Chris Jericho knows a thing or two about the Money in the Bank ladder match, as he’s credited as being one of the people who came up with the match, and he’s also competed in his fair share of MITB matches.
During a recent episode of Talk Is Jericho the first ever Undisputed Champion talked with Jon Moxley about putting together the 2016 Money in the Bank ladder match, and he revealed that at one point he decided to take control while things were being planned out.
“It was you, and me, and it was Sami and Kevin, and it was Cesaro and Del Rio. And Sami and Kevin were convinced that they needed to build an apparatus and take some kind of ridiculously, stupid bump or else nobody would care, and you were just sitting there being typical Mox. ‘Whatever you guys want to do,’ and Sami was talking, talking, talking.”
“And Cesaro said, ‘Sami, can I say something?’ And Sami goes, ‘No’ and continues talking. Cesaro was just like [Jericho makes an angry noise], and I remember, at one point, I said, ‘Okay, stop. I’m the captain now. I’m taking over. Everything has to be approved by me. If you got a problem, go talk to Vince. It’s all about climbing the ladder and reaching for the title. That’s all that matters,’ and we had the match. You won.”
“It ended up being really good, and afterwards, Sami went, ‘Wow, you were right. You had some good ideas there.’ I’m like, ‘Yes, of course I’m f*cking right!’”
In the end Jon Moxley ultimately won the match when he was working under the name Dean Ambrose, and he went on to cash in his briefcase on Seth Rollins and become WWE Champion later that night.
H/T Wrestling Inc.
