Monday, July 16, 2012

Money in the Bank results

Last night was the Money in the Bank PPV for the WWE.

While the show didn't measure up to last years MITB, this show did have some solid moments.

The show started off with the YouTube pre-show.

The pre-show kicked off the event with a match for the Tag Team Championship. Hunico and Camacho vs. the WWE Tag Team Champions, Kofi Kingston and R-Truth.

There was nothing real special with this match as Kofi and R-Truth retained the Tag Team Championships.

The Smackdown brand Money in the Bank match kicked off the PPV portion of the event.

As predicted earlier, Dolph Ziggler was one who came away with the MITB briefcase and the World Heavyweight Championship title shot.

This was the right person to win the match as the WWE now needs to ride on the back of Ziggler as he can be a great heel champion.

The next match was for the World Heavyweight Championship. The champion, Sheamus vs the challenger, Alberto Del Rio.

Sheamus retains the title.

Ziggler tried to immediately cash in the briefcase, after Del Rio attacked Sheamus, but had his head punted off as Sheamus delivered the Brogue Kick. Since the match never started, Ziggler still has the title shot.

Next was a filler match with the Prime Time Players with AW vs Primo and Epico.

Primo and Epico get the victory.

We now get to the match of the night. The battle for the WWE Championship. CM Punk vs Daniel Bryan with AJ as the special guest referee.

As always, these two put on an a fantastic match. AJ took a shot and left the match for a while but came back to finish refereeing. AJ did not have the major impact that I believed she would in this match. We did not know whose side she was really on, as she shafted both Punk and Bryan as they were going for different objects.

Both Punk and Bryan took serious shots with the kendo stick, chair and tables.

Punk did a huge backdrop sending Bryan through the table and getting the pin, retaining his WWE Championship.

We then had two filler matches as Ryback murdered Tyler Reks and Curt Hawkins.

The other match was Layla, Kaitlyn and Tamina Snuka vs. Beth Phoenix, Natalya and Eve Torres.

The winner of that match was Layla, Kaitlyn and Tamina.

The main event was the RAW MITB match.

As predicted John Cena comes away with the briefcase setting up a WWE Championship match against CM Punk.

This was an ok PPV with some highlights and some lowlights.

Even though this show didn't live up to last years epic MITB PPV, I would still give this a thumbs up.

Stay tuned tomorrow as we review tonight's episode of Monday Night Raw.

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