universal Championship away from Brock Lesnar and was set to defend it against his long-time rival Braun Strowman. With the feud that The Monster Among Men and The Big Dog had over several years, both as parts of their own factions and as singles competitors, a match between two of the best bruisers in the company inside that structure made a ton of sense.
Braun Strowman was confident in his ability to beat Reigns and decided not to surprise him. He laid out the challenge loud and clear at WWE Hell in a Cell. They'd face off in a Hell in a Cell match where nobody could interfere. Of course, Drew McIntyre and Dolph Ziggler attempted to break in on behalf of Strowman while the Shield did their best to help Reigns. Someone else, however, made their presence known. That someone was former WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar.
The allies of Reigns and Strowman took each other out, and Lesnar made his way to the ring to lay out the two competitors. Referee Mick Foley attempted to get a handle of the situation but was blinded by Paul Heyman, who sprayed him with mace.
Lesnar left nothing but destruction in his wake, and when he and Heyman left, the PPV was over. There was no definitive end to the match, Reigns and Strowman were seen struggling to get to their feet as the feed ended.
#5 The Miz - WWE TLC 2020
For WWE, AEW, and everyone around the globe, 2020 has been a horrendous year. Plans were put on hold or canceled completely, and WWE has had to pull the ol' "stop and start" with multiple storylines over the year.
When Otis won the Money in the Bank Briefcase at the PPV of the same name earlier this year, no one in the WWE Universe knew where things were heading. As it turned out, neither did WWE. Otis held the briefcase for five months before losing it to The Miz at Hell in a Cell earlier this year. As Miz was drafted to RAW a few weeks prior, he claimed that he would be cashing in sooner rather than later.
Over the past few months, Miz would remind Drew McIntyre and Randy Orton, who both held the WWE Championship in that timespan, that he was always lurking around on Monday nights. At WWE TLC, The Miz finally made his move, turning the TLC match between AJ Styles and Drew McIntyre into a Triple Threat.
The Miz was both sent through a table and launched off a ladder onto the ropes before receiving a nasty Claymore kick, barely getting anything else done. McIntyre retained, ending Miz's two month run as Mr. Money in the Bank.
The Miz, oddly enough, actually made history tonight. He's now the only WWE Superstar to both succeed and fail at cashing in the Money in the Bank briefcase.
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