WWE SmackDown Results: Biggest Winners, Losers and Moments from March 26

The penultimate stop on The Road to WrestleMania has come and gone.

Los Angeles was home to more World Wrestling Entertainment action for the second time this week, as SmackDown hit the SyFy airwaves from inside the beautiful, luxurious Staples Center, with a huge eight-man tag team match on tap for the night's main event.

Roman Reigns, just three days from his date with Brock Lesnar for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at The Showcase of the Immortals, teamed with John Cena, Mark Henry and Daniel Bryan to battle Seth Rollins, Kane, Big Show and Bray Wyatt in a star-studded showdown.

Elsewhere on the slate was a Fatal 4-Way match that pitted one-half of the WWE tag team champions, Cesaro, against Jimmy Uso, Big E and Fernando in a preview of Sunday's pre-show title defense.

Finally, AJ Lee and Paige came face to face in hopes of putting their differences behind them in order to prepare to battle Brie and Nikki Bella at WrestleMania 31.

Not an overly action-packed edition of the show, thanks to live cut-ins from Axxess and countless video packages devoted to hyping Sunday's show, the broadcast still managed to entertain and, more importantly, put the spotlight on the biggest event of the year.

Who emerged from this week's show a winner and who failed to pick up the desired momentum ahead of their performance on The Grandest Stage of Them All?

Take a look for yourself.

Winner: Daniel Bryan

The former WWE world heavyweight champion entered Thursday's show on a bit of a losing streak, having dropped two straight matches to Dolph Ziggler and appearing to have lost a great deal of the momentum he had on his side at the beginning of the year.

In a match with names such as Cena and Reigns, it was Bryan who received the hot tag late and Bryan who launched himself across the ring with the running knee, putting Big Show down and scoring the pinfall victory.

While always a favorite to emerge from Sunday's Ladder match with the intercontinental title, the possibility that he leaves Santa Clara with the gold has been enhanced following the decision to book him as strongly as he was Thursday night.

Loser: Nikki Bella

Nikki Bella lashed out at AJ Lee Thursday night with what she had to feel was a zinger but, in reality, was another glimpse at her nonsensical approach to insults while on the microphone.

She made a comment about AJ working less dates over the last year than Brock Lesnar, which makes no sense when one considers that not only did the former Divas champion feud with Paige for three or four months last summer, but she also feuded with the Bellas, including two matches with Nikki last year in November and December.

The comment made no sense, and while fans in the crowd responded with "ooos" and "ahs," AJ shrugged it off, unimpressed.

And rightfully so.

Winner: Roman Reigns

There was a point in Thursday's main event when Reigns entered the match and unleashed a series of spears to his opponents, and suddenly, it looked like someone had remembered how to best use the second-generation star.

After Monday's tug-of-war fiasco, Reigns was right back on track Thursday night, running over the opposition like a juggernaut. He looked like the unstoppable force charged with defeating Brock Lesnar should rather than the generic babyface type who overcomes odds and wins matches like John Cena.

It helped, and all the boos he was greeted with at his entrance quieted or were replaced with cheers from fans who caught a quick glimpse of the Reigns they admired when he was a blossoming young star in The Shield.