Ranking Every 2017 WWE Pay-Per-View From Worst To Best

4. Money In The Bank

WWE Money In The Bank 2017 AJ Styles Shinsuke Nakamura
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The Good: AJ Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura's brief face-off during the eponymous ladder match drew electrifying cheers as the two genuinely looked and felt like real-life video game characters set to do battle. The company smartly left plenty behind for another day though, breaking things up quickly in order to get back to Baron Corbin's big win. The New Day and The Usos had a great 12:00 match that would in hindsight serve as a curtain-raiser for one of the best feuds of the year. Ordinarily preserved as dark match performers on Tuesdays to keep butts in seats for 205 Live tapings, it was a pleasure to see Breezango bask in their newfound support as wrestlers following a streak of side-splitting vignettes.

The Bad: Lana always looks to be trying her very best, but she'll never be as competent between the ropes as she is on a microphone. Her title shot against Naomi was laughably poor, especially by the raised standards and stakes of today. Jinder Mahal's title defence against Randy Orton was brutally boring because of course it was.

The Ugly: Lost to the booking, the first ever Women's Money In The Bank Ladder Match will only ever be remembered for James Ellsworth dropping the case down to Carmella. It mattered not what WWE were aiming to achieve from the stunt, nor how good the televised rematch was a fortnight later - the history-making moment deserved less controversy and contrivance than it received.

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