The biggest winners and losers of last night's Raw (November 27)

Many people are calling last night's episode of Monday Night Raw the worst they've ever seen. Indeed, while WWE is notoriously lazy during the Holiday Season once Survivor Series concludes, this was simply abominable even by those standards.

If you aren't going to put any effort into your show, don't be surprised when you lose about 20% of your audience just in the last 12 months alone. No sane person would want to watch this if he didn't have to.

Raw's endless rematch problem persisted, and while the company may be commended for at least trying to introduce some new things and angles, the attempts fell flat with terrible writing. The end results either didn't matter (in the case of figures like Elias, Balor, and Lashley) or simply tanked everyone involved.

Let's take a look at the carnage and see who, if anyone, emerged better off from this junkyard of an episode.

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Losers: Nia Jax and Ronda Rousey

To reiterate, Nia Jax is awful at everything in this business. After having one of the worst segments of the year at the infamous Backlash event back in May, we saw another "gem" from her last night. This segment bombed. The only thing that even halfway delivered was the stuff about Becky Lynch, but that's simply cheap heat.

Ronda Rousey came out and showed once again that talking isn't her strong suit either, because she bombed too. Having to duel Nia Jax doesn't help.

Why would anyone be interested in this feud after this?

This segment was taking a hot Ronda Rousey and pouring ice water over her. The sooner this feud is over with, the better. Then Ronda Rousey can move on to bigger and better things while Nia Jax moves back into obscurity where she belongs.

Losers: The Authors of Pain

Sure, the Authors of Pain retained their titles in a pedestrian match. That wasn't the focus, though. The focus was instead on Drake Maverick and...peeing jokes.

Seriously.

After saying that Gable and Roode would feel the fear he felt at Survivor Series, Maverick taunted his opponents by stealing Bobby Roode's robe, went backstage..............and peed on it.

Seriously!

Only one man thinks that this is funny. One. Unfortunately, he's the audience of one that these shows are being written for. This was awful and must be mentioned in the "worst segment of the year" conversations that will be sure to come next month.

Drake Maverick and the Authors of Pain are absolutely ruined. As if it wasn't the case before, they're now always going to be reflexively associated with Vince McMahon's five-year-old sense of toilet humor. Nothing they do is ever going to wash that stain off, no pun intended.

Loser: Dean Ambrose

To make matters worse, Raw's hottest angle at the moment - the feud between Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins, also cooled off last night. Dean Ambrose got a series of vaccines in his segment, saying that Rollins was basically a walking disease that he needed to be inoculated against.

Who writes this trash? Seriously?!

This was again a bucket of ice water that WWE poured on a hot act.

Sure, this wasn't fatal. Dean Ambrose will be able to recover next week with a good segment (compare with last week's fun cat and mouse game that he played), but this sure wasn't the bright spot to this show that it could have been. It was as if the entire script were written drunk. With how chaotic Vince McMahon's world is, that isn't something that would be too surprising.

Hopefully the show tries harder next time, but we can't be sure of that.

Winner: Seth Rollins

This was the sole bright spot on the night. While it would have been nice to see Seth Rollins compete against somebody else in his open challenge, he and Ziggler work well together, and this was a great TV match.

Seth Rollins' victory puts some heat behind him as he sails into TLC next month. Despite rumors, he didn't drop the Intercontinental title due to interference. That's smart. It should be used as an element in Raw's top feud at the moment, because it's de factor Raw's top title.

Rollins is on a role right now, and if the WrestleMania rumors about him turn out to be true, this is the kind of stuff you want to see.

Let's just hope that the TLC match will live up to the hype and that the feud can survive the next few weeks of what's sure to be lazy writing in general.

Loser: The women's division

As if the title scene in the women's division wasn't bad enough, we got this segment to cap it off. Alexa Bliss, still on the shelf with an injury, was "put in charge" of the women's division by Baron Corbin, whose generic authority figure abuse storyline certainly jumped the shark this week.

In a show this awful, we should have expected this to bomb, and it did. More than once, I was reminded of This is Your Life, but thankfully, it didn't get anywhere near that bad.

Still, this was a juvenile, useless segment that was held only for the sake of being held. It's hard to imagine that anything of consequence will eventually result from this segment. What are Sasha Banks and Bayley's goals, exactly? What are the goals of the heels?

I don't know. I don't think WWE's writers know, either, for that matter.

Winner: Lars Sullivan

WWE is still hyping Lars Sullivan's debut. He's being advertised as a free agent.

This probably means that the revelation of his old posts didn't harm his standing with the company.

Lars Sullivan is supposed to be in line for a big push once he makes his debut. It's hard to actually think of a place for him right now. Raw has a lot of giants already, making his act somewhat of a redundancy, and SmackDown is overloaded with heels. It can't afford to have a monster come in and crush all the babyfaces on the show because there are few babyfaces to be crushed.

I would personally take up Solo monsters' suggestion and debut him as Daniel Bryan's bodyguard. That would give him something concrete to do and put him in the spotlight immediately while ensuring that he doesn't destroy everything too quickly.

Regardless of this speculation, we found out last night that his push was still on.