7 Match Star Ratings For WWE Money In The Bank 2021
6. Women's Money In The Bank Ladder Match
Just barely elevated to average on the strength of certain individual performances and the fact that it's almost impossible not to generate some thrills in the context of the stipulation, elements of this match were actively bad.
And not just "Alexa Bliss has supernatural powers as goofy as they are inconsistent" bad. They don't even commit to the bit. WWE can't even be awful correctly.
At one point, when Alexa hypnotised Zelina Vega on the ladder - perhaps she is only capable of hypnotising one person at time, can somebody with rich knowledge of the lore that's definitely real please confirm? - Cole suggested apathetically that she was using her powers "I guess".
"Maybe she's using those earth-breaking dark arts that transform our very understanding of everything, f*ck, I don't know."
Elsewhere, Liv Morgan impressed and got over in a rare correlation of those things happening, but beyond eating a powerbomb on top of a ladder, she nor anybody else in the match delivered the sort of unhinged spots that for better or worse fans have long since been conditioned to demand. The storytelling wasn't anywhere near good enough to account for that, either.
With various wrestlers engaged in a brawl, Liv Morgan and Natalya played tug-of-war with a ladder for a full minute. This looked silly in itself, and far sillier against a backdrop of about 200 similar climbing apparatuses. Alexa's powers were thwarted in one consistent thread, but those powers are sh*tty, so.
Possibly the worst version of the worst trope ever happened, too, which set eyeballs rolling into their sockets arena-wide; Nikki ASH, who won, spent so long seeking a pop that everybody waiting to catch her looked dumber than usual.
And, on that note, the finish: six women climbed on three ladders, and Nikki simply climbed higher to win it.
They all looked bird-brained.
Star Rating: ★★½