Rate Money in the Bank 2018

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God, I'm torn. The ladder matches were very good, Rollins / Elias was fun, and Rousey / Nia was pretty good, but the booking... Yeeeeeeeesh. Just about every match had something or other stupid about it, to where probably the most innocuous was heroic unstoppable fighting champion Seth cheating and the commentators saying it was a good thing.

I'm definitely leaning toward the low end though because what was bad was BAAAAAAAD. And way too many matches went on like three times longer than they needed to.

[Toilet Paper Roll]

5... matches pretty good. Booking pretty awful

[Koda, Master Crunchyroller]

Was I bored? For the most part no. Did the wrong people win most of the matches? Oh good lord, yes.

So for that I’ll give it a 5.

[Jonathan Michaels]

Ill give it an 8.

Great matches, and I actually liked how they got out of that corner they painted themselves in with Rousey/Jax

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Good matches pretty much across the board... bad results pretty much across the board too.

[Citizen Snips Has Left]

I'll give it a 5.

Positives:
-Ronda Rousey looks like she's going to be really good in WWE. Like, REALLY good.
-Show ended at a decent enough hour.
-I thought our thread was pretty good entertainment!
-The Ellsworth Wink

Negatives:
-The commentary teams make Mark Madden look like Jesse Ventura
-None of the matches were all that memorable. Nothing was really bad (I came in at Rollins/Elias) but nothing worth saying "Hot dog, I gotta watch something before Summerslam" either.
-I'm sort of over Braun, definitely over Alexa
-They had to know Kofi would be the sentimental favorite when they put him in the match, so why have him do nothing of note and not win?

[wakko]

Nothing good, bad outcomes, average matches. A 3.

[H-Virus]

I feel like I should pick "Didn't Watch", because aside from the winners, I barely remember anything about any of the non-ladder matches. The whole thing just felt horribly uneventful.

[Ecks Ecks Ringout Ecks Ecks]

Tough call. Great matches, but a crazy mix of decisions I both loved and hated.

6.5 rounded up to 7 seems fair. I'd probably give it another full point if commentary wasn't so godawful. Graves is getting more and more annoying by the week, and they're still all over the map when it comes to their reactions to faces, heels, cheating, etc.

[saneiac]

Positives:
Both ladder matches were pretty good, though Alexa winning was poo, and I like Alexa. I'm OK with the Braun win, though I think there were better choices.
Rollins/Elias was very good
Styles/Nakamura was great
Jax/Rousey was the best Nia Jax match I've ever seen prior to the interference. Rousey already bumps better than half the women on the roster. The powerslam she took was pretty stiff, and the press slam into a front bump was brutal.

Negatives:
The matches everyone expected to be no good were indeed no good.
Alexa wins. That was, without question, the least interesting choice out of the 8 women in that match.
Asuka and Becky Lynch both look like total morons
Carmella, one of the worst performers in the company, remains champion

I'll give it a 6. I enjoyed the good parts very much, but too much bad came with it

[Abdullah]

It feels like we had to suffer for the decent result of Bryan winning.

Good matches, not much was boring but very little advanced. 5 is right.

[MiLo Duck]

Before the PPV began, I thought of the finish that would annoy me the most. They hit each one on the head. The wrestling itself was fine, but I've never had them go perfect before. The fact that it was at an event with as many possible outcomes as Money in the Bank is somehow impressive.

Edit: except for Bryan/Cass. Almost forgot.

[JoDaNa1281]

Jun 17, 2018 22:18:35 GMT -5 Toilet Paper Roll said:

5... matches pretty good. Booking pretty awful

Unfortunately, that seems to be too often the case with WWE nowadays.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

I'd give it a solid 7

Good show and some fun matches but a good amount of booking decisions I didn't care for

[Deleted]

4

2 points for Alexa winning twice, 1 point for each of the ladder matches. No points for anything else.

[Ben Wyatt]

Jun 18, 2018 0:14:38 GMT -5 Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) said:

I'd give it a solid 7

Good show and some fun matches but a good amount of booking decisions I didn't care for

^ What he said.

There wasn't a bad match on the show (even the pre show match was a decent match) but the Asuka match ending and Alexa being superwoman again brought it down, otherwise I give the show an 8 or 9

[WinOwensWin]

I really enjoyed the show. I gave it an 8. Alexa winning wasn't the best decision (much better than Nattie who I thought was going to win). Rousey/Jax was MUCH better than it should have been. Both ladder matches were good, Elias/Seth was fun, and AJ/Nakamura 47 was tremendous (What? This was only the 5th one?)

I'm going to Extreme Rules in Pittsburgh next month, so I'm extremely excited for the buildup. (Please no Punjabi Prison).

[Moppy]

Couldn't bring myself to watch Lashley - Zayn.

Other than that, I can't think of anything I disliked, and the fans even made Reigns-Mahal must-see.

Bit disappointed in some of the winners but still an enjoyable watch. A solid 6.

[msc]

Good: Bryan looking good, Elias/Rollins (Elias = most improved in 2018?), Nia v Rousey, ladders, Braun and effort in the AJ/Nak match.

Low: Bliss-a-mania, Carmella, Big Cass being shit, the wrong people winning several matches

Averages out to 6/10

[King Devitt]

5.

Bryan winning was good. I'm fine with Braun winning. I voted Miz, but really Finn, Miz, Joe, or Braun I would've been okay with.
I think Joe could have done the most good with the briefcase though. He could've used the rub and targeted AJ.


Asuka being made to look like an idiot, Female 2002 HHH reigning supreme yet again, and Nakamura losing yet again dragged it down.
Why did Alexa win?? I don't want Natalya to be champion but the storyline was RIGHT THERE.
It's like they built up to it for weeks, even putting the bandages on the wrong knees to sell Natalya was faking, but then changed their minds right before the match.
Story wise Alexa was the ONLY person who didn't need to win. They're dangerously close to putting Alexa into Roman territory for me as someone who had potential but got over pushed to the point of nausea.

I said it after Backlash and I'll say it again...it amazes me that people think HHH would be worse than Vince.

Oh and for the love of god, please fire Coach.