Ranking All 29 WWE Returns And Debuts In 2022
17. Ezekiel/Elias
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Elias disappeared from our screens in the summer of 2021, and vignettes aired signaling that he was ditching his drifter gimmick. But Elias never resurfaced. It wasn’t until the night after WrestleMania 38 that Ezekiel – Elias’ younger, cleanshaven brother – debuted. Kevin Owens made this silly gimmick work for a while, but by the summer, Ezekiel had run out of steam, and KO put him on the shelf that August.
Two months later, Elias returned, beard and all, putting the
lookalike brother shtick to an end (for now). It was good, silly fun that was
way more entertaining than it had any right to be, but it never was going to
amount to much as a one-note joke.