10 WWE Money In The Bank 2021 Impulse Reactions
1. The Fans
Not a hot take to note how brilliant it was to have noise again for the shows over the weekend (and how downright crucial it will be to the renewed enjoyment of Raw for three weeks until the novelty wears off) but what were the first big takeaways from having butts in seats instead of smiles on screens?
The natural noise was a huge plus compared to that awful drone from The ThunderDome, even if it didn't always favour the workers in a way WWE would have liked. The aforementioned tension was too apparent in the the Raw Women's Championship match, but you don't get good without bad and the work was made great by folk losing their sh*t at the end.
Big bumps are better with real human beings to appreciate them, which did much for the pacing the drama of the ladder matches. Lashley's first proper run-out as WWE Champion felt like an unqualified B-show success, and just about everything thus far on the docket for SummerSlam thus far sounded like what people wanted.
When Money In The Bank 2021 ruled, it did so harder than any show in a year because the live performance art was once again whole. The pandemic isn't over, but wrestlers are when WWE no-sells it.