Background in
Inglewood, California.
Money in the Bank is an annual
professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and
livestreaming event produced by
WWE since 2010, generally held between May and July. Along with
WrestleMania,
Royal Rumble,
SummerSlam, and
Survivor Series, it is considered one of the promotion's five biggest events of the year, referred to as the "Big Five". The
concept of the event 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. The briefcase contains a contract that guarantees the respective men's and women's winners a match for a
championship of their choosing at any time within the next year. Announced on April 20, 2025, the 16th Money in the Bank, promoted as Money in the Bank: Los Angeles, was scheduled to take place on Saturday, June 7, 2025, at the
Intuit Dome in
Inglewood, California, and featured wrestlers from the
Raw and
SmackDown brand divisions. This was the first Money in the Bank to be held in June since the
2018 event. As part of Money in the Bank weekend, WWE's
developmental brand NXT, along with the company's Mexican subsidiary
Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide, held
Worlds Collide the same day prior to Money in the Bank at the nearby
Kia Forum. In addition to airing on traditional PPV worldwide and via livestreaming on
Peacock in the United States, the event was available to livestream on
Netflix in most international markets and the
WWE Network in any remaining countries that had not yet transferred to Netflix due to pre-existing contracts. This marked the first Money in the Bank to livestream on Netflix following the WWE Network's merger under the service in January 2025 in those areas. while storylines were produced on WWE's weekly television shows,
Monday Night Raw and
Friday Night SmackDown. Qualifying matches for the men's Money in the Bank ladder match consisted of six
triple threat matches held across episodes of
Raw and
SmackDown, with three spots for each brand. The first qualifier occurred on the May 16 episode of
SmackDown, where
Solo Sikoa defeated
Jimmy Uso and
Rey Fénix.
LA Knight qualified on the following week's
SmackDown by defeating
Aleister Black and
Shinsuke Nakamura. Two qualifiers occurred on the May 26 episode of
Raw, where
Penta defeated
Chad Gable and
Dragon Lee, and then
Seth Rollins defeated
Finn Bálor and
Sami Zayn. On that week's
SmackDown,
Andrade earned SmackDown's final spot by defeating
Carmelo Hayes and
Jacob Fatu, with Raw's final spot determined on the June 2 episode, where
El Grande Americano defeated
AJ Styles and
CM Punk. Qualifying matches for the women's Money in the Bank ladder match also consisted of six triple threat matches held across episodes of
Raw and
SmackDown, with three spots for each brand. The qualifiers also began on the May 16 episode of
SmackDown, where
Alexa Bliss defeated
Chelsea Green and
Michin. The fourth qualifier was determined on that week's
SmackDown, where
Giulia defeated
Charlotte Flair and
Zelina Vega. On Night 1 of
WrestleMania 41, Uso won the
World Heavyweight Championship, while on Night 2, a now
villainous Cena defeated
Cody Rhodes to win the
Undisputed WWE Championship. After WrestleMania, Rhodes took a sabbatical from WWE while Uso began feuding with
Logan Paul. At
Saturday Night's Main Event XXXIX, Cena confronted Uso backstage prior to the latter's title defense against Paul. Cena commented on the possibility of Uso losing his title to "a
YouTuber" and how that would "ruin wrestling", something Cena promised to do after declaring his intentions to retire as champion at the end of 2025. Later that night, Cena interfered in the title match on Paul's behalf, only to be thwarted by a returning Rhodes. Uso subsequently pinned Paul to retain his title. After the match, Rhodes declared that he and Uso would face Cena and Paul in a
tag team match at Money in the Bank, which was subsequently made official. On Night 2 of WrestleMania 41,
Lyra Valkyria teamed with a returning Becky Lynch to win the
WWE Women's Tag Team Championship, At
Backlash, Valkyria defeated Lynch to retain the
WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship, but was subjected to a post-match assault by Lynch. Valkyria then cost Lynch her Money in the Bank qualifying match on the May 19 episode of
Raw. On that night's
Raw, Lynch proposed a
Last Chance stipulation for the match, where if Valkyria won, she would never challenge for the title again for as long as Valkyria was champion, but if Lynch won, Valkyria would have to raise her hand and recognize Lynch as the better woman, who subsequently agreed. ==Event==