9 Ups And 6 Downs From WWE Money In The Bank 2021

4. Women Work Twice As Hard

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As noted earlier, the Raw Women’s Championship match was starting at a deficit thanks to poor booking for the past month-plus. It was so bad that Charlotte Flair crotch-chopped and flipped off the crowd in the opening minutes and it felt like the bout was going to go off the rails at any second.

So it’s a huge credit to Flair and Rhea Ripley for turning things around into a really good match that by the end had sucked fans in and completely buying everything they were selling. Rhea’s deadlift suplex, Charlotte countering the Riptide with a DDT, and Flair’s Super-Natural Selection were just killer moments, and the rest of the match (at least the second half) held together really well. Of course, there was the questionable decision about who won the bout…

Still, great job by the women for overcoming a litany of horrible writing.

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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.