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WWE Money in the Bank 2025 advertised two title matches and two Money in the Bank matches.
Seth Rollins and Naomi were favorites in their respective Money in the Bank Matches while Lyra Valkyria and Dominik Mysterio defended their WWE Intercontinental Championships against Becky Lynch and Octagon Jr., respectively.
In the main event, R-Truth returned to help Cody Rhodes and Jey Uso defeat John Cena and Logan Paul.
Rhea Ripley got the biggest pop of all the women, by far, but everybody came off as a big star in their entrances.
Naomi wasted no time teasing that she would climb the ladder. But first, she stuck Rhea Ripley with a modified piledriver on the ladder.
Fans were into every high spot early, including a running front flip on the ladder by Alexa Bliss on Stephanie Vaquer.
Fans chanted for tables early in the the match, which will likely result in an unnecessary rant about table-thirst paying customers from that goof Dave Meltzer.
Fans really popped for a showdown between Rhea Ripley and Giulia. Ripley did away with Giulia and cleared the ring to the tune of "Mami" chants. Roxanne then countered a Razor's Edge and hit a double-jump springboard moonsault on Ripley. "This is awesome!"
Perez and Giulia temporarily reunited, but had trouble slamming an uncooperative ladder on Ripley. It wasn't too long until Ripley found herself buried under several ladders.
Fans booed as Naomi ascended the ladder, then cheered when Vaquer stopped her. Vaquer then climbed the ladder with Giulia draped on her back. At this point, a section of fans were chanting "Fix the screen!" as the screen went out. WWE quickly fixed the problem, leading to chants of "Thank you!"
Fans got behind Alexa Bliss as she climbed the ladder, only to be hindered by Roxanne Perez. Height-wise, this had to have been the shortest MITB showdown atop a ladder in history.
Perez and Giulia's reunion ended the second Giulia turned her back to Perez, at which point Roxanne struck. As Perez attempted to skin the cat, Rhea Ripley rose from the dead and tossed Perez into a pile of ladders. Ripley capped off a furious comeback with a Razor's Edge toss of Perez onto Giulia, followed by a slam onto a ladder lodged between the first and second ropes. Giulia sold it great by convulsing.
Vaquer blew the roof off the Intuit Dome with her patented scissor stomps on Rhea Ripley on a ladder. Fans cheered rabidly as it seemed like she was going to grab the briefcase, but Roxanne Perez stopped her.
Perez and Bliss hit stereo Code Reds on ladders., taking out Naomi and Vaquer. Bliss and Ripley then hit their finishers in stereo on Perez and Giulia, respectively.
When the dust cleared, Naomi climbed the ladder and successfully became the first Black woman to ever win a Money in the Bank match.
There was a huge pop for Mr. Iguana as WWE showed AAA wrestlers in the crowd.
Octagon Jr. came right out of the gate with high-flying offense. Once Dom took advantage, fans chanted for Dirty Dom.
Dom missed an awkward 619 and Octagon Jr. regained control. There were some chants for Octagon, but most of the building backed Mysterio.
After interference from Liv Morgan, Dom retained the Intercontinental Title in a quick match, just as it was getting good.
There were dueling chants for Becky Lynch and Lyra Valkyria. There were also loud "Let's go Becky/Becky sucks!" chants. Lynch wore a white top and baggy pants similar to Sabu's.
Valkyria hit a beautiful superplex on Lynch and went for a middle-rope moonsault, but missed. Lynch then pounced on Valkyria with a Dis-arm-her.
The action spilled to the outside, where Lyra hit another great high spot, this time a flying leg drop on Lynch, who was draped over the barricade. This earned the first of many "This is awesome" chants followed by chants of "We want Truth!"
Lynch scored a great nearfall after hitting a second-rope Manhandle Slam.
After beating the count, New Japan-style, Lynch and Valkyria exchanged furious punches, followed by an exchange of rollups. Lynch got the better of Lyra with a rollup and a win.
After the match, Becky Lynch demanded that Lyra Valkyria raise her hand multiple times. She then demanded that Lyra strap the belt around her waist. Lyra obliged, then she attacked Lynch and laid her out with her finisher.
El Grande Americano got a very polarizing reaction for his entrance, but it might have been the loudest of the bunch. I predicted a Seth Rollins Money in the Bank victory, but I'd have no problem with El Grande Americano springing the upset.
The Money in the Bank match started with five of the six combatants ganging up on top heel Seth Rollins. After they dumped Rollins out of the ring, it was Solo Sikoa's turn to get ganged up on by the babyfaces. Fans chanted "You F'd up!"
Fans chanted "That's Chad Gable/no he's not!" as El Grande Americano took control of the match.
Fans once again chanted "We want tables!" a chant which was ignored during the women's match, and to this point, the men's match, too.
LA Knight, who was nothing short of a God in Los Angeles, hit his patented elbow on Solo Sikoa while Sikoa was spread across the ladder.
El Grande Americano and Andrade were both dumped from different ladders, setting up a showdown between Rollins and Sikoa. Rollins got the better of Sikoa, but fans were loudly chanting for CM Punk.
El Grande Americano slapped on an ankle lock atop the ladder on Rollins. Andrade crashed the party with a sunset flip on a ladder. "Holy shit" chants ensued. Andrade and Penta reached a temporary truce atop the ladder, but Andrade got the better of Penta. Penta got revenge with a Mexican Destroyer on Andrade.
El Grande Americano pulled out the enormous Fireball ladder and spun it around to take out the entire field. He must have felt like he took a couple Fireball shots after spinning around like that.
Penta went for the briefcase, but Americano ran up a ladder (leaning on a post) and used another ladder to leap unto the Fireball ladder. El Grande Americano headbutted Penta and almost retrieved the briefcase before taking a super back suplex from LA Knight. Fans exploded every time it seemed like Penta was going to win.
Bron Breakker appeared, flanked by Bronson Reed, and laid out El Grande Americano with a monster spear on the runway. The pair laid out everybody in the field, leading to "CM Punk" chants.
Jacob Fatu and JC Mateo interrupted to confront Breakker and Reed. The four brawled in the middle of the ring. Breakker speared Mateo through a barricade; Fatu laid out Reed with a pop-up Samoan Drop followed by a Suicide Dive.
Fatu set up the ladder for Sikoa to win, but as Solo climbed, Fatu pulled him off the ladder and hit him with a superkick. Fatu followed up with a BME and slammed Solo through a table.
Fans chanted "CM Punk to no avail as Rollins disposed of LA Knight and retrieved the Money in the Bank briefcase.
Both teams got the appropriate babyface and heel reactions, but Cody did get booed a tiny bit.
The story of the match was Jey Uso being worn down by the heels, only for Cena and Paul to turn on each other, allowing a hot tag to Cody.
Another miscue between Cena and Paul almost cost them the match, but they were able to get back on the same page yet again. For now.
There was a lot of striking throughout this match, with the heels being booed when they hit their strikes and the babyfaces being cheered.
Logan Paul tried a selfie high spot, only to be intercepted by Rhodes with a superplex.
Paul hit an awesome Asai Moonsault on Jey Uso through a table, so Jey will walk into Raw's world title match against Gunther even more banged up.
After John Cena laid out Cody Rhodes with with a belt shot, R-Truth returned after reports of Truth getting released. Truth laid out Cena and Cody picked up the win.