At the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view The Miz finally cashed in his Money in the Bank contract, and he defeated Drew McIntyre to become the new WWE Champion.
Since the inception of the briefcase fans have seen quite a few Money in the Bank cash ins, and during a recent episode of Cornette’s Drive-Thru Jim Cornette indicated that he’s not a fan of the briefcase.
“That stupid briefcase, the Money In The Bank thing – stupid idea that everybody’s copied. And they do it the same way every time. It might have got heat the first five or six times. The champion is down, here comes the guy to cash in. The announcers actually said ‘Drew said he could go’ when you could clearly see that he could not say he could go because he didn’t say anything. It would be stupid for him to say he could go. They probably mixed up their notes with Daniel Bryan who did say that he could go [earlier in the night when he challenged Roman Reigns]. But it would negate the heat if Drew had said that here.”
The Miz’s WWE Title win definitely got a big reaction from the wrestling community, but Cornette didn’t have anything particularly positive to say about Miz becoming WWE Champion.
“The Miz basically did his third-rate version of Dennis Condrey’s facebuster. Sloppily. One, two, three. The f*****g Miz…after all that they’ve put into Drew McIntyre. Miz beats Drew McIntyre for one of the world championships. What the f**k? Seriously?! Even if it’s a swerve. Ok they’re gonna do something on TV or at the pay-per-view in between now and WrestleMania. Where Miz drops the thing to so-and-so to sweeten up the real world title match at WrestleMania, but still – for f**k sake. That was a s**t ending to an unexceptional match.”
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