So we get to Money in the Bank & the ladder match. If you took a look at the participants, there were two main options to win. Charlotte Flair & Alexa Bliss. They’ve been the two most dominant forces of the Raw & SmackDown Women’s Divisions for the past couple of years. Sorry Sasha, Becky, Nattie & whoever else, but it’s true. Last year, they went with the unexpected winner in Carmella. (Except for me, I picked Carmella.) The men’s match also had an unexpected winner in Baron Corbin. You can’t do that every year. 2018 MITB was for the expected winners. For the men, it was Braun Strowman. For the women, it was Braun’s Mixed Match Challenge partner.

The night wasn’t over though.

Alexa wins a briefcase that's half as big as her and avoids carrying it through a single airport.

Girl is smarter than most of the WWE roster. #MITB pic.twitter.com/89YPiiI6Iu

— Will Mahoney (@HeelWillMahoney) June 18, 2018

Exactly, Heel Will. Except I would amend “most” to all. Alexa Bliss is playing chess when everybody else is playing checkers. People were all hyped up about Ronda Rousey’s first singles match. A title match. It’s become pretty obvious that Ronda is going to be a pretty great pro wrestler. The rest of the women are on notice. That’s why Nia Jax wanted to bully Ronda early on…and that’s why Alexa wanted to cash in as early as possible. It’s a matter of time before Ronda starts owning everybody until she has some kids. Her biological clock is ticking, and everybody’s else’s title clock is on the same wavelength. If anybody else wants to be on top, they need to strike before Rowdy Ronda can. Alexa was first to the punch, because of course she was. Would we expect anything else? Of course not.

I’m not sure what happened along the way, but some people got mad about it.

Serious question. If you hate Roman Reigns' push, you have to also hate Alexa Bliss' push right?#MITB

— IWNerd.com (@InnerN3rd) June 18, 2018

Listen, we here at The Chairshot are all about Roman Reigns. Not sure if you got the memo or not, but ROMAN is a Man. Just like Alexa is a Woman. We pay to see men & women doing men & women things. If they get this “push” you speak of, it’s because they deserve it. Next?

I do not wanna hear anyone’s “explanation” as to why Alexa Bliss won the title tonight.

“She’s a good heel and it’s better for Ronda to win it off her”

Fuck that bullshit. I don’t wanna hear it.

Alexa is sucking somebody’s dick backstage and I wanna know who. #MITB

— Abby (@abbyfelicity1) June 18, 2018

It’s sad. In the Women’s Evolution Era, there are still misguided souls out there convinced that women that do well in wrestling do so because they satisfy their bosses. This school of thought should have died out by now, but they & their backwards way of thinking are still around. I guess it makes sense, as America elected a President that promotes women based on that exact line of thinking. I like to think that pro wrestling is better than our government. Not like it takes much. But the insinuation that the casting couch still exists in 2018, from a tweeter that at least claims to be a woman no less, is completely beyond the pale.

Yes, Alexa did have some cosmetic surgery recently. It’s nothing that hasn’t been seen in the business 15 bazillion times, and it’s not like every single time it happened led to a push for the recepient. Let’s grow beyond that way of thinking, shall we? Please join us here in the 21st century where people are judged based on their charisma in addition to their look, instead of just their look.

As much as Wrestling Twitter wants to tell us that Alexa Bliss is undeserving, the bottom line is that she is the Goddess of WWE & the best woman of the Evolution Era. If people can’t love it, they’ll have to learn to live with it. Cause Alexa is the best thing going today while Ronda Rousey is an overhyped rookie.

(And Alexa is also the right person to take beatings from Ronda Rousey. But I don’t like to think about that part. OK, maybe I do. What about it?)

That memo we were supposed to get? We’re supposed to hate Alexa Bliss now. I don’t. Sorry.

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