
WWE Raw Results: Biggest Winners, Losers and Moments from April 6
With Triple H and Stephanie McMahon on hiatus, WWE world heavyweight champion Seth Rollins was allowed the opportunity to shine without playing second fiddle to the authority figures.
He carried the majority of the mic work in the night's opening segment, then demonstrated the characteristics of a spoiled brat during a backstage segment with the director of operations, Kane.
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That entire segment really put over the changes the character has undergone since aligning himself with The Authority. Once cold and calculating, he has allowed the protection of the most powerful couple in the industry to spoil him, so when Kane orders him into a match, he appears frustrated and throws a fit.
Rollins got over it, competing against main roster newcomer Neville in a fantastic wrestling match and dealing the Brit his first defeat. Then, later in the evening, he delivered a Curb Stomp to new No. 1 contender Randy Orton and stood tall to end the show, the championship firmly in his grasp.
Unlike last week's show, where Rollins took a backseat just one night after one of the most memorable moments in the history of WrestleMania, Rollins took center stage Monday night and emerged from the broadcast as one of the evening's biggest winners.
Who joined him? And which Superstars fell on the other side as losers following the episode?
Winners: The Prime Time Players
One of the best ways to get an act over with the audience is to let the personalities of the performers shine. Beginning last Thursday and continuing on Raw, Titus O'Neil and Darren Young have been golden while mocking both The New Day and The Ascension.
The tag team is incredibly charismatic and quite funny while mocking their fellow tandems and could easily inject some much-needed personality into the division. Small things, like these minute-long videos, are exactly what they and everyone else in their position could use to help build a fanbase and ultimately get over with the audience.
Loser: Roman Reigns
Is Roman Reigns as big a loser as others were Monday night? Absolutely not. He was still heavily featured and is clearly still on track to become the biggest babyface in the company. The reason he cannot be labeled as anything but a loser following this week's broadcast is because of his impending pay-per-view showdown with Big Show.
As if being saddled with the boring, stale giant was not bad enough Monday night, the end of the Triple Threat No. 1 contender's match suggests he will be forced to try and pull out a great performance against the World's Largest Athlete come Extreme Rules, something much easier said than done.
With a lack of quality heels at the top of the card, it will be much more difficult for Reigns to succeed as easily as some of WWE's past heroes, mostly because fans have no reason to care about the villains he competes against.
He will find out just how difficult that is in the coming weeks as he works hard to get fans to invest themselves in a program with Big Show only to find out that it is basically impossible at this point in the giant's career.
Loser: Stardust
Stardust's placement here has nothing to do with his in-ring performance against John Cena in Monday's United States Championship match. Instead, it has everything to do with the fact that, while sharing the ring with the franchise player of WWE, the Stardust character was exposed for what it truly is: nothing more than a midcard act.
The character looked so painfully out of place as he squared off with the top dog in the industry and, unlike Dean Ambrose last week, never really looked like he had a chance at beating the leader of the Cenation and capturing the gold.
As Cody Rhodes, the second-generation star looked like a budding young competitor capable of beating just about anyone on the roster when he was at his very best. As Stardust, he looks like a child's cartoon character who just happens to wrestle on the side.
Stardust is very much a character with a ceiling, and unfortunately for the talented performer behind the paint, he hit the ceiling the minute he split from brother Goldust earlier this year.



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