<P> WWE's Money in the Bank pay - per - view event centers around a match of the same name, in which multiple wrestlers use ladders to retrieve a briefcase hanging above the ring . The briefcase contains a contract that guarantees the winner a match for a world championship at any time within the next year . The contracts for 2018 specifically granted the male and female winners a match for the world championship of their respective brand . The 2018 event included two ladder matches, one for male wrestlers and one for females, each having eight participants, evenly divided between the Raw and SmackDown brands . Male wrestlers competed for a contract to grant them a match for either Raw's Universal Championship or SmackDown's WWE Championship, while female wrestlers competed for a contract to grant them a match for either the Raw Women's Championship or SmackDown Women's Championship . </P> <P> The card originally comprised ten matches, including one on the pre-show, that resulted from scripted storylines with results predetermined by WWE on the Raw and SmackDown brands . An impromptu eleventh match was added during the show . Storylines were produced on WWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and SmackDown Live . </P> <P> Qualification matches for the men's ladder match began on May 7 on Raw . Braun Strowman defeated Kevin Owens to qualify, while Finn Bálor qualified by defeating Sami Zayn and Roman Reigns in a triple threat match, after Jinder Mahal interfered and attacked Reigns . The following week, further triple threat matches yielded two more participants: Bobby Roode defeated Baron Corbin and No Way Jose, while Owens (standing in for Mahal, who had been injured by Reigns) defeated Elias and Bobby Lashley after Zayn interfered and attacked Lashley . </P> <P> Qualification matches for the women's ladder match also began on May 7, with Ember Moon defeating Sasha Banks and Ruby Riott in a triple threat match to qualify . The following week, Alexa Bliss defeated Bayley and Mickie James in a triple threat match to qualify . The following week, Natalya defeated Sarah Logan, Liv Morgan, and Dana Brooke in a fatal four - way match to qualify . The final qualification match occurred on the May 28 episode of Raw, where Banks defeated Bayley, Brooke, James, Logan, Morgan, and Riott in a seven - woman gauntlet match to earn the final spot . </P>

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