WWE Officially Confirms the Date and Venue for Money in the Bank 2026 

The Money in the Bank PLE has been pushed back by at least two months from its usual slot in 2026.

WWE Officially Confirms the Date and Venue for Money in the Bank 2026 

Money in the Bank 2026 [via- WWE]

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Deviating from its usual slot in a calendar year, the annual Money in the Bank PLE will be held on September 6 in 2026, as announced by WWE via a press release on Wednesday. The event has been postponed by a week and will be held at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans.

Going by the unprecedented scheduling, MITB ’26 is set to be preceded by SummerSlam at the US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. That would prevent the company from booking one of the cash-ins at the biggest party of the summer. Take, for instance, night one of this year’s SummerSlam, which ended with Seth Rollins pulling off the ‘Ruse of the Century’ by cashing his MITB contract on CM Punk.

It was revealed in May 2025 that The Crescent City will get to host Money in the Bank after it got stripped of WrestleMania. During an episode of SmackDown in February, TKO’s Board of Directors member Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson cut a promo revealing that WWE’s biggest show of the year is headed to NOLA in 2026.

It would’ve gone on to become the first WrestleMania to be hosted in the ‘Big Easy’ since 2018. Reports claimed that WWE scrapped WrestleMania 42 in NOLA and gave it back to Las Vegas, as the company was hopeful of replicating the financial success it had by hosting the event in Vegas this year.

Shortly after the fans slammed this move, WWE CCO Triple H announced via a video message on X that New Orleans will indeed host a future WrestleMania with a date yet to be finalized.

How has Money in the Bank fared as a concept in Triple H’s era?

The Triple H creative regime has now booked three Money in the Bank events. Has ‘The Game’ been up to the mark when it comes to picking the right pair of superstars to hold those coveted contracts? ‘Hunter’ had his first crack at the concept in 2023 at a time when LA Knight was experiencing a groundswell in his popularity and the fans were firmly behind him.

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Has Triple H booked Money in the Bank the right way? [via- ITR Wrestling]

The majority of them believed that Knight was a no-brainer pick as Mr. MITB, but ‘The Cerebral Assassin’ ended up crowning Damian Priest as the winner. It drew the ire of the fans. Meanwhile, Iyo Sky‘s victory was hailed and raved about in wrestling circles. On the women’s side of things, Levesque hit the bull’s-eye. In 2024, Drew McIntyre emerged triumphant by unhooking the MITB briefcase.

He decided to cash in on Priest on the same night as the PLE. However, CM Punk screwed it up for the Scot. Henceforth, the latter ultimately squandered that opportunity of a lifetime. The booking decision made the fans go ballistic. But, likewise to its previous year, the females saved the day for WWE, with Tiffany Stratton seizing the opportunity.

She successfully cashed it in on Nia Jax on the first SmackDown of 2025. Speaking of this year, the fans witnessed a similar pattern in Levesque’s MITB booking, with Seth Rollins’ coup heavily criticized on social media. But a long-overdue moment for Naomi precluded the creative from drawing a blank in the eyes of the WWE Universe.

In essence, the Triple H-led creative team has picked the fan-favorite choices for the women’s division since ‘The Game’ got promoted to his current job title. However, woes continue to pile up on the men’s side of things, with fans baffled over how the company could not give a red-hot figure like LA Knight a single run with the Money in the Bank briefcase.

A while ago, WrestleVotes noted that ‘The King of Kings’ has never been a big fan of the MITB prop. It made some realize the lopsided booking of this concept ever since he took over main roster creative. Him making Austin Theory cash in for the US title and eventually failing in 2022 still gets its due flak from the fans.

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