6 Ups And 5 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (July 24)

3. Constant Struggle

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The running gag involving Elias and his inability was pretty decently done, giving us a pissed villain and an easy way to put him in a situation.

Each time, Elias was introduced and got a couple weeks out before he would be cut off mid-sentence, only for someone huge to walk out. Guys like the Authors of Pain, Braun Strowman and Bobby Lashley all came to the ring while the troubadour tried to play. Elias was angry, but he wasn’t dumb enough to start something with any of them, so he just seethed.

And that made for an amusing running gag for the program, which once in a while is a pretty fun deal.

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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.