Another nixed creative plan came in 2019 when Mustafa Ali was initially penciled in as the winner of the Men's Money in the Bank ladder match. A last-minute call from former WWE CEO Vince McMahon, however, later changed the course of the match.

"I show up to Money in the Bank, and they're like, 'Hey, you're winning it.' I go, 'What? Okay, cool,'" Ali said. "So this is so funny because I'm one of the shorter guys in the match. So they actually had me climb up the ladder so they could adjust the briefcase so it was within grabbing distance of me. And all day we're putting this match together. 

"Everyone's like, 'Hey, man, Congrats. Yeah, man, this is awesome.' I was like, Oh, maybe I can get this briefcase to light up, because I was wearing the light of stuff at the time. I'm thinking this is one of those cloud nine moments, I can't believe this is happening, because it's not happening."

When the other competitors began making their entrances for the respective match, Ali found out that his victory was actually not happening after all. While donning his light-up mask and jacket, Ali specifically recalled producer Jamie Noble telling him to quickly speak with McMahon in the Gorilla position. Through Ali's flashing lights, McMahon instructed the star to proceed with the planned spot of him climbing up the ladder to grab the MITB briefcase. Before Ali were to unhook it, though, a mystery entrant would emerge, knock him off the ladder, and take possession of the briefcase instead. That mystery figure, of course, later turned out to be "The Beast" Brock Lesnar.