WWE Raw Results: Biggest Winners, Losers and Moments from October 5

To call The New Day the biggest winners of the October 5 episode of Raw would be doing a disservice to how strongly the team was booked to close out the show. Even WWE world heavyweight champion Seth Rollins is not made to look as big of a threat to the top babyfaces in the company as Kofi Kingston, Big E and Xavier Woods were as Monday night's broadcast came to a close.

The current WWE tag team champions left John Cena, Dolph Ziggler and The Dudley Boyz decimated despite a clear numbers disadvantage. They were smart, picking them apart one by one and then celebrating as Raw left the USA Network airwaves.

It was a complete reversal for WWE Creative, which typically focuses on building babyfaces while neglecting to craft interesting heels to program them against.

The New Day has been one of the biggest surprises of 2015, overcoming a truly awful gimmick early to develop into, arguably, the most entertaining of all WWE acts.

The key to sustaining the team's momentum is to not take it the way of Kevin Owens and Rusev, who were built strongly, only to be sacrificed to Cena for the sake of giving fans another happy ending.

If the company can continue its steady booking of the group going forward, WWE may have on its hands the most unexpected breakout act of the last five years.

Other Superstars and Divas were not so lucky Monday night and show up here as the biggest losers of Raw.

Who were they, and who joined Kingston, Big E and Woods as winners?

Let's take a look.

Winner: Natalya

It has been a while since Natalya has been relevant. Recently, though, her issues with Paige have brought her back into the limelight and allowed her to reconnect with the audience.

On Monday night, the Queen of Hearts battled the Anti-Diva in singles competition, using a variety of submissions to wear down the two-time Divas champion before slapping on the Sharpshooter and scoring the tapout victory.

It was a strong showing for the talented in-ring worker who has been criminally misused for far too long.

Her victory felt more like the start of a program rather than the definitive conclusion, so expect to see more of Natalya in the coming weeks.

And that, most certainly, is a good thing.

Losers: Neville and King Barrett

The renewed rivalry between Neville and King Barrett is a complete lack of progression for two guys in their athletic primes. They should be wrestling for championships and wowing fans with their quality ring work. 

Instead, they appear destined for a feud that echoes back to their program from this past spring, which Neville definitively won. So why waste time and energy pairing them up again when WWE Creative could find something more productive for them to do?

Because the midcard in WWE is where interesting workers go to wallow away, getting lost in the shuffle with little or no upward momentum.

With the focus on so many other Superstars at this point, Neville and Barrett have nothing better to do than to continue working together, and that is a disappointment for both of them.

Winner: Sasha Banks

The Boss prepared for her Iron Man match against Bayley this Wednesday night by leading Team BAD to a victory over Team Bella for the second consecutive time, forcing a tapout from Alicia Fox with the Bank Statement. 

By allowing her to continually look strong in victory over Team Bella, WWE Creative has crafted a legitimate threat to the dominant trio. She is very much the one Diva that Nikki and Brie have been unable to thwart to this point.

It is refreshing to see someone booked in a manner that does not bow down to the twin sisters. Instead, Banks charges right at them and beats them without any real consequence.

The Bellas have been able to create tension among Team PCB, leading to the disintegration of that trio, but have not put a dent in Banks' momentum. It should be interesting to see if The Boss can translate her victories into a Divas Championship in the coming months.

Loser: Kevin Owens

When one looks back at this past summer and the role that Owens was on as he feuded with Cena, pinning the franchise player clean in the center of the ring, it is staggering just how far he has fallen in such short order.

The current intercontinental champion has become another faceless heel on a roster full of them—a characterless persona who runs from heroes like a cowardly villain and cheats to win. The aura that surrounded him upon his arrival is completely gone, and the opportunity he had to be different is now nonexistent.

It is a disappointing development for the performer, who is one of the best in the company at this point. Unfortunately, WWE Creative's complete lack of interest in booking heels who are more than the typical, faceless villains has stripped him of any of the interesting elements that helped make him one of the most intriguing stars in wrestling during his time in NXT and early in his main roster run.