Ahead of the 2020 Money In The Bank pay-per-view event, there’s a lot of lookbacks are going on via the social media sites over the history of this event that includes the name of Carmella.
Even WWE has aired a countdown on this week’s episode of Raw ranking the best of Money In The Bank cash-in moments. One of them could be the one created by the first-ever Women’s Money In The Bank match-winner, Carmella.
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In the year 2017, WWE added another feather to the Women’s Evolution by hosting the first-ever Women’s Money In The Bank ladder match. Only five SmackDown Women’s division superstars were able to compete on that matchup. Carmella etched her name in the WWE history books by becoming the first-ever Women’s Money In The Bank ladder match-winner.
There were some controversies around the match and her win where she had to win the briefcase for the second time to prove her possession over it. While reminiscing the moment, Carmella says that night will go down in history in career.
While talking about the match, Carmella talked that the group of five women was let known about the match getting happened in the 2017 edition of Money In The Bank PPV.
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Carmella was the most nervous in the bunch as she was the smallest one in the group creates inefficiency while competing in a ladder match. But she eventually defied all the odds and stood tall with that opportunistic briefcase.
“I mean, I was nervous, I’m not going to lie,” Carmella said while appearing on WWE’s The Bump. “They took all of us aside – the five of us – and told us about it before they announced it on TV, just to make sure that we were ok with it. I’m not going to lie, I was nervous. I was the smallest girl in the match, the ladders are huge and heavy, and I’ve never done any big crazy moves off the ropes, let alone a ladder. I was scared, but I knew what I had to do.
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“I wanted to make history because no matter how many more Women’s MITB matches there are going to be in the future, everyone is going to remember the first ‘Miss Money In The Bank,’ and here I am.” (quotes courtesy wrestlingINC.com)
Carmella held Money In The Bank briefcase for nearly 287 days (the longest anyone has held on to the briefcase in history) before finally cashing it in on Charolette Flair on the post WrestleMania 34 episode of SmackDown. She became the new SmackDown Women’s Champion and also got rid of the MITB briefcase.
She joked how carrying the briefcase for so long was worthy as she was able to leave New Orleans as the new champion.
“I was so glad to get rid of that thing [the briefcase],” Carmella joked. “The story that I told the old people that would ask me at baggage claim at airports, they’d say, ‘Oh, what is that? Are you a banker?’ I’d be like, ‘No,” and I would make things up because they would never understand the significance of the briefcase and the contract inside. I’d say, ‘There’s a contract in there,’ and they’d say, ‘A contract for what?’ [Then I would reply], ‘Nevermind, I work at Bank of America, it’s part of my uniform.’ It was ridiculous.
“I really think that it worked in my favor to hold on to that for that long because I cashed it in successfully. Man, that’s something that I’ll never forget; the crowd, my parents were there, it was the SmackDown after WrestleMania. That goes down in history books, everyone hopes for that [day] in their career, and I’m so grateful that I had that opportunity.”
