At The Money in the Bank PPV Event, The Men’s MITB Ladder Match closed the show with Braun Strowman winning the match and the briefcase. Among this match, two other matches featured for the event was The Women’s MITB Ladder Match with Alexa Bliss defeating Sasha Banks, Ember Moon, Charlotte Flair, Naomi, Becky Lynch, Natalya & Lana and The WWE Title Last Man Standing Match pitting AJ Styles against Shinsuke Nakamura.
During the event, Bliss won The Women’s MITB Ladder Match in the fourth match of the night. Four matches later, she appeared during The RAW Women’s Title Match between Nia Jax and Ronda Rousey, attacking both competitors with her briefcase before successfully cashing it in against Jax and winning The RAW Women’s Title for the third time. Although this match was the eighth of 10 total matches on the card, there were discussions of it being placed at the top.
According to Dave Meltzer in a recent edition of The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the Jax vs. Rousey RAW Women’s Title Match was discussed to be the main event of the evening with the major emphasis being Bliss cashing in the briefcase and winning the title heading into RAW to next evening. As seen on RAW, the Rousey/Bliss feud became one of the lead storylines on the show with Rousey attacking both Bliss and General Manager Kurt Angle. Rousey was given a storyline 30-day suspension as a result and vowed to take care of Bliss when she returns. Nia Jax is scheduled to have her rematch at Extreme Rules on July 15th.
Meltzer noted that the media was told that Money in the Bank was going to end at 10:30 PM ET with enough cushion for an overrun to end before 11:00 PM ET as the goal is for only the “big four” PPVs (Rumble Rumble, WrestleMania, SummerSlam & Survivor Series) to potentially run over 11:00 PM ET. Early in the show, producers realized that the scheduled 10:30 PM ET finish was not going to happen and the show ended at about 11:20 PM ET.
While the feeling was that it would have been a risk main-eventing Rousey in just her first singles match and second match overall, Rousey’s performances has caused WWE to be much more comfortable with headlining her in the final match of the card on future events.
Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter