Money in the Bank Rate Money in the Bank 2017

[Jacob Fox]

Rate Money in the Bank 2017 and leave comments to let us know what you thought of the show.

Spoiler: Money in the Bank Results

Women's Money in the Bank Ladder Match

James Ellsworth grabbed the briefcase and dropped it to Carmella, giving her the victory.

Smackdown Tag Team Championship Match: Champions the Usos vs the New Day

The Usos retained their title by count out.

Smackdown Women's Championship Match: Champion Naomi vs Lana

Naomi retained the title by submission.

WWE Championship Match: Champion Jinder Mahal vs Randy Orton

Jinder Mahal retained by pin fall

Breezango vs Ascension

Breezango defeated the Acension by pin fall

MITB Ladder Match

Baron Corbin won the MITB ladder match.

 

[Solid Snake]

I wont vote because I didn't watch but I did watch a recap and wow. This PPV sounded awful.

For starts, the first MITB womens ladder match was won by a dude. What a slap in the face to all of them. Horrible. HORRIBLE.
Then Carmella comes out later to interrupt Naomi and Lana only it doesn't even effect the match at all and Naomi retains. What?
Randy and Jinder sounded like they had an "okay" match which would be fine for SmackDown but not a PPV.
Double count out for the tag match... eh.

The only part worth watching is the ladder match (mens) and specifically for that face off from AJ and Naka. That will be one of the best matches if not the MATCH of the year. I don't know when it is happening but that is honestly the only take away from this entire ppv and that is pretty damn sad. Yes Corbin won which is cool, he could use the boost from having the briefcase but it was painfully predictable.

So had I watched this PPV... 2 points for the main event, 1 point for Jinder retaining, and that is about it so 3/10.
Not the worst PPV of all time but it certainly sounds like it is in the top 5 worst of all time. Pathetic.

 

[Rosie]

For the Women's MITB, I feel as though if Ellsworth had simply knocked Becky off the ladder for Carmella and she'd grab the briefcase, that match overall would not have had so much backlash...

 

[britishheel]

WWE was looking good for a moment with the womens ladder match looking like they were finally making women equal. A match on this magnitude should of been put higher on the card and also the finish makes women seem inferior to men as they couldn't win without them. The only good thing about The New Day is their jokes about prison. I don't get why they are still relevant and I gave up on their match before it started, Naomi's entranced just remind me of a kid who put the bogies of gooey Louie in their hair. The match itself was mostly decent, better then what i thought, however the addition to Carmella really spoiled the match personally.
For some reason the cheesy Breezango section was extremely funny, I loved the puns and the 80's vibe. The following segment isn't a miracle unfortunately. They made me think of brainwashed people involved in a cult so I am interested in their storyline over the next couple of weeks and months.
Jinder's first defense really got me excited. I'm entertained by the comedy behind his character mainly as it pisses people off. Jinder reminds me of Rafi from the league, nothing bad with that just I love both characters. Jinder was playing very smart in the match itself I thought. Not to the standards of Randy but that comes with experience. I am pretty sure there was a match that got people bared from the match instead of a dq. New Era Same Bullshit. Also where was Jinder during the beatdown of his henchmen?
Following the circumstances of the retain I hate it. But I get it. But the next match? The purpose of being that high in the card even if just a filler match? Pointless and a quick match.
The Men's match im not really bothered by but it looked good, bit confused where they're going with the winner but I kinda can justify it modifications are made to the character.

 

[Zardnaar]

6/10, the womens MitB match I really enjoyed- until the end, PPV never really recovered for me after that.

This was actually the 1st MitB even I have watched. Probably more of a 5 really its a toss up between this, Payback and Roadblock for shittiest recent event.

 

[Gman003]

I watched up the the end of brrezango vs ascension (ok I watched that one in fast forward lol) and turned it off before the mitb match.

I personally liked Jinder vs Orton it was a nice setting and a decent pace.

But my overall favorite part about the ppv was.... Lana. She looked great in that outfit.

I was a little shocked that ellsworth got involved in the women's mitb match.


Glad baron corbin won the briefcase, I hope he has a successful cash in. But something tells me that if he used it against Jinder he won't win.

 

[Aurtle The Turtle]

Money in the Bank 2017 Rundown

Positives:

• Men's Money in the Bank ladder match was a real display of how dangerous the match type can be and AJ, Zayn and Owens especially put in great performances.
• The Kanellis' gimmick will get over if given enough time and it's perfect for these two who are average wrestlers but great heel promos.
• FaBreeze were as entertaining as always, even if their following match was medicore.

Negatives:

• Ladies Money in the Bank ladder match felt awkward at best and the finish was a huge spit in the face of anyone looking forward to building the women up to be main event level talent.
• Jinder vs Orton has the exact same match they did at Backlash, move for move and the finish was identical, just different lackey killing spots from Orton. Shit champion. Shit match. This is meant to be the most presitigious championship in the world WWE but it's not and this feud has made that clearer than ever.
• Naomi vs Lana was incredibly poor and Carmella was there for no reason.
• Poor kick-off match
• A double count victory does no one any favours in the The New Day vs Usos feud, no one gets over.
• Baron Corbin is a future world champion but he's far too under-developed still as his feud with Ziggler showed.
• There was no point to the pre-match attack to Nakamura other than to draw some basic heat, Nakamura still continued the match fine, it's not like Corbin screwed him over completely, more of a minor annoyance.
• Roidy Mahal is still WWE Champion.

Match of the Night: Men's MITB Ladder Match - 8/10
Performance of the Night: Sami Zayn
Final Rating: 4/10
8 segments, 3 enjoyable. 100 divied by 8 = 12.5 x 3 = 37.5 = 4/10

WWE should be ashamed.

 

[Wrasslemaniac]

only watched the main MITB match in full, saw the clip of the ending of the woman's match which I feel rendered the match pointless to watch from start (even if there were good spots, i just couldn't enjoy it having seen the ending now)

I had little interest to watch any other matches on the card other than the main event which I enjoyed. I did at one point sit thinking "so what's wrong with nakamura for them to keep him out of this" and then he came back. Great to see him and AJ going at it in ring. Some good spots through the match, felt they wanted to get the crowd behind Sami winning it but I'm actually happy for Corbin to win it because he can Heel up off the back of it. Crowd didn't like him winning it and if they want to escalate him then this is the way to do it. From Squasher to Mr Money in the Bank, he is on the way up.

As for my opinions of Corbin holding the briefcase in terms of cashing in. If Jinder hadn't happened then I would be sitting here typing that I don't believe he will have a successful cash-in BUT we live in a Jinderful world where anything is possible so I actually think he can win the title, just a question of who now.

 

[Koko B.]

I may be the only one with this view, but I actually liked the end of the women's MITB. If a heel was going to win it (and let's face it, the briefcase suits a heel best), then why not have Ellsworth do the dirty work? It's memorable, it's shocking, it gets people talking, and we'll all tune in on Tues to see how Shane / DB address it.

There will be another women's MITB, and someone will win it clean. But I thought it was funny how the first one ended.

 

[RedDwarfTechy]

Women's ladder match was a joke, the first ever women's mitb and they have a man take the briefcase? Good going WWE.

The MITB match itself was great but predictable from how smackdown ended, Nakamura's attack made it obvious he was gonna come out but as soon as AJ and him locked horns, I was sure neither would win. Glad I picked Corbin lol.

It was an 'okay' PPV. I'm hoping another challenger steps up for WWE title because I can't watch that same match a third time.

 

[TheAceOne]

I give it a 3/10, and that's being generous. Orton vs Jinder was ok. Not as good as their last match, but good enough. The mens MITB was by far the match of the night. The PPV reminded me of late 90's WCW booking. WWE is too good to be going that route. Apart from the two matches I mentioned above, the whole PPV was disappointing. Very lazy and cheap booking for the most part.

 

[SWL]

• the women surprised me, I expected this match to be awkward and nothing more than a clusterfuck but they actually put on a good match. I get that the ending isn't very woman empowering but then again, the difference wasn't that James is a man and Carmella isn't but moreso that Carmella just wrestled in a ladder match and Ellsworth was still fresh. So let's not get offended by something like that, ok? It's just for heat, don't get worked over it guys
• the tag title match was great, but the ending was kinda iffy for a PPV. Then again, it's worth 9.99 and I think that justifies it if you look at what we got later on
• Mike and Maria Kanellis making their surprise debut was interesting. I don't really like their presentation tho. The hearts, the touchy song.. I get the gimmick but it doesn't really feel like a wrestler gimmick I'd take serious
• Jinder vs Orton is facing the exact problems I was expecting. Jinder isn't inexperienced but he's nowhere near to being a flashy performer. The only thing that got the crowd pumped up was when Orton was kicking the shit out of the Singh Brothers, but they're not the champion and neither is Orton. I get the argument of "Orton's boring" and stuff but Randy can put on a great match with the right person. Jinder should have his best matches right now and he's not performing to World title standards which just tells me that he's not getting better than this.
• the mens mitb match was awesome, I think the right guy won as it's a very heelish stipulation, a heel should mostly take the W on these things and Corbin is destined for something big anyways.

 

[Jacob Fox]

This was an awkward PPV due to lousy booking. The women's MITB match was great, and they tarnished it with a shitty ending. I am not a fan of tag team wrestling, as most of you probably know, but I really enjoyed the tag championship match... and it had a shitty ending.

I find myself somewhat indifferent to the results of the men's MITB match. It was a good match. I like Baron Corbin. But I don't think I see him as main event material just yet. I think it would be better served to have him hold a midcard title and then build up.

Based on matches alone, I may have given this an 8. Due to crap booking, it gets a 4.

 

[Jacob Fox]

Oh and moment of the night was when, I believe Tyler Breeze, was talking on a 1980's cellphone that had tape on it that said "Property of Paul E." Nice nostalgic moment.

 

[alexb]

Out of respect to almost all the superstars last night that really busted their asses (several of which took some sick bumps), I gave this show a 5/10 cause otherwise it would have been an easy 3/10. Quick thoughts/notes:

- Pre show I skipped (as I normally do) and from what I've heard, didn't really miss out on anything important so that's that...

- So, the historic first ever WOMAN'S MITB ladder match is won by a...MAN. Granted, it was pretty much a given that Ellsworth would play a significant role in this match but to actually win it I find rediculous. Even more rediculous was the fact that you had the referees arguing on what to do and when...Ellsworth himself took the mic and announced Carmella as the winner they went like "oh, ok, ring the bell".

I mean, how many times have we seen in simillar conterversial situations a GM come out and order the match to restart or simply not approve? Anyway, given the tweets later on, there's apparently an angle in all this, though I doubt they will take the briefcase from Carmella. If I were to take an early guess, I say DB comes out on Tuesday (he apparently tweeted that he will address the issue) and makes a match between Becky (who seemingly had the match won) and Carmella with the briefcase on the line, only for Carmella to eventually win again, perhaps with some more shenanigans....

- With the momentum they had, I feel the Usos could have picked up the first win in what should be a rather long feud with the New Day that will most likely culmunate at Summerslam. I guess the idea for the count out is that in WWE's eyes it was a win win situation for both teams but, Idk, don't think New Day would have suffered any damage had they been pinned...

- Woman's Championship match was rather sloppy but hey, wasn't expecting a five star match out of them to begin with so can't really be to harsh in judgement.

- To Maria Kanellis: I'm sorry girl but as far as I'm concerned (and I'm sure most of the old school fans will agree) the only FIRST LADY there is was Elizabeth....

- Absolutely love what they are doing with the Fashion Files, now turning it into Fashion Vice. Awesome stuff. Here's to a spoof of the X-Files or McGyver or even CSI down the road :emoji_stuck_out_tongue:

- WWE Championship match was an almost identical copy of the Backlash match. Whatever, the right guy won and hopefully we are done with this and move on...

- Men's MITB ladder match by far the match of the night and once more hats off to all six of them for busting their asses and taking some serious, sick bumps. No need to go through all the good spots, great stuff overall, the winner was also very predictable so all I'll add as a note is my great satisfaction for WWE planting the seeds in regards to the money match I've talked about and one that I am sure every single one of us wants to see. If those roughly five minutes of what we got between AJ and Nakamura are any indication, I cannot wait for Mania next year. I just hope WWE are patient enough with this and wait for the grandest stage because this is a match that simply can't happen anywhere else. They ain't stupid so I have enough faith they will do the right thing here....