Money in the Bank Predictions

Money in the Bank PPV Predictions

Women’s Championship Layla vs. Kelly Kelly: Kelly Kelly as new Women’s Champion, why the hell not.

Divas Championship Alicia Fox vs. Eve: Alicia retains.

Unified Tag Team Champions Hart Dynasty vs. Uso’s: Hart’s retain

World “Heavyweight” Champion Rey Mysterio vs. Jack Swagger: Rey retains.

WWE Champion Sheamus vs. John Cena: The champ returns, doh.

Smackdown MitB Ladder Match: For this match and the RAW version I have decided to do confidence points for all the competitors, the WWE has done a good job of making the winners of these matches hard to predict. As fans we tend to complain quite a bit about how predictable things can get, this PPV has definitely made me think a lot. I wonder why they have been burring certain people, thinking perhaps they are setting us up to make them the winner, much like Jack Swagger at WM26. Then I think they are pushing certain people up, where we might all think they will win, but then we all second guess if it’s just a red herring. So nice work WWE, you’ve made us all over think.

Smackdown:

Kofi Kingston (8 Confidence Points) Kofi seems the most logical pick. He has a likeability that is unique and this would take him the next level. Smackdown needs some help desperately at the top.

Kane (7 CPs) Kane has brought some life to SD recently. This would be a great reward. I don’t ever see him getting a title shot unless he feuds with Taker for the title down the line. I think Kane is a bit of a dark horse, but it would be a nice surprise.

Christian (6 CPs) He is my personal favorite to win, which means he will probably get attacked from behind by Luke Gallows and lose his spot in the match. Christian is too good to be stuck in mid-card hell, especially on Smackdown.

Dashing Cody Rhodes (5 CPs) I’m a fan of Dashing Cody Rhodes, that’s the only reason he’s ranked above Drew McIntyre. WWE needs to push the young talent, and this would be a way to do it. Cody has improved tremendously and it seems he was hiding a good amount of in ring talent while in Legacy.

Drew McIntyre (4 CPs) If Vince is still high on him he could win this. I think a lot of us expected him to win at the WM 26 MitB Ladder match. I don’t think it’s going to happen tonight, but somewhere down the road Drew is going to get title shots.

Matt Hardy (3 CPs) I don’t even know where to start here, I think Matt might be a bit delusional. I will leave it at that.

Dolph Ziggler (2 CPs) Thanks for coming.

Big Show (1 CPs) There is no reason for Show to be in this match. He doesn’t need a brief case to get a title shot.  He doesn’t need to be in this match except to catch someone flying out of the ring to do a moonsault, but wait, Kofi and Cody are the closest thing this match has to a high flyer. Perhaps  Shelton Benjamin is available.

RAW

This match makes my brain hurt. Wrestling fans shouldn’t have to think so much to analyze a match. I could honestly see 7 of these 8 men winning this match. The star power is ridiculous. I think this match could be epic.

The Miz (8 Confidence Points) This is who I want to win, but I would be happy with 5 of the possible 9 winners. Yeah, I said 9.

Randy Orton (7 CPs) I only picked Miz over Orton because Randy doesn’t need the briefcase to get a title shot, he’s had a shot at both titles already this year. Miz is killing it of late, this would elevate him to the main event immediately. If Jericho is taking a break (see below) and Edge is retiring soon (again see below), we need another self absorbed, blow-hard in the main event picture. Miz fits the role to a tee. On to Orton, who has been booked very strong as of late, making the simplest of wrestling fans seem to think that he will win. I can see it, if he does I expect that he challenges Sheamus at SummerSlam. I don’t expect he will just attack him, a la Edge. But wait, didn’t I say Cena would take the belt back? Yes. I think a lot of who wins this match is connected to who has the title.

Chris Jericho (6 CPs) I have gone back and forth with where to put Jericho on here. Since his feud with Edge, Chris has been squashed pretty much every week on RAW. I can’t figure out if it’s to make him an underdog for this match, so he can win and steal another belt on his way out the door, or if they are just punishing him for not signing a new contract. Apparently his contract is up soon and he’s not signed a new one. Personally I hope he does take a break, which would hurt RAW tremendously, but I could return in a few months (Royal Rumble anyone?) and be good old Y2J again.

Edge (5 CPs) Much like Jericho I can’t figure this out. The only reason Edge is this high is because he’s been involved with the cashing in of all the MitB suitcases. A win here would surprise me, but if he or Orton wins, there feud could continue and involve the suitcase.

Mystery Man (4 CPs) I would not be surprised if NXT were to become involved before this match, taking someone out and most likely Wade Barrett getting in. I would love to see this actually. This would make NXT more of a threat that it already is. Barrett did get cheated out of a title shot already.

Evan Bourne (3 CPs) It’s not quite his time yet. I expect some very good spots from him though.

Ted DiBiase (2 CPs) Out of him, Bourne and Morrison, Ted winning would shock me the least. They seem to be trying to push him, it’s a work in progress at this point though.

John Morrison (1 CPs) Smackdown suited you better.

Mark Henry (0 CPs) you got, no chance. No chance in Hell!

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