WWE Money In The Bank 2015 Review- The stories that sold

The PPV began with a tribute to Dusty Rhodes, a man many revered for his passion for the wrestling industry and his instinct as a mentor and a sports entertainer. Be it the art of cutting a promo or creating a spectacle like Starrcade or War Games- Rhodes was known to be a major influence on young and old performers alike.

The PPV began with a tribute for the American Dream.

If you’ve watched the Stone Cold Steve Austin podcast with Paul Heyman, you may remember Heyman talking about his first lengthy promo and Dusty Rhodes’ reaction to it. He told Heyman what he did was fun but ‘Where’s the money?’

Were you able to sell what you were speaking about?

Where the money lies

In retrospect, Money In The Bank may well go down as a fun PPV but in more ways than one it sold some ideas.

It sold the fact that Kevin 0wens, Seth Rollins, Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns and Bray Wyatt are going to be part of an undisputable future.

Ambrose and Rollins walked into a dulled down audience who had seen some very entertaining bouts earlier, the prime one being Cena vs Owens. And how could anyone be expected to follow that? But Rollins and Ambrose did and despite a relatively poor build up, they let their match do all the talking. These two men just can’t have a bad match.

It was an evocative image to see these two stand in the ring facing each other, as still as death, and then look at the championship hanging above which they both, rightfully, thought belonged to one of them.