WWE Backstage (May 12th, 2020) - 5 Takeaways from this week's episode

#4 Thoughts on the Money in the Bank matches

Money in the Bank

The Voice of the Voiceless knows a thing or two about MITB ladder matches, having won two. He claimed of this year's matches that "we're living in strange times. We're in lock-down and there's no audience. I think it's a good way to get creative and it was a good use of the circumstances that we're in right now."

Even though she didn't win, Punk "thought Dana Brooke stole the show for me. With the picture and then showing up later with the picture on her head. You had a couple of cool cameos." Once again, he claimed that "they're working within the parameters that they have and I always like to see it. Surprisingly, I didn't hate it and I think the right people won. It was sometimes silly, but sometimes silly is good."

Booker T was a little less impressed as "a couple of things didn't fly" with him because he "was thinking it was going to be something different. I wanted it to be more edgy. I thought we could have had a moment here especially without fans, we could have really done something different."

As he usually does, Christian put everything into perspective, saying that "I think we just saw a ladder match at WM and this needed to be different and it was." The main reason it needed to be different was because "the goal (in a ladder match) is for the winner to come out looking better than they did going in before, especially from a character-building standpoint." He also said that the match "was what was needed" but "there could have been a little bit more on the roof."