First Three Money In The Bank Participants Set

It’s that time of year again. This week’s episode of Monday Night Raw saw the start of one of the most important stretches of the year: the Money in the Bank season. This time around it seems that we’ll be seeing two Money in the Bank matches with the men and the women sending eight competitors each with four of each from both shows. That means a lot of qualifying matches, which started this week on Monday Night Raw.

And here’s one of them.

Braun Strowman seizes his Money in the Bank opportunity: Raw Exclusive, May 7, 2018

Tonight on Monday Night Raw, three names qualified for their respective Money in the Bank ladder matches. This week, Ember Moon defeated Ruby Riott and Sasha Banks in a triple threat, Braun Strowman defeated Kevin Owens in a singles match and Finn Balor defeated Roman Reigns and Sami Zayn. There are two men’s spots and three women’s spots remaining for Monday Night Raw while none of the eight combined spots have been set for SmackDown Live.

You can check out our full results from this week’s Monday Night Raw right here.

Opinion: I’m of a split mind on something like this. While I’m glad that we’re getting these things out of the way so we know who we’ll be seeing in the matches, I’m really not looking forward to seeing every combination of the participants facing off in various combinations of singles and tag matches. Those matches mean nothing as you have very little momentum to be gained from winning regular matches to set up ladder matches.

Who do you think wins the ladder matches? Who else will qualify from Monday Night Raw? Let us know in the comments below.

Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 26 wrestling books. His latest book is the WWE Grab Bag.

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