The Biggest winners and losers from last night's SmackDown (June 12th)

SmackDown went off its winning streak last night, producing a poor-quality go-home show to a pay-per-view event that looks mostly like filler. A silly "summit" started the show. As a result, a poor 10-woman tag team match main evented the show over Jeff Hardy vs. Shinsuke Nakamura, AJ Styles delivered another generic promo, the advertised Andrade "Cien" Almas match didn't materialize, and the less said about what Big Cass did, the better.

For the past few weeks, very poor writing has hampered the blue brand, but the astounding SmackDown roster has managed to make up for it and scrape together a passable show despite the horrid material it's had to work with. It couldn't get the job done last night. The bad material was just too much to overcome.

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This show was all over the place and managed to lessen even further my interest in watching Money in the Bank on Sunday. Few things of consequence happened, and what did happen were mostly wrong decisions.

Nonetheless, was there anyone who managed to walk away from this show with some kind of benefit?

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Loser: Daniel Bryan

Daniel Bryan and Shelton Benjamin had a nice match that was, in truth, the only real highlight of last night's show. Bryan would ultimately win with the Heel Hook, but this probably means that he's losing on Sunday... losing to someone that no one wants to see him lose to, even more so because of his extremely poor promo later in the night.

Bryan has quietly been SmackDown's MVP for the past month or so. He's been the one that's had the best matches time after time, despite the buzz from his unexpected return having dissipated.

Just imagine if he had something better to work with? Hopefully, that will be the case as we get closer to SummerSlam?

Winner: Samoa Joe

Shockingly, The Miz stood tall in this segment, climbing the ladder and grabbing the briefcase. That might be good news for Samoa Joe, as the person that grabs the briefcase almost never wins the at the pay-per-view.

Of course, Samoa Joe grabbed the briefcase a few weeks ago, but that was sufficiently far removed from Money in the Bank to make normal 50/50 rules not apply...probably.

Truthfully, it's hard to see any other potential winner than Miz or Joe, so perhaps WWE are signaling their intentions.

Loser: Big Cass

Hey guys, did you know that Big Cass is tall and Daniel Bryan is short? Did you? No? Want to hear it again?

That's basically this feud in a nutshell. It's an incredible waste of both Daniel Bryan's time and ours. SmackDown forced us to sit through another horrible Big Cass "I'm tall, you're short" promo, and it's becoming unacceptable. This does nothing to build the credibility of either man.

Unfortunately, we're probably going to have to sit through another month of this feud, because I can't see any other option except big Big Cass winning on Sunday.

Loser: Asuka

Asuka inserted herself in the tag team match to main event the show, which signaled only one thing - she would be tapping out Carmella in the middle of the ring. Sure enough, she did. That almost certainly means she won't be winning the title on Sunday, whether through shenanigans or, less likely, a clean loss, which would truly be a disaster both for her and the division.

The match was poor and only signaled that we're probably going to have to suffer through another month of Carmella's awful title reign. That shouldn't be the case, because she got no reaction as usual and couldn't even perform a roll-up properly, but it is what it is. WWE's booking is so formulaic that there are little other predictions which can be made.

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