CM Punk's Effect on the Men's MITB Ladder Match
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What is the overall premise of the episode and who are the hosts?
Welcome to the Bust Open Podcast. Along with Justin LaVar, I'm Jonathan Hood. And on today's show, we talk about the men's Money in the Bank qualifiers. What's next for CM Punk? What's next for Gunther and Finn Balor? We talk about it right here on the Bust Open Podcast. This is the Busted Open Podcast. Here's something I never asked you before. So where do you place Money in the Bank amongst the best PLEs for WWE? Where does it rank for you?
since its inception as a pay-per-view, so obviously it started as a match stipulation that they did at WrestleMania and then they transferred it over to a pay-per-view. From the inception of it as a pay-per-view through the remainder of Vince's reign running the company,
I
had said to myself that this has been bumped up and I consider this part of the big four, it being number four. And I demoted, I relegated survivor series. I thought survivor series had become an out, you know, 1988. It's a great concept. You know, when, when you never, when you, when you rarely see talent versus talent, you see a lot of talent versus enhancement, talent, a lot of squash matches. to see all these talent teaming up together, that's a novel thing. Big deal. Great concept in 1988. Yeah. But then you get to like, you know, fast forward 30 years later, multi-man tag team matches is an easy night's work on a SmackDown.
It is.
So I bumped Money in the Bank up. I thought it was part of the big four. I have now, I still think it's a great, I still think it's a great event. It's a great stipulation. It's a great creative tool.
How do the hosts rank Money‑in‑the‑Bank among WWE’s major pay‑per‑views?
But Survivor Series has bumped back up in its importance with it being now gimmicked around war games. And they've done a pretty good job with the stories they've tried to set up and tell since Triple H took over, since they brought war games into the fold. And so it's kind of a cop. Now I just call it the big five. I think it's
a
power five.
Yeah, so that's what we call the Mount Rushmore, folks, the big five. You can't do it that way. Yes, I can. No, no, but I think that, but you're right on track, though, because WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, friends of mine are just Royal Rumble fans. Can you imagine that? There's some that are just like, Mania's not for me, Rumble's my number one. Rumble parties, right? They don't have WrestleMania parties. Some of my friends just have, hey, come over for the Rumble. What about Mania? That's not for me. That's for people that are on the outside that know the WrestleMania name. But Royal Rumble is for me. That's what my friends
say. I've come across people the same way that they, again, have the parties. They're doing a little gambling of can you guess who's coming next and put a dollar in the whatever. I will say, though, the last few years as Rumble has gone on on the men's side, there's been less and less, I feel like, surprises. And part of that is because- Like, nostalgia surprises, I'll say. I mean, obviously, you know, it's a surprise when, oh, Royce Keyes is now here in WWE, and he's called
Royce
Keyes. Like, there's those. But, like, there's been less and less of this guy from the past. And part of that's just because there's less and less of those people to pull from, either because they're not physically able to, or they're not alive, or that surprise has been done. So I will say, I feel like the Royal Rumble has lost a little bit of that mainstream... gathering because there's been a little bit less of you know that you know if you're not watching regular wrestling then seeing royce key show up in wb isn't necessarily a that doesn't mean as much to you as it would if wrestler or whoever from the attitude error shows up
the spoilers hurt yeah i heard that too sometimes
that true yeah oh oh this guy's in town this guy's in town this guy's in town well there's a convention
what do you know we as fans go a little bit too far sometimes we're checking flight patterns and hanging out the whole at the airport or the hotel looking for people
that is what i can't tell you they're they're this not recently but i'm saying like 10 years ago when i used to host chair shot reality it was a studio in studio tv talk show i'd done a tv studio done locally and then aired on the internet as well and i we we had some nice budget to bring some people in i mean we had
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the overall premise of the episode and who are the hosts?
0:00–1:48
2
How do the hosts rank Money‑in‑the‑Bank among WWE’s major pay‑per‑views?
1:48–8:02
3
Why do the hosts consider Money‑in‑the‑Bank part of the “big five” events?
8:02–29:30
4
Which men are qualified for the Money‑in‑the‑Bank ladder match and what are their storylines?
29:30–33:24
5
What is the future outlook for Finn Balor after his recent Money‑in‑the‑Bank performance?
33:24–41:22