Elias takes time off to grow back his beard for WWE return
After Vince McMahon’s retirement Triple H returned to the head of creative department. With this backstage change several wrestlers returned to previous successful gimmicks the McMahon regime had abandoned.
One character that will be making a return is The Drifter Elias. Its been reported that Triple H disliked and changed the Ezekiel character almost immediately after coming into power. Giving Elias time off to grow his beard back and his hair longer.
“Elias returns on Raw on 10/17. He needed time off to grow back his beard and hair from the Ezekiel character. Triple H pretty much dropped Ezekiel as soon as he got power.”
WWE Ends Its Walk With Elias
The drifter Elias is set to make his return to WWE Monday Night Raw October 17th. We last saw Elias wrestle on the July 19, 2021 episode of red brand, losing to Jaxson Ryker in a ‘Symphony of Destruction match’.
Shortly after the loss WWE aired a vignette where Elias burned his guitar and walked off camera. This looked to be the end of the WWE’s ‘Walk with Elias’.
WWE Universe Speaks With Zeek
After more than half a year away from the ring Elias returned to Monday Night Raw after Wrestlemania. Debuting a new look consisting of a clean shaven face, shorter hair, and gold/ white trunks and claiming to be Ezekiel the younger brother of Elias.
After weeks of low key matches Ezekiel found himself in a feud with Kevin Owens. Owens was refusing to believe Ezekiel was Elias’s brother, and was in fact actually Elias himself.
They would feud for months with Kevin Owens never believing the two were brothers, constantly trying to convince anyone that would listen that Ezekiel was actually Elias.
On the June 20 episode of Monday Night Raw Elias made his return to the WWE. He was in an edited backstage segment of the two brothers having a conversation. Later that night Elias returned to the ring and performed a concert for the WWE universe before being interrupted by Kevin Owens.
Even after the backstage segment and the concert, Owens still refused to believe the two brothers were different people. His frustration reaching its peak he challenged Ezekiel, Elias or their ‘even younger brother Elrod’ to a match.
Ezekiel was stretchered out to an ambulance after Kevin Owens attacked him giving him an Apron Powerbomb. With a media photo WWE would give us one last look at Ezekiel in the hospital with his family at his bedside.
It now time for the WWE Universe to ‘Walk With Elias‘ again as we say goodbye to Ezekiel for now. What doe the future hold for the drifter upon his return? Will we ever see Ezekiel again? Could Elrod be joining his brothers some day down the road? Keep an eye on www.wrestlingrepublic.com to see where our walk with Elias takes us.
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