Heydorn's Brass Ring Ratings - WWE Money in the Bank 2025
By: Zack Heydorn
The 2025 edition of WWE Money in the Bank was absolutely fine. Fine and dandy. That’s all it was, though.
In the past decade, WWE has positioned this signature event as a big four show of the year. WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, Summerslam, and Survivor Series are your standard big four tent poles, but Money in the Bank started to crack that Mount Rushmore.
While a fine show, it didn’t feel like one of those major events this year. It had the ladder matches, sure, but it was the vibe of the show, the last minute match addition of a Dominik Mysterio Intercontinental Championship defense, and a tremendous lack of star power that had this budding “A” event feel like a “C+” show at best.
Here are my Brass Ring Ratings for the event and here’s how they work … I call it like I see it and grade accordingly. Period.
Stephanie Vaquer vs. Guilia vs. Roxanne Perez vs. Rhea Ripley vs. Naomi vs. Alexa Bliss - Women’s Money in the Bank Ladder Match
A good opener, but one that didn’t have an epic ladder spot in it. This had lots of fun little ladder spots instead. Not a bad thing, but something to point out. This match needed to spread around the wealth in terms of focus and it worked to that end. Vaquer, Guilia, and Perez all had their moments and delivered. Ripley was Ripley and gave the match the top notch star power it needed. Naomi is a safe, but reasonable call for the win. She’s a heel that can be pesky with the briefcase and keep up the schtick for a lot of the year if the booking wants her to do that.
Heydorn’s Brass Ring Rating - OOO
Dominik Mysterio vs. Octagon Jr - WWE Intercontinental Championship
A good match, but the last minute nature of it and the lack of a background on Octagon Jr. made for zero drama. Dominik won and won decisively.
Heydorn’s Brass Ring Rating - OO
Lyra Valkyria vs. Becky Lynch - WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship
Excellent stuff. Valkyria and Lynch have a strong chemistry together and just like at the Backlash PLE, they show it here. Some good counter wrestling throughout and for the most part, the audience bit on the near falls, which worked to give Valkyria the crowd support she needed. Lynch winning was necessary to keep the feud going and Valkyria giving it to heel Becky who was milking the result worked to give her momentum out of the loss.
Heydorn’s Brass Ring Rating - OOO
El Grande Americano vs. Seth Rollins vs. Andrade vs. Penta vs. LA Knight vs. Solo Sikoa - Men’s Money in the Bank Ladder Match
The match of the night, even though there were gripes to be had with it. The action was strong and had more of a Money in the Bank spot fest feel to it than the women’s match did. In that regard, both complimented the other nicely. The action built to a really cool spot with Americano where he used a moving ladder as a ledge to the bigger ladder in order to stop an opponent from earning the briefcase. Thumbs up to all of that. The run-ins were ridiculous. For what felt like more than five minutes, the actual competitors in the match weren’t even in the ring doing anything. This brings me to the big angle with Sikoa and Jacob Fatu. Look, it wasn’t bad and Fatu still has a tremendous upside to him. That said, the angle needed it’s own moment. Being wedged into the Money in the Bank match was distracting and didn’t allow for the crowd to fully back Fatu and pop for him in a major way. Seth winning was obvious going in and he needed it. With Gunther vs. Jey Uso happening for the world title on Raw, I don’t think Seth will hold onto that contract very long.
Heydorn’s Brass Ring Rating - OOO 1/4
Cody Rhodes and Jey Uso vs. John Cena and Logan Paul
I liked this more than most and that’s because I appreciated the slow and monotonous start to the match, in which Cena and Paul heaped heat on themselves due to beating down and preventing Jey Uso from making a tag. That was good tag team psychology and helped fan flames for the hot tag. Then the hot tag happened and it was one of the worst ever. EVER. So, the entire match is focused on building to the moment where Jey tags Cody and instead of it happening within the physical beats of the bout, it happens because Cena and Logan were having a tiff with one another? Good lord. The R-Truth return was fun — no doubt about that — but, hopefully he doesn’t stick around in the main event picture with Cena.
Heydorn’s Brass Ring Rating - OO 1/2
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