WWE Raw Results: Biggest Winners, Losers and Moments from January 18

Few acts have been more inconsistently booked over the course of the last two years than The Wyatt Family.

On Monday night, just six days from the epic Royal Rumble 2016 pay-per-view, WWE Creative set out to right the wrongs it had previously made, booking the faction as strong as humanly possible and, in the process, solidifying the heels' status as the most interesting stars to watch at Sunday's sports entertainment extravaganza. 

Bray Wyatt, Luke Harper, Erick Rowan and Braun Strowman ended their rivalry with Ryback and The Dudley Boyz with a convincing victory in six-man tag team action. It was an impressive win for the team, one that incorporated every one of the Superstars in the finish. For the first time in months, Wyatt himself was not the only member of the team to look strong, with Harper scoring the decisive pinfall victory over Bubba Ray Dudley.

Later, it was again Harper and Rowan who were booked strong, allowed to do the damage necessary to wear down The Beast Incarnate, Brock Lesnar, in order for Wyatt to fell him with Sister Abigail.

A haunting smile on his face, his followers surrounding him, Wyatt was elevated from intriguing dark-horse candidate to a legitimate favorite to win the Royal Rumble match. With a roster depleted as much as it is and only a handful of credible options to leave that match with the WWE Championship, the emergence of another potential victor only helps the overall quality of the field.

The Wyatt Family can dominate WWE for the foreseeable future, but it needs to be more consistently booked. On Monday night, they benefited from really strong storytelling and the result was one of the few bright spots of an otherwise lethargic broadcast.

Who joined the enigmatic foursome as the biggest winners from the January 18 broadcast, and which Superstars were not quite as lucky? 

Winner: Becky Lynch

Despite a few bumpy moments earlier in her feud with Charlotte wherein The Lass Kicker was made to look like a fool who always fell for the distractions of Ric Flair, Becky Lynch has rebounded nicely and delivered her finest work to date Monday night.

After dragging a much better match out of Tamina that most would have expected, Lynch grabbed the microphone and addressed the WWE Divas champion and her father. She cut a promo mocking Flair's "limousine riding" spiel and even managed to get a knock in on Charlotte, referring to her as a scenery-chewer.

But it was the way that WWE Creative opted to book Lynch, a cunning competitor who manipulated Flair into accepting her challenge for a Divas title match at Royal Rumble, that really earned her "winner" status for this week's show.

Lynch is growing and evolving weekly, something not every performer can say, which will be key to whatever success she finds on the main roster.

Loser: Kalisto

A week ago, wrestling fans were celebrating Kalisto's United States Championship victory over Alberto Del Rio, excited for what his win meant to the current roster. It appeared at the time that he would take over where Rey Mysterio left off, a flashy masked underdog capable of inspiring young fans and reigniting the company's mask sales.

All that came to a crashing halt one night later when Del Rio regained the title at the SmackDown tapings.

On Monday night, any chance Kalisto had of regaining momentum heading into Royal Rumble and a showdown with his rival was erased when he was treated as an afterthought in a major tag bout also involving Del Rio, Sheamus and Dean Ambrose.

Kalisto was beaten cleanly, the result of a Brogue Kick, and never really treated with the hype he had seven days earlier. And suddenly, what looked like the start of an improbable rise to stardom disintegrated into another failed push at the hands of the wildly inconsistent WWE Creative.

Losers: Neville, The Ascension and Tyler Breeze

In NXT, young workers are given the chance to get over on their own, courtesy of characters that either strike with the audience or do not. During the early days of the national expansion of the brand, few stars made the impact on its television product the way Neville, The Ascension and Tyler Breeze did.

They were major stars on the WWE Network-exclusive show and treated as such by a creative staff, which knew exactly how to utilize them based on their strengths and weaknesses. 

Their call-ups to the main roster should have been the happiest moments of their lives, the proverbial gold at the end of the rainbow. It was the prize for their hard work in developmental. Instead, it turned into a nightmare, with all four Superstars falling into the wasteland of midcard talent, their characters one-dimensional or nonexistent.

Worse yet, they lost more than they won, their momentum cut off almost immediately upon their debuts.

Their wasted talents and abilities were on display Monday in a meaningless tag bout that did nothing for anyone involved. In fact, it severely hurt Breeze, who has already had his female companion, Summer Rae, taken away and is now a nondescript jobber.

When one looks back on the current era of WWE, a failure to create stars will be the major theme, its potential success damned by its inabilities to craft new personalities for fans to invest in. On Monday night, four young stars who could be so much more for the depleted talent roster were on display in the most disheartening manner possible.