It's not fair to performers like Alexa Bliss who absolutely nailed her role on Monday night that other parts of WWE's Raw program were so brutally awful. It's not fair because one person can't carry a three-hour show.

That's not to say there wasn't some good on this week's red brand offering. It was just very hard to find and unfortunately, the bad was so bad, it was hard to ignore when grading the overall show as a winner or a loser. Gillberg returned, WWE actually hired a well-known Hollywood actor to show his butt crack and parody Drew McIntyre, and Randy Orton looked more like a make-shift luchador than a burn victim.

Here are your winners and losers for Raw, January 19, 2021:

Loser: Randy Orton Under A Mask

The idea here was to suggest that Randy Orton was so badly burned that he couldn't/wouldn't show his face. Saying he was lucky to only suffer first-degree burns, he vowed he would still be at the Royal Rumble.

We'll give credit to WWE for not ignoring the fact Orton was "burned" last week by Alexa Bliss but that the company tried to sell the dramatic music in the darkened ring with a mask that looked like no effort was put into it all was not the best way to start the show. God bless Orton for trying here, but the segment certainly didn't work.

Winner/Loser: Charlotte vs Peyton Royce

Charlotte took on Peyton Royce in the opening match of the night and the bout was a one-on-one contest clouded in distraction from both Ric Flair and Lacey Evans who continued to flaunt their new relationship and Charlotte continued to be bothered by it, especially because Evans was dressed in one of Ric's fancy robes.

While Charlotte picked up the win with a Figure-Eight, this was an interesting booking decision to have Flair hold the finisher well past the bell and during a match that could have been a good opportunity for Royce. Remember, Royce hasn't gotten much in the way of singles opportunities and had literally just declared her entrance into the Women's Royal Rumble match. It was basically an emphatic statement she would be irrelevant in the outcome of the Rumble itself.

Loser: Mace vs Xavier Woods

For about five straight weeks, Retribution had been attacking Ricochet. They couldn't get him to turn so they just left him alone? Now, they've turned their attention to one-third of New Day and are going after Woods? The booking with the Retribution faction is so inconsistent, it's hard to keep patient with WWE on this front.

This would all be fine if the storyline with Ricochet had actually been finished in some way, but instead, hours before Raw, Mustafa Ali sent out a warning to both Woods and Kofi Kingston and Retribution went to work on trying to carry out their leader's orders.

The sad part here is that there wasn't really anything terrible about the match. It's simply a carbon copy of an unfinished program with another Superstar WWE started with this group about a month ago. To make matters worse, what WWE did to Ricochet later in the evening is bothersome.

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Winner/Loser: AJ Styles (w/ Omos) vs. Ricochet

This match was great. The finish was even better. But, the fact that Ricochet was forced into a match where he had to qualify to enter the Royal Rumble at all is illogical, dumbfounding and inexplicable. Most fans don't love the idea that Superstars can simply "declare" themselves into the pay-per-view match. But, that a talent of Ricochet's caliber and a person who just survived weeks worth of attacks from a group WWE is trying to build can't declare himself is twisted. Remember, this is a talent who helped Drew McIntyre eliminate Brock Lesnar just one year earlier at the same event.

Take away that fact and put these two (Styles and Ricochet) in a ring for any other reason and it's fantastic entertainment. Hopefully, WWE takes notice of just how good Ricochet and Styles were in this match and it dawns on them they've been unfair to The One and Only and puts him back in the Rumble. Better yet, give him a bigger spot on the pay-per-view.

Loser: Baszler Mixed Up in Multiple Storylines

Prior to Baszler's match on Monday, she explained backstage that she was willing to do anything, including tossing out her partner Nia Jax to win the women's Rumble. Obviously, that didn't sit well with Jax and WWE has essentially teased how these two will be eliminated from that contest at the end of January.

As expected, Baszler picked up the win against Rose and after the match, Baszler demanded another shot at the WWE women's tag team champions Charlotte Flair and Asuka. Considering Flair is tied up with Lacey Evans and Auska is working something with Alexa Bliss, it's likely WWE will give Baszler and Jax the match and the titles again. It seems the idea will be these two will once again hold the titles, but their continued friction as a team will overshadow their reign.

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Loser: The Dirt Sheet Didn't Land... At All

The challenge we'll concede here is that WWE had to find a way to continue a build between Goldberg and Drew McIntyre for the Royal Rumble pay-per-view and neither men could appear in person. That said, bringing out Gillberg and David Krumholtz of Harold and Kumar fame did not make up for the missing pieces.

As much as all the parties involved did what they could, this entire segment was a train wreck. It's baffling that these kinds of ideas get tossed around the table in creative and then approved. Absolutely brutal.

As little as fans seem to be behind a Goldberg return, had WWE brought him in or had him cut a video promo, it would have done so much more and the two-week absence of the WWE Champion wouldn't have been so glaring. This just screamed WWE was stuck and came threw ideas at the wall, picking the worst one of the bunch.

Loser: The Hurt Business Tease Breakup

Right about now, it feels like taking the time to compliment something WWE did feels like the right thing to do. Unfortunately, we still can't bring ourselves to do it considering WWE is seemingly pulling the trigger on a Hurt Business breakup far sooner than they should be.

This is a foursome that hasn't scratched the surface of what they can do as a group, yet WWE seems keen to pull the trigger on splitting the faction with Cedric Alexander and Shelton Benjamin at the center of all the fuss. Is this WWE's way of keeping the focus on Lashley? Is this how they want to make it seem like the group isn't unbeatable? It's confusing that WWE would take one of the things that has been working and tease dismantling it.

Loser: Jaxson Ryker vs Jeff Hardy

Another match that wasn't necessary and another segment wasted. These two had a match last week and are continuing on in what feels like an endless feud that isn't going anywhere. Repeating it only to tease more of the same is an incredibly frustrating way to book both Hardy and Elias who could be doing so much more.

Ryker feels like a throw-in to all of this and one that just didn't fit from day one.

Winner: Alexa Bliss Possessed

Finally! Thank goodness this is how the show ended because Bliss saved Raw from leaving a sour taste in the mouths of most fans after three hours of awful television. Bliss was fantastic here and the idea that she's possessed by The Fiend is a twist a lot of people probably didn't see coming.

The fact that she dominated Auska the moment she was "taken over" was also an intriguing turn as no one has dominated Asuka in that fashion since she arrived on the scene in either NXT or WWE. Bliss just walked through her and was impervious to her offense.

Where this goes will be fun to see. Is this how Wyatt appears each week for the next little while?

Next: It Seems The Fiend Has Returned To WWE Inside The Body Of Alexa Bliss