Everyone knows that winning Money in the Bank is a big deal and back in 2020 it was Otis who won the men’s Money in the Bank ladder match. Following his big win everyone wondered what WWE had in store for the new Mr. Money in the Bank, but ultimately Otis dropped the Money in the Bank contract to The Miz who later cashed in on Drew McIntyre.
Recently Otis spoke to Chris Van Vliet about his big Money in the Bank win and he stated that he doesn’t think WWE really had any long term plans for him after he won the contract.
“I don’t think there was a plan (for me as Mr. Money in the Bank). No. It was kind of a shock because the whole day was like, we couldn’t get up on the roof for the longest time because of COVID stuff and it was like, just sitting, sitting, sitting. Do one thing and shoot it so you were basically just sitting there in your gear. They were kind of bullsh****** with all the boys and kind of calling stuff, ‘We’ll give you more of a spectacular –’ like the plate or Baron (Corbin) using, ‘Oh, let’s throw the plate at the mirror.’ Get it approved. Gets it approved.”
“So it’s just like a long day and then finally, Jamie’s like, ‘You thinking King Kong up in there?’ I go, ‘King Kong!?’ He goes, ‘Yeah! Come with me.’ Jamie Noble, one of the producers. Jamie’s all fired up. He walks up and he’s just climbing this ladder with his cowboy boots. I’m like, ‘Babe, I’m not going up there. I hate heights. That’s why I only go on the second rope.’ He’s like, ‘Get yo a** up here. Come on…’ and it was a long way down. I mean, it’s a headquarters, babe. So we got out there and he goes, ‘Alright, I’m gonna take a picture of you. Take your shirt off and roar.’ I go, ‘Okay.’ ‘Like King Kong, like really roar’ and I’m like, ‘Okay, we’re roaring.’ Sorry, I’ve been sitting for 14 hours. Then all of a sudden, I’m gonna win it. I’m like, ‘Oh, okay,’ and then, yeah, from there, but I think everything was always like, again, who’s healthy, who’s not so, that could have been a factor there with testing about COVID and all that so, it was a bunch of changes going on.”
When asked if he thought he should won the title Otis said, “My brain doesn’t think that way. That’s a million-dollar question (how my brain operates). Basically, it’s like how can I make this bigger than what it can be? And it’s tough without the crowd too because again, you’re not getting that reaction live. You’re getting it online mostly or through the boss so it was kind of — it was just one of those things where, you know, we could do a few things but then it was kind of like, we did the Otis court case. What was that? The court case with Miz and that was a hilarious day by the way.”
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