The biggest winners and losers from last night's SmackDown (January 28)

Loser: Asuka

This was just puzzling. Two days after Asuka made Becky Lynch tap out, she was off the show entirely. While there were no women's matches last night and the company is trying to build up the women's Elimination Chamber match, it was still a poor choice.

Did the mid-card ridiculousness, the tag team match, or the Miz and Shane's segments need to go on as long as they did? Asuka could have easily obliterated somebody like Zelina Vega in much less time than those segments had, or even just had a cameo backstage subtly mocking Charlotte Flair, potentially setting up the start of a more palatable rematch at WrestleMania (with Asuka winning this time, hopefully).

Perhaps the company is trying to protect Becky as much as possible, and sometimes, there just isn't enough time to get all the big names on the show in two hours. Randy Orton was gone for several weeks. Charlotte Flair wasn't there a couple of weeks ago.

These things sometimes happen, but they better not happen next week.