Elias almost came back as Randy Savage 3.0 aka White Machismo

[RammerJammer]

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

Colorful tights?

Elias A.M.M

Spoiler

Almost a Macho Man

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Wow

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

but i'm willing to bet he's coming with ideas and they're turning those ideas down

 

[Hey_zeus]

Metro Man Elias Sampson

 

[PharaohAtem]

I wonder if stephanie liked the look

 

[Cartier Murphy]

Killed off the music gimmick with no future follow up or plans. I expect him to be next up for releases

 

[Novembruh]

Metro Man Elias Sampson

And yet, him with that gimmick still more likely to make a WM card than Ciampa
Just sell the goddamned company already, Vince; damn.

 

[jwinfield]

Killed off the music gimmick with no future follow up or plans. I expect him to be next up for releases

Kill the gimmick that was over but they didn't do anything with, with no plans, Vince is just going to be on some shyt with him until he sees some goofy shyt on tv that he wants him to replicate or release him.

 

[Cartier Murphy]

Kill the gimmick that was over but they didn't do anything with, with no plans, Vince is just going to be on some shyt with him until he sees some goofy shyt on tv that he wants him to replicate or release him.

They’ll act like the gimmick was a problem even though he made it work and it got extremely over. The problem was that he never won anything of note or had any feuds that mattered.

If I’m him I’m running to trademark the Artist Formerly Known as Elias for his future indy run before his contract comes across Nick Khan’s desk

 

[Jello Biafra]

I don't get how they can have a staff of writers the size of their writer's room but not have a pivot for Elias after all of those video vignettes.

 

[jwinfield]

I don't get how they can have a staff of writers the size of their writer's room but not have a pivot for Elias after all of those video vignettes.

They let it play out

 

[The Rainmaker]

I don't get how they can have a staff of writers the size of their writer's room but not have a pivot for Elias after all of those video vignettes.

They probably have tons of ideas, but nothing that the Cryptkeeper wants to use.

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

Had great heat

 

[Novembruh]

Such an obvious pivot, too.

"For years, I asked who wanted to walk with Elias. But walking don't get shyt done.
I think it's about time we lit a fire - walking is out... it's time to run."
Give him a month of RAWs squashing the 24/7 division now without anything to do... have them actively running from him backstage like they used to run after Reggie... and you're literally done.


No gimmick outside of him being a stoic, no-frills asskicker and let the rest of the character shape itself on the road and through his feuds. Whole rehab takes one in-ring promo followed by a sub-2 minute squash where they have dude knee Akira Tozawa clean out his ninja gimmick, and maybe a commercial-break-length match on each RAW. Takes less time than any of those vignettes they wasted, and no film/editing crew required at all so it's damn sure cheaper.

The company is obtuse. They act like it's rocket science when it's literally just muscular performance theatre.
At best, it's a-rhythmic battle rap.


They think it's more complicated than it is, so they've complicated it to make themselves seem right, when... as we continue to see, the people who succeed in this era are doing variations of the same shyt that worked in previous ones, and the people with the gimmicks run through focus groups and shyt all end up crashing and burning.