Money in the Bank (1996)

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1997

Money in the Bank 1996 was the first(technically) Money in the Bank event produced by World Wrestling Federation which took place on 16th June 1996

## Background

The main match heading into the show is the Money in the Bank match where the winner gets a briefcase containing a contract for a world championship match, which can be cashed in at any time. Brian Pillman qualified by beating Marc Mero, Owen Hart qualified by beating Shawn Michaels, The Roadie qualified by beating Bradshaw, Bret Hart qualified by beating Shawn Michaels, British Bulldog and Jim Neidhart qualified by beating Headbangers and Stone Cold Steve Austin qualified by beating Bart Gunn. Ministry of Darkness's Faaroq is also announced to be in this match. There are a lot of feuds within this as the Hart Family have all been feuding against themselves and Stone Cold and Brian Pillman have hated each other since the WCW days and have brought that rivalry over to WWF

Vader became WWF champion at Wrestlemania 12 but comissioner of WWF Jerry Lawler hated this idea as he didn't want Vader as champion so he told him he'd bring anyone to take down Vader, even wrestlers of the past. Ultimate Warrior returned but failed to defeat Vader at In Your House 20, Warrior and Sid had a NO1 contendership match which ended with Ministry of Darkness attacking both men and ending the match in a no contest. Lawler decided to have a huge match as it'll be Vader defending against Undertaker, Sycho Sid, Ultimate Warrior, Yokozuna and Ahmed Johnson in a ladder match, 2164 pounds of mass in the ring

Since Shawn didn't have a match, he decided to team up with Billy Gunn who needed to tryout his tag matches to go into the tag division, Shawn challenged any half of Ministry of Darkness and Mankind shockingly defeated him, Mankind chose Mark Henry as his partner

There have been vignettes for the debut of Flash Funk who will wrestle Bob Holly tonight in his first match. Bob Holly says he knows this is 2 Cold Scorpio and it's laughable how he had to turn into a dancer to pander to the idiotic fans that don't even wanna watch wrestling, he says he'll set things straight with Scorpio tonight

Shawn decided that DX would be going for all the gold as Shawn said he'd finally win the WWF title this year, Billy Gunn will find a partner and X-Pac will go for the IC Championship. X-Pac will face Goldust tonight for the IC title

Since his partner Ahmed will be in the ladder match for the WWF Championship, Bradshaw will hold an open challenge here tonight

## Results

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## Details

* After winning, Bob Holly says he understands Funk, he knows Vince told him to make a name out of himself so he needed something to be different but everyone knows 2 Cold Scorpio is a better wrestler than the thing he's trying to portray, a dancer. Bob Holly tells him to join forces with him and make sure no one else sees them as 2 losers, Funk leaves
* Marc Mero answers Bradshaw's open challenge and rolls him up to win in 24 seconds
* Owen Hart is the first ever 2 time MITB winner
* Undertaker, Sid, Warrior, Yokozuna and Ahmed are all up top on the 2 ladders trying to get the championship, Vader enters the ring and pushes off both ladders as 2000 pounds fall onto the ring at the same time as the ring breaks completely(first time this happened)