16 Things You May Have Missed From WWE Money In The Bank 2018
6. Mixed Messages
Jinder Mahal vs. Roman Reigns was booked to fail. Not only was it positioned in the death slot after the white-hot women's ladder match, but it played out through a slow, resthold-heavy house show style that the Chicago crowd wanted nothing to do with. They were too busy chanting "CM Punk" and performing Mexican waves to give a hoot about Reigns or Mahal, who didn't stand a chance.
WWE followed this with an advertisement for the upcoming USA Special Olympics, of which they claim to be "proud sponsors." A nice gesture, and the company even gave featured powerlifter Katie Millar a front row ticket, but it's positioning was problematic.
Why? Because WWE aired the vignette moments after Roman Reigns had literally beaten up a man in a wheelchair.
Sunil Singh isn't disabled, of course, but this sequencing is impossibly dumb. The crassness of these optics shouldn't need explaining, and if WWE knew they were going to air a Special Olympics advert, they should have done everything in their power to ensure it wasn't anywhere near the part where a wheelchair-bound man got Speared to hell.