On Friday, WWE began to advertise that Lesnar will cash his briefcase in against Seth Rollins on Monday's show. The oddsmakers from Sky Bet have acted on this news and created a market in which customers can place wagers on all of the potential scenarios that could play out on Monday night.
They have five options for punters to choose from.
The first is a 4/5 favourite. It's for WWE to follow through with its advertised cash-in on Seth Rollins and for Lesnar to win the Universal Championship.
The second-favourite, at 10/11, is for Lesnar's contract to be executed against Rollins - as WWE is promoting - but for the challenger to lose. It might be worth pointing out that this would be the third consecutive men's Money in the Bank cash-in to fail.
The next offer is 8/1 on Lesnar not cashing in his contract on Monday's show.
They also have 20/1 for Lesnar to take his title opportunity against the WWE Champion, Kofi Kingston, and to win the strap.
The longest odds are 50/1 for Lesnar to challenge Kofi Kingston and to lose.
I have placed two wagers and they're going against what is being advertised by WWE and opposing previous reports (Lesnar was meant to face Rollins in Saudi Arabia).
I've gone for the 8/1 on Lesnar not cashing in his contract tomorrow night and I've also backed Lesnar to cash in - and win - against Kofi Kingston.
In my opinion, if there is a cash-in tomorrow night, the only way they can make it shocking is to pull a swerve and have Lesnar beat Kingston instead of Rollins.
Lesnar could even do it following another Dolph Ziggler beatdown to Kofi and that would allow their current feud to continue albeit without a title at stake.
A few things have made me believe that Kofi will be the person who loses to Lesnar. The first is that he has completed the visit to Ghana as champion. If Kingston was due to do the media/press tour later on, I would have used that to make a case for him keeping the strap until after then. The Ghana trip concluding late last week makes it possible now.
Secondly, and yes this was before plans might have changed, but I think the fact that WWE amended the rule of the Money in the Bank contract allowing the briefcase holder to cash in against either the Universal or WWE Champion might have been a tell that the company wanted Lesnar to be the WWE Champion once he cashes in.
I guess there's not much to write about the 8/1 bet I've placed on there not being a cash-in other than to say I think the boombox briefcase thing might have more legs to it than a couple of weeks.
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