Shane McMahon & Daniel Bryan on the MITB Controversy, Nikki Bella Backstage, Opening Video

– Below is the opening video used for tonight’s WWE Money In the Bank pay-per-view from the Scottrade Center in St. Louis:

Someone's life will CHANGE tonight!
The #SDLive roster will seize the most of this OPPORTUNITY when #MITB streams LIVE on @WWENetwork! pic.twitter.com/a61QjgzGCH

— WWE (@WWE) June 19, 2017

– As seen below, Nikki Bella is backstage for tonight’s MITB pay-per-view. She tweeted the following photo after the opening match:

Backstage watching #MITB & goodness I want to forearm the hell out of James! So proud of my SmackDown Live Women! They killed it!! N pic.twitter.com/j18oI5Sfli

— Nikki & Brie (@BellaTwins) June 19, 2017

– As noted, tonight’s MITB opener saw Carmella win the first-ever women’s MITB Ladder Match thanks to a major assist from James Ellsworth. SmackDown Commissioner Shane McMahon and SmackDown General Manager Daniel Bryan tweeted the following on the finish:

This is not what I had envisioned for the FIRST EVER Women's #MITB match. @realellsworth and @CarmellaWWE just robbed the #WWE Universe.

— Shane McMahon (@shanemcmahon) June 19, 2017

Absolutely unacceptable and cheap. The circumstances surrounding the Women's #MITB match will be the FIRST thing addressed on #SDLive.

— Daniel Bryan (@WWEDanielBryan) June 19, 2017

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