Gilbertti says the one thing that WWE has become very good at over the year 5 years is building talents to a certain point and then burying them. A recent example of this is Elias, who’s very talented and has a natural ability to entertain. Elias actually had an online segment last Monday, and Gilbertti couldn’t believe that out of 3 hours of programming WWE couldn’t find space to get him on the show.
Gilbertti thinks that Elias has a stronger gimmick than most other talents on WWE’s roster, and that’s why he should be pushed. Russo agrees entirely, saying that Elias can carry television time and simply “gets it”. Triple H said in an interview recently that Elias wasn’t a fit for NXT, and his run there was primarily to get him ready for the main roster. Russo says that was basically Triple H’s way of saying, “Elias is better than NXT”.
Lane mentions that in a recent podcast appearance Paige contemplated suicide after her sex tape was leaked to the public last year. Russo doesn’t doubt that for a second and points out that those videos were very bad for Paige and WWE. He has no idea how Xavier Woods escaped suspension when those videos leaked because when you work for a publicly traded company like WWE you need to be smarter than that.
