There are solely 4 matches on the 2025 Cash In The Financial institution card. To place that into perspective, there have been eleven in 2019, plus one on the pre-show. A few of that has to do with head booker Triple H’s choice for longer bouts versus Vince McMahon’s choice to get extra individuals on the cardboard, besides, I’m questioning the place on a regular basis goes.
The opposite Cash In The Financial institution playing cards The Recreation has booked have had seven and 5 matches respectively, the latter of which included an almost 25 minute six man tag crew match with prolonged entrances and one other contest with a failed cash-in. So, how is that this going to work with solely 4 matches? Each Cash In The Financial institution ladder match of the Triple H period that includes each the women and men has been between 16 and 21 minutes lengthy. So, as soon as once more, the place is the time going?
Are we going to get one thing added to the cardboard on the final minute, maybe one arrange on this week’s SmackDown? Are we going to get an sudden return? Will we get an unannounced section? I’m curious and determined to search out out, so long as the reply isn’t extra commercials and time losing.
Regardless, there’s lots of good things already locked in. Now we have all of the items for what may very well be the best ladies’s Cash In The Financial institution match in historical past. The Lyra Valkyria and Becky Lynch match needs to be a banger, and my thoughts is leaping backwards and forwards between a number of intriguing prospects for which dude goes to seize the briefcase. Throw within the tag with John Cena and Logan Paul vs Cody Rhodes and Jey Uso that ought to have main ramifications for each world championships and there’s rather a lot right here to be enthusiastic about, even when nothing is added.
Earlier than I’m going over every contest intimately and provides my ideas, right here’s a take a look at how I’ve been doing since I began these predictions for each PLE with WrestleMania 38. I went 4 and 1 at Backlash and am hoping to proceed my successful methods.
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Occasion |
Wins |
Losses |
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2025 Royal Rumble |
3 |
1 |
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2025 Elimination Chamber |
2 |
2 |
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WrestleMania 41 |
9 |
3 |
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2025 Backlash |
4 |
1 |
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General Document |
180 |
60 |
Lyra Valkyria (Champion) Vs Becky Lynch For The Girls’s Intercontinental Championship
Earlier than I get into what I feel goes to occur on this match, I would like to speak about Lyra Valkyria for a minute. I used to be just a little skeptical when Triple H, Bruce Prichard and firm made her the inaugural IC Champion. On the time, she was solely over with a medium-sized share of the group, and whereas her in-ring work was good, it didn’t essentially strike me as greater than marginally higher than the common lady within the division. Fallacious. I used to be so unsuitable.
Lyra is without doubt one of the extra proficient ladies within the locker room, and he or she’s means higher than anticipated on the microphone. She’s additionally legitimately over with lots of the group, and you’ll hear it within the woo noises throughout her entrance. She has the potential to be a future world champion and I’m not completely happy concerning the considered her title run ending right here. It seems like there’s much more meat on the bone.
Sadly, I feel it’s going to finish right here as a result of that’s what is sensible for the storyline. Becky Lynch returned after an prolonged absence and took out Bayley forward of WrestleMania so she might seem on the cardboard. They’re going to want to pay that off with a feud sooner slightly than later, particularly with all of the fan backlash, and it’s much more intriguing with the Intercontinental Championship. Plus, as a lot as I really like Lyra, Becky holding the Intercontinental Championship, with all her accolades, would do rather a lot to legitimize the title.
I feel it’s going to be by way of some type of underhanded or devious means, however I like Becky Lynch to get the win right here, for all the explanations acknowledged above, plus the stupilation within the match that she will’t problem for the IC Title once more so long as Lyra is holding it.
Predicted Winner: Becky Lynch
John Cena And Logan Paul Vs Cody Rhodes And Jey Uso
Most matches are both about successful titles or producing momentum for a personality. You possibly can predict (with cheap accuracy) who’s going to win as a result of you’ll be able to predict which character goes to maneuver greater on the cardboard and which character goes to be pushed down decrease on the cardboard. Sadly, with random tag crew matches like this, it’s not about who wins or loses. It’s concerning the storyline WWE is attempting to arrange.
I believed for certain we had been going to get CM Punk and John Cena for The WWE Championship as the highest invoice at SummerSlam, however this match makes me really feel like we’re working towards operating Cena and Cody Rhodes again. If that’s the case, then I feel it’s doubtless John Cena and Logan Paul are going to win this match. How does that math work out? Prepare for this conspiracy idea.
SummerSlam will not be the subsequent PLE on WWE’s calendar. That honor belongs to Night time Of Champions. I feel it’s very doubtless John Cena goes to wrestle there for the championship, given the poster is actually him holding the belt and the PPV is named Night time Of Champions. With all due respect to Saudi Arabia, I don’t suppose WWE goes to burn John Cena vs Cody Rhodes’ rematch at an occasion in Asia that begins within the afternoon US time. If Cody wins right here, significantly if he pins John Cena, he’d have an affordable case to ask for an instantaneous rematch, however since I don’t suppose that rematch is coming for 2 months, I feel it’s doubtless he’s going to lose right here.
Plus, that may play into Jey Uso’s storyline with Gunther, because the latter has repeatedly criticized the previous for getting concerned in different individuals’s enterprise and has stated it’ll price him his personal title. The 2 are set to wrestle throughout Monday Night time Uncooked this week, and it might make sense for the storyline if he was injured and beat up after shedding right here.
Predicted Winner: John Cena and Logan Paul.
The Males’s Cash In The Financial institution Ladder Match That includes Seth Rollins, LA Knight, Solo Sikoa, El Grande Americano, Penta and Andrade
There are two theories on the best way to e-book a MITB match. The primary is to jam in as many individuals as doable with a official likelihood to win. The second is to e-book sturdy employees with quite a lot of types to take advantage of entertaining match doable, even when many don’t really make sense to win. That is undoubtedly a case of the second. So, let’s begin eliminating individuals who can’t win.
Andrade is a good employee and had a implausible sequence with Carmelo Hayes final 12 months, however he has nearly no momentum proper now. He’s additionally the least over with the group on this match by a mile. Penta is tremendous over and does have lots of momentum, however he actually hasn’t interacted with individuals in the primary occasion scene a lot in any respect. Usually we see MITB winners with prior expertise having received a mid-card title earlier than. That’s additionally an issue for El Grande Americano, whoever he’s. His good friend Chad Gable has received tag crew gold earlier than, however competing for a world championship appears too far a step up. Solo Sikoa has no less than fought for The WWE Championship, however he’s extra over as a comedy character and due to what he’s doing as a frenemy to Jacob Fatu.
That leaves two individuals with greater than a random, WTF-was-that likelihood to win this 12 months: Seth Rollins and LA Knight. Let’s begin with Rollins. He’s the largest identify within the discipline by a mile, and he simply launched a very buzzy faction with Paul Heyman, Bron Breakker and Bronson Reed. Most individuals anticipate him to win the World Heavyweight Championship again sooner slightly than later, and successful right here could be an effective way to indicate he’s going to be a fair larger deal for the foreseeable future. You’d definitely suppose you wouldn’t need him to take such a excessive profile loss this early within the faction’s run, proper?
Effectively, I’m not so certain. Rollins is presently feuding with CM Punk, and there’s nonetheless the Roman Reigns of all of it hanging over everybody’s heads. He’s additionally Seth Rollins and doesn’t want the briefcase to raise himself or to get a title shot. Plus, Triple H has proven that he typically likes build up a personality by having them take some losses. Simply ask Drew McIntyre, who all of us thought was going to be champion by now.
LA Knight is an interesting possibility as a result of he’s a extra conventional Cash In The Financial institution winner. He’s received mid-card championships and is tremendous over with the group. We’ve all been ready for him to ascend to that subsequent degree, and he in all probability wants the briefcase with a purpose to do this. He’s not the kind of man who might simply stroll into Nick Aldis’ workplace and demand a World Heavyweight Championship match. Plus, he’s misplaced in shut trend the final two years, and if he’s ever going to get to that subsequent degree, now feels just like the time to get there.
Predicted Winner: LA Knight
The Girls’s Cash In The Financial institution Ladder Match That includes Rhea Ripley, Stephanie Vaquer, Roxanne Perez, Naomi, Alexa Bliss and Giulia.
That is, with out query, the match I’m most enthusiastic about, and it’s not even shut. The ladies’s division in WWE has by no means been this stacked, and this lineup is the proper instance of that. We’ve acquired the largest feminine star within the historical past of the business (Ripley), a little doubt first poll Corridor of Famer (Bliss), a possible Corridor of Famer in the course of essentially the most thrilling storyline of her profession (Naomi) and three actually promising current NXT call-ups who all have world championship potential. Matches like this are why I watch wrestling.
With all due respect to Giulia, I’m going to eradicate her instantly. She’s not successful as a result of WWE has already tipped that she’s going after Zelina Vega and The Girls’s United States Championship. I’m additionally going to, as a lot because it destroys my coronary heart, eradicate Alexa Bliss. She is getting among the greatest pops on all the roster. I need Triple H to push her desperately, however nothing about her reserving foretells an enormous win like this. She wasn’t even on the ‘Mania card. I don’t get it, however Triple H simply doesn’t use her as a lot as I’d.
Roxanne Perez completed second within the Royal Rumble this previous 12 months and has an intriguing storyline going with Liv Morgan. If she received the briefcase right here, it might make for some actually fascinating tv, as we all know Liv is determined to get her arms on one of many large titles once more. Stephanie Vaquer can be a compelling possibility as a result of she’s been handled like a famous person since she was known as as much as the primary roster. She’s getting larger pops from the group than any current NXT call-up, and whereas I don’t suppose it’s going to occur, it might be actually cool to see them instantly elevate somebody to the primary occasion proper after getting known as up.
Each of these ladies (and Alexa Bliss who I’ll by no means cease rooting for) have stay playing cards and are potential winners, however I feel the probably selections are Naomi and Rhea Ripley. Let’s do the Rhea half first. I don’t love her successful for a similar cause I don’t love Seth Rollins successful. The briefcase has historically been used to raise a expertise to the subsequent degree, and successful right here would do nothing for Rhea, other than including one other accomplishment to her resume. She doesn’t want the briefcase to beat anybody clear although, and he or she doesn’t want the briefcase to get a title shot from her buddy Iyo Sky.
However Rhea must be concerned in a serious storyline, and this may be a simple strategy to give her one thing to do for awhile. She would additionally, little doubt, get her personal customized briefcase type, and that may permit WWE to promote these, in addition to new motion figures of her holding the briefcase. A whole lot of followers need to see her do one thing else apart from being champion, and this may let her chase just a little bit whereas nonetheless being one of many fundamental characters on Monday Night time Uncooked.
At first look, Naomi looks like a little bit of an odd alternative, given she’s feuding with Jade Cargill and Bianca Belair. Clearly, wherever her story goes includes them, however their storyline could be magnified if it concerned a world championship. So, what if Naomi wins the briefcase, cashes in on Tiffany Stratton after which all of a sudden the strap makes the connection between the three former buddies that rather more difficult? I need to watch that.
Predicted Winner: Naomi
Will Anybody Money In Later In The Night time?
Final 12 months, Drew McIntyre cashed within the Cash In The Financial institution briefcase he’d simply received however was thwarted in his try by CM Punk. Followers had been blended on how they felt about burning the briefcase so rapidly, but it surely undoubtedly helped transfer the Drew and Punk story ahead, which paid off in a giant means down the highway.
Previous to Drew, there’s a historical past of individuals cashing of their briefcase the identical evening after successful, most lately Liv Morgan who acquired an all-time large pop when she cashed in on Ronda Rousey again in 2022. The large second helped elevate Morgan’s profession in a transformative means and concurrently pushed Rousey down the cardboard in a means she by no means actually recovered from.
I feel it is not possible we see a cash-in this 12 months on the ladies’s facet. Neither Iyo Sky nor Tiffany Stratton is wrestling on the occasion (no less than as of now), and I do not suppose it actually is sensible for both Ripley, Naomi or Roxanne to burn the briefcase so rapidly in the event that they do win.
The boys’s facet, then again, is extra of a chance. Each John Cena and Jey Uso are in motion and every may very well be weak to a cash-in from both Seth Rollins or LA Knight. My guess is, if it is going to occur rapidly, it will in all probability occur on Monday Night time Uncooked through the beforehand scheduled match between Gunther and Jey Uso. That being stated, it is definitely a chance.
Prediction: We are going to NOT get a identical day cash-in.