Shayna Baszler may have won Survivor Series for NXT, but WWE made sure to remind you Becky Lynch is still The Man as her road to WrestleMania has already begun.

It was all part of WWE paying off its NXT push with a 4-2-1 victory over SmackDown and Raw, respectively, at the Allstate Arena in Chicago on Sunday night. The black-and-gold brand goes back to Wednesday nights with its head high and a raised profile for its stars, but nothing tangible to show for it. Though the women’s triple threat match closed the show, the men’s Survivor Series clash stole an overall fun and well-played night for WWE.

Here are five takeaways from Survivor Series:

Survivor Series was a huge night for a number of NXT stars, especially Rhea Ripley. Her weekend included pinning Charlotte Flair on “SmackDown,” Shayna Baszler at WarGames and then Sasha Banks — with some help — to win the women’s Survivor Series match. She returns to NXT as the clear No. 1 contender for Baszler’s title and has some serious main-roster feuds waiting for her when the time is right.

No one raised his profile more in one night than Keith Lee, whose performance in the men’s Survivor Series match was met with serenades from the crowd. Despite ultimately losing, he pinned Seth Rollins clean and went toe-to-toe with Roman Reigns. NXT has begun to unleash Lee’s unique athleticism on its programming, and the main WWE audience was treated to it here. The fist-bump of acknowledgment he received from Reigns after the match was a great babyface moment for the Big Dog.

Matt Riddle, who has called out Brock Lesnar and Goldberg, got a cool “legend killer” moment by pinning Randy Orton. One person who deserved better was WALTER, who had the fans chanting his name. No way he should have been the first NXT man eliminated ahead of Damian Priest.

Those performances were all part of a traditional Survivor Series match that mixed story elements like the Reigns-Baron Corbin rivalry, Reigns’ friendship with Rollins and Braun Strowman and Orton’s dominance with the athletic ability of Ricochet, Shorty G and Mustafa Ali.

It’s been more than two years since WWE first teased some form of a Four Horsewomen of MMA vs. Four Horsewomen of wrestling feud. The main event of Survivor Series laid a few more bricks on the road to that. Unfortunately, Lynch’s post-match leg drop to a gloating Baszler on the announce table was better than the match, which ended with Baszler tapping out Bayley. Though things picked up late, it was a slower pace and it took awhile for the crowd to get invested.

When the dust settled, WWE raised Baszler’s profile for whoever beats her in NXT, gave her a ready-made feud with Lynch and the Four Horsewomen and set up a reason for Baszler’s friend Ronda Rousey to come back as a heel for potential WrestleMania rematch with Lynch.

The red lights didn’t go away and neither did The Fiend. A funny thing happened along the way in this match: Daniel Bryan used his “Yes” chant for the first time in months and — unlike the ice-cold Rollins — became the clear babyface. The crowd was behind each Bryan push — from the signature Yes Kicks to flying knees to a late roll-up. There was no big pop when The Fiend delivered the Mandible Claw and pinned a passed out Bryan to defeat the power of the Yes Movement. The Fiend’s crowd dynamic is now something to watch with each opponent going forward.

The WWE championship match and its veterans, on the other hand, took us back. It was the perfect delivery of a Brock Lesnar match — short and explosive.

We got the “massacre” Paul Heyman promised as Lesnar tossed around Rey Mysterio — wearing a Doink the Clown/Joker outfit — while telling a story around the equalizer pipe. We then got the near “miracle” and a callback after Dominick Mysterio got involved. He and his dad landed low blows, dual 619s and Eddie Guerrero-like Frog Splashes. But them pinning Lesnar together wasn’t enough. Lesnar eventually caught a leaping Rey in an F5 for the win.

On one hand, WWE backed up putting the spotlight on NXT by having them win at Survivor Series — beating a number of its biggest stars in the process. It’s a great long-term investment in the NXT talent — call it a giant commercial. WWE hopes it pays off in ratings wins over All Elite Wrestling on Wednesday nights and when those wrestlers make their way to either Raw or SmackDown.

In the short term, what does it mean for Raw and SmackDown? Does it finally seal NXT as not the minor league “development” brand? Or does it make the audience question just how good some of the mid-to-lower-card talents on Raw and SmackDown are now that they’ve seen NXT’s best? To the average fan, WWE’s big, bad main-roster talent lost to the NXT upstarts — though one win was Lio Rush retaining his cruiserweight championship over Kalisto and Akira Tozawa on the kickoff show.

Remember when “Monday Night Raw” was the dominant brand in WWE? Those days appear over. The red brand won just one match at Survivor Series: the Viking Raiders beating Undisputed Era and the New Day (how far has Kofi Kingston fallen?) on the kickoff show. After that it was loss after loss for Raw, which was the first team eliminated from the men’s and women’s traditional Survivor Series matches. Add that to the price tag for SmackDown on Fox and the recent emphasis on NXT, and it may be time to question where Raw stands in the WWE hierarchy.

Asuka and Flair could have set up an angle in the women’s five-on-five clash. Flair attacked her Raw teammate after she had tagged herself in. Asuka responded by spitting green mist at Flair, leading to her elimination.

Roderick Strong versus Shinsuke Nakamura and AJ Styles didn’t steal the show, but it was as hard-hitting and technically sound as you would expect. In typical Undisputed Era/Strong fashion, Styles did the work on Nakamura with a Phenomenal Forearm and then Strong threw Styles out of the ring to score the pin.

Adam Cole wrestled his fourth match in five days and none were cakewalks. Pete Dunne is as physical an opponent as it gets, and the Panama Sunrise on the ring apron couldn’t have been fun for either man to take. They centered their match around their WarGames injuries.

Bobby Roode and Dolph Ziggler won a tag-team battle royal on the kickoff show that will certainly be used to raise their profile on SmackDown.

Biggest winner: NXT

Biggest loser: Shinsuke Nakamura

Best match: Men’s Survivor Series match

Predictions: 3-5

Grade: B+