WWE Raw Power Rankings: Dean Ambrose Evens the Odds for Seth Rollins
By Bryan Heaton
18. Elias (last week: 17)
17. Bobby Lashley (last week: 18)
Let’s get it right out in the open: The best part of this segment was the incredibly heavy-handed Rock & Roll Express reference with John “Ricky Roberts” Skyler.
Other than that, this was an unmitigated train wreck, because it did. Not. Make. Any. Sense.
So Elias has a fan? OF COURSE HE DOES, he’s great! Then Elias forgoes his performance, choosing to spend his mic time shilling Walk With Elias bracelets on WWE Shop, and imploring Roberts to humiliate Bobby Lashley. Sure, that’s a possibility.
Lashley comes out and mumbles his way through some kind of promo before getting a guitar broken over his back by Roberts. I still haven’t figured out how anything that happened in this segment makes Lashley more of a fan favorite. I mean, he no-sold that guitar shot like a boss, and the spinebuster was one of the best I’ve seen in a long time.
But none of that screams “cheer for this guy right now” like you’d think the plan was. Nothing is set for SummerSlam between Elias and Lashley — in fact, Elias has promised to debut his “greatest song to date” at Barclays in Brooklyn. That doesn’t leave a lot of room for Lashley to get involved.
Unless he’s going to crash the performance, break some instruments, and not do anything entertaining afterwards.