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The biggest winners and losers of last night's RAW (November 11)

Hot start, not so hot result.
Hot start, not so hot result.

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Last night's RAW continued to build toward Survivor Series, where the two main roster shows will meet in brand warfare again, with NXT joining them for the first time. Survivor Series has been accused of meaning little in its modern iterations, given that the brand warfare won't continue, but there are still some long term booking implications that came out of last night's show.

Who got the most of it and who got the least? Let's take another look at the action from the RAW that came on Veterans Day in the United States.


Losers: Becky Lynch and Asuka

The night started hot with Asuka and Kairi Sane defending their tag team titles against Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair, who were forced into an alliance yet again. The action was great, but like in so many other circumstances, the company's booking tropes undercut it at the end.

Shayna Baszler was watching all of this and hopped the guardrail. Bayley ambushed the NXT Women's Champion in payback. The distraction allowed Asuka to roll up Becky Lynch for a pin.

The old distraction rollup is just that...old. It almost never helps anybody. Becky Lynch took a loss on television while Asuka, who submitted her cleanly at the Royal Rumble, now looks weaker because she can't beat her any other way anymore. Becky Lynch will probably get her win back in December in a much more decisive fashion, and that will be that. The filler feud will be over.

WWE seriously needs to think of new ways to build feuds, because all of this is just underwhelming at this point. The stale, formulaic booking is one of the twin problems plaguing the company's creative process (the other being the over-producing and over-scripting of everything they get their hands on).

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