Money In The Bank 2013

Anyone watch it last night? I had a stream for a bit, but I didn't watch the whole thing. I can't believe they had Orton win the Money In The Bank. I was hoping that they would give it RVD or Daniel Bryan. Was a pretty good show though from what I saw. I liked the first Money In The Bank match, especially with Cesaro and Swagger trying to get the case without using a ladder.

I thought about watching it, but in the end decided against it. WWE didn't do enough to justify me paying for it or spending the time watching it. The build to every match was just really poor, I am sure that both Ladder matches delivered. They usually do. It was pretty surprising that Randy Orton won, I was expecting Daniel Bryan to win. But, if anyone needs this right now it's Orton. Bryan has enough momentum to be taken seriously as a title challenger. I am not disappointed with the decision to have Orton win, he is over like crazy despite not doing anything of importance since 2011.

Sandow winning isn't a big deal really, the World title hasn't been relevent for years now. Last night's Raw was more than enough evidence to support that. John Cena gets to choose his opponent and the World Champion is out on the stage. That wouldn't have happened in years gone by when Batista and Triple H held the title. I am sure Sandow will cash in and win the title, it won't do anything for him or the title.

The first money in the bank match was probably better then the Allstars match, due to a lot more action. Other then that the pay per view itself was not as exciting.

I'm a Damien Sandow mark so was happy to see they are setting up a push for him, the rest didn't really appeal to me.

I saw Money In The Bank, as a matter of fact I've seen every WWE PPV (well just the matches) and I'd rank it the third best PPV overall. The All-Stars MITB was by far my favorite match of the night, even though I thoroughly enjoyed the Smackdown MITB. The slower pace, combined with the fact that the focus was on the individuals rather than ladders and spots really made it a more enjoyable bout. Another thing it had over the Smackdown one was the fact that everyone had their moment to shine (makes sense, the focus of the All-Stars match was the All-Stars themselves). The Smackdown MITB had some pretty inventive spots though. So basically, Smackdown MITB was a better spotfest but the All-Stars was the better match.

The rest of the care was pretty meh. Loved Ziggler/Del Rio, though they didn't top their nigh masterpiece match at Payback but besides that nothing was over a 5/10 in my opinion. A shame that they kept The Shield/Uso's off it too, that match was on par with Ziggler/Del Rio. Oh, and to the surprise of no one, Jericho/Ryback sucked.