5 Ups And 7 Downs From WWE Money In The Bank 2017

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7. Naomi Wrestles Herself

WWE Money In The Bank Naomi
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OK, that sounds really harsh, but it’s tough not to be a little critical when WWE puts a wrestler out there on PPV to compete for a title in only her second televised bout, with less than 50 matches on record, period.

But that was the case with Lana, who hadn’t had a televised bout since WrestleMania XXXII in a 10-woman match. To be fair, Lana didn’t do badly, but a PPV championship match at this stage? Come on. She stayed with some basic stuff, but she only got the advantage when Naomi whiffed on a crossbody, and then it was Lana focusing on the knee – although she switched from right to left mid-match.

This would have been a perfectly fine television debut for Lana, but to put it on PPV highlights the lack of depth on the women’s roster.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.