WWE News: WWE Brings Back No Way out PPV, Moves Money in the Bank

The WWE has made more changes to its 2012 pay-per-view schedule than I care to count, although I do believe that it’s somewhere around 657 so far. 

We’ve seen pay-per-views go away completely (Vengeance), some come back and then go away again (Bragging Rights) and others simply relocate before going back to their original spot on the PPV schedule (WWE TLC). At this point, I wouldn’t bank on anything being concrete, especially with news that the company has made two more changes to the PPV schedule in 2012. 

From WrestleNewz.com: 

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The untitled July pay-per-view will be called No Way Out, which returns after a three-year hiatus. The event is scheduled to take place on July 15th from the US Airways Center in Phoenix, AZ. 

This year’s Money In The Bank pay per view, which was scheduled for July 15th, has been moved to June 17th. That event takes place from IZOD Center in East Rutherford, NJ. 

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The WWE held the No Way Out pay-per-view annually from 2000 to 2009, but it was replaced by Elimination Chamber in 2010 when Vince McMahon was on his kick of naming PPVs after gimmick matches. While I prefer the No Way Out name, I don’t really see the point of bringing it back now. 

No Way Out was a perfect name for a PPV that typically featured Elimination Chamber matches (without actually calling it Elimination Chamber), but it’s now likely just going to be another randomly named pay-per-view. I still wish the WWE would have brought back King of the Ring as a pay-per-view in that spot instead and made it actually mean something by giving the winner of the tournament a World title shot at SummerSlam. 

But it looks like the WWE is going to stick with Money in the Bank as its summer PPV attraction instead, even after rumors surfaced that the match would move to SummerSlam this year. While I would have loved to see that happen—to give SummerSlam some added intrigue—I guess I can’t complain about MITB taking place in June. 

The summer months are often less than exciting in pro wrestling, and holding Money in the Bank in June should generate a little more interest in the WWE than some random pay-per-view like Capitol Punishment would.

I wouldn’t consider any of these changes final, though. If anything, the most recent alterations to the 2012 PPV schedule prove that nothing is set in stone.

Drake Oz is a WWE Featured Columnist for Bleacher Report. You can follow him on Twitter and ask him any wrestling-related questions on Formspring.