WWE Monday Night results and observations (02/08/16): Daniel Bryan says goodbye; Dean Ambrose says hello to Brock Lesnar

After a rather uneventful episode of Monday Night Raw last week, WWE rebounded with solid effort this week at Key Arena in Seattle.

As with every edition of Raw, it still had its share of negatives, including multiple matches of no consequence whatsoever. To be fair, these occur every single week, but it makes the show less entertaining every time as well.

There were also points where the show just dragged on and seemed like it would never end. Having matches of zero consequence doesn't help in this particular area.

I know the major positive — or negative depending on your level of sadness — was Daniel Bryan's retirement speech at the end of the night. I'm not going to cover that here. If I did, the recap would be 5,000 words long. It's long enough as it is.

Here's the full recap of the speech HERE and my thoughts on how Bryan should be remembered HERE.

With that said, let's get to the full match results:

- Dolph Ziggler def. Kevin Owens

- Charlotte def. Alicia Fox

- Bray Wyatt def. Ryback

- Adam Rose def. Titus O'Neil

- Alberto Del Rio & Rusev def. The Lucha Dragons

- Tamina def. Becky Lynch

- Tables match – The Dudley Boyz & The Usos def. The New Day & Mark Henry

WWE booking like a video game

I've played WWE video games for more than two decades of my life and can honestly say that the last four editions of the game have been some of the best in the company's video game history.

The only exception may be WWE 2K15, but WWE '13, WWE 2K14 and WWE 2K16 were all great games. In these games there is a mode called Universe Mode, where you can literally control everything that goes on in WWE and create your own wrestling universe.

You can change the matches, names of the weekly shows and pay-per-views, create custom arenas and even control who wrestles. Want a Universe Mode with nothing but legends? You can do that. Want a Universe Mode with nothing but current guys? You can do that, too.

What you can also do is set up feuds between wrestlers. You can set up how long the feud is for and put a title at stake. This feud leads to pay-per-view matches and special cut scenes.

What it also leads to is the two rivals facing each other over and over and over again. I can distinctly recall using my created wrestler in a feud against Brock Lesnar where I beat him in an extreme rules matches three weeks in a row on Raw, only to face him in a regular match at the pay-per-view. The "Beast Incarnate" was no match for my created star, but it was no fun facing him all the time.

Despite the mode being a lot of fun sometimes, it lacked creativity for the feuds.

That is exactly the problem that WWE is plagued with today. I'm willing to bet that Vince McMahon is not an avid gamer, but the booking philosophy he's currently using bears a striking resemblance to what I've played in WWE video games.

Just so you know, that is not a good thing.

A prime example of this is the feud between Kalisto and Alberto Del Rio. We've seen these two wrestle against each other in some variation probably a dozen times on television so far this year, and it's only February.

Why would WWE expect people to be excited to see the match again at Fastlane when they've seen it so many times already? They didn't face each other one-on-one Monday, but Del Rio pinned Kalisto during a tag team match.

There has to be a way to make people think that Del Rio has a chance of winning other than having him pin the person he's going to face. Not to mention, it doesn't do Kalisto any favors either.

I can let this type of slide in a video game because there's only so much a video game can do. WWE's creative team, which is made up of fully functioning human beings, do not.

Dean Ambrose goes after Brock Lesnar

Like the crazy man that he is, Dean Ambrose called out Brock Lesnar for a fight Monday.

Oh, and he got a fight. Actually, he got the crap beat out of him. After signing the contract for the main event of Fastlane, Lesnar delivered an F-5 to Ambrose.

After getting himself together, Ambrose angrily declared that he was going to get Lesnar by the end of the night.

Ambrose wasn't kidding, either. He went to the ring and questioned Lesnar's manhood, which finally brought him out. Before Lesnar could even get into the ring, Ambrose jumped on him and attacked.

Ambrose's attack was short-lived, however, as Lesnar commenced to dismantle the Intercontinental champion. However, a brief distraction from Roman Reigns allowed Ambrose to deliver a low blow to Lesnar, which put him down for the count.

The irony of Ambrose giving Lesnar a low blow after questioning his manhood is quite hilarious.

Shots to the groin aside, I thought this did a lot for Ambrose. Yes, Lesnar destroyed him, but who hasn't decimated by him? Lesnar has manhandled everyone he's ever been in the ring with. There's no shame in that.

What did get across was that Ambrose has a lot of guts. Is he low on brain cells? Maybe, but that's his character. He's not the most stable guy in the world and a guy that's not all that stable would call out a guy that no other sane person would even dare call out.

I know Reigns is probably going to win the match at Fastlane, but it's nice to see some emphasis being put on Ambrose in the meantime. Let's hope it carries over after Fastlane.

Miz TV segment was surpisingly good

Whenever WWE does one of their talk show segments, it's usually forgettable. This week's, however, was pretty darn good.

The Miz hosted another edition of Miz TV and was scheduled to have Chris Jericho as his guest. However, Jericho turned the tables on The Miz and took over the proceedings.

With the help of some stagehands, he transformed Miz TV into his talk show, The Highlight Reel. Even the obscenely expensive "Jeritron 5000" was lowered from the ceiling.

Needless to say, The Miz was not happy about Jericho's hostile takeover. Eventually, he mentioned that both men had lost to AJ Styles in the past few weeks, but that the loss was eating away at Jericho.

This brought out Styles, but before he got to the ring, The Miz attacked Jericho from behind. Styles jumped into the ring and helped Jericho dispose of The Miz.

After The Miz was discarded, Styles and Jericho briefly went at it.

I thought this was a very good segment and actually took the mundane talk show format and made it creative for once.

The only negative I have is that Styles wasn't given a chance to talk again. He's not the best promo guy in the world, but he is capable of getting his point across without making a complete fool out of himself.

Everyone from Jericho to The Miz to the commentators have been trying to tell Styles' story, but it won't have the same effect unless it comes from him.

It just seems like WWE doesn't fully trust him with the microphone yet. Hopefully, that changes soon.

The Dudley Boyz turn heel

In a welcome occurrence, the Dudley Boyz turned heel by attacking The Usos after their match together on Raw.

I imagine that a feud between the two tag teams is on the horizon, but in the meantime, let's focus on what this means. What this means is that they are finally bad guys again. This is a very good thing. They've always been at their best as heels, in my opinion

If you don't know what I'm talking about, go back and watch them in Extreme Championship Wrestling and look at how much the fans hated their guts, especially Bubba Ray Dudley, who even did great work as a heel in TNA.

It also means a shakeup for the tag team division, which desperately needed one. For months, the tag team division has pretty much been The New Day and everyone else. Now there may be something else to look forward to and that is The Dudley Boys being bad guys again.

It also gives The Usos something else to do besides face The New every single week.

Dolph Ziggler uses the ropes to win

I don't know if this will mean anything moving forward, but Dolph Ziggler defeated Kevin Owens again, but this time used the ropes for leverage during the pin.

This would usually signify a heel turn, but I doubt that's going to be the case here.

What I do know is that this it felt like the 20th time I've seen these go at it on television this year. See the first section of this recap to get my thoughts on that.