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

6. The Power Of Love

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What. The. Hell. Was. That?

Maria returns after seven years away from WWE and she and her husband (who apparently is now subservient to her and has taken her name) are on SmackDown to educate fans about the “power of love.” Sorry, Huey Lewis & the News tried that already.

Seriously though, what was that? Maybe when they expand on it on Tuesday, things will make sense, but you could hear the crowd react when they first came out, and then the reaction quickly dissipated as they spoke. Even a hot St. Louis crowd cooled to this strange promo.

We’ll give it another chance, obviously, but this couldn’t have been the start the company wanted.

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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.