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**Hey
everyone! Ever since Night Of Champions 2015, through multiple accounts, every
month before major WWE pay-per-views, I’ve come on here and booked the cards to
make them as exciting, intriguing, and best possible scenarios for the future.
I do both NXT and main-roster pay-per-views, as well as the occasional big
milestone RAW or Smackdown weekly show. Without further ado, here is how Money
In The Bank 2020 should be booked**
> MY
MONEY IN THE BANK POSTS OF PREVIOUS YEARS:
* 2016:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/4ov9pn/how_wwe_should_book_money_in_the_bank_2016/
* 2017:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/6hxl9j/how_wwe_should_book_money_in_the_bank_2017_sdlive/
* 2018:
https://old.reddit.com/r/WWE/comments/8rroa8/how_wwe_should_book_money_in_the_bank_2018/
* 2019:
Didn’t do one, this was when I was taking a break from doing these.
> KICKOFF-SHOW:
* We get our
kickoff panel LIVE (not) from WWE HQ consisting of Jonathan Coachman and Peter
Rosenberg. *Throughout the hour, we get various tours of random parts of HQ
that the superstars in the MITB matches might fight through, just to
familiarize ourselves with what’s to come*. The panel also runs down the match
card giving their predictions, hyping up the matches and showing us video
packages. About halfway through the hour, we get to our match.
**KICKOFF
MATCH: Cesaro vs. Jeff Hardy (Singles match)**
* Cesaro is
out first followed by the returning Jeff Hardy. **The match goes about 12
minutes**. I was, admittedly, confused when this match got announced this
morning because.. you know… isn’t Jeff feuding with Sheamus at the minute?..
where did a match with Cesaro come from? Well, I have a theory, or rather, I have
a big way to make sense of it all. The two men clash styles throughout in a
very entertaining match as Cesaro utilizes his striking ability against Jeff’s
high flying and quickness. **The match ends when Jeff Hardy reverses one of
Cesaro’s launching European Uppercuts into a Code Red pin attempt combo, but
Cesaro kicks out. Cesaro scrambles up and turns right into a Twist of Fate,
knocking him down for the count. Jeff heads up top to try for the Swanton Bomb
to finish things off, but completely out of nowhere, SHEAMUS APPEARS ON THE
APRON and he rips a turnbuckle pad loose to distract the ref. While the ref
isn’t looking, Sheamus scales the apron and BROGUE KICKS JEFF LOOPY. Jeff falls
off the top rope forward into the ring and Sheamus backs off and allows Cesaro
to hit a Neutralizer for the pin**. Cesaro’s music hits, and post-match,
Sheamus walks up the steps and slowly approaches Cesaro. The two are hesitant
at first, but Sheamus outstretches his arm in the position of their old pose
together. Cesaro follows suit, and THE BAR is back in business. This would be a
cool swerve in this angle and it’s been over a year since The Bar split, and
with the limited rosters we have right now, we need more interesting teams like
this. Ultimately though, I would have Sheamus join the League Of Nations 2.0
esque group that Sami Zayn has put together, consisting of Nakamura and Cesaro
also. Sheamus vs. Jeff would still continue, but this underlying Bar reunion
gives a nice reason for this match even happening and it’ll get everyone to
tune in the next week to see where it all leads… and that’s exactly what
wrestling should be all about, shouldn’t it?
**WINNER by
PINFALL and reformation of THE BAR: Cesaro**
* The panel
give their final thoughts and predictions on the two MITB ladder matches and
run down everyone’s accomplishments and history before we sign away to the main
card.
> MAIN SHOW:
* My
goodness, here we are with my first post of the quarantine wrestling era. I
said I was back full-time in February but I skipped out on Wrestlemania since
this all was so new, and so many factors of it being two days and taped
would’ve just made it the most jumbled, out of date and confusing post I’ve
ever done. Now that our current climate is a little more familiar, I’m back, and
we’re climbing the corporate ladder. This is gonna be a good one. Before we
begin, as you’ve heard a billion times now: stay safe, stay positive, stay
clean, wear a mask, wear gloves, respect social distancing, and we’ll make it
through. We all will. Now, let’s distract ourselves from the real world with
some pro wrestling.
**1ST MATCH:
The New Day (Big E and Kofi Kingston) (c) vs. The Forgotten Sons (Jaxson Ryker
and Wesley Blake) (w/ Steve Cutler) vs. John Morrison and The Miz vs. Lucha
House Party (Gran Metalik and Lince Dorado) (Tag Team match for the WWE
SmackDown Tag Team Championships)**
* Miz and
Morrison are out first, followed by Lucha House Party, followed by The
Forgotten Sons, and finally the champs, OHHHHHHHH PEOPLE AT HOME, its the New
Day. **The match goes about 17 minutes** and it’s explosive right out of the
gate. WWE tends to change their mind every time we get a four corners tag match
in whether it’s two in the ring and you can tag anyone, or like the one at
Clash Of Champions 2017 and how it SHOULD be, where 4 men are legal at all
times, and normal tag match rules apply. Accordingly, **The Miz, Gran Metalik,
Kofi and Wesley Blake start the match in the ring. Before any of them can even
touch, Wesley Blake rags in Ryker and the size disproportion in the ring is
immediately evident against the other 3 men in the ring. Ryker eyes up Kofi and
Big E rallies for Kofi to tag him in. Big E comes in and we get a face to face
between the two biggest men in the match, Big E and Jaxson Ryker**. It’s
Godzilla vs. King Kong as the two go at it and Miz and Metalik get into blows
as well. **Some big spots in the match are as follows**: Morrison tries for a
Starship Pain on Big E but E gets up in a squatting position and Morrison’s
falls right onto his shoulders, and hoists him back up for a Big Ending. Also,
The Miz tries to hit a Skull Crushing Finale on Kofi but Kofi reverses the
forward momentum into an SOS. **The match ends with everyone coming in during
the midst of the finisher fest portion of the match and it ends when New Day
deliver a Midnight Hour to Morrison to retain**. I would have Miz/Morrison take
the pin here to effectively end their campaign for the titles since they lost
again so they’re out of the loop, and also I really think LHP are talented so
let’s sway from the consensus at least this once that everyone thinks they
would eat the pin. Immediately post-match, Forgotten Sons all rush the ring as
Kofi and Big E are celebrating their win and they try to fight back but it’s
3-on-2. If Xavier Woods is ready to come back, then sure, have him come out
here and return to even the odds. Either way, Forgotten Sons are the fresh
blood and the ascending team in the division right now so they can get their
heat back here in a big way. Ryker hits his top-rope assisted Powerbomb to both
of the champs and the trio stand tall as their music hits, hinting at a future
two on two title match between the sons and the day. Before we move on, the
hacker’s signals begin to cloud the transmission… we see the TRUTH WILL BE
HEARD screen, and it’s teased that they will reveal themselves… tonight.
**WINNERS by
PINFALL and STILL WWE SmackDown Tag Team Champions: The New Day**
* We get a
backstage interview with Sasha Banks. She’s asked about where her loyalties lie
when Bayley defends her title up next, whether in her former Team BAD ally or
supposed best friend, who’s gotten her into some tough spots lately. Sasha
remains clear that she’s only out there to support Bayley but enacts some of
her more subtle storytelling that she’s so good at.
**2ND MATCH:
Bayley (c) (w/ Sasha Banks) vs. Tamina (Singles match for the WWE SmackDown
Women’s Championship)**
* Bayley is
our first with Sasha followed by Tamina. **We get formal ring introductions and
the match goes about 10 minutes**. Oh my Jesus. Here we are. After a decade of
dedication and hard work and 5* matches, Tamina has a singles title match on
PPV in the year of our lord 2020. I try to keep my personal feelings and bias
about the guys and girls on these shows out of the way in favor of true logical
booking and story continuity, but let’s be honest: Tamina is too horrible to
hold a championship. I have never seen a match of hers where she hasn’t made
some big embarrassingly awkward botch, or she’s gotten lost mid-spot, or she
just messes something up somehow. She is the single least intimidating “monster
heel” in the history of this business. That being said, let’s go crazy and put
the belt on her….
NEVER.
**The match
ends when Tamina is on offense and it looks like she might have it in the bag,
as she floors Bayley with a Superkick. Everything is building to a crescendo
for Tamina triumph until she makes the one fatal mistake that no one should
ever make… turning her back on THE ROLE MODEL. Bayley is down and Tamina climbs
up top to finish things off with a Splash but Bayley pounces and crumples
Tamina like an accordion with a Backstabber into a Bank Statement. Tamina
powers for her feet with Bayley on her back at first and falls back to try to
escape her clutch but Bayley remains locking it in and Tamina ultimately taps
out**. I thought this would be a bit more of a creative finish than Bayley just
hitting her elbow drop and then getting a pin. You could add a layer to the
tension between her and Sasha of her being unhappy about Bayley stealing her
submission move to finish other people off and flaunting about it like it was
her own genius. Just have Bayley start to develop more of Sasha’s tactics and
not credit Sasha for any of it. Plenty of ways you could build this rivalry and
make it personal.
**WINNER by
SUBMISSION and STILL WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion: Bayley**
* We get an
ad for the June PPV… whatever it may be. I’ll just guess Extreme Rules. I just
pray it’s not another Stomping Grounds.
**3RD MATCH:
MVP (w/ Brendan Vink and Shane Thorne) vs. R-Truth (Singles match)**
* R-Truth is
out first followed by MVP and his new stable of VIP Lounge associates. **The
match goes around 7 minutes**. This was yet another match that just got
announced today, one day before the PPV, with no story or feud between the two
wrestlers. Good stuff. But that’s why I’m here, to take whatever I’m given on a
certain PPV card every month and make sense of it all, for you, the reader! If
this really MUST happen, then **The match ends when we get more Truth antics
when Thorne and Vink both hop onto the apron to try and distract Truth, but
Truth boots Vink and grabs Thorne, and gets into fighting position, thinking
Thorne is MVP. The referee has to remind Truth that Thorne is NOT MVP. MVP is
MVP. Truth’s brain can’t comprehend this and MVP nails the Playmaker for the 1.
2. 3**. This match is silly and has no stakes whatsoever, so why not have some
fun with it?....... what is the meaning of life?
**WINNER by
PINFALL: MVP**
* We go to
the commentators who thank the artist of the official theme song of the PPV,
and then we go straight into a video package for our next match.
**4TH MATCH:
Drew McIntyre (c) vs. Seth Rollins (Singles match for the WWE Championship)**
* The MONDAY
NIGHT MESSIAH Seth Rollins comes our first followed by the champion, Drew
McIntyre. **The match lasts about 20 minutes and we get formal ring
introductions**. Mid-way through Drew’s ring introduction, Rollins ambushes
Drew from behind as his name is being sung in glory and tries to get a head
start on getting damage on Drew. **Some spots in this match are as follows**:
* Rollins
clotheslines McIntyre out of the ring to the outside, runs to hit a regular
Suicide Dive but MCINTYRE MEETS HIM MID-AIR AND ROLLINS DIVES RIGHT INTO A
CLAYMORE KICK. Drew capitalizes quickly and rolls Seth into the ring for a pin
attempt, but Rollins gets his foot on the bottom rope.
* Rollins
reverses a Claymore attempt into a Slingblade.
* Similar in
fashion to WM31, Rollins tries for a Curb Stomp on McIntyre but Rollins bounces
off Drew’s head and Drew catches him when he lands with a kick in the gut and a
Future Shock DDT for a nearfall.
* Rollins
hits God’s Last Gift because he should really use that move more and
immediately follows it up with a big Phoenix Splash for a nearfall.
I could come
up with a lot more but I don’t want to make this post *too* long. Ultimately,
the match ends when Rollins and McIntyre are hulking each other up in the
center of the ring as they rise to their feet more with each strike they take.
A game of slingshot begins as Rollins nails a Superkick, Drew runs off the
ropes and hits his Glasgow kiss headbutt, this sends Rollins into the ropes who
responds by hoisting Drew up for a Buckle Bomb. Seth hits it but Drew ricochets
off and shoots out of the corner with one last fatal Claymore kick for the
retaining Pinfall**. I think there’s more we can juice out of the Seth and Drew
feud, so this should continue even though Seth lost. We can find some reason
for him to get another chance, I was thinking maybe a Triple Threat at the next
PPV involving Murphy could be the next step. It would be huge for Murphy to be
a part of a world title match and really solidify him as a main event caliber
player, but also an excuse for Rollins as the challenger to continue without
him getting another one on one shot, which would look bad since he lost here.
Drew needs to hold onto that title for many years, many decades, many
centuries. In no way should he lose it yet, but I think Rollins vs. Drew could
provide us at least a few more weeks of intriguing television, if you throw a
few other new factors in there.
**WINNER by
PINFALL and STILL WWE Champion: Drew McIntyre**
* We get an
ad for WWEShop, and then into a video package for our next match.
**5TH MATCH:
Braun Strowman (c) vs. Bray Wyatt (Singles match for the WWE Universal
Championship)**
* Strowman
is out first followed by Bray Wyatt. **We get formal ring introductions and the
match lasts around 8 minutes**. The makeup of this one is very simple to me.
For the first 5 minutes, it’s legitimately ALL Strowman. Braun hits a powerslam
through the announce table, chokeslams Bray on the apron, tackles him through
the barricade, just absolutely destroys him. Remember, this is funhouse Bray
Wyatt. The one who wants to make peace and is too seemingly gentle and
kid-friendly to cause harm. It looks like it’s going to be a squash up to this
point. After Braun has hit every move in his arsenal, he decides that’s STILL
not enough. He knows this Bray still has some immortal and mystical powers in
him. Braun rolls to the outside and fetches the top half of the steel steps.
The ref is warning Braun that he could be DQ’ed if he does this but Strowman is
a monster whose rage knows no bounds. He doesn’t care. He doesn’t bow down to
and take orders from Bray anymore like he once did. **Braun raises the weapon
above his head, goes to swing it down on Wyatt’s head, but as we all expected..
All of a sudden the lights go out all at once. We still hear the impact of the
steps hitting the canvas.. But it definitely doesn’t sound like it hit a body.
The lights return, but this time they’re red, and this time there’s smoke, and
this time the Fiend sound effects bellow through the venue. Fiend battles
Strowman up the ramp and gets his lucky shot as he causes Braun to pass out
quickly with the Mandible claw. Fiend is going crazy with his freakish
mannerisms and to cut a long story short, he manages to send the titantron and
MITB set crashing down on top of Strowman, effectively killing him. All of a
sudden, the lights go down again, and there is the original man in the match,
funhouse Bray**. He’s made it back just in time. This is so much damage and
destruction, that instead of simply counting them out by this point or DQ’ing
him, the referee declares Wyatt the winner right then and there for fear of
further damage he could enact. While looking down this card, I safely decided
that this, if any, is the one title change that should take place tonight. It
would be a big u-turn up to the point as I’ve intentionally ordered the card
that all title matches up to this point saw the champion hold on to their belt,
but that’s not the overriding reason for this result. We all know the Goldberg
match was a huge mistake. I think Fiend with the title can work if he has the
right people to work with. Strowman was never in the plans anyways, and there’s
so many more intriguing feuds people can have against. The Fiend is still more
of a spectacle than Braun Strowman. Wyatt’s reign didn’t end, it was just
interrupted. This is a big way to have neither guy lose since WWE booked
themselves into a corner with a match where neither guy can lose. Let’s move on
with our lives.
**WINNER and
NEW Universal Champion by Referee Stoppage after The Fiend appeared and crushed
Strowman under the MITB set: Bray Wyatt**
* For this
transition we get our most advanced and detailed Hacker video so far...
**6TH
MATCH(es): Asuka vs. Carmella vs. Dana Brooke vs. Lacey Evans vs. Nia Jax vs.
Shayna Baszler AND AJ Styles vs. Aleister Black vs. Baron Corbin vs. Daniel
Bryan vs. Otis vs. Rey Mysterio (Money In The Bank Ladder matches for Women’s
Championship and World Championship match contracts)**
* Well, this
will be the most complex match I’ve ever written about… two going on at the
same time. But, is it two at the same time? Or do they both just combine into
one big blob? **The matches go at least 30 minutes, gotta fill time, I’m sure
they filmed a shit ton**. Since the parameters of this match are so up in the
air, I’ll just post some bullet points with big spots and moments I’d have in
the match:
* Everyone
gets big entrances coming into the building. Their music plays, some arrive in
limos and fancy cars.
* AJ Styles gets
thrown off the roof, and then comes back because he is now immortal or
something. Show him crawling up the stairwell, or even better, whoever is to
knock him off, have them turn around and Styles is standing right there for
revenge, totally fine.
* The
babyfaces all team up to beat down Corbin with their finishers. Mysterio
hurricanranas Corbin onto the middle rope position, hits the 619, Corbin shoots
off right into a Black Mass which knocks him to one knee, and then Bryan
charges forward with a Running Knee to take him out for the moment.
* Of course,
before they get to the roof, we gotta have Otis run through a wall somewhere in
there, lets say he's trying to hit Corbin, but Corbin moves and Otis crashes
through into someone's office like he did at the Chamber.
* Bryan and
Styles are brawling near an elevator, and Bryan hits Yes Kicks on AJ until he
retreats into the elevator. The doors open and Bryan does his stomps and
presses every button and then runs out and Styles is trapped, forced to go to every
floor until the roof to slow him down.
* At one
point on the roof, Otis pulls out one of Big Show's old reinforced ladders from
under the ring, because he's a BIG boy. Nia and Otis both climb either side at
the same time, and then Hornswoggle runs up and pushes the ladder over and both
of them fall off the roof of the HQ, but magically grow wings and land back in
the ring.
Why am I
even trying to come up with ideas? This is going to be completely beyond reason
and realism. Let's just get to the winners. Black and Asuka. Sure, it's not who
you might THINK WWE will choose to win, but this isn't how WWE WOULD book, it's
how they should. Asuka has been the absolute MVP of the empty arena era, she's
wrestled or appeared on pretty much every show every week and has been
consistently entertaining, so she just deserves to be rewarded for that,
doesn't she? Shayna would be my second choice, but we've seen the monster
kick-ass heel that announces their cash-in in advance before, and I think it
should be a while before we dip into that well again. As far as Black's reason
for winning, he's Heyman's golden boy. He has been elevating up the card nicely
and I think he could, if not Shayna, be one so confident about winning that
he'd announce his cash-in in advance. Black is fucking awesome, and him vs Bray
in a clash of two creepy, demonic characters if he decided to cash in on
SmackDown, or even him vs. Drew in a clash of two of Europe's finest wrestlers
in the world at Summerslam could be something real good.
**WINNERS
and NEW MR. and MRS. MONEY IN THE BANK: Aleister Black and Asuka**
> FINAL RESULTS:
No. |
Results | Stipulations | Times
:--|:--|:--|:--|
Pre-show |
Cesaro defeated Jeff Hardy by Pinfall | Singles match | 12 minutes
1 | The New
Day (Big E and Kofi Kingston) (c) defeated The Forgotten Sons (Steve Cutler and
Wesley Blake) (w/ Jaxson Ryker) vs. John Morrison and The Miz vs. Lucha House
Party (Gran Metalik and Lince Dorado) | Tag Team match for the WWE SmackDown
Tag Team Championships | 17 minutes
2 | Bayley
(c) (w/ Sasha Banks) defeated Tamina by Submission | Singles match for the WWE
SmackDown Women’s Championship | 10 minutes
3 | MVP (w/
Brendan Vink and Shane Thorne) defeated R-Truth by Pinfall | Singles match | 7
minutes
4 | Drew
McIntyre (c) defeated Seth Rollins by Pinfall | Singles match for the WWE
Championship | 20 minutes
5 | Bray
Wyatt defeated Braun Strowman (c) by Referee Stoppage | Singles match for the
WWE Universal Championship | 8 minutes
6 | Asuka
defeated Carmella, Dana Brooke, Lacey Evans, Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler | Money
In The Bank Ladder match for a Women’s Championship match contract | ?? minutes
6 | Aleister
Black defeated AJ Styles, Baron Corbin, Daniel Bryan, Otis and Rey Mysterio |
Money In The Bank Ladder match for a World Championship match contract | >
30 minutes
> MY CARD FOR WHATEVER THE HELL THE NEXT PPV IS
CAUSE IT HASN’T EVEN BEEN ANNOUNCED YET (June ??, 2020, Probably Orlando, FL,
,Venue probably the P.C )
No. |
Matches | Stipulations |
:--|:--|:--|
1 | “The
Fiend” Bray Wyatt (c) vs. Braun Strowman | Black Sheep Bunker match (pretty
much just Firefly Funhouse match but he should have the name of it unique to
the feud he’s in) for the WWE Universal Championship
2 | Drew
McIntyre (c) vs. Murphy vs. Seth Rollins | Triple Threat match for the WWE
Championship
3 | Becky
Lynch (c) vs. Liv Morgan | Singles match for the WWE RAW Women’s Championship
4 | Bayley
(c) vs. Sonya Deville | Singles match for the WWE SmackDown Women’s
Championship
5 | Sami
Zayn (c) vs. Otis | Singles match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship
6 | The
Street Profits (c) vs. Drew McIntyre and Jinder Mahal | Tag Team match for the
WWE RAW Tag Team Championships
7 | The New
Day (Big E & Kofi Kingston) (c) vs. The Forgotten Sons | Tag Team match for
the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championships
8 | Aleister
Black vs. Andrade, Angel Garza and Austin Theory (w/ Zelina Vega) | 3-On-1
Handicap match for Black’s MITB Briefcase
9 | The Bar
(Cesaro and Sheamus) vs. Daniel Bryan and Drew Gulak | No.1 Contendership Tag
Team match
Well, that
was the post. Thanks for reading! As always, let me know what you liked and/or
what you didn’t like from the post, and what from the post you’d like to see
actually happen on the show tomorrow night! **Be sure to look out for my next
post for the upcoming PPV, **”How WWE Should Book ????? 2020**. Enjoy the show
tonight, everyone.
