WWE Raw Results: Biggest Winners, Losers and Moments from September 26

Roman Reigns rolled into Cincinnati Monday night as the new WWE United States champion riding a wave of momentum as a result of his victory over Rusev at Clash of Champions. In order for him to maintain that momentum, he would have to defeat The Bulgarian Brute for the second time in as many days.

After 25 minutes of action, he may not have secured a clean win (the match ended in a double count-out), but he left a lasting impression on his rival, courtesy of a stiff chair shot to the back.

Though many consider his feud with Rusev over the secondary U.S. title a demotion of sorts, Reigns remains a focal point of Raw. He continues to main event, and WWE just gave him the largest chunk of television time of any Superstar on Monday. If anything, he will do for the U.S. title what John Cena did: legitimize it and bring credibility to every opponent he defends against.

Clearly one of the better workers in all of WWE, he still needs that one defining match against Rusev to justify the length of the program, but that could come as soon as Hell in a Cell in October.

For now, Reigns can stay the course, work as hard as he always has and remain one of the elite performers in Vince McMahon's company. If he can do that, this will not be the only time he earns "biggest winner" status on a Monday night.

Winners: The New Day

Who would have ever believed that when The New Day captured the WWE Tag Team Championships 401 days ago they would be such a dominant team that the writing staff would find it difficult to devise a team capable of dethroning them? Yet here we are, over a year since they acquired the titles, and all who have opposed them have fallen in defeat.

Kofi Kingston, Big E and Xavier Woods are so over with the fanbase that they have become bona fide merchandise sellers and the first breakout tag team in what feels like an eternity. They are wildly popular, can be counted on to deliver in big-match situations and have used their own unique senses of humor to get over a gimmick that once seemed destined for ultimate failure.

Monday night, they celebrated Day 400 as champions by successfully retaining their titles over Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows, despite a bloodied Kingston, who took a nasty bump into the ring steps at a bad angle.

While the trio came out of it big winners, WWE Creative is stuck in a situation where the only real option available to it at this point was to take Cesaro and Sheamus, two guys who have spent seven weeks beating the unholy hell out of each other, and put them together in hopes of creating another formidable duo.

That says a lot about what The New Day have accomplished and will continue to in the future.

Loser: T.J. Perkins

It was through no doing of his own, but Perkins was the unlucky recipient of "CM Punk" and "Randy Savage" chants Monday night. His match with fellow cruiserweight Tony Nese was a fun one, but the fans in Cincinnati grew restless, chanting the names of Superstars from bygone eras rather than paying attention to the action inside the squared circle.

So why, then, is Perkins the biggest loser from Monday's show?

As the cruiserweight champion, it is never a good omen for the face of the division to leave fans disinterested in the action unfolding before them.

Perkins is a skilled performer and a celebrated worker, but he lacks an identifiable character. That is through no fault of his own, mind you. WWE Creative has let him down considerably, giving fans no traits or characteristics to relate to. The result is a bland babyface champion who overcomes odds and turns the audience off.

Sound familiar, WWE fans?

Winner: Chris Jericho

The gift of Jericho keeps on giving, as the future Hall of Famer continued to insincerely tout his friendship with Kevin Owens, all the while plotting what is sure to be a grand betrayal that leads to a rivalry between the two.

First, though, he conducted an edition of The Highlight Reel in which he sickeningly sung the praises of the sWWE universal champion. From there, he attempted an insult of Big Cass that went sideways and had Jericho smarting, the butt of his own bad joke.

But by night's end, he was on the winning side of a tag team match, partnering with Owens to defeat Cass and Enzo Amore.

Jericho's career renaissance after several disappointing runs has been a highlight of 2016. Whether it pays off in the form of one last championship run remains to be seen.