 What's good y'all, it's your boy Ross back here again with another video. So since money in the bank is coming up this Sunday, we have to check out this video what made money in the bank 2011 so iconic by none other than wrestling gifts. We got to check this out man. Money in the bank 2011 may be one of the best money in the bank pay-per-views of all time arguably one of the best matches of all time between John Cena and CM Punk. One of the best storytelling matches you will ever see and honestly I want to say this is the pay-per-view that got me back in the wrestling. This was right after the infamous CM Punk pipe bomb when I saw it on YouTube that's when I started getting back in the wrestling leading up to money in the bank 2011 dead ass this is the pay-per-view that brought me back and I was like yo this is good sign me up so we got to check this out because money in the bank is coming up this Sunday so this should be interesting I'm looking forward to money in the bank this Sunday I will be live streaming y'all so be on the lookout for that because I think this is going to be really cool so check this video out appreciate all love and support let's get into it. It's 2011 and the greatest song of all time was released Friday by Rebecca Black. Black Ops had come out the year prior and every kid was having the time of their lives playing on the OG Newtown map. Oh and the WWE you might ask well let's just say it wasn't the best year Wrestlemania was just boring one of the all-time greats edge was forced to retire Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler had a kiss my foot match and I love John Cena. Yeah that was yeah there was some cringe in that year of wrestling for sure. Oh but damn Cena's character at this point was just downright nauseating. There were some bright spots though such as our truth becoming a great heel with a little jimmy stuff Christian and Randy Orton were having classics and Daniel Bono was still grinding but the thing is for every one good storyline or angle we got five boring ass storylines towards the end of April 2011 wrestling news sites began reporting that CM Punk may leave the WWE as he had not extended his contract it basically became widespread news that he might leave it was no secret that punk was tired and just didn't want to be in the company anymore so then in June of 2011 the WWE had a pay-per-view called capital punishment one of the worst pay-per-views of all time that's all I have to say and man what I'd tell you that this pay-per-view was trash it was trash if you ever want to torture someone don't waterboard them don't beat them up just make them watch this pay-per-view they had a fake Barack Obama bro like I said one of the worst pay-per-views of all time just just awful Obama doing a spin a rune in the middle of the ring for absolutely no reason it didn't even look like Obama they just got like a random black guy put him in a suit and just threw him out there and like yeah you're Obama what the fuck okay it was really really bad trust me don't ever watch this pay-per-view except maybe for one match CM Punk versus Ray Mysterio they had a great match as they always did whenever they wrestled CM Punk won the match but the main story of it was before the match so he had a backstage interview and CM Punk said that after he beats Mysterio he's gonna do the most honest thing that the WWE universe has ever seen we didn't really get anything on this show but the seed was planted shout out Joey Diaz also this match took place almost two months since the news broke that punk may not resign I was looking back at a live review from the show from the website ProWrestling.net and Jason Powell even said right after the match quote no I don't think this means punk has signed a new deal of course it could be a sign but the WWE might be keeping him strong so that it means something if someone beats him and sends him out of the company so as they were slowly building out punk in May and June everyone just assumed it was because if he did decide to leave whoever beat him in his last match just got more out of it the next night on raw CM Punk was sitting in the middle of the ring and he declared himself the number one contender for the WWE Championship but he didn't want that match that night or on an episode of raw no instead he wanted a July 17th at the Money the Bank pay-per-view in his hometown of Chicago Illinois he said that he would not leave the ring until he got his match this led to him sitting there for minutes he eventually started making snow angels and CM Punk he this is the thing that catapulted his career him just saying screw it I'm about to say what I want and do what I want this catapulted his career to new heights it did in the middle of the ring then the anonymous Roger on manager oh my god who remembers that the anonymous Roger oh my god that was so annoying oh oh my goodness bro it was so awful hearing that the little dean the little notification like I just received an email shut up Michael Cole that's what Michael Cole was really unbearable on commentary oh my god remember that we'll go on to announce that if CM Punk wanted to challenge John Cena at Money the Bank for the title he would have to be Rey Mysterio and Alberto Del Rio in a triple threat match tonight on raw that very night CM Punk nexus R&B and all rest in peace nexus won the match and officially became the number one contender for the WWE championship oh man rest in peace nexus say they could have been so much better but they yeah they didn't WWE didn't really book them correctly like they should have so the match is over he's the number one contender he's sitting in the ring and he announces July 17th he's gonna beat John Cena at Money in the Bank and then he goes on to announce that July 17th is also the night that his contract with the world wrestling entertainment comes to an end so the real-life situation was now a part of the storyline they actually acknowledged that his contract was going to expire he then goes on to say once the clock strikes midnight i'm leaving and trust me when i tell you i'm leaving with the WWE championship and he just drops the mic shit legit just got real see the thing was when punk spoke people listen when punk spoke everything he said came off as gospel because when he spoke it didn't seem like an angle it seemed like the truth whether it was when he was doing the straight edge society or nexus you always believed what he was saying wasn't the character talking it was Phil Brooks talking you believed it was legit so when he brought up the contract it was like whoa we already knew that his contract was legit expiring but now that they brought it up on cv and he was dead serious about leaving it was interesting it was exciting and it was different next week on raw it started off like any other episode of raw we got the horrible horrible nico back theme song playing we got Michael introducing the show and then some guy named Shawn Michaels came out and plugged his outdoor show which i don't think anybody watched and then nexus came out with CM punk and they had a nice back and forth Shawn Michaels and punk were talking which somehow led to the anonymous raw general manager making a match for CM punk which led to him versus Cain they did a count off finish and it was just like damn CM punk's angle is done in the first 20 minutes of the show that's it that's it for punk after dropping a fire promo last week dropping the bombshell that he's leaving the company with the belt he was done after a match with Cain well not exactly in the main event of the show our truth be john seen in the tables match thanks to CM punk's help the match was already in the overrun meaning the show could end at any second as it was past 11 in the eastern time zone so after punk helped our truth win he went to the top of the stage and he took a seat one of if not the most legendary promo of all time i honestly think this promo brought people back to wrestling when they found out what was being said just oh man and then he had a microphone and he said he has a lot of things that he wants to get off his chest before he leaves in three weeks remember how at capital punishment the seed was planted when punk said that he was going to do the most honest thing that you have ever seen in the wwe well it was time so punk said he doesn't hate sena or even dislike sena he said he actually likes sena more than a lot of people in the back but i hate this idea that you're the best punk said because you're not the best i'm the best ladies and gentlemen we got the pipe bomb it was a moment when the lines between fiction and reality were blurred to almost unprecedented levels levels we had rarely ever seen in the wwe i get chills just thinking about it everything that punk said in this promo was real and from the heart nothing he said was scripted from any writer it wasn't anybody else's words this was all of him this is what he wanted to say this wasn't some writer going up to him with a book saying please can you mention these points no this is what he wanted to say and that's what made this so special punk said that he's proving to everyone he's the best in the ring on the mic and even on commentary he said that no matter how many times he proves it he's not on collector cups in movies or late night talk shows he goes on to say how vince is a millionaire who should be a billionaire he said vince surrounds himself with yes men like john loranitis and then he goes on to say probably the most wild line that he could have said he said that he likes to think that the company is going to be better once vince is dead but it's going to be run by his daughter and her doofus husband holy like i said watching this really got me back in the wrestling because i hadn't watched wrestling you know in a while i had stopped watching it this was right when i was you know i wanted to say i was probably like a sophomore in college sophomore in college at this time so i really wasn't too much watching wrestling sophomore jr one of those two going probably into my junior year but when i saw this on youtube i was like oh i gotta watch what's been what's been happening this is what got me back his promo deadass deadass punk then was about to tell a personal story about vince bachman when a mic cut out a short time later the show went off the air and he said so much more it was an iconic moment and i'm sure if you watch it i can watch this over and over again always just be fascinated ladies and gentlemen it was surreal it was insane it was shocking it was unbelievable seeing punk for a few minutes just dropped bombs facts the truth whatever you want to call it and just like his promo from the week before you knew he was serious you knew that he believed in what he was saying this was a promo that left fans wondering what was real and what was the part of the story it was just crazy we really had no idea was he gonna stay in the wwe or was he gonna quit in the promo he even mentioned that he's gonna win that belt and go defend it at ring of honor early japan wrestling he broke the fourth wall he started talking about koka banna he he just went crazy this was unheard of at the time no one like wwe didn't really like to mention other promotions so he's talking about other promotions other wrestlers that used to be there this gave it such authenticity because it was like yo he's literally saying what's on his mind this is not coming from vince or any writer any script director whatever you want to call him in the back giving pointers this is how he felt and it made it so much more better he just turned up to some unbelievable levels during that promo see the thing is the reason this whole angle worked it was because it was cm punk yep all right take it like this if any other wrestlers said that he was gonna leave the wwe especially in 2011 people would be like yeah sure whatever but the thing is it's cm punk this isn't someone who's all about the money this is a man who just loved wrestling he himself said that he would go defend the title of ring of honor or japan so he's a wrestler first not a wwe superstar so him leaving wasn't some crazy thing that you know people didn't believe so nobody knew what was happening nobody knew what was happening next was he staying was he leaving and the pipe bomb was just so big that espn was talking about it i remember this espn started covering this because at this point wwe they were kind of losing steam like people weren't as invested but when this happened people was like oh okay oh something whoa what is what's going on here and this was before the wwe had any contract with espn news outlets random sites online that had nothing to do with wrestling it was everywhere it was a moment that transcended wrestling a moment where nobody will forget where they were when this happened and the best part was it was just out of the blue it came at a time when the company was at its most pg and the product was so still this was in the prime pg era and this man said that company would be better when vince was dead what the hell seam punk became a cult hero that night a legend the voice of the people a true moment in wrestling history yeah this is this is a moment that will forever be remembered in wrestling history for all time no doubt about it like in this video so far man for the next week on raw they did an angle where semen punk was suspended for what he said and he was out of the match and money in the bank it was perfect punk lit the world on fire and now you take him away for a week don't put him on television yeah the people wanting more so that night john sena confronted vince micman and he was basically begging vince micman to reinstate sena punk and allow him to participate in their schedule wwe championship match and money in the bank and vince actually put over punk and he said to john that he thinks punk will actually beat sena and he can't allow that to happen and sena was killing it as well say what you want about sena but when he's in serious promo mode he's an all-time great and eventually sena walks out on vince and he gives a title to vince and just walks away vince runs up to him and says you know what you got your match but if sena loses he's fired so the stakes got even higher on the next week of raw semen punk is back he's sitting in the middle of the ring with the megaphone and he simply says one of the most fitting lines and this is crazy because this is when i started watching it weekly i started watching monday night raw weekly at this point because i wanted to know what was gonna happen with the semen punk angle bruh wrestling history do i have everybody's attention now semen punk had the wrestling world in the palm of his hands and then he goes on to say that tonight he wants the first ever live contract negotiation in the ring with vince maybe i'll sign maybe i won't he said he goes on and on and then sena eventually comes out to confront him so sena and punk go back and forth it's intense it's serious it's authentic and it's cool because there's no bs storyline here it's just legit two people who want to prove that they're the best in the world and you can tell punk means what he says and you also know that sena means everything that he says as well they just go back and forth just having an amazing promo and then sena simply ends it with i don't care if you have a mic or a megaphone i don't care if you stay or if you go i'm coming to chicago to kick your ass he drops the mic and he leaves so close the show vince is in the ring this segment too with vince mcman was so great as well oh my god this is so this is when monday night raw had the better storyline in wwe the main storyline this storyline carried monday night raw a lot of people didn't really care what was going on outside of this storyline because this single handedly was the thing that people wanted to check out table and he has a contract and it's time for him and sena punk to negotiate a contract before money in the bank both men argue about what punk wants and punk says he wants the main event at rest of dominia he wants his ice cream and he said most importantly that he wants vince to apologize for everything that he's ever done punk brought up the anti-bullying campaign and he said that vince is one of the biggest bullies he's ever met in his life and he wants him to apologize he wants vince to apologize for firing his friends for no reason he keeps saying that he wants him to apologize but you guys know vince he won't but he did vince actually apologizes and he says i apologize you son of a bitch see him punk had the wwe in the pumping hands not just the fans but the boss the craziest part about this was how much was this real how much was fabricated and how much of this the cn punk actually want and what did he really mean you know cn punk was serious about his friends being fired he knew he was serious about the main event at rest of dominia and that's what made this so special because you knew that 90% of the things that punk was saying he meant it sure they probably added some fabricated stuff in there but overall it was still authentic but then syna's music plays and it's time for the final stare down before the match syna's all business and he starts talking he's like i hate vince too but i still show up to work but not for that man not for vince but for the people and then syna calls punk the hypocrite he says punk will ask the people if they want to see an apology and then he will ask them to be the voice of the voiceless but then he's gonna leave them syna absolutely kills it and then punk kills it too because punk's like you're not the underdog that you portray yourself to be you're not you are what you hate you're the ten-time champion you're the man john syna you're the dynasty i'm the underdog you're the yankees they both just brought their a game and the final words we get to close off raw before the pig review are by cn punk and they were just perfect i'm tired of this i'm tired of you ladies and gentlemen of the wwe universe sunday night say goodbye to the wwe title say goodbye to john syna and say goodbye to cm punk mic drop that's it that's how you build a paper review so what else is so special about this is this angle brought back a lot of people to the wwe this he is spot on this angle brought me back to wrestling if it was not for cn punk dropping this part this this pipe bomb i don't know when i would have came back to wrestling i'm gonna just be honest with you i mean dead ass cm punk brought me back to wrestling his pipe bomb these promos these segments brought me back to want to check out wrestling again dead ass bro dead ass comment down below if cm punk was one of the reasons why you got back into wrestling again let me know we a lot of people themselves admit like hey i didn't watch a lot of wrestling i kind of faded away but this angle brought me back this truly was just a special time to be a wrestling fan facts bro it's sunday july 17 2011 the day of the paper view the day of syna versus punk for the wwe championship cm punk's last day in the wwe unless he signs the contracts and at 8 p.m eastern when the show started cm punk had yet to sign a contract extension so when the clock struck midnight he would be a free agent yes this actually happened the anticipation for this paper view was insane yes it was something real made a part of the storyline and people just loved it it made for intriguing paper view and tv i would love to go over the entire paper view but this video was already mad long so i'm just gonna stick to the main event but please go out of your way to watch this it definitely is one of the greatest paper views that the company has ever produced yeah it was a real good cm punk versus john syna when cm punk walked into the building that evening like i said he had still yet to sign any contract extension punk's contract actually ended two days prior so to even wrestle at this show he agreed to a two-day contract extension just to make the paper view this is nothing was leaked nobody knew what's going on as the people you started nobody's still anyway i i i think some people didn't know i believe the announcers at the time they didn't know the actual ending of the match i could be wrong but i believe not many people knew the actual ending of the match it was only a handful of people knew the actual ending of the match so what was going on nobody knew if you were staying or was you leaving what was going to be the ending nobody at home nobody in the crowd or even backstage yeah this was a once in a lifetime thing so as the paper view started there was still not many people finished to the match that's my old bill and that's what makes this so much greater because not many people knew the real like who was going to win this match well let's talk about the match when cm punk came out ladies and gentlemen i get goosebumps just thinking about it after this video i'm gonna go watch that match probably the crowd this is one of the most intense crowds in wwe history it was it was all cm punk bro all cm punk bro for like 30 seconds before his music even hit the fans were just chanting cm punk cm punk and once his music hit it was deafening it was like if michael jordan just hit it i wish he could have shown like the actual footage i'm sure probably wwe would tripped out wanted to win the nba title but even then i don't think it would compare it was as loud as any wrestling crowd ever cm punk comes out in the iconic white best in the world shirt just looking like the biggest boss ever he's just soaking it in there's no commentary for the first 20 seconds the theme is blasting the fans are going absolutely mental they're singing along to the song cm punk chance breakout while the song's still playing they're so loud that they're overshadowing the song just inject this shit into my veins man it was it was just crazy and then it gets even better the music stops and he's sitting in the ring like he's a god and people are just worshiping him louder than are you here cm punk cm punk you have have some people in the rafters if sena wins we riot which i legitimately thought they were going to do if sena actually won that match oh my god and here's the thing they were like that the entire pay-per-view every time a match was done all you heard was cm punk cm all right we back camera died it in truly just something special the stars were just aligned for this man the fact that it was in chicago his contract was expiring no news was leaking and he was versing john sena his perfect antithesis it was perfect and then sena's music hits and you guys thought of the pop that punk i was insane while the booze that sena got were harder than anybody in wrestling history yep it was what the fuck it was like think of the ecw one night stand crowd on crack boon sena this was like some soccer ultra level stuff the song literally played for 0.5 seconds and the boos were already drowning out the music i got chills just thinking about it and the best part is when sena's walk into the ring there is no salute there's no patterning to the crowd he just means business he's in the ring he puts his belt in the air and he's just looking down no smiling all business sena punk versus john sena career on the line belt on the line if punk wins he leaves with the title nobody knew if the contract had been signed nobody knew what was happening the storyline was perfect the real-life situation was perfect the crowd was perfect and man this match was perfect these two were perfect for each other they're total opposites and then they won at it for 33 minutes putting on a classic one of the biggest matches in the history of the wwe i wish we could see some footage of it there were no weapons there was no crazy spots to be honest they just let the story do the talking and they just wrestled it was just different look most of the time you can predict the wwe most of the time there are rumors there's news and you can kind of figure out what was going to happen here nobody knew what was going to happen and you don't get that feeling option in professional wrestling it was crazy just back and forth and the longer it went the more intense it got the more hype it got the more everyone was just like what is going to happen was running through our minds and 25 minutes into the match the crowd was still as hot as it was in the beginning and both men were working they were trying their best both men were just putting in work there was a moment where punk was caught in the stf and everyone's like all right that's it type of punk to tap but no he didn't punk hit across body but sena caught him in mid air goes for the a a well punk counters he then goes to the gts sena even avoids that and puts them into the stf punk is so close to the ropes sena pulls them back and puts them in the stf again but sena punk somehow countered it to an anaconda seeing punk kicked out of two attitude adjustments the crowd was just shook 30 minutes in and it's still anybody's game such a fantastic man for 33 minutes they never lost any interest so punk hit sena with the gts but it hit his ribs and out his face which was a great touch because if it hit his face he would have been knocked out cold right kayfabe but no it hit his ribs so he rolled out and then here comes vince mcmanne with john loranitis and at this point everyone's just like oh man no don't do it please don't do the screw job finish don't do it don't screw everybody was thinking the Montreal screw job that's all people thought that's all people was thinking oh no not the Montreal screw job again over so sena goes back into the ring and he puts punk in stf and the devil vince mcmanne tries to do the screw job finish by signaling the timekeeper to ring the bell but no sena comes outside and runs up on vince he punches loranitis on the way there and he goes to vince and he says not this way sena runs back in the ring yeah punk with the gts yeah pin super sena one two three see him punk pin super sena clean in the middle of the ring and vince mcmanne just looks like he died on the inside yeah and the crowd is going insane like they had just won the world cup or the super bowl or whatever sporting event ever one of the loudest winning pops you will ever hear in the history of wrestling the impossible happened vince is shook punk is smiling he's grinning he has the title in his hands and everyone is just like what the hell punk actually won and in the commentary all you hear in one hour and 14 minutes see him punk is no longer an employee of the wwe oh my god so good this was so good it was one of those moments where time stood still vince gets the mic and he starts saying stop the music get alberto out here yeah earlier on in the show alberto del Rio won the money in the bank so the whole idea was well time for alberto to cash in and make him the champion and at this point all the fans are just like oh man they got us they bamboozled us they got us with the pop they got us with a shock but now alberto will win and screw our dreams up this is true and hearts slowly began breaking apart at this moment alberto is running to the ring it all made sense so comes out and see him punk kicks him in the face and boom see him punk grabs the title and runs out of the ring yeah he goes on to the barricade he's smiling at vince blows him a kiss legendary and the fans are going insane everyone's jumping and punk just runs through the crowd and that's how the show closes see him punk walking through his hometown crowd with the wwe championship when one hour and 14 minutes or so was going to become a free agent who was also the wwe champion what a scene what a moment vince looks like he's about to kill himself this is so what a match this is so good man probably the greatest ending to a paper view oh my god so good so how did this happen well during the show he had during the show see him punk signed a contract behind closed doors and nobody knew it never got leaked and they went out there and put on a masterpiece they tore the house down and ended the show in such a beautiful beautiful way what a moment what a storyline it was something that i don't think can ever happen again and it won't it was real it was authentic the stars were aligned well that's what made money the bank 2011 so iconic you had to have been watching this live week in week out to truly understand how special this was but i tried my best to explain it so go watch the full pay-per-view watch on this as well also the reason i didn't do a video on the summer of punk in 2011 well all the story telling that they executed so perfectly up until here let's just say they kind of ruined it after yeah they did because um well i really gotta say is somehow kevin ash was involved in this storyline that that was don't worry a future video is coming soon yeah the summer of punk should have been so much better they ruined that they ruined it they they really did ruin it um but outside of that man this just brought back so many good memories one of if not the best money in the bank pay-per-view of all time man so i am definitely after i finish editing this video i am going to go watch that match again because it's just one of those matches you can go back and watch again and enjoy like you did the very first time so comment down below let me know did this match potentially get you back in the wrestling like it did for me this match brought my love for wrestling back again well this not this match let me say did c.m. punk dropping that legendary pipe bomb this epic storytelling between him and johnson it did get you back in the wrestling well into wwe wrestling like it did for me because it definitely did this was the spark that i needed to see in wrestling because at the time it got pretty stale to me so comment down below let me know i would love your thoughts and opinions on this will be live streaming money in a bank this sunday so make sure you guys are there to watch we're gonna enjoy watching money in the bank this year but i appreciate all the love and support roll to 50k appreciate y'all kicking with me and i'll see y'all in the next one peace