WWE MONEY IN THE BANK 2020
Cesaro vs. Jeff Hardy
Cesaro has had one helluva 2020 thus far, and this was a yet another rock-solid performance by the man. He largely dominated, and was obviously very good doing that, and his cut-offs of Jeff's attempts at mustering up a comeback were pretty great. Now Jeff on the other hand wasn't very interesting at all, at least compared to Cesaro, and the match of course suffered a bit because of that, but it didn't affect it much, 'cause it was still very, very good. ***1/4
Drew McIntyre vs. Seth Rollins
The highlights of this match, that wasn't good, were easily the bits with Drew just manhandling & throwing Seth around. Other than those, this was a bore. Seth wasn't interesting in the slightest with his control work, and I largely didn't care for most of Drew's stuff either. On top of that, they also of course had to do those "classic" Seth Rollins indy-spots -- shout out to that awful finishing stretch with big move no-selling, rope-bouncing. I don't want to call it disappointing because my expectations weren't high at all to begin with, but both guys had WAY better empty arena PC matches at Mania for sure. *3/4
Asuka vs. Carmella vs. Dana Brooke vs. Lacey Evans vs. Nia Jax vs. Shayna Baszler
Was a fun time, even if it didn't come close to matching the men's version when it comes to the pure wacky fun factor of it. Overall I'd say that this is the weakest of these cinematic matches WWE has done in this empty arena era so far, but it was still FUN!
AJ Styles vs. Aleister Black vs. Daniel Bryan vs. King Corbin vs. Otis vs. Rey Mysterio
Hahaha, this was just an absolute blast from start to finish. Totally on par with the Boneyard match for me. So many great moments like the boys arriving at the gym where the match started off, AJ seeking revenge at Rey, those flashbacks to the Boneyard match, Bryan delivering those repeated YES Kicks to Corbin while Otis does the chanting right next to him, Corbin throwing Rey & Aleister casually off the roof, AJ going "STOOOP!!!" when Otis celebrated his victory, and of course then the highlight of it all -- Bryan & AJ brawling themselves into Vince's office. That bit was amazing. The whole thing was just SO MUCH FUN
Loved MITB!
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