WWE NXT Results: Biggest Winners, Losers and Moments from October 5

To say Andrade "Cien" Almas had an inauspicious start to his NXT career would be an understatement. Arriving amid much hype and some stellar video packages, he stumbled out of the gate, his theme music and appearance not matching the expectations fans had set for him.

Stuck at a dead end, he finally got the booking support he needed Wednesday night in the form of a heel turn that also earned him "biggest winner" status for the October 5 broadcast.

Almas is a talented in-ring competitor; there is no denying that. His work with Bobby Roode, Tye Dillinger and Cedric Alexander has proved as much. It was this perception fans had of him, that of a generic nerd in his Chippendales vest, that derailed momentum right out of the gate.

As he attacked tag team partner Alexander Wednesday night, leaving him lying and soaking in the disdain of the audience, that perception was erased. Gone was any hint of the overly happy male dancer and in its place was a frustrated and furious competitor no longer willing to allow fans and peers to dictate his career.

It will help Almas in the long run, not to mention NXT, a brand in need of midcard heels.

The impending feud with Alexander should be great fun, too.

Winner: Samoa Joe

The Samoan Submission Machine continued to tear through anyone unfortunate enough to be in his way Wednesday night, welcoming Dan Matha to NXT with a beatdown and reiterating his demands that general manager William Regal hand over the NXT Championship.

Joe on a warpath is the most entertaining Joe there is. Angry and frustrated, he has painted a target on the backs of every NXT star and will not stop until he has the NXT Championship in his possession. The question now is whether or not Regal, feeling immense pressure to protect his Superstars, will acquiesce.

Either way, this motivated Joe is a good thing for NXT. At his best, the Samoan competitor is still an elite talent. Building him into the unstoppable force to eventually program against Shinsuke Nakamura in a rematch of their Brooklyn match is the wisest strategy the brand has to play with.

Loser: Dan Matha

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Video packages and hype surrounded the arrival of Dan Matha to the NXT roster.

In one fell swoop, Samoa Joe's beatdown of the jacked-up former pro football player diminished his credibility and left him to rebuild his reputation.

Someone who looks like Matha, with the bulging muscles and size of a Vince McMahon project, should at least put up some kind of fight, regardless of the man attacking him. He did not, and he was punished from the moment Joe delivered the headbutt that stunned him.

What should have been a monumental night for Matha was, instead, one of his most humbling.

Winner: Peyton Royce

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Not all that long ago, Peyton Royce looked like one of the most promising young female stars NXT had to offer. An Aussie competitor, her long legs and Poison Ivy-like character set her apart from the other undefined women on the roster. She performed admirably against established stars, but just as she appeared to gain momentum, she disappeared from television.

Now back and flanked by friend Billie Kay, it appears as though the green goddess is back on track and ready to compete for the NXT Women's Championship.

Her win Wednesday night may not have been the most impressive, if only because she defeated Danielle Kamela in a fairly one-sided squash, but the fact that she is back on TV with a hinted at relationship with Kay suggests management finally has plans for her.

What those plans may be bears watching, but for now, fans should be excited to see Royce back on their screens and poised to achieve great things.