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

by Scott Carlson

1. Men’s MITB Steals The Show

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As great as Big E’s Money in the Bank win was, it was only a small part of an overall great match that really was everything you could have asked for. And nearly everyone got a chance to shine.

Seth Rollins and John Morrison forming a temporary alliance that lasted for more than 30 seconds and successfully took out everyone else in the field was a great way to really work in some great spots at the beginning, and it made Rollins’ eventual double-cross actually mean something. Drew McIntyre had a nice run before the obvious Jinder Mahal interference came.

Ricochet was a human highlight reel who defied all expectations. If he just goes back to jobbing on Raw on Monday, that’s a straight indictment of the utter incompetence of the WWE writers. JoMo’s drip stick made an appearance at about the perfect time. Kevin Owens ran wild for a while with a series of Stunners. Riddle was an RKO machine.

Everything flowed nearly perfectly, with there being no real dead spots and a shortage of stupid, forced spots that these MITB matches often cater to. Everyone worked really hard to produce a fun, fresh ladder match, and that’s really the best compliment you can pay.

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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.