What's up everybody and welcome back to Pro Wrestling Review, today I'm going to be giving my money in the bank 2013 review. The show overall was pretty good especially the two mitb matches.
Pre Show: WWE TT Titles: Roman Reigns and vs The Usos
I usually don't end up watching the pre show but I went out of my way to find this one because I really care about the shield. The match was very good with the shield picking up the win in the end.
I really wish that it wasn't on the pre show though and I think that one of the main reasons for that was because wwe new a lot of people didn't care about the match. The Shield has been in matches with main eventer for all of their existence until now, fighting guys like Ryback, John Cena, Daniel Bryon, Kane, Randy Orton etc. but now they are fighting people in the actual tag team division and it's making them seem less important. The Usos were just rushed up the card from basically being in the undercard and rarely ever being on raw let alone winning matches and now they're supposed to be a legitimate threat to the Shield's championship. Just like I said in my money in the bank preview the wwe having a terrible tag team division is now not just bad because the division is terrible but now it's actually really hurting a big group in the Shield.
Wwe has got to fix the tag team division, and they should have started months ago. They should have started building teams up like the Usos, the Prime Time Players, and other teams so that when the time finally arises, since the shield is the tag team champions they can face legitimate tag teams that people care about. Not just a team that we hardly ever see and is now rushed to being the # 1 contenders three weeks before the ppv.
Also I want say something about the pre show, this should be something that's free, maybe it get's fans pumped up for the ppv but it shouldn't be a big match. It should have guys from superstars or maybe main event that would have no chance of getting on the ppv if it wasn't for it. Not actual matches that are a part of the ppv card, not matches like Sheamus vs Damien Sandow. That was supposed to be a big match especially for Sandow, but it was on the pre show that A not many people watch and B it makes people think that the match isn't important. Damien Sandow would have looked a lot better with the mitb briefcase coming out the a big feud with Sheamus. It's been a long time since he was in a big feud but this feud wasn't big. Having it on the pre show really made it feel unimportant, than not to mention that Sandow lost the match, I guess having someone that your trying to build up win matches is a little bit too much for wwe to grasp most of the time.
They really do need to fix this because in the capacity that the pre show is in where it's somewhat hard to find especially if your watching it the next day and not a lot of people do watch it compared to how many people watch the ppvs, you shouldn't be having big matches on it.
Wwe didn't do the shield any favors either by having their match on the pre show. People already didn't care a lot about it since they were facing the Usos so they put it on the pre show, that really makes people think it's unimportant. That match was much too important to be on there and hopefully from now on they only put smaller matches on, put on people that have some talent but we never really see them because they're on shows like superstars, or maybe put on some guys from NXT and let the fans get used to them, not big matches with people like the shield.
WHC MITB Match: Wade Barrett vs Dean Ambrose vs Cody Rhodes vs Damien Sandow vs Jack Swagger vs Antonio Cesaro vs Fandango
This was really really good match, it was probably my favorite match of the night and even though the raw ladder match was great as well I think I liked this one a little bit better. There were tons of highlights in the match, at one point Dean Ambrose had a ladder on his shoulders and was swinging it around hitting people with it. Then Jack Swagger and Antonio Cesaro picked up the ladder with Ambrose still on it and he pretended like he was being chocked, then Ambrose tried to skin the cat on the ladder. On the second try he got it and was standing on the ladder that Swagger and Cesaro were holding, trying to get the briefcase. Next though Swagger and Cesaro through the Ladder with Ambrose still on it out side of the ring, sending him crashing to the floor.
At the end of the match Cody Rhodes hit the crossroads on almost everyone and then started climbing the ladder getting a big pop from the crowd. Eventually Dean Ambrose started climbing up too and at first Cody was able to fight him off but then the rest of the shield came in and pulled Rhodes off. The Usos then came in and fought off Rollins and Reigns. Ambrose tried to climb the ladder but Cody Rhodes pushed the ladder over and sending Ambrose falling onto the rest of the superstars. Then Cody started climbing up the ladder with the crowd really behind him and when he was just about to get the briefcase Damien Sandow his tag team partner pushed him off and climbed up to get the briefcase.
I really liked the ending to this match, it had me on the edge of my seat and it told a good story. I was expecting Dean Ambrose to win it but I'm happy and surprised that Sandow did. I've always been a big fan of him and I hope that they build him up right and that they do what they did with Dolph Ziggler last year, although having him lose his first match since winning the briefcase on raw this week isn't a good sign. I'm excited to see this feud between Cody Rhodes and Sandow and so far Cody's face character is going well but after seeing great potential with Dolph Ziggler's face character last month and then them messing that up I'm not to sure about it.
This was a really exciting match and if you haven't seen it yet I would suggest that you check it out.
IC Championship: Curtis Axel vs The Miz
I wasn't that exited about this going into it but once it got started it became not too bad of a match. At one point Miz pretended like Paul Heyman had punched him hoping that the referee would throw Heyman out so that he wouldn't interfere in the match. It ended up working and the ref made Heyman leave ringside. Now this probably wasn't a very good idea having Miz do that in Philadelphia where Heyman was very popular because the crowd ended up booing Miz.
Chris Jericho vs Ryback
This match was ok but with the build up too it I wasn't very exited about it, the whole cryback thing really destroyed whatever was left of Ryback's heel character and even though he did get the win by way of a roll up he would have probably been better off without this feud.
Divas Championship: AJ vs Katelyn
These two had a pretty good feud going into money in the bank and the reason for it being a good feud was basically just because it was a feud. Most of the time divas matches don't have a lot of build these days but this one really did. I fully expected AJ to win here mainly because she had only had the divas title for about a month and also because Katelyn started to get the upper hand in the segments on raw and smackdown. The match was ok but the one from Payback was probably better. AJ ended up winning with that awesome submission hold that's called the black widow I think.
A lot of people seem to be getting into the divas division a little bit more lately because of AJ being champion and hopefully wwe can find a way to sustain and get more of this interest. I'd like for them to get some more divas that are acually good wrestlers like AJ
WHC: Alberto Del Rio vs Dolph Ziggler
This was a really good match, the ending came when AJ came out and started skipping around the ring, Dolph told her to leave but she didn't. Eventually Alberto Del Rio pulled down his knee pad so that he could use his knee brace to hurt Ziggler. AJ got in the ring and hit Alberto with her divas championship to I guess protect Dolph. The ref disqualified Ziggler for her interference and Del Rio retained the championship.
The ending didn't really make sense because AJ had to know that Ziggler would get disqualified for it but she did it anyway. Even though that didn't make sense at all the match was still very good as was their rematch on raw.
WWE Championship: John Cena vs Mark Henry
The feud going into this match was very good and it had a lot of people including myself convinced that Mark Henry had a good chance of winning the wwe championship, unfortunately though he didn't. The match itself was ok, the beginning was pretty good with Mark Henry really dominating Cena. Eventually John Cena had Henry in the STF and Henry got to the ropes but Cena pulled him back and put him in it again, then Mark Henry ended up TAPING OUT. Let me repeat that they had the biggest heel in the wwe today TAP OUT.
I ended up making another article in respnce to this and about how wwe makes these top heels just for the purpose of being beaten by Cena and then sliding back down the card. I had a lot to say in it so i went ahead and made it a completely different article so once you get done reading this one be sure to check that out as well. I'll just say this though, there were many less character damaging ways that they could have ended this match other than making Mark Henry TAP OUT and I think that he could have done a lot more as a top heel. Be sure to check that other article out it's called Pro Wrestling Review: John Cena destroying wwe's top heels. It has a pitcure of John Cena dressed up as Superman on it, hard to miss.
WWE Championship MITB Ladder Match: Daniel Bryon vs Randy Orton vs Christian vs Sheamus vs CM Punk vs Rob Van Dam (All Star Match)
This was a really fun match to watch and like I said before the whc one and this one were about equal. This was also a very brutal match, as we heard about on raw Sheamus had some big bruises on his legs, Christian's tooth got messed up and both RVD and CM Punk had to get staples. Daniel Bryon and CM Punk started out the match hopefully foretelling of things to come with those two eventually. One thing that kind of surprised me but didn't hurt the match any was that Kane was not replaced in it. They could have had the Wyatts debut the week after MITB though because then Kane still could have been in the match.
Like I said before there were a lot of very brutal spots in it such as when at one point Sheamus was on the ladder and it was pushed over by someone and he fell onto the side of the it. That was kind of a cringe moment but luckily he was ok.
Near the end of the match Daniel Bryan was climbing up the ladder and it looked like he was going to win until Curtis Axel came in and layed him out. Then Axel turned around right into a GTS from CM Punk. Next Paul Heyman came out and started yelling at Axel saying that CM Punk is his best friend and asking Axel why come out. That didn't really make sense because if it wasn't for Axel, Bryan would have won and then and Punk would have lost the match. It doesn't really matter though because it was all a hoax by Heyman and Axel.
So then Heyman is chanting for Punk and Punk climbs up and is about to win when Paul Heyman gets in the ring and starts hitting Punk with a ladder multiple times. I really liked how they did this and I've really been enjoying this feud between Punk, Lesner, and Heyman.
Lastly Randy Orton comes in the ring and he might have RKOed someone, I can't remember but he climbs up the ladder looks around and everybody's layed out. He acually was looking around for a while so I wonder if he was thinking that somebody was supposed to come in the ring but no one did and he reached up and grabbed the MITB briefcase, winning he match.
I'm happy with Orton winning it was nice to see him back in the main event picture on raw, I just hope that he doesn't get another wellness violation, especially when he's champion because that would be a problem for wwe. I was originally thinking that Daniel Bryan would win it but he has his match for the wwe title at Summerslam so now we get Randy Orton as a future wwe champion as well, I'm ok with that.
This was a good ppv as most MITBs usually are, the two ladder matches were awesome and we also had a really good match between Dolph Ziggler Alberto Del Rio. If you haven't seen this ppv I would recommend that you check it out.
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