6 Ups And 8 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Feb 11)

5. Elias, Interrupted

Elias Lucha House Party
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Regardless of whether it was the best course to turn Elias back to heel so quickly, WWE at least has been committed to getting him booed through various means, and we saw some of that Monday night.

Elias was introduced – and interrupted – three times, with a backstage segment between Becky Lynch and Finn Balor, a Seth Rollins video package, and the Lucha House Party, providing the distractions. Elias got increasingly pissed, finally taking it out on Kalisto after inviting him to play a duet.

In perfect heel fashion, Elias lured the babyfaces in and blasted Kalisto with a guitar shot (when Lince Dorado and Gran Metalik weren’t paying attention) and hightailed it out of the ring. It was the kind of vindictive, cowardly thing that you’d expect from a villain.

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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.