The 2025 Money in the Bank, also promoted as Money in the Bank: Los Angeles, was a professional wrestling premium live event produced by WWE, held for wrestlers from the promotion's main roster brands, Raw and SmackDown, with one match involving a wrestler from WWE's sister promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA). It was the 16th annual Money in the Bank event and took place on June 7, 2025, at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California. This was the first Money in the Bank to broadcast on Netflix in most international markets and the first Money in the Bank event to be held in both the U.S. state of California and the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

The event is based around the Money in the Bank ladder match, a multi-person ladder match in which participants compete to obtain a contract that grants the respective men's and women's winners a match for a championship of their choice at any time within the next year. The men's match was won by Raw's Seth Rollins, while the women's match, which was the opening bout, was won by SmackDown's Naomi.

Three other matches were contested at the event. In the main event, Cody Rhodes and Jey Uso defeated John Cena and Logan Paul, whilst in other prominent matches, Becky Lynch defeated Lyra Valkyria to win Raw's WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship, and Raw's Dominik Mysterio successfully defended the WWE Intercontinental Championship against AAA's Octagón Jr. This event also saw a surprise appearance of R-Truth, as a week prior, it was announced that WWE would not renew his contract; it was subsequently revealed that as a result of fan backlash, his contract was renewed just before the event. The day of the event also marked the 28th anniversary of Michael Cole making his debut as a play-by-play announcer for the company. This was also John Cena's final Money in the Bank appearance as an in-ring performer due to his retirement from professional wrestling at the end of 2025.

Production Background

Money in the Bank is an annual professional wrestling premium live event produced by WWE since 2010, generally held between May and July. It was originally broadcast exclusively via pay-per-view (PPV) before it also became available via livestreaming in 2014. Along with WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series, it is considered one of the promotion's five biggest events of the year, referred to as the "Big Five". The concept of the event comes from WWE's established Money in the Bank ladder match, in which multiple wrestlers use ladders to retrieve a briefcase hanging above the ring. The briefcase contains a contract that guarantees the respective men's and women's winners a match for a championship of their choosing at any time within the next year.

Announced on April 20, 2025, the 16th Money in the Bank, promoted as Money in the Bank: Los Angeles, was scheduled to take place on Saturday, June 7, 2025, at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, and featured wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. This was the first Money in the Bank to be held in June since the 2018 event. As part of Money in the Bank weekend, WWE's developmental brand, NXT, along with the company's Mexican subsidiary, Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide, held Worlds Collide the same day prior to Money in the Bank at the nearby Kia Forum.

In addition to airing on traditional PPV worldwide and via livestreaming on Peacock in the United States, the event was available to livestream on Netflix in most international markets and the WWE Network in any remaining countries that had not transferred to Netflix due to pre-existing contracts. This marked the first Money in the Bank to livestream on Netflix following the WWE Network's merger under the service in January 2025 in those areas.

Storylines The event included five matches that resulted from scripted storylines. Results were predetermined by WWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands, while storylines were produced on WWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown.

Qualifying matches for the men's Money in the Bank ladder match consisted of six triple threat matches held across episodes of Raw and SmackDown, with three spots for each brand. The first qualifier occurred on the May 16 episode of SmackDown, where Solo Sikoa defeated Jimmy Uso and Rey Fénix. LA Knight qualified on the following week's SmackDown by defeating Aleister Black and Shinsuke Nakamura. Two qualifiers occurred on the May 26 episode of Raw, where Penta defeated Chad Gable and Dragon Lee, and then Seth Rollins defeated Finn Bálor and Sami Zayn. On that week's SmackDown, Andrade earned SmackDown's final spot by defeating Carmelo Hayes and Jacob Fatu, with Raw's final spot determined on the June 2 episode, where El Grande Americano defeated AJ Styles and CM Punk.

Qualifying matches for the women's Money in the Bank ladder match also consisted of six triple threat matches held across episodes of Raw and SmackDown, with three spots for each brand. The qualifiers also began on the May 16 episode of SmackDown, where Alexa Bliss defeated Chelsea Green and Michin. The next two qualifiers occurred on the May 19 episode of Raw, where Roxanne Perez defeated Becky Lynch and Natalya, and then Rhea Ripley defeated Kairi Sane and Zoey Stark. The fourth qualifier was determined on that week's SmackDown, where Giulia defeated Charlotte Flair and Zelina Vega. SmackDown's final spot was determined on the May 30 episode, where Naomi defeated Jade Cargill and Nia Jax, with Raw's final spot determined on the June 2 episode, where Stephanie Vaquer defeated Ivy Nile and Liv Morgan.

At Royal Rumble, Jey Uso won the men's Royal Rumble match by last eliminating John Cena. On Night 1 of WrestleMania 41, Uso won the World Heavyweight Championship, while on Night 2, a now villainous Cena defeated Cody Rhodes to win the Undisputed WWE Championship. After WrestleMania, Rhodes took a sabbatical from WWE while Uso began feuding with Logan Paul. At Saturday Night's Main Event XXXIX, Cena confronted Uso backstage prior to the latter's title defense against Paul. Cena commented on the possibility of Uso losing his title to "a YouTuber" and how that would "ruin wrestling", something Cena promised to do after declaring his intentions to retire as champion at the end of 2025. Later that night, Cena interfered in the title match on Paul's behalf, only to be thwarted by a returning Rhodes. Uso subsequently pinned Paul to retain his title. After the match, Rhodes declared that he and Uso would face Cena and Paul in a tag team match at Money in the Bank, which was subsequently made official.

On Night 2 of WrestleMania 41, Lyra Valkyria teamed with a returning Becky Lynch to win the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship, only to immediately lose the title in a rematch the next night on Raw, which infuriated Lynch, causing her to turn on Valkyria. At Backlash, Valkyria defeated Lynch to retain the WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship, but was subjected to a post-match assault by Lynch. Valkyria then cost Lynch her Money in the Bank qualifying match on the May 19 episode of Raw. On May 26, a rematch for the Women's Intercontinental Championship was scheduled for Money in the Bank. On that night's Raw, Lynch proposed a Last Chance stipulation for the match, where if Valkyria won, she would never challenge for the title again for as long as Valkyria was champion, but if Lynch won, Valkyria would have to raise her hand and recognize Lynch as the better woman, the same way that Lynch did back at NXT: Halloween Havoc in 2023 when she lost the NXT Women's Championship to Valkyria, who subsequently agreed.

Hours before Money in the Bank, during the Worlds Collide event, after Octagón Jr.'s team from AAA had just won their match involving Latino World Order (LWO) members, WWE Intercontinental Champion Dominik Mysterio, who was sitting at ringside alongside Liv Morgan, interrupted the celebration and mocked Octagón Jr. for being a fan of his dad, Rey Mysterio, the LWO's leader. A brawl broke out and Dominik challenged Octagón Jr. to a match at that night's Money in the Bank, with the Intercontinental Championship on the line, which was subsequently made official.

Event

+ Other on-screen personnelRole:Name:English commentatorsMichael ColeWade BarrettPat McAfeeSpanish commentatorsMarcelo RodríguezJerry SotoRing announcerAlicia TaylorRefereesDanilo AnfibioJason AyersJessika CarrDan EnglerDaphanie LaShaunnEddie OrengoCharles RobinsonRyan TranRod ZapataInterviewersCathy KelleyByron SaxtonPre-show panelVic JosephBig EPeter Rosenberg Preliminary matches The event opened with the women's Money in the Bank ladder match, featuring Roxanne Perez, Rhea Ripley, and Stephanie Vaquer from Raw, and Alexa Bliss, Giulia, and Naomi from SmackDown. Early in the match, Perez and Giulia incapacitated Ripley by burying her under a pile of ladders outside the ring. Upon re-entering the match, Ripley dominated several competitors and used a bridged ladder as a weapon. Vaquer countered Ripley's momentum with repeated attacks before climbing a ladder in an attempt to retrieve the briefcase, but she was intercepted by Perez, Bliss, and Naomi. A sequence of simultaneous Code Red powerbombs by Bliss and Perez drove Naomi and Vaquer onto bridged ladders. As Giulia and Perez fought atop a ladder, Bliss intervened, and Ripley delivered a Riptide to Giulia. Bliss executed a Sister Abigail on Perez before she and Ripley fought atop the ladder. Ultimately, Naomi tipped the ladder, sending both to the mat, and ascended to unhook the briefcase and win the match.

In the second match, Dominik Mysterio (accompanied by Liv Morgan) defended the Intercontinental Championship against Octagón Jr. As Octagón Jr climbed the top rope, he was distracted by Morgan, allowing Mysterio to perform a 619 and a Frog Splash to win the match and retain the title.

The third match saw Lyra Valkyria defend the Women's Intercontinental Championship against Becky Lynch. Midway through the match, Valkyria performed a guillotine leg drop on Lynch off the announce table. Lynch delivered a Manhandle Slam from the middle rope for a near fall. Valkyria executed her signature Nightwing outside the ring. In the closing moments, Lynch performed a roll-up while holding Valkyria's tights to win the title. After the match, per the stipulation, Valkyria raised Lynch's hand before attacking her with another Nightwing.

The penultimate match was the men's Money in the Bank ladder match, featuring Seth Rollins, Penta, and El Grande Americano from Raw, and Andrade, Solo Sikoa, and LA Knight from SmackDown. The match featured multiple high-risk maneuvers, including a sunset flip powerbomb by Andrade, a Mexican Destroyer by Penta, and a series of superplexes involving several competitors. Americano introduced a Fireball branded ladder and used it as a weapon against the participants. Interference from two factions occurred late in the match, with Bron Breakker and Bronson Reed assisting Rollins, and The Bloodline's WWE United States Champion Jacob Fatu and JC Mateo intervening on behalf of Sikoa. However, Fatu turned on Sikoa, attacking him and performing a Spinning Solo through a ladder bridge. Rollins delivered a curb stomp to Knight and unhooked the briefcase to win the match, becoming a two-time Money in the Bank winner.

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