It's Saturday night in North Greenwich and 20,000 people are currently camped out in the O2 Arena singing "Sold my car...to Santos Escobar!" at the top of their lungs. It can only mean one thing: WWE is in town, and the notoriously rowdy UK crowd is having it large. Over the decade-ish since it became its own fully-fledged Premium Live Event, Money In The Bank has asserted itself as one of the WWE's most important annual shows, and there's certainly a Big Night feel in the O2 tonight. It's an atmosphere that kicks into gear midway through the afternoon as fans begin flocking towards the venue early on to lay their hands on merch, take photos under giant, prop briefcases and ladders and begin stirring up the kinds of hilarious chants that dominate much of the evening.
Luckily, the show itself more than matches the energy of the crowd. Proceedings kick off with a stellar, death-defying Money In The Bank ladder match, featuring six of the company's finest current talents, plus social media sensation Logan Paul, who has proven himself a more than worthy part time addition to WWE's roster. Despite being first on, it's undoubtedly the match that steals the show, stacked with amazing bumps and set-pieces, with particular star turns from the outrageously athletic Ricochet. Not giving the win to crowd favourite LA Knight feels like a missed opportunity (he is by far the most over guy on the card this evening), but a victory for The Judgement Day's Damian Priest does at least set up some tantalising potential angles down the road.
