WWE Raw Results: Winners, Grades, Reaction, Highlights After Backlash 2023 | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors

The emphasis was on the World Heavyweight Championship Tournament, obviously, but it also saw the introduction of stories and Superstars that will help define the future of the brand over the next year.

We saw the latest from Cody Rhodes vs. Brock Lesnar and Becky Lynch vs. Trish Stratus, were reintroduced to The Way featuring Johnny Gargano, Candice LeRae, Dexter Lumis and Indi Hartwell, and saw the ignition of a rivalry between Rhea Ripley and Natalya over the SmackDown Women's Championship.

Was the show always perfect? Absolutely not. In fact, the seemingly random nature of some of the matches and the lazy creative that went into necessitating the others was a bit too obvious at times and did little to help the talent that could really use it.