
WWE Raw Results: Biggest Winners, Losers and Moments from June 6
Do not let the generic vignettes for The Shining Stars, Darren Young and Bob Backlund fool you; WWE's production team is one of the best in the industry.
It proved this during Monday's Raw with a pair of video packages that not only shined the spotlight on the upcoming WWE World Heavyweight Championship match at Money in the Bank on June 19 but also provided viewers with a look into the motivations of Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins en route to earning "biggest winners" from the June 6 episode.
The team behind the many video packages the company produces every week simply does not receive the credit it deserves for being as extraordinary as it is.
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In the past, the team has proved time and time again that it can take the most mundane segment of WWE television and turn it into something absolutely earth-shattering through a little postproduction magic. Considering the company's creative bankruptcy at times, it is up to the team to make every element of the show seem like the most important thing on the show. For the most part, it succeeds.
Reigns vs. Rollins is as high-profile a match as WWE has to offer, and the production team put in the work to make it feel like a monumental clash between two elite performers. More importantly, it gave fans a reason to become emotionally invested in the Superstars, something missing from the product far more often than it should be.
On a night where booking was spotty, to say the least, the most consistent element of WWE programming for the last 15 years delivered. For that, it is more than deserving of recognition.
Winner: AJ Styles
Joining WWE's production team on the winner's side of things is The Phenomenal One, AJ Styles, who demonstrated greater confidence on the mic Monday night than he has at any time in his run with the company.
Now a heel, he spoke with great conviction as he detailed the insult he feels watching John Cena in the ring. He claimed that he would run circles around the franchise star, just as any bad guy would, then admitted that Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson are the insurance policy that will keep him from getting buried.
That's why the promo worked so well.
Here was Styles claiming to be infinitely better in the ring than Cena, talking a big game like a seasoned veteran heel, only to come back in the same breath and admit that his buddies are there to get him out of a jam. Logic says that if he is as good as he brags, he would not need said support.
Add a solid in-ring performance as The Club tore through The New Day in the main event with his surprisingly strong promo work, and you have a night in which Styles further established himself as one of the premier stars in all of WWE, discrediting any doubters who may have suggested that he would not make it in Vince McMahon's company.
Losers: WWE's female Superstars
Remember all that talk about a revolution?
It seems like an eternity ago, what with the devaluation of definable characters and the lumping of strong females into cliques for the sake of another tag team rivalry. As seen on Raw, what made the road to WrestleMania featuring Charlotte, Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks so satisfying has evaporated, replaced by a one-dimensional tag team feud focused more on the treatment of Ric Flair by his daughter than anyone else involved.
The upcoming brand split will be the greatest gift WWE Creative can offer the women, because as it stands now, neither Lynch nor Charlotte, Natalya nor Dana Brooke (and definitely not Banks) are thriving in the six minutes of television time they are given on a three-hour show every Monday night.
What started so promisingly has devolved into the same mangled mess it was before the women of NXT made their main-roster debuts. That, more than anything, is the most disheartening thing.
Loser: Kevin Owens
Oh, look: Owens lost to Dean Ambrose again.
It is one thing to have a guy repeatedly lose to a specific wrestler if it is some sort of story, but to so recklessly book Owens as inferior to Ambrose every single time he faces him is a mistake. Fans have already been overexposed to the match in the first place.
To book the same conclusion every time only enhances the biggest issue facing WWE Creative in regard to the two Superstars: They are on a treadmill with no real upward momentum to speak of, so they end up facing each other in the same match every other week.
With the same finish.
It does neither guy any favors and leads to a situation in which Owens' credibility takes a major dip. No post-match beatdown or clever use of a ladder to promote the upcoming Money in the Bank match can repair that. A guy can only lose so many times before fans stop believing in him.
Ask Zack Ryder.
The repeated losses are not worth it for a handful of throwaway television matches.



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