GDT: WWE Money in the Bank (17th June 2018)

[Natey]

He’s mostly a face because people cheer him no matter what.

And that's fine. But booking him as everyone's favorite cuddly giant is silly to me.

 

[Sacha Baron Corbin]

How was Styles-Nakamura? Really the only thing I care about from this show

 

[Cor]

How was Styles-Nakamura? Really the only thing I care about from this show

Was a really good match.

4.5/5

 

[T_Cage]

Complaints as usual have more to do with booking than match quality.

This argument I can agree with. The wrestling was good, the booking was hot garbage

 

[Deen]

The replay starts in 45 minutes. Without spoiling it, is it worth watching?

 

[TNT87]

How was Styles-Nakamura? Really the only thing I care about from this show

In my opinion it was their best match during this feud.

 

[Emperoreddy]

How was Styles-Nakamura? Really the only thing I care about from this show

Only match really worth watching IMO. It was really good

 

[Cor]

Only match really worth watching IMO. It was really good

Seems harsh.

That Women’s Ladder Match was good, the Ronda match was entertaining, DB/Cass was good for what it was, the Men’s Ladder match should have been better, but it still had spots to make it worth watching.

 

[M.C.G. 31]

Was a really good match.

4.5/5

I think that's overrating it imho.

Last man standings are generally slower, but this one seemed slower. I dunno. I personally couldn't go over ***1/2 for it.

 

[Sacha Baron Corbin]

Thanks for the feedback guys, I think I’ll stick to the Last Man Standing and NXT. Haven’t watched Raw or Smackdown in a month at least so I’m pretty out of touch right now but sounds like I haven’t missed a lot

 

[ColePens]

Just some things now that I watched the rest:

1) It's painfully obvious Vince has no intention to ever believe a person like Asuka or Nakamura can lead the WWE as champion. I was so sad to see those 2 basically pushed aside and they are so insanely talented. It's really sad. Nak/AJ was match of the night, by a country mile, but Vince obviously will not give it to a person like them. It's so f***ing annoying and stupid.

2) Booking was BRUTAL. Pointless Bliss win and Braun winning? The f*** does that guy need a briefcase for? Joe, KO, Kofi.. those guys would have been awesome. Seriously New Day with the briefcase would have been through the roof entertaining. Awful booking. And the finale felt rushed and not good. A solid B for the MITB matches but nothing i'll never ever ever see again.

3) Storylines go to NXT. Every single match/pre-match promo makes perfect sense. The in-ring work matches the promo. It all is so simple and makes sense. WWE is f***ing brutal with storylines.

As per the usual with WWE - i'm left disappointed. Thank freaking GOD for NXT and NJPW. Seriously.

 

[Emperoreddy]

This company views being over as an excuse to put you in a holding pattern in the mid card because they figure you won’t lose your heat. If you happen to lose your heat though, they claim it justifies the lack of a push.

They instead push people who aren’t over with this insane notion that overexposure will somehow get them over. Of course this at best leaves you with dimishing returns (Braun) or flat out backfires (Roman).

This is in direct contrast to other promotions, including NxT, where you get pushed because you are over leading to things people want to see, and wrestlers people actually get behind.

This company wastes talent. It wastes heat because “You don’t like what you like. You like what I tell you to like”

 

[Emperoreddy]

Just some things now that I watched the rest:

1) It's painfully obvious Vince has no intention to ever believe a person like Asuka or Nakamura can lead the WWE as champion. I was so sad to see those 2 basically pushed aside and they are so insanely talented. It's really sad. Nak/AJ was match of the night, by a country mile, but Vince obviously will not give it to a person like them. It's so ****ing annoying and stupid.

2) Booking was BRUTAL. Pointless Bliss win and Braun winning? The **** does that guy need a briefcase for? Joe, KO, Kofi.. those guys would have been awesome. Seriously New Day with the briefcase would have been through the roof entertaining. Awful booking. And the finale felt rushed and not good. A solid B for the MITB matches but nothing i'll never ever ever see again.

3) Storylines go to NXT. Every single match/pre-match promo makes perfect sense. The in-ring work matches the promo. It all is so simple and makes sense. WWE is ****ing brutal with storylines.

As per the usual with WWE - i'm left disappointed. Thank freaking GOD for NXT and NJPW. Seriously.

You know what is even more depressing? Asuka and Nakamura both won the Royal Rumble this year.

They both failed to win the belt and are floundering around despite being very very over.

At least in Nakamura’s case, the champ is AJ, who is even more over. With Asuka you have Carmella is who absolutely not over as anything.

 

[M.C.G. 31]

on a different note, you should all check out WWE 24: Hardys Woken. Easily the best WWE 24 they've ever done, and the footage they have is crazy (literally have The Hardyz taking drugs, drinking alcohol, all f***ed up when talking about their drug issues). They touch on the TNA incident with Sting, Matt dozing off sitting up in the middle of an interview, Show's experiences with both of them being in clear pain and having issues, Christian saying he'd call Matt out and told him the only way this ends is with him dead at this rate (back in 2010).

I'm surprised they have so much footage of these guys taking their drugs and drinking so much booze, but it's a seriously powerful WWE 24. Reby seems completely crazy on Twitter a lot of the time but odds are she's the only reason Matt's alive right now.

 

[sabremike]

I think that's overrating it imho.

Last man standings are generally slower, but this one seemed slower. I dunno. I personally couldn't go over ***1/2 for it.

I honestly found most of it to be boring (the last man standing stip hurt the match) but the last 5 minutes were tremendous.

 

[c9777666]

 

[Emperoreddy]

on a different note, you should all check out WWE 24: Hardys Woken. Easily the best WWE 24 they've ever done, and the footage they have is crazy (literally have The Hardyz taking drugs, drinking alcohol, all ****ed up when talking about their drug issues). They touch on the TNA incident with Sting, Matt dozing off sitting up in the middle of an interview, Show's experiences with both of them being in clear pain and having issues, Christian saying he'd call Matt out and told him the only way this ends is with him dead at this rate (back in 2010).

I'm surprised they have so much footage of these guys taking their drugs and drinking so much booze, but it's a seriously powerful WWE 24. Reby seems completely crazy on Twitter a lot of the time but odds are she's the only reason Matt's alive right now.

I remember seeing footage of them in diners and stuff smacked off their minds back in the day either trashing WWE or even CM Punk so I guess it was stuff they filmed and never destroyed?

 

[Deen]

Ugh playing the knee with Seth again. So tired of this

He isn't even good at it. He plays it up for 5 minutes and then is bouncing around doing frog splashes and falcon arrow's. He is entirely overrated.

 

[M.C.G. 31]

I remember seeing footage of them in diners and stuff smacked off their minds back in the day either trashing WWE or even CM Punk so I guess it was stuff they filmed and never destroyed?

yeah. They even talked about that when Jeff Hardy was in the diner and trashed Punk. The video is in the doc and Jeff commented on it saying he was out of his mind on drugs.

 

[Deen]

Just watching the Women's MITB now and I actually love watching Lana wrestle. It's like watching Nascar for the car crashes. Also Ember Moon is THICK, she puts Naomi to shame.

 

[xtra]

Braun winning the MITB guarantees that he’s cashing in on the winner of Roman vs. lesnar at summerslam

 

[Emperoreddy]

yeah. They even talked about that when Jeff Hardy was in the diner and trashed Punk. The video is in the doc and Jeff commented on it saying he was out of his mind on drugs.

I have to watch this tomorrow. That was the footage I was thinking of. God were they a damn mess at that time.

Glad their story didn’t end in a tragedy, even if Jeff still has his demons.

 

[Emperoreddy]

Braun winning the MITB guarantees that he’s cashing in on the winner of Roman vs. lesnar at summerslam

Or he just pulls a RVD and declares when he is cashing in and they just have a regular match.

 

[M.C.G. 31]

I have to watch this tomorrow. That was the footage I was thinking of. God were they a damn mess at that time.

Glad their story didn’t end in a tragedy, even if Jeff still has his demons.

It shows a good look at how bad Matt got, and while we knew something was up I was still surprised to see how bad it got for Matt.

Matt said Jeff still worries him -- not because of drugs or anything, because Jeff is off that now, but Jeff is so in his head sometimes. He said that when they touched on Jeff having his recent DUI charge.

 

[Falco Lombardi]

I’m glad someone brought up the Hardyz WWE 24 documentary. Incredibly well done.

I second the notion that Reby is likely the only reason Matt is alive.