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Post by Pierre the Renaissance Man on Dec 26, 2016 6:49:19 GMT -5
How would you guys react to a mystery man being the Money in the Bank holder? A way to pull it off would be having a new manager debut on his own. Come the ladder match, he climbs up and grabs the briefcase while everyone else is knocked down. He goes on and on saying that his client will cash it in when he's good and ready. It would create some much needed suspense and could go a bunch of different ways. Anyone else on board with this?
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Post by Powerline on Dec 26, 2016 6:55:05 GMT -5
The client better be a surefire home run that ain't soon for the roster already (like Joe or Nakamura). A Bobby Roode or Jay Lethal if they ever get him (now I need to stop thinking about the idea of Truth Martini doing just that before I get too giddy over the idea...even though I'm about to bash that idea too), or maybe Kurt Angle. It can't be a (in WWE's vacuum) no-name manager, and it HAS to be a major player not already on the main roster. You whiff on either one, and it's a "no go" from me.
If they could build up Rusev as a decent World Title threat, the idea of Lana doing what you're proposing and the wrestlers not wanting to hurt a woman could add an interesting wrinkle to it. You could even have that lead to an angle where someone beats him for the briefcase, if they still wanna be butthurt over their relationship.
But that's just me throwing darts. I'd expect them to not even come remotely close to something like what you've drawn up. Hell, when it comes to Raw specifically, I wouldn't trust the writers and bookers there to boil water, let alone make that angle work.
Your idea of someone grabbing the case unscathed was always how I imagined someone cashing in the briefcase the same night as the match itself; someone hits a HUGE spot that clears out everyone except someone who was previously sent to the outside, and they just make a mad, dramatics-free dash for the belt and get the hell out of dodge. But Kane and Ambrose just no sold the damage and went out and took it.
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Post by captainhindsite on Dec 26, 2016 6:55:59 GMT -5
Cool idea but instead of the manager in the match I would have him pump up his dude before the match and have his guy debut and win the mib. I could see them doing a mib with the miz in it and a bunch of dudes he has already beaten for the ic belt daniel bryan tells him there will be one mystery opponent and Samoa joe debuts and wins mib.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Dec 26, 2016 7:02:26 GMT -5
Good idea. Don't know about the manager thing. Maybe if the winner decides to sell the briefcase to a mystery party.
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Post by Powerline on Dec 26, 2016 7:06:14 GMT -5
Good idea. Don't know about the manager thing. Maybe if the winner decides to sell the briefcase to a mystery party. That could've been interesting if DiBiase Jr. was still around and if they'd had ever had any real stock in him. It could've been a throwback to Andre selling the world title to his dad, but Jr. could block that since the briefcase isn't a proper belt. |
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Post by Pierre the Renaissance Man on Dec 26, 2016 7:11:24 GMT -5
Kurt Angle was definitely the guy I had in mind for this. I definitely agree that it needs to be someone big. You could even have the manager bring back someone like Wade Barrett or Damien Sandow and make it seem like they're the one with the briefcase but in actuality it's someone huge like Angle. Picture John Cena tying Flair with number 16 at SummerSlam only for Sandow to attack him after with chair shots. Everyone thinks it's gonna be him when the manager comes out with the briefcase and introduces his other new client Kurt Angle. The roof would blow off the Barclays Center.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Dec 26, 2016 8:41:17 GMT -5
someone not even in the match (who isn't even a wrestler) winning the match and then giving their prize to an unidentified third party is one of the most Russo-tastic story ideas I've ever heard. don't let him see this!
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Dec 26, 2016 9:08:11 GMT -5
I like the idea, would definitely be something different. If they do it smart they could swerve us that someone else has the title like say, I dunno, Sheamus. Hell even have him in cahoots with the actual holder, teasing cash-ins etc to catch the champ off guard when the real Mr. Mitb shows up.
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Post by ________ has left the building on Dec 26, 2016 9:12:12 GMT -5
Only official participants can win the briefcase. Though WWE during the years allow valets to climb the ladder for mid-match distractions.
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Post by bootytea on Dec 26, 2016 10:47:09 GMT -5
I would just have everyone wear masks and outfits that mask their identity so no one knows who won.
It allows for last minute booking in case WWE mistakenly gives the win to someone like Mr. Kennedy.
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Post by Woo on Dec 26, 2016 10:50:54 GMT -5
Yeah when I read the title I just imagined a guy in a mask winning. That'd be easier to pull off.
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Post by oj32 on Dec 26, 2016 13:41:18 GMT -5
As long as the mystery man is Akeem the African Dream...
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Post by oj32 on Dec 26, 2016 13:44:59 GMT -5
Yeah when I read the title I just imagined a guy in a mask winning. That'd be easier to pull off. Like the WCW Phantom? youtu.be/7PqV-ak6QmY |
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Post by Stu on Dec 26, 2016 14:17:10 GMT -5
I would just have everyone wear masks and outfits that mask their identity so no one knows who won. It allows for last minute booking in case WWE mistakenly gives the win to someone like Mr. Kennedy. I definitely wouldn't recognize Samoa Joe under a mask.  |
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Post by Reflecto on Dec 26, 2016 15:04:58 GMT -5
The client better be a surefire home run that ain't soon for the roster already (like Joe or Nakamura). A Bobby Roode or Jay Lethal if they ever get him (now I need to stop thinking about the idea of Truth Martini doing just that before I get too giddy over the idea...even though I'm about to bash that idea too), or maybe Kurt Angle. It can't be a (in WWE's vacuum) no-name manager, and it HAS to be a major player not already on the main roster. You whiff on either one, and it's a "no go" from me. If you're going to add actual, WWE managers who are not no-names in WWE's vacuum, though, then that leads the most obvious way that this angle can be pulled off as close to OP's idea as possible: The manager who takes the briefcase is Paul Heyman. Do that, and instantly the angle works as well as it could possibly work: You have Paul Heyman, the manager who's sold as the most credible manager in WWE kayfabe right now. Heyman has the perfect red herring there, since everyone would immediately assume that Brock Lesnar has the briefcase and he'll be the one cashing in (and as a result, the MITB winner automatically seems like a surefire home run and people would wait for when Lesnar cashes it in)- but at the same time, if it's NOT Lesnar and it's a surefire home run, they get "MITB Briefcase+ World Title" AND the instant boost that a new talent could expect by being made a "Paul Heyman Guy" to take them over the top. If it's Joe, Nakamura, or Roode, it immediately makes them a star...but even if they're a slightly lesser prospect getting the immediate push (say, a Roderick Strong or an Adam Cole), the "New Paul Heyman Guy" factor probably cancels it out. |
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Post by ben:friendship frog on Dec 26, 2016 19:18:49 GMT -5
I know the Cena heel turn thing is old now but him doing this in desperation to equal/beat Flair's record intrigues me.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Dec 26, 2016 19:30:02 GMT -5
I do like the mystery aspect of it. If they can find a logical way of doing it, it could be one of the great wrestling mysteries like who is the third man, who is the higher power, and who ran over Austin ...
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Post by Dang! on Dec 27, 2016 9:24:10 GMT -5
Yeah when I read the title I just imagined a guy in a mask winning. That'd be easier to pull off. Like the WCW Phantom? youtu.be/7PqV-ak6QmYAs the young teenage mark that I was I would have immediately thought "OMG! It's The Undertaker!" if I watched that back then. |
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