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Sunday night’s Elimination Chamber pay-per-view ended with the Miz cashing in his Money in the Bank contract and defeating Drew McIntyre to win the WWE championship.
McIntyre narrowly escaped defeat in the Elimination Chamber main event and then received a beatdown in the waning moments of the show from Bobby Lashley. The Money in the Bank contract is designed for a wrestler to cash in on a battered opponent, and that is exactly how this story played out—which means that, for the first time in a decade, the Miz is the reigning WWE champion.