Breaking Down the Best and Worst of the WWE for Week of Sept. 29

WWE's main event picture provided a collection of hits and misses, Dean Ambrose continuing to rise and John Cena gumming up a rivalry that once hummed.

Ambrose joined Bayley, Dolph Ziggler and the tag team champions in giving WWE fans plenty to cheer for.

The company's decisions elsewhere dampened the fire those men created. WWE is pointing toward splitting up The Wyatt Family too soon and shoving Cena in between Ambrose and Seth Rollins.

The midcard titles were at the center of entertaining bouts. Depending on how optimistic or pessimistic fans are, that alone may have been enough to make up for WWE Creative's two biggest head-scratching choices.

Best: Tag Team Championship Match on SmackDown

The Usos and Goldust and Stardust collided on Friday's SmackDown, coming close to what they produced together at Night of Champions.

The tag champs' increased nastiness has been fun to watch. They seem to sink deeper into their own darkness every week.

Flashes of high-flying action and good chemistry powered a good match. It looked for a moment or two as if The Usos would follow Dolph Ziggler's lead and win back their belts, but Goldust purposely got his team disqualified.

Smashing his foe over the head with the tag team championship kept that prize around his and his brother's waists.  

It may be the best match we see involving the bizarre brothers in a while, though. The tag team division's lack of depth will make booking Goldust and Stardust's title reign difficult going forward. Beyond The Usos, there aren't a ton of quality teams, especially not babyfaces. 

We could be looking at Los Matadores getting a few title shots, as unexciting as that sounds.

Worst: Hinting at a Wyatt Family Split

The Wyatt Family didn't appear in person on any WWE programming this week. They may not ever again as a unit.

In a vignette aired on Monday's Raw, WWE teased Luke Harper leaving his clan behind. 

There was talk of Bray Wyatt sending Harper out into the world, about Harper reinventing himself and being set free. If fans thought they were just imagining that a split was implied here, a recent report backed up that idea. According to F4WOnline (h/t Wrestle Zone) WWE's current plan is to break up The Wyatt Family.

It's too early to go this route.

Don't end The Wyatt Family when they haven't done the damage they are capable of yet. The crew has minimal momentum. Ending the group now would have their story end with fizzling out.

The Shield ended when all three members seemed prime to make it on their own. That is far from this case with these men.

Harper may do well on his own, but keeping the trio together longer would better assure his success. 

Ending The Wyatt Family all but assures that Erick Rowan is going to fall down the ladder. The faction was the perfect way to use his skills and hide his deficiencies. There may be nowhere to hide before too long. 

Best: Dolph Ziggler Stealing the Show

Dolph Ziggler's stretch of attention-grabbing matches rolls on. He added a win over Cesaro on SmackDown and survived a Triple Threat on Monday's Raw, both bouts with the title on the line.

He has defended the title more in his first two weeks with the belt than we are used to seeing most champs do in a month. The result has been higher stakes in each of his clashes, helping him and his opponents suck the audience in.

Ziggler's chemistry with The Miz has been on display for months. Seeing those two thrive Monday was expected at this point.

The Showoff worked even better opposite Cesaro, though.

Together, they provide a stellar contrast of power and speed, showmanship with grappling. They looked like they had been wrestling together for decades, familiar with each other, smoothly moving from hold to hold.

Those samples make a potential Cesaro vs. Ziggler feud an enticing option. 

Worst: Crowding the Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose Feud

If there ever was a perfect time for a Hell in a Cell match, it would be at this very point in Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose's feud.

WWE may not give fans that treat, though. John Cena, Randy Orton and Kane are entrenched in this rivalry now.

Cena clashed with Rollins once again. Near the end of Monday's Raw, Cena and Ambrose fought over who would put the hurt on Mr. Money in the Bank. Rollins and The Authority then pummeled both men, denting Rollins' briefcase with the heads of their foes.

In an interview with Michael Cole, Cena then made his intentions clear. He's going after Rollins, even if he has to go through Ambrose.

The endgame of all that: the very likely scenario that Ambrose vs. Rollins won't be one-on-one.

If WWE throws Cena into that match, it will be a major missed opportunity. Those rivals are thriving on their own. The company needs to find another place to put Cena.

You don't add extra ingredients to a formula that has already been perfected.

Best: Dean Ambrose Upping His Value

Daniel Bryan and Roman Reigns are injured, CM Punk is long gone, and Brock Lesnar's part-time schedule has had him miss two editions of Raw in a row.

Dean Ambrose has helped alleviate the pain of those men not being around. He's sat comfortably in the headliner spot.

He did so again on Monday's Raw, being the highlight of the show. After stealing Seth Rollins' Money in the Bank briefcase, he taunted his enemy with it in the ring.

Ambrose's clearance sale was one of the funnier things on the show in weeks. Add a good match against The Miz on SmackDown and a captivating performance in a tag match to cap off Raw, and it's hard to argue that Ambrose wasn't WWE's MVP this week.

He's drawing comparisons to Steve Austin as a fearless, take-no-prisoners anti-hero. He's making the case that he should be WWE's "next big thing," not Reigns.

Best: Bayley vs. Charlotte (NXT)

Hats off to Adrian Neville and Tyson Kidd for closing Thursday's NXT with an excellent match, but the night's best effort happened much earlier.

Charlotte offered Bayley another chance at the NXT women's title. Much like their collision at Takeover: Fatal 4-Way, this one was brimming with emotion.

The champ wrenched, bent and attacked Bayley's leg. The challenger gutted out every attack, including the figure-four leglock, which she was in for a surprisingly long time.

Charlotte was especially impressive, using a bridge to boost the figure-four and mocking the crowd for chanting "Let's go Bayley!" Bayley's heart was on display here, arguably creating more pathos than she did during their last go-round. Watching a Divas match like this has a fan dreaming of what the division could be.

It's too bad that WWE doesn't showcase its women on the main roster like this.