IWE Money in the Bank (2019)

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Money in the Bank (2019) is a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event and IWE Network event, produced by IWE for their Raw and SmackDown brands. It will take place on May 19, 2019, at the XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut. It will be the tenth event under the Money in the Bank chronology.

Production

Background

IWE's Money in the Bank pay-per-view event centers around a match of the same name, in which multiple wrestlers use ladders to retrieve a briefcase hanging above the ring. The briefcase contains a contract that guarantees the winner a match for a world championship at any time within the next year. The contracts for 2018 specifically granted the male and female winners a match for the world championship of their respective brand. The 2019 event will include two ladder matches, one for male wrestlers and one for females, each having eight participants, evenly divided between the Raw and SmackDown brands. Male wrestlers compete for a contract to grant them a match for either Raw's Universal Championship or SmackDown's IWE Championship, while female wrestlers compete for a contract to grant them a match for either the Raw Women's Championship or SmackDown Women's Championship.

Storylines

The card is comprised of matches that results from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that build tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches, with results predetermined by IWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands. Storylines are produced on IWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and SmackDown Live.

On the April 15 episode of Raw, |Natalya confronted Raw and SmackDown Women's Champion Becky Lynch, wanting to challenge for the Raw Women's Championship. They were interrupted by Lacey Evans, who was drafted to Raw during the Superstar Shake-up and who also attacked Lynch the previous week. Evans then defeated Natalya to earn a Raw Women's Championship match against Lynch at Money in the Bank.

On the April 22 episode of Raw, Chief Executive Officer Triple K scheduled two triple threat matches with the winners facing each other to determine the next contender against Seth Rollins for the Universal Championship. New Raw draftee KJ Styles defeated fellow draftees Rey Mysterio and Samoa Simpson in the first triple threat match, while Baron Corbin defeated Drew McIntyre and new draftee The Miz in the second. Styles then defeated Corbin to earn a Universal Championship match against Rollins at Money in the Bank.

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