The biggest winners and losers from last night's Raw (July 30)

Last night's Raw coming from Miami was certainly a memorable one, though the show suffered from its usual lack of depth once the bells and whistles of Brock Lesnar's return were removed. The top of the card was lit for the first time in three months while most of the rest of the show suffered from the usual weak booking we've come to expect since WrestleMania, where either nothing much mattered or huge angles simply weren't paid attention to.

It definitely felt like the red brand put all its creative resources into Brock Lesnar's return and didn't care too much about anything else, as the show had mostly filler matches.

Nevertheless, let's dive into the results and find out who got the most and least out of July's final show from the red brand.

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Winner: Roman Reigns

Sure, this was the usual attempt to get fans to cheer Reigns with the usual "my bitch" comment to try to count as something edgy. Thankfully though, the complaining and conspiracy theorizing was gone. Gone were the words about the man out to get him. Instead, he just wanted to fight Brock Lesnar. He challenged the Beast to appear before him. That didn't happen.

And the promo did its job because Miami did give him some cheers. Paul Heyman also has to be given some credit for this segment, because he came across as insufferable and delayed the appearance of Brock Lesnar for as long as possible and was the perfect contrast to Roman Reigns.

Later in the night, with Brock Lesnar turning on Paul Heyman, the fans chanted "we want Roman," so something was working in Miami.

Nevertheless, this is eerily similar to WrestleMania, where Roman Reigns got cheers during the build only for the match to bomb in New Orleans. One must imagine it will be more of the same in Brooklyn, or even worse.

But for now, it worked.

Winners: Ronda Rousey and Alexa Bliss

While the match featured Natalya and Alicia Fox, the real focus was on Ronda Rousey and Alexa Bliss. The conniving Raw Women's Champion blindsided Ronda Rousey and though the attack didn't do much damage, the psychological games ahead of the SummerSlam match have begun.

The money here is in making Alexa Bliss as irritating as possible before Ronda Rousey finally gets her hands on her and tears her limb from limb at SummerSlam. That appeared to have begun in earnest last night.

It's better than anything that's been happening in Raw's women's division for a long time.

Loser: Bobby Lashley

From defeating Roman Reigns and looking like he was going to challenge Brock Lesnar to enter a filler feud with Elias, who deserves a bigger push but hasn't been doing anything of note for over a year. What a difference a few weeks of WWE's wacky, illogical booking can make!

Why the company continues to do this with Bobby Lashley is beyond me. The red brand badly needs another top heel. This is just a waste of everyone's time. Bobby Lashley should turn.

Loser: Braun Strowman

Instead of using his Money in the Bank briefcase as a plot device to throw a potential wild card into the angle centering on Brock Lesnar, Braun Strowman instead spent the night with Jinder Mahal, losing by countout to try to convince fans that he'll indeed lose his briefcase at SummerSlam against Kevin Owens, which is another filler feud.

Did Braun Strowman look weak here? No, but there were far better uses for his time than this. The company is clearly just spinning its wheels and resting on the reputation he's built up since last year.

Losers: The Authors of Pain

The Rollup of Doom presented itself yet again to horrible results last night as Titus Worldwide apparently needed to get a win back over the Authors of Pain for some silly reason in the form of a singles match.

The Authors of Pain should be being built up as the juggernauts of the division (or rather, what's left of it) en route to ending the B Team's improbable title reign. Going 50/50 with the members of Titus Worldwide is indicative of the company's silly booking practices and their lack of caring about the tag team division this year.

Winners: Seth Rollins, Drew McIntyre, and Dolph Ziggler

This was an excellent match that turned up the heat for everyone involved. Ending it in a DQ via Ziggler's interference wasn't helpful in that moment last night, but it was helpful for SummerSlam, where McIntyre will need to add something to that match given that it just happened at Extreme Rules.

Hopefully, the former NXT Champion will find himself inserted in the contest somehow and with the Universal Championship hopefully returning soon to Raw full time, now might be the proper time to begin sowing the seeds of dissension between him and his ally Dolph Ziggler.