5 things that could happen on RAW next week

#4 No follow-up on Elias’ big match

Elias Drops An Elbow On Roman Reigns

Roman Reigns made his first Intercontinental Title defence this week, accepting the challenge of Elias. The guitar-playing singer full of ruthless aggression has shown nothing but promise since his RAW debut earlier this year.

He’s had some good matches, is consistently entertaining, and the crowd absolutely loves to boo him. His match with Reigns on Monday was pretty good, as it started off extremely slow and boring but picked up in the final 5-6 minutes and ended well.

Nothing special, but it was a match that should be a very important moment in Elias’ young career. It was by far his biggest match to date, and he took a former multi-time World Champion to his very limit. You would expect, after such a great showing, WWE would follow up on it next week and capitalise on the momentum that he has, even in the loss.

That’s doubtful. If history tells us anything, the chance of anything truly meaningful happening for Elias between now and the Royal Rumble is slim. He will probably end up retaining the services of the Miztourage while the “A-Lister” is out making his latest movie, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see Miz and Elias either team up or feud with each other upon the Awesome One’s return.

In the meantime, nada. Next week I anticipate that Elias will probably be involved in a meaningless singles match that sees him sing a song, like always, and pick up a victory over Goldust or Heath Slater in a segment that everybody will forget by the end of the show.