Money in the Bank Who wins the title if Bryan can't compete?

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What do you call Summerslam last year? I know Cena left the night afterwards to heal the injury to his elbow, but it's not like they played that up during the match as if Cena wasn't 100%. Bryan put Cena down for the three-count, clean as a sheet.
I agree with Brad. The Cena injury was a major story going into that match. There was no fuckery, but the injury and his entire speech the next night and highlighting the injured elbow shows that in WWE's world DB did not beat a 100% John Cena.
 

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I agree with Brad. The Cena injury was a major story going into that match. There was no fuckery, but the injury and his entire speech the next night and highlighting the injured elbow shows that in WWE's world DB did not beat a 100% John Cena.

I can't recall the injury hardly even being mentioned during the buildup. And regardless, again, Bryan didn't win the match by making Cena tap out to a submission hold on his elbow. I don't even remember him applying much pressure to the elbow throughout the match at all. When it came down to it, Bryan laid him out cold with his new finishing move after Cena had just kicked out of his old finishing move from ROH (the small package) that Bryan had been using to pin people with again on Raw for the last few weeks prior.

This is one of the worst cases of nitpicking I've seen and kind of comes off like some just refusing to give Cena credit for putting someone over clean. If it hadn't been the elbow injury, it probably would have just been some other excuse.
 

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Perception is reality lock. if you truly want to believe it was a clean win, it can be!
 

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And if you want to nitpick something to death and find fault in sometimes even the most minuscule of details, you can do that, too!

"Bryan pinned Cena with the small package? Well, a small package is one of the most protected ways to lose a match, so it's not really that big of a victory for Bryan!"

"Wow, Bryan actually forced Cena to submit to the Yes Lock? But wait, there was that moment earlier in the match where Cena hit the AA and waited about five seconds before covering Bryan before Bryan barely kicked out before the three-count. If he had been a little quicker on the cover, Bryan would have probably lost!"
 

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I just gave my opinion on the discussion you two were having, hardly nitpicking something to death.

I relate it to an actual fight, and I see/hear it all the time in MMA. "so and so was just out of shape or injured"

no need to get so upset brochado
 

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Clean win is no excuses, no bullshit, no interference, no cheating, no shenanigans…

Cena hasn't had a clean loss in years.
 

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A ladder match for the title featuring ADR, Orton, Sheamus and Cesaro. Yep, that's going to get you more Network buys.
 
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