WWE Raw Results: Biggest Winners and Losers After Nov. 25

Alliances helped the biggest winners from Monday's WWE Raw become the most fascinating elements of the show.

The Wyatt Family, The Shield and Big E Langston ended the night with added momentum. These Superstars were made to look strong, provided lasting images and can see prosperity awaiting them on the horizon.

The same cannot be said for the best wrestlers in a division hampered by misguided booking and a pair of midcarders hitting each other with oars and tennis rackets.

Winner: The Wyatt Family

Bray Wyatt joined Luke Harper and Erick Rowan in battling CM Punk and Daniel Bryan. Punk and Bryan eventually won by disqualification, but The Wyatt Family once again came off as a compelling, terrorizing force.

During the match, Harper slammed his foes' heads against the mat, and Rowan clubbed Punk and Bryan, echoing what we saw at Survivor Series.

After the bell rang, Wyatt and his followers pounded on the two fan favorites. Harper left Punk lying in the fetal position with a discus clothesline, after which Rowan carried a lifeless Bryan out of the arena.

The Wyatt Family benefited from being involved in a great match, doing damage to two top stars and providing the show with one of the more intriguing moments. Fans are sure to be asking where the clan is taking Bryan and what they plan to do with him.

They have been made prominent figures thanks to this continuing feud.

Loser: Dolph Ziggler and Damien Sandow

Last week, Dolph Ziggler defeated Damien Sandow in a Broadway Brawl. Sandow got a measure of revenge by winning a Hamptons Hardcore match.

The trouble with these bouts is that there is little energy to them. These kinds of weapon-based matches are best suited for feuds so intense that standard matches aren't sufficient. Aside from being angry about wins and losses, Ziggler and Sandow have no motivation to hate each other.

The rivalry is not personal, has little story and feels empty when it leads to matches like these.

While Randy Orton and John Cena are fighting to determine who is the face of the company and Punk and Bryan's animosity with The Wyatt Family is steadily increasing, Ziggler and Sandow are rolling around in garbage for seemingly no reason.

The Hamptons Hardcore bout felt like filler, Ziggler and Sandow made to look like a booker's afterthoughts.

Winner: The Shield

Like The Wyatt Family, The Shield provided a moment worth buzzing about.

As Punk tried to help his tag team partner, Roman Reigns surged from the shadows and hit him with a rib-rattling spear. Reigns, Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose then triple powerbombed the former WWE champ.

It was unclear why The Shield went after Punk, but the attack raises some interesting questions. Are The Shield and The Wyatt Family working together? Is The Authority looking to punish and/or hurt Punk and Bryan?

That ambush followed a fantastic opening match featuring The Shield vs. Rey Mysterio, Cody Rhodes and Goldust.

Both teams put on impressive performances, thrilling the crowd with an epilogue of sorts to their Survivor Series match. The final sequence where finisher followed finisher was the kind of thrill ride that is making the tag team division among the biggest reasons to watch WWE right now.

Ambrose pinned Rhodes for the win, one that could lead to The Shield getting another title shot.

Loser: The Divas

For anyone who missed the Divas elimination match at Survivor Series, WWE essentially reproduced it on Monday's Raw.

Pacing was again an issue, the eliminations coming far too fast and too easily. Most of the Divas only performed a move or two before being tossed aside. 

Rosa Mendes, Kaitlyn, Aksana and Alicia Fox were all blips in a match lacking in story and excitement. This was a waste of the division. 

Rather than have this messy, crowded clash all over again, why not allow a few of the talented women to have a richer, more personal rivalry? The emphasis on Total Divas is the unfortunate answer.

WWE is clearly trying to push the women from that show into the spotlight despite how cluttered and uninteresting the results are.

Winner: Big E Langston

Fresh off successfully defending the Intercontinental Championship for the first time, Langston teamed with Mark Henry en route to a dominant win over Curtis Axel and Ryback.

Ryback and Langston's current career trajectories are headed in opposite directions. Ryback is losing more often and more easily. Langston, on the other hand, is being made to look like a formidable powerhouse.

He bowled over Ryback and Axel, showed impressive agility with a leapfrog and sent Ryback crashing to the outside to allow Henry to get the pinfall on Axel.

Langston succeeding in such impressive fashion is a sign of WWE's confidence. He appears to be headed for big things, the company pushing him forward while men like Ryback and Axel are left to sputter.