It was also reported that Money in the Bank would be held with live ticketed fans in attendance. The 2021 event was initially scheduled for May 16, however, it switched dates with WrestleMania Backlash and was to take place on June 20 until Hell in a Cell was announced for that date with Money in the Bank pushed back to July 18, which had originally been reported as the date for Extreme Rules. The event aired on pay-per-view (PPV) worldwide and was available to livestream on the WWE Network in international markets, and was the first Money in the Bank to livestream on Peacock after the American version of the WWE Network merged under Peacock in March. It was the 12th Money in the Bank and the first to be held in July since the 2013 event. While the previous year's event had featured a "Corporate Ladder" gimmick, which took place at WWE's Titan Towers headquarters and had only six competitors in each match due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 event reverted to the standard version of the titular ladder match as well as returning to having eight competitors for both matches, evenly divided between the two brands. The 2021 event featured wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions male wrestlers competed for a contract to grant them a match for either Raw's WWE Championship or SmackDown's Universal Championship, while female wrestlers competed for a Raw Women's Championship or SmackDown Women's Championship match contract. The briefcase contains a contract that guarantees the winner a match for a world championship of their choosing at any time within the next year.
The concept of the show 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. Money in the Bank is an annual gimmick event produced by WWE since 2010, generally held between May and July. This event is also notable for marking the beginning of the Usos' fifth reign as SmackDown Tag Team Champions, which currently stands as the longest reign in the championship's history, and the longest Tag Team Championship reign of any kind in the history of WWE at 622 days, in which started on the Kickoff pre-show. The event also saw the surprise return of John Cena, appearing for the first time since WrestleMania 36 in April 2020. In other prominent matches, Bobby Lashley defeated Kofi Kingston to retain Raw's WWE Championship and Charlotte Flair defeated Rhea Ripley to win her record-tying fifth Raw Women's Championship and 13th overall singles championship in the women's division. won their respective men's and women's Money in the Bank ladder matches.
In the main event, Roman Reigns defeated Edge to retain SmackDown's Universal Championship. Seven matches were contested at the event, including one on the Kickoff pre-show.
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With declining cases and the availability of vaccines, WWE left the ThunderDome and returned to a live touring schedule in mid-July 2021, marking Money in the Bank as the first WWE PPV with a full crowd, and the first PPV held outside of the state of Florida since Elimination Chamber in March 2020. It was also the first Money in the Bank event to take place in the state of Texas.ĭuring the height of the COVID-19 pandemic from March 2020 to July 2021, WWE had presented their shows behind closed doors, first from the WWE Performance Center, then moving in August 2020 to a bio-secure bubble called the WWE ThunderDome (excluding WrestleMania 37 in April 2021, which was the company's first major event to have live ticketed fans since the pandemic began).
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The 2021 Money in the Bank was the 12th annual Money in the Bank professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE that was held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions and took place on July 18, 2021, at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas, and was the first Money in the Bank to air on the livestreaming service Peacock. Promotional poster featuring Bianca Belair
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