9 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE Money In The Bank 2020

4. Hardy Works For Win

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WWE is always going to give Jeff Hardy chances to prove himself in the ring. For more than 20 years off and on, he’s been a wrestler fans gravitate to, a marketable superstar.

After being out of action for nearly a year, Hardy returned in a one-off match in March before a multi-week video series on SmackDown “reintroduced” him to the audience. Billed as one final comeback attempt for the Charismatic Enigma, Hardy battled Cesaro during the kickoff show Sunday night.

When a match involves Cesaro, you can almost always count on a hard-hitting, quality match, and that’s what we got against Hardy. The Swiss Cyborg controlled large portions of the match, countering some of Jeff’s signature offense, but Hardy kept battling back. The announcers wondered about ring-rust, but Jeff overcame an onslaught from Cesaro and picked up the win.

Hopefully WWE capitalizes on this opportunity and Hardy stays healthy long enough to make something of this. Cesaro keeps getting sacrificed to other wrestlers, and you just wish he would get the ball once to run with it.

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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.