WWE Money in the Bank 2015 Review

WWE Money in the Bank 2015
June 14, 2015
Columbus, Ohio

Seth Rollins must defend his WWE Championship against Dean Ambrose in a Ladder Match with his relationship with The Authority also hanging in the balance. Also, John Cena looks to avenge his shocking loss to Kevin Owens in the 2015 edition of Money in the Bank.

Match 1: Money in the Bank Ladder Match - Randy Orton vs. Neville vs. Kane vs. Dolph Ziggler vs. Kofi Kingston vs. Sheamus vs. Roman Reigns
Cool to see the Money in the Bank Ladder Match kick off the night with Roman Reigns being the heavy favorite going into this one. Was never really a fan of having over six guys in this match, creates too much of a clutter sometimes and it gets difficult to really take in the action. However, I didn't really have much of a problem with it here and while there were seven guys in the match, they were able to nicely spread out the spots but still had some times during the match were some of the competitors were questionably out for too long. But they were still able to churn out a few cool spots including Randy Orton giving Neville a sweet RKO off a ladder and Roman Reigns tossing Kofi Kingston outside the ring onto everybody else. Reigns looked like he had a clear route to the briefcase until Bray Wyatt appeared out of nowhere and pushed him off the ladder before planting him with a Sister Abigail. Sheamus is able to fight off Neville to score the pretty surprising win. Was very glad to see Sheamus win here, he definitely earned his spot back in the main event scene and his new look had definitely reinvigorated his career, no matter how many internet geeks hated it. Also a solid way to keep Reigns away from the title picture for awhile with him now having to deal with Wyatt.
Winner: Sheamus
Rating: ****

Match 2: WWE Divas Championship - Nikki Bella (c) vs. Paige
At this point, Nikki Bella is atop the Divas division as both her and her sister are running rampant. Paige steps up and looks to finally put an end to things. Trouble already starts for her when Nikki comes to the ring alone... you already know that Brie is somewhere underneath the ring. Decent match here with just about what you would expect from these two, nothing really out of the ordinary but definitely one of the better Divas matches from this era with them getting 11 or so minutes to work out. Paige thinks she scored the win but it only after Nikki did her switch with Brie who was hiding underneath the ring. The referee didn't end up calling for the bell and instead saw Nikki arrive back to the match to hit a Rack Attack for the win. Interesting swerve to the match but definitely not one that really made too sense.
Winner: Nikki Bella
Rating: **1/4

Match 3: WWE Intercontinental Championship - Ryback (c) vs. The Big Show
With The Big Show punching The Miz out of the title picture, he inserted himself into this spot against Ryback for the Intercontinental Championship. I know, match of the year is ready to go down here. As you would expect, a pretty slow and physical match between the two here with both guys getting in their offenses including Ryback kicking out of a Chokeslam. After Ryback attacks The Miz who was doing commentary, The Miz retaliates by attacking The Big Show with a microphone for the referee to call for disqualification. Pretty lame ending to what was already a pretty uninteresting match. A Miz attack after the match concluded would have been the better call here since we already got a screwy finish in the previous match. Either way, moving on.
Winner: The Big Show (via disqualification)
Rating: *3/4

Match 4: Kevin Owens vs. John Cena
Kevin Owens had one of the coolest main roster debuts in WWE history when he challenged John Cena to a match at Elimination Chamber before beating him CLEAN. Not many can actually hold that accomplishment in a WWE ring. Their rematch was set here at Money in the Bank and much like their first encounter, they did not disappoint here. Cena was in the midst of an incredible United States Championship reign while Owens was still the NXT Champion. Crazy to think how Cena had some of his best stuff so later in his career. Loved how Cena put this dude over a month prior to this and love how he is legitimately being challenged throughout this match. Of course, this forced Cena to toss out some tricks from his bag including hitting a freaking variation of a Canadian Destroyer which had the crowd going rowdy. Every nearfall was believable and made sense before Cena was finally able to hit a stunner and an Attitude Adjustment to score the big win to even out his series against Owens. Wow, another fantastic match between the two and another excellent piece of Cena's extensive catalog of matches in 2015. Dude was a machine. Owens lost but his value still holds high, great stuff.
Winner: John Cena
Rating: ****1/2

Match 5: WWE Tag Team Championship - The New Day (c) vs. The Prime Time Players
Tough task for these guys to follow that banger of a match but with The New Day having such a great run as heels, they were more than capable enough of getting some easy heat on them before the match with a great promo. Kofi Kingston is out of the mix here after going through his match earlier so this is finally going to be an even match. Always been a fan of The Prime Time Players so it's cool to see them get some shine here against The New Day. Pretty standard tag match with Darren Young being in the ring for the majority of the match as both Big E and Xavier Woods went to work on him before Young was able to score the hot tag to Titus O'Neil. Once big Titus was in the ring, he wrecked havoc on everyone and scored the huge win for himself and Young. Awesome to see O'Neil and Young get the rub here, definitely two underrated guys in the company.
Winners: The Prime Time Players
Rating: **1/4

Match 6: WWE World Heavyweight Championship - Ladder Match - Seth Rollins (c) vs. Dean Ambrose
With their last match at Elimination Chamber ending with a fishy finish, the rematch is on in a Ladder Match and Seth Rollins won't be having any of his goons at ringside for it. At this point, having two Ladder Matches on a singular card can get to be a little overkill so I'm glad they at least spaced the two matches out. Action was just as you would expect from the two with the fight spilling out everywhere and the two using chairs and ladders to inflict pain to one another. Of course, Rollins was playing defense for the better part of the match and trying to escape away from Ambrose by leaving him in the crowd at one point. But the novelty of it all kind of wore thin about half way in. They went on for over 35 minutes and it was pretty draining. Finally, the two climb the ladder and both men fall off the ladder simultaneously but with Rollins being the one to hold on to the gold on the way down, he is declared the winner. Afterwards, Rollins is greeted by Triple H for the showing of appreciation for the win. Decent main event but again, too long for my liking and the crowd was definitely lost in the scuffle because of it. However, I did like the finish with Rollins escaping with another debatable win but this time without the help of outside interference.
Winner: Seth Rollins
Rating: ***1/4

Overall Show Thoughts and Rating:
John Cena and Kevin Owens easily stole the show and really injected some life into this pretty lifeless PPV. The opening Money in the Bank Match was pretty fun but everything else just felt bland and nothing too exciting. If there's any reason to go back and relive this PPV, it's simply for the Cena vs. Owens match. 
Rating: 6.5/10