WWE Money In The Bank 2023 is airing LIVE at The O2 Arena in London, England.
We are kicking things off with the Men’s Money In The Bank ladder match. Butch of The Brawling Brutes makes his way out first, followed by Shinsuke Nakamura, Santos Escobar of The LWO, Damian Priest of The Judgment Day, Ricochet, LA Knight and Logan Paul in the end.
LA Knight got the biggest reaction. Over 18,000 fans are in attendance.
The match begins and everyone gangs up on Logan. Butch takes down a Cricket Bat from underneath the ring and begins beating up his opponents with it.
Logan wants to form a partnership with Priest, but Priest laid him out with an uppercut.
Ricochet dives on multiple opponents on the outside, leaving LA alone in the ring. LA begins climbing the ladder, but Logan slams him down. The ladder fell on LA.
Logan did a high-risk move and the fans chanted “you still suck”. Logan lays out Ricochet with right hand.
Ricochet & Logan are fighting at the top of the ladder and LA Knight pushes them off the ladder, and they landed on the ropes, then Ricochet hits a Spanish Fly on Logan through the Tables on the outside and Logan landed on his head!
LA Knight lays everyone out and climbs to the top and is about to unhook, but Priest stops him, and slams Knight down from the top!
Priest climbs up and wins!
Damian Priest becomes Mr. Money In The Bank
Up next is the Undisputed WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship match. Ronda Rousey & Shayna Baszler came out first, followed by Liv Morgan & Raquel Rodriguez.
Liv is paying tribute to England with her gear tonight. Ronda & Shayna are working on Liv’s bad shoulder.
Out of nowhere, Shayna attacked her own tag team partner Rousey and left! Raquel & Liv then hit their finishers on Ronda, and Liv pinned Ronda to win the Titles!
Liv Morgan & Raquel Rodriguez def. Ronda Rousey & Shayna Baszler (c) to win the Undisputed WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship
Up next is the Intercontinental Championship match. Gunther worked on Riddle hurt foot and made him tap out.
Gunther (c) def. Matt Riddle to retain the Intercontinental Championship
After the match, Drew McIntyre returned to a HUGE POP and got face to face with Gunther. Gunther shoved him and Drew fired back with a Glasgow Kiss! Drew then laid out Gunther with the Claymore Kick and posed with the Intercontinental Title!
He's baaaaaaack!@DMcIntyreWWE returns at #MITB with a message for Intercontinental Champion @Gunther_AUT! pic.twitter.com/IpxJ7vDQdE
— WWE (@WWE) July 1, 2023
Up next is Cody Rhodes vs. Dominik Mysterio. The whole arena sang Cody’s theme song really loud.
After back & forth action, Cody with the Cross Rhodes to pick up the win. Cody removed his cast during the match.
Cody Rhodes def. Dominik Mysterio (with Women’s World Champion Rhea Ripley)
After this match, 16-time WWE World Heavyweight Champion John Cena made a surprise return to WWE!
SURPRISE!@JohnCena is here at #MITB! pic.twitter.com/p8M0ccEXia
— WWE (@WWE) July 1, 2023
Cena put over the London crowd and said the following:
“I’m here to try to bring WrestleMania to London.”
This resulted in a huge pop from the crowd. SmackDown star Grayson Waller then interrupted Cena. Grayson begins sucking up to Cena and then mocks him, and the crowd is chanting “shut the f**k up”.
Grayson said Cena is lying to the people by saying he’ll bring WrestleMania to England. Grayson said WrestleMania needs to go to his home country of Australia.
Waller then brings up Cena’s last few losses to Austin Theory, Roman Reigns and The Fiend.
Grayson offered Cena to appear on The Grayson Waller Effect, so he can save Cena’s career. Cena passed up on the offer and Grayson attacked him from behind. Cena then laid him out with the Attitude Adjustment.
Up next is the Women’s Money In The Bank Ladder Match. At one point, Trish Stratus and Zoey Stark tried to handcuff Becky Lynch, but they couldn’t. Becky hit Trish with a Manhandle Slam (Rock Bottom) on top of a Ladder.
IYO was about to unhook the MITB briefcase, but her Damage CTRL partner Bayley pushed her off the ladder!
SKY handcuffed Becky & Bayley in between the ladder and then climbed to win!
IYO SKY becomes Ms. Money In The Bank
Up next is the World Heavyweight Championship match. Seth Rollins has Kinesio tape on his stomach.
During the match, Damian Priest came out with his newly won Money In The Bank contract. The fans are chanting “cash it in”.
After the distraction caused by Priest, Finn Balor lays out Rollins with a series of moves. Rollins is down and Finn is about hit his finisher, and Priest gets out of his chair and wants to cash-in.
This distracted Finn and he missed his finisher. Rollins then hit Balor with the Stomp to pick up the win.
Seth Rollins (c) def. Finn Balor to retain the World Heavyweight Championship
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