The biggest winners and losers from last night's Raw (September 3)

Last night's Raw had major events, but it was also a confusing, overbooked mess. One angle is hot, but the rest of the show lagged and felt very much like it was there just to be there. For example - did the Undertaker and Shawn Michaels segment actually do anything for the programming in the long term? Of course not. It was simply a rehash of their 2012 story arc to hype what will essentially be a glorified house show.

The shine was taken off the current roster for much of the night, and it was another indictment of WWE's creative process.

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Still, there were some developments that mattered, including a major and necessary title change. There were some developments elsewhere in the tag team division as well, and it seems the company finally realizes how weak the doubles matches have become on the red brand, which is the first step in the rebuilding process.

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Losers: The Bella Twins

If the idea is to hype the return of the Bella Twins en route to Evolution, this segment did a decidedly poor job. Instead, it only highlighted their weaknesses as performers, which was one of the reasons that caused fans to want the "women's revolution," headlined by the Four Horsewomen of NXT, in the first place.

WWE seems to have forgotten why women's wrestling was so disdained in the company in the company prior to 2015, and thoroughly believes its own propaganda. With slow ticket sales and yet another lackluster match announced for the October 28th show last night, Evolution is in dire danger of becoming a big flop.

The Bella Twins will need to perform better if they're to justify the outsized and sudden role seemingly being prepared for them on that night, because this didn't do anybody any favors.

Winners: Bobby Roode and Chad Gable

This is definitely a randomly thrown together tag team, but the division badly needs new teams. Bobby Roode was doing nothing since his jump to Monday nights this April, and Chad Gable has barely gotten on TV.

Their formation of a tag team is better than what both of them were doing before, so last night was an important development for them. The division can use it as well.

At least the company is trying to make use of some of its underutilized talent.

Winners: Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre

After ambushing The Revival backstage, Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre inserted themselves into the Raw tag team title match and crushed the B-Team to become the new champions.

This was a change that was long overdue. With the titles now around Ziggler and McIntyre's waists, they feel important again, and they're now embroiled in the main feud on Monday nights. Now the entire division will need to get better to challenge the formidable new champions, who can feud with the Shield over the titles.

One imagines that McIntyre will eventually turn on Ziggler and that the Shield will get the titles, but that doesn't need to happen for a while yet.

Winners: The Authors of Pain

The first mistake WWE made with the Authors of Pain on the main roster was taking their mouthpiece away. While he might not be Paul Ellering, Drake Maverick is a good hype man for the monstrous duo, and it's nice to see the company using his talents elsewhere than the small pond of 205 Live.

The Authors of Pain should be pushed into title contention soon. Seeing them up against McIntyre and Ziggler or the Shield would instantly bring prestige back to the Raw tag team titles.

Loser: Kevin Owens

So much for the big return. Didn't I warn you not to trust WWE with return angles?

Instead of returning as something different, or being involved in a big angle, it now looks like he'll feud with the ice cold Bobby Lashley in what is unambiguously filler.

Bizarrely, he also aligned with Braun Strowman in an attack against the Shield later that night, ignoring the months of bullying he endured in the process.

Well, no one ever accused WWE of caring about continuity.