10 Wrestlers WWE Have Ruined Without Fans
9. Elias
Remember Elias' match with Baron Corbin at WrestleMania 36?
Of course you don't, it was boring as f*ck and a truly horrendous combination for an empty Performance Center atmosphere that was already testing the patience of an audience turning to wrestling for an escape and instead only receiving reminders of the glum world outside.
Few wrestlers needed noise more than the former NXT drifter, and it's perhaps why WWE turned him heel following a return from injury later that year. It's made no difference though - Elias is a competent-at-best wrestler an era where everybody operates at a level above and WWE have never been worse at hiding the negatives and extenuating the positives. His team with Jaxson Ryker was desperate to end in Ryker as a babyface because just look at him, and the culmination of that feud will almost certainly leave him with little to do at the worst possible time.
He should take a crumb of comfort from how institutionally obsessed with cheap heat WWE are - they could dim the lights for that first time and bring them up with him in the ring, just for the aggro. Beyond that though, the road back to relevance could be a long one.