Money in the Bank 2022: Liv Morgan Gets the Night She Waited Years For

The women's Money in the Bank Ladder Match opens the show with one enormous advantage: the audience genuinely wants Liv Morgan to win. That emotional investment gives a familiar stipulation a clear center even while seven wrestlers rotate through ladders and set pieces. The match is occasionally messy, but it always knows where the crowd's attention belongs.

Raquel Rodriguez supplies the power spots while Asuka and Becky Lynch keep the exchanges organized. Shotzi provides the recklessness expected from the stipulation, and several ladder transitions land awkwardly enough to keep the match from feeling polished. The danger feels real without becoming the only point.

Morgan's final save is the match's best piece of invention. Lynch tips her ladder toward the ropes, Morgan plants a foot on the top rope to steady herself and springs back into position before knocking Lynch away. The recovery turns a familiar climb into a memorable winning image.

Morgan unhooks the briefcase and receives the response WWE has clearly been chasing. The victory pays off years of audience support and gives the rest of the event a live storyline rather than making the briefcase merely a future promise. Her night is only halfway finished.

Cagematch currently lists the match at 5.70 from more than two hundred forty votes, while the reported Observer rating was 3.25 stars. The execution is uneven, but the winner, finish and crowd reaction lift it above the raw mechanics. WrestleFile lands at B / 7.5.

Bobby Lashley and Theory receive eleven minutes and use them to make the United States Championship change feel far more substantial than the feud's pose-down origins suggest. Theory is still presented as the obnoxious young project, while Lashley enters as the established destroyer the crowd would rather see with the title. The alignment is simple and effective.

Theory survives by constantly creating distance. He uses speed, counters and shortcuts rather than pretending he can overpower Lashley, while the challenger keeps shrinking the available space with increasingly violent bursts. The match has a clear physical logic.

Theory's attempt at A-Town Down becomes the final mistake. Lashley escapes, locks in the Hurt Lock and forces the submission cleanly. The title change gives WWE another powerful secondary champion and appears to close Theory's night on a bad note.

That apparent failure becomes important later when Theory is inserted into the men's ladder match. The loss therefore works twice: Lashley gets a meaningful championship victory and Theory is freed from one title before chasing a much larger opportunity. The booking becomes clearer by the end of the show.

Cagematch currently lists the match at 6.28 from just over two hundred votes, while the reported Observer rating was 3.25 stars. It is a strong straightforward title match without the spectacle of the card's major attractions. WrestleFile lands at B- / 7.4.

Bianca Belair against Carmella arrives as a replacement program after Rhea Ripley is removed from the event for medical reasons. That history makes the result feel almost completely predetermined. The seven-minute match never finds a way around the lack of suspense.

Carmella works efficiently enough as a heel challenger and catches Belair with a superkick for the one near fall that briefly wakes the crowd. Belair's strength spots remain over and the champion never looks especially vulnerable. The wrestling is competent and slight.

Belair hits the K.O.D. and retains cleanly. Carmella attacks afterward to keep the television feud alive, which only reinforces the sense that the pay-per-view match is an intermediate chapter rather than a destination. Nothing about the title picture meaningfully changes.

Cagematch currently lists the match at 4.58 from fewer than two hundred votes, and the reported Observer rating was two stars. There is nothing disastrous here, but there is almost nothing essential either. WrestleFile lands at C- / 5.8.

The Usos and Street Profits spend the first half of their twenty-three-minute match proving that patience still matters on a card built around ladders. The champions isolate both challengers in turn and deliberately delay the fireworks. When the match accelerates, the contrast makes every major exchange feel larger.

Montez Ford becomes the obvious explosive variable. His frog splash looks enormous, Angelo Dawkins supplies the power and the Usos respond with the timing of a team already deep into a historic reign. Neither side needs weapons or a gimmick to make the near falls matter.

The late stretch is exceptional. Double superkicks, blockbuster combinations, broken pin attempts and increasingly desperate saves build on one another without losing track of who is legal. The crowd that had cooled during the previous title match is fully engaged.

The Usos finally hit the 1D on Ford and retain, but replay shows Ford's shoulder was off the mat. The flaw becomes productive because it gives the Street Profits an immediate reason to demand the SummerSlam rematch. The disputed finish does not erase the quality of the twenty-three minutes before it.

Cagematch currently lists the match at 8.22 from nearly three hundred votes, while the reported Observer rating was 4.5 stars. Later Pro Wrestling Dot Net retrospectives confirm that readers chose it as match of the night with 50 percent of the vote. WrestleFile lands at A / 9.2.

Ronda Rousey and Natalya follow the hottest match on the card with a submission-heavy championship bout that asks the audience to slow down immediately. The technical idea is sound because both wrestlers can plausibly attack limbs and reverse holds. The crowd never fully accepts Natalya as a threat.

Natalya's Sharpshooter work gives the match a clear target once Rousey's knee becomes vulnerable. Rousey answers by stealing the Sharpshooter herself and then cycling through ankle and arm attacks. The exchanges are logical even when the building remains quiet.

Rousey finally traps Natalya in the armbar and forces the submission. The clean result is less important than the knee damage Rousey continues selling after the bell. That injury becomes the entire bridge to the next match.

Cagematch currently lists the match at 5.23 from just under two hundred votes, while the reported Observer rating was 3.25 stars. It is technically solid and emotionally flat. WrestleFile lands at C+ / 6.8.

Liv Morgan's cash-in lasts thirty-five seconds and is almost impossible to judge as ordinary wrestling. Its value comes from timing: Ronda Rousey has just survived Natalya with a damaged knee, Morgan has spent years chasing a first championship and the audience understands the opportunity instantly. The building changes the moment Morgan's music hits.

Rousey still catches Morgan in the ankle lock, briefly threatening to turn the dream moment into a disaster. Morgan attacks the damaged knee, escapes and rolls Rousey into the pin. The entire match is one clean narrative sentence.

Rousey hands Morgan the championship and embraces her afterward. That keeps the title change from reading like a cheap robbery and lets Morgan's celebration become the emotional centerpiece. The cash-in completes the biggest night of her career.

The thirty-five-second length prevents a meaningful in-ring grade, but the payoff is historically important and extremely effective. WrestleFile separates the quality of the moment from the amount of wrestling actually performed. It lands at C / 6.4.

The men's Money in the Bank Ladder Match starts with seven advertised wrestlers and immediately changes when Adam Pearce adds Theory as the eighth. The surprise entrant has lost the United States Championship earlier in the show, making the addition feel suspicious before he touches a ladder. The crowd knows instantly that Theory matters.

Omos gives the match a useful common enemy. The field repeatedly has to cooperate to neutralize him, culminating in the group powerbomb through the announce table. That structure prevents eight wrestlers from becoming eight unrelated highlight reels.

The strongest sequences belong to Riddle and Seth Rollins. Riddle's RKO from the ladder removes Rollins at the perfect moment and creates what appears to be the final climb. Theory then reappears on the opposite side and turns the ending into a direct confrontation.

Theory knocks Riddle down and takes the briefcase. The finish is intentionally unpopular and immediately positions the young heel beside the world-title picture without requiring him to beat a champion. The later failure of his cash-in changes the legacy of the win but not the effectiveness of the surprise that night.

Cagematch currently lists the match at 6.80 from more than two hundred fifty votes, while the reported Observer rating was 4.25 stars. The match is more coherent than many eight-person ladder spectacles even if the winner divides the audience. WrestleFile lands at B+ / 8.3.