5 things you missed at WWE Money in the Bank 2019

WWE Money in the Bank 2019 is in the books and we have a lot more positives to talk about than the negatives. The PPV proved to be the best of 2019, bar none. Perhaps only the Royal Rumble PPV came close in terms of quality.

Otherwise, this felt like a real WrestleMania. From great matches to great moments to storyline progression, the PPV had fans hooked from start to finish. Of course, we have to address the elephant in the room - Brock Lesnar becoming Mr. Money in the Bank.

While fans are understandably not happy about the decision, we'd suggest you wait for it to play out and see what happens. The PPV itself was so good that it left little to complain about.

There were quite a few things that fans had missed out on during MITB. Here are five of them.

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#5. All but two matches had referee botches

Charlotte Flair won the SmackDown Women's title

You read that right. Every single match on the card except for the WWE Championship match between Kofi Kingston & Kevin Owens and the Men's Money in the Bank ladder match featured the referees botching in some form or the other.

Admittedly, the Rey Mysterio-Samoa Joe match was a worked botch from the referee, but apart from that, WWE's men in stripes seemed to have an off-day despite the magic produced in the ring.

Every other match featured the referee making incorrect counts, overlooking the shoulders being above the mat and more. The Miz's steel cage match, for example, saw Shane McMahon grab the ropes to break The Miz's near-winning pin.

Here's the problem - it was a No DQ match and inside the steel cage, holding the ropes means nothing. While we understand that it's only human to make errors, it's certainly bizarre that this night featured so many of them.

#4. Rey Mysterio became a Grand Slam Champion

Rey Mysterio became the United States Champion

Rey Mysterio had a bizarre match with Samoa Joe. It ended in less than two minutes and it featured Samoa Joe getting busted open due to a botch by the now-United States Champion.

Mysterio won in controversial fashion because Joe's shoulders were up, but the entire match seemed to be rushed and it came across as odd. Either way, Rey Mysterio's United States Championship win now adds him to the list of Grand Slam champions in WWE.

He had won the World Heavyweight Championship, the WWE Championship, the tag team championship and even the Intercontinental Championship. This completes his title haul and further adds to his legacy in WWE. He's called the "biggest little man in WWE history" and with good reason.

It was also interesting to see Dominic out again. Could WWE seriously be planning on signing him soon?

#3. Bayley became the first female Triple-Crown Champion in modern WWE history

Bayley had a career rejuvenation

Bayley had a career-rejuvenating night at WWE Money in the Bank when she became Ms. Money in the Bank and then proceeded to win the SmackDown Women's Championship on the very night.

Becky Lynch had lost her SmackDown Women's Championship to Charlotte Flair thanks to a distraction from Lacey Evans and while receiving a beatdown, was saved by fellow-Horsewoman Bayley. Bayley took advantage of the situation and cashed in her MITB briefcase, becoming champion for the first time in two years and winning her first SmackDown Women's title.

With that win, Bayley now completes the trifecta of women's titles on the main roster. She's the only person to win the RAW Women's Championship, the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship and SmackDown Women's Championship, making her the first and only female Triple Crown Champion in modern WWE history.

#2. Bayley joins an elite list

An unforgettable night for The Hugger

Being the first Triple Crown female champion wasn't the only thing Bayley accomplished at WWE Money in the Bank 2019. She joined an elite list of three other superstars to be the only people to cash in the Money in the Bank briefcase the same night of winning it.

She joins the likes of Kane (2010), Dean Ambrose (2016) and Alexa Bliss (2018). Just to put it in perspective, Bayley is third in terms of how quickly she cashed in her briefcase. Kane took 52 minutes, Dean Ambrose took 57 minutes and Alexa Bliss took 2 hours, while Bayley took 1 hour and 29 minutes to cash in the briefcase.

Either way, it's an extremely memorable moment and has definitely been the best of the three cash-ins since women have begun to participate in MITB ladder matches. It was a rewarding moment for Bayley.

#1. Sami Zayn was potentially written off for Saudi Arabia

Sami Zayn was taken out of the MITB ladder match

It turns out that not only was Braun Strowman replaced at Money in the Bank, but Sami Zayn ultimately ended up getting replaced as well. The story going on was that Braun Strowman was chasing Zayn, expected to decimate him prior to the match.

Zayn did get decimated, eerily being hung upside down like a cross. The first speculation about who did it was naturally Strowman, but when Triple H confronted The Monster Among Men, it was revealed that he didn't do it.

Bray Wyatt was the first suspect because of the eerie nature of the attack. As it turns out, it was Brock Lesnar all along. What's interesting is that not only did it achieve the purpose of getting Lesnar back, but it likely wrote Sami Zayn out of the Saudi Arabia show.

As you might now, he's a Syrian, something that has been feared to cause problems for him in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This may have been a way of writing him out so he doesn't appear.