{"id":43817,"date":"2017-06-18T21:25:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T02:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=43817"},"modified":"2017-06-19T11:47:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T16:47:58","slug":"618-mcneills-live-blog-wwe-money-bank-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/06\/18\/618-mcneills-live-blog-wwe-money-bank-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"6\/18: McNEILL&#8217;s Live Blog of WWE Money In The Bank 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2602052357\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p><em>Don\u2019t forget to join Jonny Fairplay and myself on PWTorchLivecast.com immediately following \u201cMoney In The Bank\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2659\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/StaffMcNeill07_120.jpg\" alt=\"StaffMcNeill07_120\" width=\"120\" height=\"138\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our preshow match is the Hype Bros against The Colons. They ain&#8217;t hype!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Colons have changed the complexion of this match&#8221;. That&#8217;s right. This match is no longer Caucasian.<\/p>\n<p>The Bros win when Zack hits the Hype Rider on a Colon. A sign in the crowd says &#8220;Meh&#8221;. Dude, hang on to that sign. You may need it later.<\/p>\n<p>Renee throws it to Sam for the final hard sell. Meanwhile, Impact is bringing back Don West. Score one for the Owls. They DO let Sam imply that Nakamura isn&#8217;t that good in the ring. So he&#8217;s got that going for him, which is nice.<\/p>\n<p>BREAKING NEWS: Roman Reigns is still on Raw tomorrow night.<\/p>\n<p>Reader @JobeTilt writes: If all the women are down could James Ellsworth go up the ladder and grab the briefcase?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: Only if he&#8217;s in drag, claiming to be Jane Ellsworth.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-203970590\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>We open with the Women&#8217;s Money In The Bank match. JBL tells us careers will be made, hearts will be broken, shots will be downed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s say hello to our Kryptonian announce team of Connor Kon-El and General Zod.<\/p>\n<p>There is a revolution happening with women in sport. But not here. Y&#8217;all are still underpaid independent contractors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nobody is ever going to forget the first ever Women&#8217;s Money In The Bank match&#8221;. Really? I already forgot the first Women&#8217;s Hell In A Cell match.<\/p>\n<p>I like Tamina&#8217;s strategy of standing in the center of the ring and waiting for people to bring her ladders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tonight could be a coming out party for Tamina&#8221;. Maybe you should clear that with her, Byron.<\/p>\n<p>Natalya sets up the first ladder, and has to wait forever for someone to run in and stop her. Charlotte&#8217;s next, and she has to wait on Carmella.<\/p>\n<p>Natalya whacks Tamina with the ladder. And again. Lots of people chant &#8220;This is awesome&#8221;! Tamina disagrees.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-1791692205\" class=\"pwtor-content-1 pwtor-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: pwtorchcom_test_300x600 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __300x600\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Carmella struggles to raise the ladder off the ropes. This, I can help with. Lift with your knees, kid, not with your back.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte comes off the top rope onto Natalya &amp; Tamina on the floor, with a move we&#8217;ll call the &#8220;Really Bad Idea with a Half Twist&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ellsworth finally gives up on the ladies and climbs the ladder himself, retrieving the briefcase and tossing it to Carmella. The Women&#8217;s Revolution lives on!<\/p>\n<p>The referees confer at ringside before reaching an agreement. &#8220;By order of Mr. McMahon, rules are for suckers! Carmella wins!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Next month&#8217;s Raw pay-per-view is &#8220;Great Balls Of Fire&#8221;. In honor of Chuck Berry, next month&#8217;s Smackdown pay-per-view will be called &#8220;My Dingaling&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Backstage, Lana tells Dasha Fuentes the women are lucky she wasn&#8217;t in the ladder match. (Rusev climbs much faster than James Ellsworth.)<\/p>\n<p>Up next, it&#8217;s Day One Ish vs. New Day No Ish for the Smackdown Tag Team Titles.<\/p>\n<p>But first, let&#8217;s say hello to our Earth 2 Announce Team of Thomas Wayne Jr. and Mauro Ranallo.<\/p>\n<p>You know the challengers are serious about this title match, because Xavier Woods has color coordinated his trombone with the team outfits.<\/p>\n<p>Backstage, Mr. McMahon is trying to put together his own boxer vs. wrestler match. At least, I think that&#8217;s why he googled &#8220;is leon spinks dead or alive&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Uso just delivered the slowest suicide dive on record. Meanwhile, Kofi&#8217;s out there playing Demetrious Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>The guy who had the &#8220;Meh&#8221; sign earlier now has a &#8220;Botch&#8221; sign. Someone came prepared.<\/p>\n<p>Those of you who bet on star ratings? I certainly hope you took the over for this match.<\/p>\n<p>I spoke too soon. The Usos walk, and let New Day win by countout. I&#8217;m betting we get a rematch next month at &#8220;My Dingaling&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to question WWE, but why is Gold Bond sponsoring this show? You&#8217;d think &#8220;Great Balls Of Fire&#8221; would be a&#8230;better fit.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Orton Junior and Sgt. Slaughter are backstage. By showing them, WWE ensures we&#8217;ll go another ten minutes without internet rumors of their death.<\/p>\n<p>Women&#8217;s Title match. I heard the opening bars of Lana&#8217;s song and wondered why No Way Jose was in the building.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have no idea what Lana brings to this championship match&#8221;. If THAT&#8217;s true, JBL needs to start looking at the monitor.<\/p>\n<p>If someone had just arrived from 2001, he&#8217;d think Mr. McMahon had finally put the XFL cheerleaders to good use.<\/p>\n<p>So far, this is going&#8230;Anyway, it&#8217;s going. How about those Nationals? Great year for Scherzer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I expected this match to be over in two minutes&#8221;. If you change &#8220;expected&#8221; to &#8220;prayed to Jesus&#8221;, I&#8217;m right there with JBL.<\/p>\n<p>Hold on, I think Vince just gave up on the match, because Carmella&#8217;s out at ringside with the briefcase.<\/p>\n<p>Naomi wins by submission. Carmella decides not to use the briefcase. I think the word I&#8217;m looking for is&#8230;&#8221;Meh&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re keeping score at home:<br \/>\n&#8211; Good match, awful finish<br \/>\n&#8211; Good match, awful finish<br \/>\n&#8211; Awful match, okay finish<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s &#8220;Fashion Vice&#8221;! With footage from &#8220;Fuji Vice&#8221; spliced into the intro.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more continuity in these Breezango skits than you&#8217;ll see on any month of Raw.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Maria Kanellis! And Mr. Kanellis! Live at &#8220;Money In The Bank&#8221;! It&#8217;s a Miracle!<\/p>\n<p>For seven years, Maria has been looking for the perfect partner. But I was already married, so she found someone in Ring of Honor.<\/p>\n<p>Let Us Take You Back And Remind You Of That Awful Finish We Booked In The Opener.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to James Ellsworth on becoming the first woman to win a Money In The Bank ladder match.<\/p>\n<p>Did You Know? Jinder Mahal is the WWE World Heavyweight Champion.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s welcome the Saint Louis Legends! I look forward to seeing Larry Wilson and Roger Wehrli<\/p>\n<p>Time for our championship match. Making his way to the ring, from Calgary, Punjab, India: Jinder Mahal!<\/p>\n<p>And your challenger, from St. Louis, Missouri by way of the Voices In His Head (and his veins): Randy Orton!<\/p>\n<p>Randy Orton is taking last month&#8217;s loss personally? Didn&#8217;t somebody tell him it&#8217;s all a work? (You know, like the Tooth Fairy or the election?)<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take another look, in slow motion, of Randy Orton landing on the floor and doing nothing which would cause a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>WWE champion Jinder Mahal is working over hometown star Randy Orton at the announce table. The crowd, of course, chants for Tye Dillinger.<\/p>\n<p>Jinder Mahal locks the figure-four on Randy Orton, and&#8230;Jinder&#8217;s figure-four looks better than The Miz&#8217;s figure-four! Where&#8217;s that guy with the &#8220;Inconceivable!&#8221; gif?<\/p>\n<p>Randy hits the RKO, and one of the Shiras puts Jinder&#8217;s foot on the ropes. The psychotic guy who hears voices in his head calmly reasons with referee Mike Chioda.<\/p>\n<p>The Shiras get tossed by the referee and go after Bob Orton Junior at ringside. Okay, that&#8217;s the Randy we know. The 2nd Annual Bollywood Boy Toss is underway.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact Orton has been outside the ring for a 150 count, the match continues. At least, long enough for Jinder to hit his finisher and retain the title.<\/p>\n<p>Our main event is still to come, but first it&#8217;s time for the NBC Universal Sunday Night Mystery Movie. Tyler Breeze &amp; Fandango star as &#8220;McMillan &amp; Wife&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Breezango against their attackers, The Ascension! If only someone had predicted this in his preview column&#8230;earlier today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Breezango wins. So, are The Ascension also the guys who have been attacking Enzo &amp; Cass? Tune in to Raw tomorrow and find out!<\/p>\n<p>We need another video package. Why you&#8217;d still be watching this show if you didn&#8217;t know about the Money In The Bank is a question I&#8217;m not ready to tackle.<\/p>\n<p>Money In The Bank Ladder Match. Corbin attacks Nakamura on the entrance ramp, ruining his elaborate ring entrance. Now THAT&#8217;S how you get crowd heat, kids.<\/p>\n<p>Am I ready for 90 minutes of callers complaining about the prospect of a Nakamura-Corbin feud after tonight&#8217;s show? Not so much, no.<\/p>\n<p>Corbin and Ziggler team up to hit AJ with a ladder. Seconds later, Tom tells us there are no allegiances in this match.<\/p>\n<p>With Nakamura out, this match is about teasing Sami Zayn climbing the ladder. Oh, and it&#8217;s about AJ giving Owens an Attitude Adjustment onto a ladder. That part is important too.<\/p>\n<p>Nakamura is back, and he&#8217;s your fiery white meat, um, ball of fire. He goes after Corbin. He destroys the others.<\/p>\n<p>Styles &amp; Nakamura knock each other out. So, when does James Ellsworth run in to pick up THIS briefcase?<\/p>\n<p>Corbin knocks Styles and Nakamura off the ladder, climbs the ladder, and can&#8217;t figure out how to unhook the case. That course should come right after Promo Class.<\/p>\n<p>Baron Corbin has the briefcase. Hang on to that case, young man. Then cash it in at WrestleMania.<\/p>\n<p>That was Money In The Bank. Go over to PWTorchLivecast.com for the postgame show, and join Wade and Company for the VIP Roundtable in a couple of hours. 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