Full Match: First Ever Women’s Money In The Bank Ladder Match

I didn’t know we could talk about this one. Over the last few years, WWE has turned its women’s division upside down. Before the Women’s Revolution took off, the women were lucky to get five minutes for a match if you count entrances. Now they’ve main evented pay per views, including this year’s Royal Rumble. They’ve had almost every kind of match that the men have had now, including a Money in the Bank ladder match, which debuted last year. With this year’s match coming up, it’s time to look back a year or so ago.

It was fine…until the ending.

FULL MATCH - First-ever Women's Ladder Match: WWE Money in the Bank 2017 (WWE Network)

WWE has released the full version of the first ever women’s Money in the Bank ladder match from last year’s show of the same name. This match was notable for two major reasons. In addition to the match being built around the women having their first ever multi-person ladder match, the briefcase was pulled down by a man. Late in the match, Carmella’s associate James Ellsworth ran in and pulled the briefcase down and handed it to Carmella. This wasn’t the best received finish and the fans weren’t exactly reacting to the whole thing.

Don’t remember the show? Here are the full results.

Opinion: I get the timing but I’m kind of surprised that WWE would bring this one up again after how it was so horribly panned. The whole Women’s Revolution has been built up for years and the first ever women’s Money in the Bank ladder match was another big moment. The ending solution: have a man win the thing for Carmella. It’s not a good idea and it went over so well that they had to do the whole thing again with Carmella winning it herself. Such is life in WWE, especially when they manage to screw something up like this.

Did you like the match? Will this year’s version surpass the original? 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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