6 Ups And 8 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (May 28)

4. Elias Riles Fans For Two Segments

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It’s surprising that WWE hasn’t tried this stunt before.

Elias came out to serenade the Richmond fans as he often does. However, the wandering troubadour struggled to get started, lamenting that he was in the south and had to look at a “disgusting” crowd, then demanding several changes to lighting, sound and audience noise.

It went on so long that Raw cut to commercial with Elias still in the ring berating fans. When the show came back, Elias was still there, still barking at the crowd. Seth Rollins finally came out and ejected Elias, but as we found out later, that didn’t come without its cost.

Elias getting revenge afterward by laying out Rollins brought the entire series of segments full-circle, which was nicely done overall. And Elias and Rollins both get great crowd reactions, so a feud between them could be pretty good.

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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.