WWE NXT Results: Biggest Winners, Losers and Moments from August 3

It was a glorious debut for Bobby Roode Wednesday night when he set foot inside the NXT ring and made it clear to fans, management and wrestlers alike that he did not need the brand as much as it needed him. In the process, he established himself as one of the biggest winners of the night.

Roode was long one of the most valuable stars on the TNA roster, as great a technician as he was a talker. After multiple instances of staying with the Nashville-based promotion rather than taking the leap of faith and arriving in WWE, Roode finally signed on the dotted line and is poised to become one of the faces of NXT well into 2017.

His debut introduced a new era for NXT. Gone are the competitors the brand relied on to carry it for so long, and in their place are recognizable faces who are searching for another shot of glory in the hottest brand in sports entertainment.

A few others established themselves as winners on the August 3 episode, while one Superstar in particular was the evening's most prominent loser.

Winner: Hideo Itami

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Itami was gone for so long that he feels like a fresh face again, which will serve him well after a mediocre first chapter to his NXT career.

The talented competitor tore through Cruiserweight Classic star Sean Maluta with buzz saw-like kicks and finished him off with a running knee that flattened him upon impact.

The fans reacted for Itami as if he were a star, one of the most decorated in all of NXT despite missing a year of ring time. He channeled the energy of the fans into an intense and dominant performance and will now look to cement himself as one of the elite wrestlers and top contenders to the NXT Championship.

Loser: Mojo Rawley

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The most hyped star in NXT went out not with a blast but a whimper, as world champion Samoa Joe beat down and humbled Mojo Rawley. Joe interrupted Rawley's match and left him lying in a heap following the Coquina Clutch.

It was a puzzling use of the star that suggests the plan to draft him to SmackDown may not have been set in stone at the time of the tapings.

Rawley, for all of his flaws, has put in his time in NXT and probably deserved better on his way out the door, especially as he embarks on a SmackDown career that he hopes brings him renewed energy and success.

Sure, Finn Balor lost on his way out, as did so many other greats from the brand's relatively short history, but they did so in a dignified fashion. Even if Rawley does have another match or two in him from this current taping cycle, it will be difficult to forget him being trapped in the Coquina Clutch.

Winner: Tag Team Division

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Two weeks after SmackDown drafted American Alpha, NXT took it upon itself to showcase four teams that will be tasked with carrying the mantle for tag team wrestling going forward.

First, Tom Phillips and Corey Graves revisited the brutal assault dealt by The Authors of Pain to American Alpha and discussed the influence that Paul Ellering would have on them going forward.

Then there was the three-way exchange between The Revival, TM-61 and Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano that spawned the main event between the former two teams.

The Revival defeated the Australian upstarts, but Ciampa and Gargano got the last laugh, embarrassing the tag champions Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson and establishing themselves as the greatest threat to their dominance.

Tag team wrestling is back and arguably better than ever in NXT. With a wealth of talented workers and a dominant force in The Authors of Pain, the division has the potential to become the brightest spot in a roster full of them.