WWE Raw Results: Biggest Winners, Losers and Moments from December 21

The 2015 Slammys were presented during the December 22 episode of Raw, and just like the creativity behind them, most of the winners could not be bothered to show up.

That's right, WWE presented a broadcast centered around an award show it could not convince the winners to show up to. The Rock, Brock Lesnar, Sting and even John Cena opted to stay far away from the meaningless award ceremony rather than gracing the WWE Universe with their presence.

In the process, they established the Slammys themselves as the biggest losers of this week's show.

The golden statues are so irrelevant that no one cares whether or not they actually receive their award in person. It is a bad look for WWE and leaves fans to wonder why it even bothers presenting the trophies when it knows in advance who will and will not be on hand to accept them.

The Slammys were hardly the only losers from this week's broadcast, though.

One of the most consistently entertaining acts in all of WWE was shut out of the Slammys and then beaten later in the night.

But it was not all doom and gloom for WWE on Monday night. Raw had its fair share of winners away from the ridiculous award portion of the show. A faction proved how dangerous it can be, a disgruntled Superstar proved just how dangerous he can be and a Showoff began planting seeds for a potential character change. 

Who ended up on what side of the spectrum?

Let's take a look.

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Winner: Kevin Owens

One of the worst things WWE did in 2015 was allow the Kevin Owens character to fall into such mediocrity following a hot start to his main-roster career via rivalry with Cena.

On Monday night, it continued its attempt to rebuild him into the dangerous threat to every one of his fellow Superstars that he should have been all along.

Disgruntled following the loss of the Breakout Superstar of the Year Slammy, he interrupted Neville and then verbally abused presenter Dolph Ziggler, calling him a has-been and brawling with him to end the segment.

Later in the night, he defeated the former world champion in impressive fashion, laying him down with the dreaded Pop-Up Powerbomb as he continues to chase the intercontinental title that he lost to Dean Ambrose back at TLC.

Owens is one of the company's most valuable wrestlers and characters. He is a fantastic in-ring worker and great talker. He shows fire and passion, is sarcastic when necessary and carries himself like a star, even if he does not look like Vince McMahon's idea of one.

2016 should present Owens with the monumental year that the past 12 months should have been, courtesy of a second chance that has come about through WWE Creative's veiled admission of fault.

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Winners: The League of Nations

After spending its first couple of weeks as a punching bag for Roman Reigns, The League of Nations enjoyed a very strong Monday night in which it was presented in a manner not completely unlike that of The Four Horsemen.

What started on Friday night with a targeted four-on-one attack of Ryback carried over to Raw, where both Jack Swagger and Neville fell prey to a vicious assault at the hands of The League.

Sheamus, Rusev, Alberto Del Rio and King Barrett have the potential to make a fantastic faction the likes of which have not been seen in years. The League of Nations is a cool concept, with four very solid wrestlers. It has the potential to fill the hole at the top of the card, but fans must believe it can be a legitimate threat to main event stars like Reigns and Ambrose.

After weeks of failing to position the group as such, WWE Creative did a fine job of rebuilding the group through its gang beatdowns of midcard talent.

Would it have been nice to see it get one over on Reigns and Ambrose at the end of the show? Of course, but that would not have presented the opportunity for the end-of-show, pre-taped vignette that featured Stephanie McMahon.

Even if there are no long-term plan for the group to be a consistent main event act, The League of Nations can be a high midcard act that spawns rivalries in the same way that groups such as The Nation did during the height of the Attitude Era.

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Losers: The New Day

Can someone please explain to this writer how The New Day was shut out of a Slammy on Monday night?

Arguably the most entertaining act of 2015, it deserved so much more recognition during the broadcast than it actually got.

The Tag Team of the Year award was given to The Usos prior to the show in one of the biggest tragedies of the entire ceremony. That's right: Kofi Kingston, Xavier Woods and Big E lost out to a team that was sidelined for the majority of the year due to injury.

To make matters worse, the current champions were sent to the ring to lose to those same Usos.

WWE has a tendency to take a highly successful gimmick and tear it down for reasons that never really make sense.

The New Day has been one of the most consistently great acts on the entire show during a period not full of much light. It has steadied the ship when everything else was in flux. Why take the spotlight off it to shine it on a team like The Usos, whose character development and evolution have been nonexistent?

On a night supposedly devoted to honoring the best of the year, The New Day was done a great disservice.

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Winner: Dolph Ziggler

Dolph Ziggler's character is stale, something that comes as no surprise to anyone paying attention to the current WWE product. He floats from rivalry to rivalry but never really changes. At some point, WWE Creative became relaxed when booking him as a character, opting to let his in-ring work define him.

But that can only go on for so long before it becomes a crutch for a writing staff unwilling to think of fresh stories for anyone outside of the top five stars in the company.

Beginning on SmackDown and spilling into Raw, fans got a glimpse of a new Ziggler about to be unleashed on the company.

After super-kicking Ambrose on Thursday night, Ziggler erupted, attacking Owens after the Canadian insulted him by referring to him as a has-been. Typically a calm, cool and laid-back character, Ziggler went right at Owens, leading to a match later in the night.

A match he lost.

As the losses continue to mount, it appears as though Ziggler will lose it more and more, realizing that his best chance at one last run is passing him by. Whether it leads to a heel turn or a much edgier Ziggler is the real question.