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

8. A Well-Scripted Tag Title Bout

AJ Styles Olmos
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No one was expecting Omos to be involved in a four-star classic, even with AJ Styles as his partner and with a very game Viking Raiders across the ring.

That’s not to say that Omos is a huge detriment, but a guy with literally 12 matches under his belt going into Sunday was not going to be a guy to put on a clinic. Still, the Raw Tag Team Championship match between AJ & Omos and the Raiders was a fun match for what it was: a series of eye-popping spots from AJ’s Personal Colossus.

Omos slammed and then press-slammed Ivar, threw Erik into Ivar to break up a pinfall, and then won the bout for his team with a Tree Slam on Erik. The other three had good showings as well, with the Raiders double-teaming Omos more effectively than any other team yet.

Still, one criticism: Styles as a heel-in-peril is such a weird dynamic, and the fans made that abundantly clear, as they wanted to cheer AJ, but he’s a heel tag champ. That’s something WWE is going to have to adjust to now that fans are back.

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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.