There was a ton of controversy surrounding the finish to the first ever female Money In The Bank (MITB) Ladder Match last week, as James Ellsworth climbed the ladder to retrieve the briefcase and dropped it down into the hands of Carmella. Many grew upset at the fact that a man technically won the first ever female MITB Ladder Match, forcing SmackDown Live General Manager Daniel Bryan to strip Carmella of the briefcase and ordered a rematch to occur on next week’s episode of SmackDown Live.
Former WCW President Eric Bischoff recently took to his podcast, Bischoff On Wrestling, to comment on the whole ordeal, and called the WWE’s decision to re-do the match a ‘bad move’:
“I think it’s a bad move. It’s a mistake I’ve made in the past. Sometimes you learn from your mistakes. At least, sometimes I do and sometimes I don’t. When you build up to a big event on PPV and you build up the stakes and you build up the expectation and you basically deliver a screwed finish and then re-match it on free tv… it diminishes the long-term expectation of future big event matches on PPV when that happens. I think it’s a really bad idea. By the way, I’ve done it and the results were always negative”