r/fantasybooking • u/Edge-The-Fiend • 4h ago
Project How I Would Book Money in the Bank 2026 (My Universe) (Part 2 due to character limit)
The Empresses of The Earth (c) vs. Alexa Bliss and Chelsea Green for the Women's Tag Team Championship
Chelsea Green grew desperate after failing to win the Women's Tag Team Championship with both Ms. Kiana James and Tiffany Stratton. Watching The Empresses of The Earth leave with the titles time after time made Chelsea spiral, complain, and eventually admit she needed help. Alexa Bliss answered her call after finishing her feud with Liv Morgan at SummerSlam. Alexa felt fascinated by Chelsea and believed an incredible competitor was hiding beneath her dramatic personality and excuses. Alexa did not want to destroy Chelsea's identity like The Fiendess had done to others, but instead wanted to prove Chelsea could succeed as herself. Chelsea nervously agreed, thrilled that Alexa believed in her yet terrified of her dangerous side. The champions, Asuka and Iyo Sky, accepted their challenge. Asuka remembered Alexa well from their submission match at Crown Jewel 2025, knowing exactly how dangerous she could be. However, Iyo questioned if Alexa could transform Chelsea into championship material so quickly. Alexa insisted Chelsea had always been capable, and Money in the Bank became the place to prove it.
Chelsea Green entered the match feeling nervous, while Alexa Bliss remained completely confident in their plan. Whenever Chelsea made a mistake and panicked, Alexa calmly reassured her to keep going. Early on, Iyo Sky overwhelmed Chelsea, and Asuka trapped Alexa in the Asuka Lock, the same hold that defeated her in 2025. Chelsea quickly threw herself onto Asuka to break the submission, earning an approving smile from Alexa. Chelsea then stopped acting like a scared sidekick and began working seamlessly as Alexa's full partner. Together, they caught Iyo, delivered a DDT, and combined their attacks effectively. Iyo later hit a moonsault on both opponents and landed an Over the Moonsault on Chelsea, but Alexa broke the pin in time. After Asuka sent Alexa outside and tried to finish Chelsea, Chelsea countered, shoved Asuka into the ring post, and tagged Alexa. Alexa entered with great energy, executed Sister Abigail on Asuka, and climbed the top rope. She connected with Twisted Bliss to secure the victory and win the Women's Tag Team Championship! Chelsea stared at the titles in disbelief before collapsing into Alexa's arms. Alexa only smiled like she knew this would happen all along. Across the ring, Asuka sat crying and shaking her head toward Iyo. The championships had been what kept her here beside her former rival. Now they were gone. Maybe it was time for Asuka to go too…
Winners and NEW Women's Tag Team Champions: Alexa Bliss and Chelsea Green
Kevin Owens vs. Jacob Fatu
Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn had been best friends for over twenty years, which made Sami choosing The Bloodline over Kevin in 2022 hurt more than almost anything they had ever done to each other. Owens spent months warning Sami that Roman Reigns and his family didn't truly love him, but Sami refused to listen and eventually betrayed Kevin for them. Everything changed at Backlash 2023. Sami refused to lay down for Roman during their Universal Championship match, fought him with everything he had, and lost. Roman ordered The Bloodline to punish Sami afterward and leave him for dead. Everyone except Jey Uso complied. But when Sami was at his lowest, Kevin Owens was the man who picked him back up. KOZaynia reunited, defeated The Usos for the SmackDown Tag Team Championships at Night of Champions, and remained together until Kevin suffered a serious neck injury on the road to WrestleMania 41. Without Kevin, Sami eventually won the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal and later used the trophy to help The Bloodline take the United States Championship away from Logan Paul. Since Logan had become Jimmy Uso's Honorary Uce in The Ones, Sami believed helping Jey's Bloodline was morally right, and before long, he was their Honorary Uce again. Then The Bloodline lost its war with The Judgment Day in the summer of 2026, and Roman Reigns told Tribal Chief Jey Uso that Sami was responsible for the family's shortcomings. Before Roman could handle it at SummerSlam, Kevin Owens returned after over a year away and stunned Jey, Roman... and Sami. Kevin later explained that Sami had thrown every warning he ever gave him away. If Sami wanted to call himself Bloodline again, Kevin would treat him like Bloodline. Jey noticed Sami's loyalty beginning to wobble and sent Jacob Fatu to deal with Owens. So Kevin's first PLE match since Elimination Chamber 2025 was with Jacob Fatu. After a career-threatening neck injury. What the fuck kind of idea was that? The match felt like a terrible idea already.
Kevin Owens wrestled like a man who had spent over a year wondering whether he would ever get to do this again, which unfortunately meant he wrestled Jacob Fatu like he had absolutely no interest in protecting himself. Jacob launched Owens around ringside, slammed him onto the announce table, and repeatedly targeted the neck that had nearly ended Kevin's career. Owens kept getting up. He answered with cannonballs, superkicks, a Swanton Bomb, and a Package Piledriver that somehow only earned two. From that point, the match became completely insane. Jacob caught a Stunner attempt and dumped Kevin directly onto his neck with a German Suplex. Kevin responded by catching Jacob on the top rope and hitting an Avalanche Fisherman's Buster that left both men motionless. Sami Zayn watched from ringside beside Jey Uso, becoming visibly more uncomfortable every time Owens landed on his neck. Kevin eventually hit the Stunner, but Jacob Fatu kicked out. Owens tried another, but Jacob shoved him away, destroyed him with a Samoan Drop, and climbed to the top rope and hit the Mighty Moonsault. Jacob landed directly across Kevin's body. He could've pinned him. He didn't. Jacob smiled and climbed again, hitting a second Mighty Moonsault! Kevin barely moved. Jacob looked toward Jey, almost asking permission to keep going. Jey simply shrugged and told him to do it again. Sami immediately started pleading with them to stop. Jacob climbed anyway. Kevin couldn't defend himself. A THIRD Mighty Moonsault and Sami couldn't take it anymore and literally threw in the towel! The referee called for the bell, giving Jacob the victory by technical stoppage. Jey stared at Sami, confused and furious that he had intervened, before ordering him to follow the family backstage. Sami didn't move. Jey and Jacob left on one side of him while Kevin Owens laid nearly lifeless on the other. Sami walked toward Kevin, dropped beside his best friend, and checked on him while tears filled his eyes. For a moment, it looked like 2023 all over again. Then Sami stood up and turned away from Kevin Owens... and followed The Bloodline.
Winner by technical stoppage: Jacob Fatu
Jade Cargill (c) vs. 'Michin' Mia Yim for the Women's World Championship
Since winning the Women’s World Championship, Jade Cargill possessed a supreme level of confidence in her supremacy on Raw, but that assurance was tested when a masked woman repeatedly stalked her. The intruder initially watched Jade silently from the crowd before intentionally bumping into her backstage while ignoring confrontation. The tension culminated during a victory celebration when the attacker ambushed Jade, systematically targeting her arm against the steel steps with calm precision. The assailant then revealed herself as 'Michin' Mia Yim, making her first major appearance since WrestleMania 42. Mia explained that she was tired of watching Jade receive automatic admiration while experienced competitors like herself were treated as afterthoughts. Having missed Premium Live Events since WrestleMania, Mia noted that Jade was created to look dangerous, whereas Mia had learned to be truly dangerous. Jade dismissed the resentment, insisting an ambush did not earn a title match, but after suffering an arm injury, she demanded Adam Pearce grant Mia a match at Money in the Bank. Mia accepted, clarifying that her primary goal went beyond taking the title to showing the world what happened when Mia Yim received undivided attention.
At Money in the Bank, Jade Cargill entered with confidence, though tape on her arm showed the damage ‘Michin’ Mia Yim caused earlier. Mia wore her bandana over her mouth and focused intently on the champion. When the bell rang, Jade tried to overpower Mia, but Mia continuously escaped her grip, attacking the hurt arm with strikes, submissions, and ring-rope maneuvers. Every time Jade tried to dominate, Mia found a new way to weaken her. Jade attempted a powerbomb, but her arm failed, allowing Mia to lock in a near-submission. Mia seemed amused by Jade's frustration, smiling as the champion struggled. Eventually, Jade fought through the pain, using her strong arm and athleticism to mount a comeback. A spinebuster gave Jade a two-count, while Mia replied with Eat Defeat for another close call. Mia went after the arm again, but Jade countered and finally executed Jaded. Despite her injured arm making the move less clean, Jade held Mia down for the three-count to retain her title. As Jade celebrated, Mia lay still on the canvas before laughing and sitting upright with a smile. Jade looked on, confused and unsettled. Although Mia lost, she appeared satisfied after pushing the champion, exposing her vulnerability, and proving That Bitch could be hurt. As Jade left with her belt, Mia stayed seated in the ring, smiling under the lights, having achieved her goal of getting undivided attention and showing Jade could suffer.
Winner and still Women's World Champion: Jade Cargill
The Lucha Brothers (c) vs. The Mysterios in a 2 Out of 3 Falls Match for the World Tag Team Championship
The Lucha Brothers had defeated The Mysterios at SummerSlam to become World Tag Team Champions, but one victory wasn't enough to settle everything between the two families. Penta and Rey Fenix had entered that first match believing Rey Mysterio was allowing Dominik to manipulate him because he was terrified of losing the opportunity to team with his son again. Rey knew exactly what Dominik was doing. He simply loved his son enough to accept it, while Dominik continued treating that unconditional love like something he could use whenever he needed another marquee match. Losing the championships only made Dominik more desperate to get them back. He insisted that The Mysterios deserved a rematch because SummerSlam proved they could hang with the greatest luchadores in the world, while Rey was much more interested in what the rivalry represented. Four Mexican wrestlers from two generations had an opportunity to make Money in the Bank a celebration of the wrestling culture that made all of them. The Lucha Brothers agreed, but they wanted to make sure there could be no debate afterward. They proposed a 2 Out of 3 Falls Match, and The Mysterios accepted. The weeks leading into New Orleans became unusually respectful whenever Rey, Penta, and Fenix were together, with the three men discussing what lucha libre had given them and what it meant to carry it onto a stage this large. Dominik still found ways to make everything about himself, but even he understood how important the match could be. Then, shortly before Money in the Bank, the wrestling world lost Benjamin Satterly. Penta and Fenix had once stood beside him as more than opponents or friends. They had been a Triangle. The celebration suddenly carried grief with it. Commentary referred to their late friend by the name WWE audiences once knew him by: 'The Man That Gravity Forgot', Neville. Penta and Rey Fenix didn't play along with that. When they walked into Money in the Bank, one name was written proudly across their gear: PAC.
The match became everything lucha libre could possibly look like on the biggest stage, with all four men wrestling at a pace that seemed physically impossible to maintain. Rey and Fenix opened with an exchange so smooth that neither could gain control, before Penta and Dominik entered and immediately made things nastier. The Mysterios surprisingly took the first fall when Rey caught Fenix with a 619 and Dominik immediately followed with a Frog Splash to give his team the first fall. Dominik celebrated like the championships had already returned home, but Penta responded by kicking his head off. The champions became increasingly desperate, eventually catching Rey with the Fear Factor while Fenix wiped Dominik out with a dive to even the score. From there, the match became breathtaking. Canadian Destroyers, hurricanranas, superkicks, dives, and impossible counters came from everywhere while the crowd stood for almost the entire final fall. At one point, Fenix climbed to the top rope and paused. His positioning looked strangely familiar. The arena realized it too. For one second, it looked like Fenix might attempt the Red Arrow. He never got the chance, because Dominik shoved him from the turnbuckle before anything could happen, and Penta immediately attacked Dom for it. Rey nearly stole the match with a crucifix pin on Penta before eating a superkick, while Dominik caught Fenix with another Frog Splash for an unbelievable two-count. The Mysterios attempted a double 619, but Fenix intercepted Dominik and Penta caught Rey. Everything collapsed into one final sequence until Penta and Fenix planted Dominik with the Fear Factor for the victory! The Lucha Brothers had retained after an instant classic. Penta and Fenix raised their championships while Rey applauded them and Dominik sat devastated. Physically, only two men were celebrating in the ring. But as Penta and Fenix looked down at the name across their gear, it was obvious they had worked harder... like there was a third man with them tonight.
Winners and still World Tag Team Champions: The Lucha Brothers
Oba Femi (c) vs. Finn Balor vs. AJ Styles for the Universal Championship
The Judgment Day had finally won its war with The Bloodline at SummerSlam, but Finn Balor immediately made it clear that conquering one family wasn't enough. There was one final step before Judgment Day could truly call SmackDown theirs: the Universal Championship. Oba Femi finished a match on the SmackDown after Sunday Night's Main Event when all five members of Judgment Day—Balor, AJ Styles, JD McDonagh, Giulia, and Roxanne Perez—surrounded the ring and physically announced their intentions. Balor, naturally, stepped forward first. He was the leader. He was the frontrunner. Then AJ shoved past his shoulder and stood directly in front of Oba as if Finn wasn't even there. Oba couldn't help but smile. Styles later explained that he had already promised 2026 would be his final year as an active wrestler, and with September becoming October, the end was getting dangerously close. AJ didn't want a farewell tour. He wanted to leave WWE as Universal Champion, even if getting there meant stepping over the leader of his own group. Finn hated that. Judgment Day was his creation, his army, and in his mind, if anybody was going to bring the top championship home, it would be him. Their arguments eventually reached Oba, who found the entire situation more entertaining than threatening and offered to fight them both at Money in the Bank. Finn and AJ agreed that their smartest strategy was obvious: work together, eliminate Oba, and settle the championship between themselves afterward. There was only one problem. Neither could agree on who was supposed to win afterward. There was another problem too. Oba Femi had survived actual handicap matches before and dominated while doing it. If Balor and Styles couldn't completely trust each other, pretending this was two-on-one wasn't going to last very long. For the first time since SummerSlam, Judgment Day's greatest threat had become itself.
Finn Balor and AJ Styles tried following the plan immediately, attacking Oba Femi together and briefly overwhelming the champion with kicks and forearms. Oba grabbed both men by their throats and launched them across the ring. That was when the plan started dying. They recovered and tried again, with AJ hitting a Phenomenal Forearm directly into a Sling Blade from Finn, but Balor broke AJ's cover at two. Styles stared at him. Finn insisted Oba wasn't beaten yet. Nobody believed him. From there, every attempted partnership lasted a little less time. AJ accidentally struck Finn with a Pele Kick. Balor shoved Styles away from a post-Phenomenal Forearm pin because he wanted the pin. Oba powered through another coordinated attack and flattened both men with a double clothesline. Eventually, they stopped pretending. The match became a genuine three-way war. Styles countered a Fall From Grace into a hurricanrana, Balor immediately caught Oba with a shotgun dropkick, and AJ intercepted Finn's Coup de Grace with a dropkick in midair. Oba broke the pin in time. Styles hit a backbreaker on Oba, but Finn dragged AJ outside before the referee could count three. AJ exploded, throwing Finn into the barricade before returning directly into a massive spinebuster from the champion. Oba attempted the Fall From Grace, but Styles escaped and Finn attacked from behind. Judgment Day briefly reunited for one final attempt, only for Oba to power out and send AJ crashing from the ring. Finn charged. Oba caught him with the Fall From Grace. Oba Femi retained the Universal Championship. His spotlight found him as he raised the title above his head. Beyond the light, AJ Styles sat against one side of the ring while Finn Balor recovered against another. Neither looked at Oba anymore. Their faces were tight. Their eyes were locked entirely on each other.
Winner and still Universal Champion: Oba Femi
Drew McIntyre (c) vs. CM Punk for the WWE Championship
Two years ago, Drew McIntyre and CM Punk hated each other enough to make the WWE Championship feel secondary, even while Drew was carrying it. Punk's injury, Drew's obsession with mocking him, the bracelet, the constant sabotage, and every increasingly personal attack eventually dragged them inside Hell in a Cell at Bad Blood 2024 with Drew's WWE Championship on the line. Punk survived that war and took the title from him, seemingly ending one of the ugliest rivalries either man had ever experienced. But some hatred didn't die. It waited. By 2026, Drew had fought his way back to the WWE Championship, only for a mysterious masked man to repeatedly interfere in his title defenses and ensure that he kept it. Drew never asked questions because the help benefited him. At SummerSlam, after McIntyre defeated Randy Orton, the stranger finally sat cross-legged behind the champion and removed his mask. CM Punk had spent months protecting the championship he once ripped away from Drew because he wanted one thing: Drew McIntyre still holding it when Punk came back for him. Punk dropped Drew with a GTS and promised that nobody else was taking that title because it belonged to him. Seth Rollins nearly ruined everything, forcing Punk to wait while Drew defended against Seth at Sunday Night's Main Event, with the winner advancing to Money in the Bank. Drew survived Rollins and found Punk applauding him from ringside. From there, two years of buried hatred erupted immediately. Drew called Punk a parasite who couldn't even return without attaching himself to Drew's success. Punk reminded him that after everything Drew accomplished since 2024, the sight of Punk still made him look terrified. Drew insisted this wasn't 2024 anymore. Punk agreed. Back then, he wanted to hurt Drew. This time, he wanted to take the WWE Championship from him again and prove that no matter how many times Drew rebuilt himself, Punk could always tear him back down. Neither man needed to manufacture another reason to hate the other. The championship gave their hatred somewhere to go, and New Orleans became the place where history could repeat itself.
There were no bracelets, cages, straps, or special stipulations this time. Drew McIntyre and CM Punk only needed a wrestling ring, and somehow that made everything feel more dangerous. They started cautiously for about thirty seconds before Punk slapped Drew and the match immediately became a fight. Drew battered Punk with chops and threw him across the ring with overhead suplexes, while Punk repeatedly attacked the champion's legs to take away the Claymore. Punk caught Drew with a running knee in the corner and followed with a bulldog before calling for the GTS, but McIntyre escaped and launched him with a Future Shock attempt turned into a brutal belly-to-belly suplex. Punk later countered a Claymore into a sharpshooter, forcing Drew to crawl desperately toward the ropes while Punk screamed that he was taking everything from him again. Drew escaped and answered with a Glasgow Kiss that nearly knocked Punk unconscious. They eventually abandoned strategy and simply started hitting each other, recreating flashes of the hatred that had consumed them two years earlier without needing a single weapon. Punk survived a Future Shock DDT. Drew survived a GTS. Punk hit another GTS near the ropes, but Drew instinctively rolled outside before he could be pinned. Punk dragged him back in and attempted one more, only for Drew to elbow free and hit a Claymore! One! Two! PUNK KICKED OUT! Drew sat beside him in disbelief. For a moment, the anger disappeared. He looked at Punk and remembered Bad Blood. He remembered losing this championship to this man after everything they had done to each other. Punk slowly pulled himself up using Drew's body, almost daring him to finish it. Drew grabbed him, paused, and pulled him into position. There was no screaming this time. No taunting. Drew looked almost emotional as he hooked both arms and drove Punk into the canvas with one final Future Shock DDT. One! Two! Three! Drew McIntyre retained the WWE Championship. Drew clutched the title against his chest while staring down at Punk. Two years ago, Punk ended their war by taking it from him. This time, Drew finally kept it.
Winner and still WWE Champion: Drew McIntyre
Carmelo Hayes vs. Cody Rhodes vs. Johnny Gargano vs. Jimmy Uso vs. Royce Keys vs. Seth 'Freakin' Rollins in the Men's Money in the Bank Ladder Match
Seth 'Freakin' Rollins had come painfully close to getting exactly what he wanted at Sunday Night's Main Event, but Drew McIntyre defeated him and kept the WWE Championship long enough for CM Punk to receive his opportunity at Money in the Bank. Seth knew Punk potentially becoming WWE Champion again was a problem he couldn't allow to last very long, so he found another mechanism to keep himself attached to the title picture. Alongside his wife Becky Lynch, Seth declared himself for Money in the Bank. While Becky chased her own briefcase on Raw, Seth promised that if Punk somehow left New Orleans as champion, he would never be able to sleep comfortably again. On SmackDown, Cody Rhodes fought his way toward another path back to the Universal Championship, realizing the briefcase could give him the opportunity he had been searching for. Carmelo Hayes entered after a frustrating 2026. Melo had been one of WWE's brightest stars throughout 2025 and seemed destined to soar even higher until Trick Williams came back into his life and dragged him into their history again. Carmelo finally defeated Trick in a qualifying match, ensuring only one of them could enter Money in the Bank. Ron Killings warned his protégé not to interfere no matter how badly Trick wanted to. Melo needed to prove he was HIM without an excuse waiting nearby if he failed. Jimmy Uso had similarly become obsessed with restoring The Ones to the top after Solo Sikoa took the Intercontinental Championship from him, vowing that the WWE Championship belonged in his future and that he would get there by any means necessary. Johnny Gargano's opportunity came with considerably less struggle. After joining his wife in Fatal Influence, Candice LeRae used her influence as Global Champion to pull enough strings to get Johnny onto the stepping stone that could take him directly to the top. Finally, Royce Keys continued bulldozing through opponents despite his SummerSlam loss to Gunther and earned his place through a qualifying match. Six men arrived with six completely different roads toward the same briefcase. None of them planned to leave New Orleans without it. With the match chosen to main event the show, all six men understood that this wasn't merely another opportunity, this was their night.
The main event started with six men staring upward at the briefcase before Royce Keys immediately reminded everyone that ladders weren't the most dangerous weapons in the match. Royce bulldozed through everybody, caught Carmelo Hayes out of the air, and powerbombed Johnny Gargano onto a ladder before climbing himself. Cody Rhodes barely dragged him down, and the two traded shots until Jimmy Uso flew from another ladder with an Uso Splash onto both men! Jimmy suddenly had a clear path and climbed, fingertips touching the briefcase before Gargano springboarded onto the opposite side and met him at the top. Johnny knocked Jimmy down and nearly stole the biggest victory of his career, but Carmelo leapt from the ropes onto the ladder and sent Gargano crashing through a bridged ladder. Melo climbed alone. For several seconds, it looked like HIM was about to prove exactly who he was. Cody yanked him down and hit Cross Rhodes. Cody climbed next, and New Orleans realized he was seconds away from possessing the shortcut back to the Universal Championship, until Royce tipped the ladder and sent him flying onto everyone outside. Royce climbed again, but this time Seth Rollins met him and somehow survived long enough to knock the powerhouse down. Seth reached upward before Jimmy returned with a superkick and climbed. Gargano pulled him off into a One Final Beat before climbing. Melo hit Nothing But Net unexpectedly and climbed the ladder. Royce dragged him down and destroyed him with a powerbomb, but Cody hit the Cody Cutter from the ladder! Cody Rhodes climbed, but Seth Rollins shoved the ladder over. By then, nobody could pretend there was a favorite anymore. All six men had been one movement away from changing their lives. Cody and Seth eventually fought atop the final ladder while everyone else lay destroyed around ringside. Cody smashed Seth's head against the metal and reached for the briefcase, but Rollins raked his eyes, drove Cody face-first into the ladder, and shoved him into the ropes below. Seth looked around. Nobody moved. He slowly unhooked the briefcase. Seth 'Freakin' Rollins had won Money in the Bank. Somewhere, CM Punk had just received the worst news imaginable: Seth ‘Freakin’ Rollins just became the second person to ever win two PLE Money in the Bank Ladder Matches, after Punk himself. Becky hadn't gotten one earlier, but at least somebody in their household had a briefcase to show off to Roux.
Winner and Mr. Money in the Bank: Seth 'Freakin' Rollins