Random Money In The Bank Participants You Totally Forgot About!

The Money In The Bank ladder match has played host to a sea of WWE Hall Of Famers and world champions, with previous winners including legends in John Cena, Edge, CM Punk, Randy Orton, and so many more over the years. Those in the match have a chance at making history, earning a surefire shot at a world title… but some of these participants are very random and you might have forgotten all about them.

Throughout the history of the Money In The Bank ladder match there have been wrestlers who arguably should not have been in the field, with them having very little chance whatsoever of climbing the ladder and retrieving the iconic briefcase.

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Fandango

• WWE tried to push Fandango in 2013.
• He competed in a Money In The Bank ladder match won by Damien Sandow.
• Fandango had no chance of winning the briefcase.

Fandango arrived on the scene in 2013, shockingly winning in his debut match at WrestleMania against Chris Jericho. In the months following, his momentum dropped substantially, but that didn’t stop WWE from including him in the 2013 Money In The Bank ladder match. To think Fandango had a chance at winning the briefcase is wild in hindsight, given that he fell quickly into becoming a glorified enhancement talent down in the lower card in WWE.

Despite Fandango’s standing on the card in WWE, this ended up being one of the best (or at least most underrated) Money In The Bank ladder matches ever, with Fandango playing his role well.

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Tensai

• WWE tried to book Tensai as a monster heel.
• He competed in the 2012 Money In The Bank match.
• Dolph Ziggler won this iteration of the ladder match.

When A-Train returned to WWE in 2012, WWE attempted to book him as the monster heel “Tensai”, following up on his time spent in Japan. However, fans quickly gave up on him and did not take the act seriously. WWE persisted for a little while before giving up themselves, but not before putting him in the Money In The Bank ladder match in 2012.

Tensai is a wrestler who fans would find it hard to believe that he was ever booked to be in a Money In The Bank ladder match, but he was in fact in the mix once upon a time.

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Tyson Kidd

• Kidd rarely got any opportunity to compete as a serious singles competitor.
• He was a member of the busy 2012 Money In The Bank match.
• This was one of his only WWE PPVs competing as a singles star.

Throughout the course of his WWE career, Tyson Kidd hardly got any spotlight as a singles division star. He found his success in the tag team division alongside the likes of David Hart Smith and Cesaro, but his singles exploits came few and far between. In one random and rare occasion, he found himself included in the 2012 Money In The Bank ladder match, which was won by Dolph Ziggler.

Outside of the Royal Rumble, this was the only time Kidd was ever featured on a WWE PPV as a singles competitor, which just goes to show how random his inclusion was here.

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Madcap Moss

• Vince McMahon tried to push Madcap Moss.
• He wrestled at Money In The Bank 2022.
• Fans didn’t care for Moss in WWE.

In the latter years of Vince McMahon’s WWE leadership, one of the last names to receive a new push was Madcap Moss… even though fans had very little care for this jokester. The whole “Madcap” gimmick didn’t work, and his inclusion in bouts such as the Money In The Bank ladder match in 2022 were bizarre booking decisions.

He didn’t win the briefcase (of course), and added little to it in terms of quality and memorable moments. In the end, it was Austin Theory who won this negatively received ladder match.

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Lana

• Lana is often considered one of WWE’s worst wrestlers.
• In 2018, she competed in the Money In The Bank ladder match.
• No one thought Lana had any chance of winning the match.

Lana came into WWE as a manager, before transitioning into a wrestler in rather unsuccessful fashion. Out of all of those in the WWE women’s division at the time, Lana was arguably the weakest in-ring worker out of everyone… but somehow she earned a spot in the 2018 Money In The Bank ladder match in a very random and forgettable inclusion in the matchup.

Alexa Bliss was the winner of this year’s Money In The Bank, and Lana never came close – nor did she stand any sort of chance.

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Alex Riley

• Alex Riley received a small push in 2011.
• Some fans wanted him to win the Money In The Bank briefcase.
• Riley’s WWE career was short-lived.

On the back of his partnership with The Miz, Alex Riley conjured up some momentum in WWE, leading to him experiencing a small singles push in 2011. This led him to participating in the Money In The Bank ladder match – and he was even considered as a potential winner at the time.

Unfortunately for Riley, his booking would take a nosedive and he fell out of serious contention, becoming a forgotten part of WWE’s history. It is wild to look back in hindsight to consider that he was at one stage potentially in the mix to be a big star.

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Santino Marella

• Marella only competed in one Money In The Bank match.
• WWE sometimes put the comedic Marella in big matches.
• He wrestled at Money In The Bank 2012.

Santino Marella is one of WWE’s most prominent comedy characters ever, which is exactly why he and the Money In The Bank ladder match do not gel with one another. However, much like his runner-up performances in one-off bouts at the Royal Rumble and Elimination Chamber, Marella got a chance to be in the Money In The Bank ladder match back in 2012 (in what has proven to be quite a random field).

Marella was never going to win the match, but there were certainly fans who had a sneaky hope that he’d emerge with the briefcase.