The way I judge it is by asking myself "who looks good running down the ramp?". Or who looks good with it? Who has some momentum going into the match?
And, I see no one who has any of that here. None of the competitors are convincing winners though. Owens has been doing nothing out the ordinary. Zayn and Owens should be in a separate match. Ambrose is a bit all of a sudden. I'm still getting used to Cesaro's "00-Swing" gimmick. And Chris Jericho is, a bit too old for my liking.
Forgive me if I have somehow forgotten people. But the participants looked like they were thrown together unplanned. All mid carders who don't have a lot going for them. And since MITB pretty much means guaranteed champ. I don't see anyone convincing as champ. Or the main champ.
If AJ wasn't feuding with Cena he could've and should've been in this match.
The problem here is there are no main eventers. No big names atm.
What bugs me is most of that people a month ago were chasing the IC title.
Oh yeah. I just remembered Del Rio. Tbh, he's the dark horse going into it. The one we don't want to win but might just win it, boosting him to the title picture.
Gonna kinda try to make a small list to kinda show who can win MITB:
1. Dean Ambrose has been in a feud with Chris Jericho, not because they want to push Ambrose necessarily, but because they had nothing for the both of them, so they just put them together in a program to kinda get Ambrose more over. Unfortunately, Asylum matches don't work that well. He's normally in the segments that occur in the middle of the show. I don't think WWE mis-trusts him, but if they wanted him as a main eventer and a champion in the future, I'd think that they'd try to position him more as a top guy. Now, ofcourse, him having the briefcase would make for a cool Shield-scenario, but that's more ''dream booking'' than anything.
2. Chris Jericho, like I already have said, has been in a meaningless feud with Dean Ambrose where he was on the losing end a couple of times. He's 47 now and he's already made. He doesn't need the title, he needs to put younger guys over and have some quality matches. He wouldn't be able to handle the Money in the Bank, as it's a way to get young stars over and chances are that he's probably gonna go back touring with Fozzy in a couple of months. He's not full-time.
3. Alberto del Rio is such a failure. Nothing that he does makes him deserving of a main event push, and I'm sure that WWE sees that. There's just nothing for him, and if he gets the Money in the Bank, I can see the ratings drop the same way they dropped when Sheamus held the title.
4. Cesaro is cool and reasonably over, but I feel like he's just come back and isn't over enough to be the face of the entire company. He should get his moment against The Miz at SummerSlam hopefully, as he would make a good IC Champion, but he's just not being booked that well. He comes off as a star a lot more than he used to, but I don't think his new ''cool suit guy 007'' gimmick is established enough to be giving him such a huge object as the MITB, not to mention that he got pinned twice on the last two PPV's by The Miz.
5. Sami Zayn is really talented and he's really over anyways, but he just came from NXT like 3 months ago, not to mention that he lost his first singles match on PPV to Kevin Owens. He's not been on the main roster long enough to win that briefcase.
6. Kevin Owens is my personal pick to win the MITB. He's been in a lot of opening segments with Shane and Stephanie, to make him look like a bigger star. He's beaten Zayn clean, he's beaten Styles clean, and he's always been positioned as being the biggest star of the four guys in the IC title match from Extreme Rules. It was obvious for me that him losing the title meant that he was going to bigger and better things, and hopefully, that's winning the Money in the Bank ladder match. With the hype and the way they're probably gonna build up Owens a lot more when he does have the briefcase similar to how they did with Rollins, I'm sure that he'd fit that main event picture amazingly.
