WWE Money In The Bank 2015

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Written By: Mark Armstrong

Genre: Wrestling
Produced By: WWE
Format: Pay-Per-View
Date: June 14 2015
Location: Nationwide Arena, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Attendance: 15,277

Money In The Bank has often been one of the top WWE Pay-Per-View events of the year. This year, the card promised two Ladder matches (one of which was MITB) and a rematch of John Cena-Kevin Owens from Elimination Chamber. Combined with a number of under-card matches, then, expectations were fairly high going into this show that it would be a barnburner. In the end, though, I felt that while there was a true Match Of The Year contender and the action was largely good, the show overall still felt slightly underwhelming, and while it was by no means a bad card, it had a couple of flaws preventing it from being a truly memorable event.

Money In The Bank began, rightly, by paying tribute to the recently-passed Dusty Rhodes. The American Dream was one of the biggest names in wrestling history, and his respect level within WWE and the wrestling industry was underlined by the entire roster, headed up by Vince McMahon, Triple H and Stephanie McMahon, as the bell tolled ten times with wrestlers and fans standing in silence to show respect to Dusty. This was followed by his music playing once more, with fans spontaneously clapping along, making it an even more touching moment. But what really did bring me close to tears was the video tribute to Dusty, shown a little later on the card, which perfectly encapsulated what Dusty meant to so many and what he achieved. Although the video tributes are generally speaking unfortunate to have to watch (because they are playing after a performer has died), they are brilliantly compelling and excellently produced, and WWE does a great job of having you smile when reliving fond memories before feeling upset when they end with the final graphic paying tribute to the fallen hero. That definitely was the case here, but was even more notable on the MITB Kick-Off show when host Renee Young genuinely broke down in tears and delivered her subsequent links while not being shown on camera because she was so upset having known Dusty and then watched this tribute. The whole situation is just so sad, but WWE paid tribute to Dusty perfectly here. If anything, this was the most memorable aspect of the entire card for me.

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