WWE Smackdown Live results and observations (6/27/17): Back where we started

While Raw Monday night felt chaotic and frantic, but in a good way, Smackdown Live was more organized and consistent but slightly less eventful.

With that said, the show was still pretty good, as the blue brand's women's division was pushed to the forefront with a Women's title match and the second-ever women's Money in the Bank ladder match.

Before I get into my full thoughts on the show, here are the full match results from the Valley View Casino Center in San Diego:

- The Usos def. The Hype Bros

- WWE Smackdown Women's championship – Naomi def. Lana

- Baron Corbin def. Sami Zayn

- Money in the Bank Ladder match – Carmella def. Charlotte Flair, Natalya, Tamina & Becky Lynch

Carmella is officially Ms. Money in the Bank

After all of the controversy and rigmarole, we were right back where we started at the Money in the Bank pay-per-view, as Carmella won the second-ever women's Money in the Bank ladder match to officially become the first-ever Ms. Money in the Bank.

And it happened in the proper fashion of Carmella climbing the ladder, pulling down the white briefcase and holding it up high in what will be remembered as a historic step forward for women's wrestling.

The only bad part was that this was exactly what WWE should have done at the Money in the Bank pay-per-view.

Carmella's moment atop the ladder would have held so much more weight if it happened after she won the first women's Money in the Bank ladder match, not the second.

Sure, she has a little more heat now than she would had at the pay-per-view, but it wasn't like she wouldn't have had any heat at all, especially since James Ellsworth ended up helping her Tuesday night anyway despite being banned from the arena.

Instead, WWE got a little too cute and decided to drag the historic happening out another two weeks. I'm sure WWE had its reasons for taking the long route, but no matter the reason, all of this still felt unnecessary.

As far as the match Tuesday, it was just as good if not better than the one the women had at the pay-per-view. None of the women took any daring risks, which is what fans have come to expect from ladder matches at this point, but the match still featured some tense moments.

For the first step in what I hope is a progression of women performing in ladder matches, I thought it was good.

The only thing I didn't like was that there were not one but two commercial breaks during the match. I know that is par for the course on WWE television these days, but a match of this magnitude shouldn't have had commercial breaks.

At the very least, WWE could have used the picture-in-picture style of commercial break it has used on Smackdown Live in the past so that the viewers at home could still see the action, but that was not the case.

There were two portions of the match that the fans watching home completely missed out on.

Now that Carmella is officially Ms. Money in the Bank, the question now becomes when does she cash in her chance to become the Smackdown Women's champion?

With the heroic Naomi being the current champion, I could see that happening very soon.

The Punjabi Prison is back

I never thought I'd see the day that WWE would unearth the Punjabi Prison match, but since there is a WWE champion of Indian descent, I guess it was only a matter of time, as Jinder Mahal will defend his WWE title against Randy Orton inside the structure July 23 at Battleground.

There have only been two Punjabi Prison matches in WWE history, with the last happening back in 2007.

They only happened because The Great Khali, who Mahal mentioned Tuesday night, was a fixture in the main event scene back then and WWE decided to essentially give him his own gimmick match.

If you old enough to remember the first two Punjabi Prison matches, you don't remember them for knocking anyone's socks off.

The first one was between The Undertaker and Big Show, who replaced Khali after he was not medically cleared to compete in the match. It wasn't very good.

The second one was between Khali and Batista. That wasn't very good either.

And now, WWE is bringing it back despite the match having left a bad taste in a lot of fans' mouths a decade ago.

Maybe the match itself wasn't the issue. Maybe it was the people involved. I hope that is the case. I hope that Orton and Mahal can make this Punjabi Prison exciting. I'm willing to go far as to say that I believe they will top what the first two matches had to offer, which won't be very hard to do.

By the way, Orton got the match after pleading with Smackdown commissioner Shane McMahon to give it to him. McMahon obliged but only under the circumstances that Mahal chose the match.

Mahal stepped out from behind the curtain and announced that he wanted a Punjabi Prison. At the very least, we know that the finish should be different from the last two encounters between these men.

Naomi makes quick work of Lana

It looks like Lana's pursuit of the Smackdown Women's title has come to an abrupt end after she lost to Naomi in quick and unceremonious fashion Tuesday night.

I would usually scoff at such a short championship match, but in this situation, I get why WWE booked it  the way it did.

The story with Lana was that she wasn't worthy of having a title shot because she was unproven as a wrestler. She only got the matches because Naomi asked for them.

With that being the case, she should not be able hang with the likes of Naomi, who is miles ahead of her in experience and is a two-time Smackdown Women's champion.

Lana should have been knocked down a peg, but now it is up to WWE to tell the story of her bouncing back from her two losses and climb her way back into title contention.

Battle royal, rap battle scheduled for next week

Believe it or not, there are other things to look forward to on next week's episode of Smackdown Live besides John Cena's return.

There will be a battle royal to determine the No. 1 contender to Kevin Owens' United States championship.

There will also be a rap battle between The Usos and The New Day. I'm honestly not sure which one I'm looking forward to the most.

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