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While the easy headlines coming into the WWE Money in the Bank pay-per-view were focused on the annual ladder matches for the guaranteed championship contract, the highlights of the show turned out to instead be a pair of exceptionally good championship bouts. Braun Strowman had his finest moment as universal champion, outlasting the challenge of Bray Wyatt and disposing of the sins of his past in the process, while Drew McIntyre held off the fierce efforts of Seth Rollins to hold on to his WWE championship in the match of the night. The Money in the Bank ladder matches closed the show with six men and six women simultaneously battling through WWE Headquarters to the roof to retrieve the briefcases containing the championship contracts that can be cashed in at any point in the next year. With some heavy favorites heading into the night, it turned out that a pair of underdogs picked up the victory. .In addition to those matches, The New Day and Bayley retained their respecti...

Betty Wright, a luminary R&B singer known for her hits "Clean Up Woman" and "Tonight is the Night," has died at the age of 66. Steve Greenberg, president of S-Curve Records, confirmed the singer's death on Sunday, saying it came after a battle with cancer. Greenberg, who collaborated on several recordings with Wright, called her "one of the most significant women in the history of R&B music, period." Wright is perhaps best known for her 1971 hit song "Clean Up Woman," a funky and soulful complaint about a woman who "cleans up" the men of women who neglect them. The song's signature guitar riff would go on to be a favored sample used by the likes of Afrika Bambaataa, Sublime and Chance the Rapper. The song's rise to number six on the Billboard singles charts prefaced years of successes for the singer that included a Grammy win for "Where is the Love" in 1975. Just over a decade after her Grammy ...