4 Ups And 7 Downs From WWE Raw (Dec 28)

3. A Classical Feud

AJ Styles Elias
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This has to be a first: Mozart was referenced as a reason for a match.

Elias was backstage playing for Jaxson Ryker, but apparently his musical stylings were interfering with Omos enjoying Mozart, so AJ Styles confronted the troubadour. This led to a one-on-one match that actually was pretty good. It was a reminder that when Elias isn’t ensconced in a dumb feud like he was with Jeff Hardy, he can deliver in the ring.

Styles won after a series of near-falls, but credit to Elias for hanging with the Phenomenal One, even delivering an Old School into a meteora.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.