WWE - Money In The Bank 2011

Here are my thoughts:

I liked the first MITB match - and even more so, the decision to give the MITB to Daniel Bryan. I didn't expect that at all.
Hardly one of the best MITB or ladder matches I've seen, but I enjoyed it. Good match.

I liked that CM Punk took the title from Cena and Punk's performance in the match was great - from his playing to the crowd, to the moves he did - to trying to cover up for Cena's inability to do anything.
While he was Cena's lame submission, he tried to push Cena's hand closer to his own face so it didn't look phoney but Cena didn't understand and kept sliding his hand back down so in the end, Punk tried to hide the gap with his own hands - He tried his very best with someone who doesn't belong in the ring, credit to him for that.
I also loved the crowd reaction in the match.
I don't know how people can say it was a great main event when everyone in the arena were saying that the FACE in the match couldn't wrestle. You could have just had CM Punk vs a crash test dummy and the match would have looked similar, except no one would have hated the crash test dummy as much.
Sure, it created heat though and made the one-sided match feel important.

Randy Vs Christian had a screw job finish, with Christian becoming champ after not being able to beat Orton or even cheat to win the belt.
Christian looked like he had no chance as Orton kicked him in the nuts in anger so that Christian - someone much worthier of the strap than Orton - became fluke champion after a DQ. And to make matters worse.... Orton beat down Christian twice after the match, he considered doing it a third time, but just couldn't be bothered.
If the match didn't make Christian look weak enough, the 2 beat-downs after the match made sure that all fans saw Christian as weak and a fluke champion as he didn't stand a chance against Orton.

It's one thing to keep your "Babyface" strong, but it's another to make your heel look impotent and like a jobber.
Other than that, Orton was a little more lively than usual, so I give him credit for not sleeping through the match like he usually does.
The matches these guys had on Smack Down and on PPV recently were much better than this was. Also, with Smack Down being so low on talent they are willing to push into the main events - I’m sure we are going to see this match again and again and again.
And in each match, Christian is going to be treated like a fluke champion until Orton takes the Title back, probably this week on Smack Down or the next PPV, knowing WWE, making this pointless. On the plus side, it was good to see Christian.

The Second ladder in the bank match was really sloppy. Miz hurt his leg because he has no business in a wrestling ring. He is not an athlete and this is what happens when they try to do something out of their usual kick-punch-chinlock match. R-Truth tried to strike a ladder into Swagger’s face, but missed, so they just set up the spot again and did it right the second time.
When Del Rio was supposed to take the belt, Mysterio’s ladder fell into his and he had to set the ladder up again, which took a while and all the other guys in the match were hanging around outside the ring wondering what to do as there was some time to spare - rather than trying to look like they wanted the MITB…. Despite these issues as well as other blown spots, the match was still exciting and I liked it. I understand that things go wrong sometimes and everyone seemed to try hard, which I appreciate. There was a lot of talent in this match and I think it helped it a lot that Miz was taken out early. Hopefully Miz will be off TV for a while - or for good for all I care.
I don’t have a problem with Alberto winning MITB, but I would have preferred it to be R-Truth, Swagger, Kofi or Mysterio personally. I think they all deserve it more.
On the plus side, at least Alberto can work and it wasn’t The Miz or Riley who won. Phew.

Mark Henry Vs Big Show… I wasn’t even paying attention to this match, but when I looked up, it looked like you would expect this match to look - slow and boring and a waste of time.

Kelly Vs Dizzy Bella…. I wasn’t paying attention to this match either, but I saw Kelly mess up a face-plant bulldog I think and then hit her finish awkwardly - another waste of time.

Overall, it was better than the usual WWE PPV but considering all of the points I’ve mentioned above, I think it was far from a “great” show. It was okay.
It really does highlight many problems in the company which could easily be resolved if they gave a damn. Big Show / Henry and the Kelly Kelly match was booked just to fill up air-time.
Can you imagine the kind of retarded thinking of the booking squad to send out Kelly Kelly for a PPV match while they have Nattie, Gail Kim and Beth doing nothing backstage? - Or why they booked Big Show Vs Mark Henry while they have guys like DH Smith, Zack Ryder, Tyson Kidd, Ted Dibiase Jnr, Yoshi Tatsu, Curt Hawkins, Trent Barreta and many, many other great wrestlers sitting at home doing nothing?
I take this kind of booking as a “Middle finger” to everyone watching.

The treatment they gave one of their best, most consistent performers, Christian, was extremely insulting too. Even though they gave him the World Title. It also cheapens the already-worthless gold strap than Christian has now.

Thankfully they didn’t do the boring thing and have Cena retain the WWE Title. Has CM Punk signed a contract extension? I’m sure he probably has. WWE could go two ways with this - they could do something interesting or they could have Punk drop the belt to Cena on Raw tonight before he leaves….

Either way, at least it made for an interesting end to the show and someone worthy has that stupid spinner belt. Hopefully it’s the last time we see that stupid thing and they have some kind of tournament for a new, proper world title belt…..