Rated Straight Edge
Team SmackDown
While it is true that a live cashing in of Money in the Bank would have been the much better, I personally believe it is very cheap to blame spoilers for ruining the show for anyone. If you don't want the show to be spoiled, don't reads spoilers. I personally read spoilers weekly for both wrestling, movies and manga, yet I don't find myself unsatisfied with any of it. If people don't like spoilers, they shouldn't look into them. I find it more often than not that the people who complain about spoilers do nothing to avoid them, so if the show was by any means spoiled, it's not the spoilers' fault but your own. The reason why I believe Jack Swagger did not cash his briefcase on RAW, however, is due to the fact that Sheamus and Batista had only recently been champions in a similar fashion. Having Swagger cash it in on RAW would have meant the third time in less than a year that Cena would cheaply lost his championship. Now, I am no Cena fan, but even I would be bothered by that as it would only cheapen yet another championship reign, and what's more, Swagger being a World Heavyweight Champion right now is more credible than his being WWE Champion. His overall character is more suitable to go against Jerichos and Edges than Cenas, Batistas and Ortons. He did put on a great match against Orton last week, but his character is still not quite convincing enough to really be champion against those guys. This is not to demean Edge and Jericho. It's just that Jericho and Edge are in my opinion easier to wrestle credibly than the main event personnel currently on RAW. But it is not Swagger's cashing in his briefcase that bothers me, it's his winning Money in the Bank. Christian, McIntyre, and Matt Hardy were much better choices in my opinion. Legitimately speaking, those three are more credible superstars to not only win a ladder match, but also do a better job creating entire storylines around. Christian with that briefcase could have revived or even created so many possible new storylines. Same for McIntyre or Matt. Swagger's current push is at best mediocre as there really was not much of a storyline to go with it. However, with the upcoming Money in the Bank pay-per-view, I believe the rush was solely so that a new briefcase or briefcases could be distributed ending the WrestleMania card altogether in favor of an entire pay-per-view set around the ladder match itself. But even that's seems a bit too much. Money in the Bank should remain at WrestleMania or if nothing also, take place at TLC it being a ladder match with extra benefits.
