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

5. Hyper Hometown Curse

Cowboy Bob Orton Money In The Bank
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What’s worse than losing in your hometown? How about losing in your hometown when a bunch of local wrestling legends and your father are there, on Father’s Day?

Yeah, that would do it. Randy Orton fell to Jinder Mahal again, this time with Cowboy Bob Orton, Ric Flair, Sgt. Slaughter, Larry “The Axe” Hennig and others sitting at ringside. The St. Louis faithful were strongly behind Orton, making it sound like he was Daniel Bryan circa 2014. Despite that boost, Orton lost in his hometown, joining long list of WWE superstars who lost when wrestling in front of their friends and family.

Sure, this might have more to do with the calendar than anything else, but it still is a bit ridiculous. At some point, someone is going to have to win a big match in his or her hometown.

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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.