When a villain/heel can do no wrong - especially 2:30
His reaction at 1:04 is also priceless, like he wasn't expecting that.
Speaking of Elias, I think he and Roode are going to be allies soon. Either that, or they'll tease it, make him a mega-heel with a vicious streak, and then turn him into a mega-babyface about 4-6 months later. He kind of has a 90s Rock/Jericho thing going where their heel personas got so loved by the crowd that they turned babyface. Jericho had a babyface turn in his feud with Chyna as they got involved with Bob Holly and Val in early 2000. The Rock began to get heavy cheers in summer 1998 (especially outside of the US where he got some thunderous chants) but rather than turning him babyface, they turned him monster-evil heel and he began beating up on people (mainly Foley) to make him look vicious and dangerous; and when he turned on the corporation later in 99, and became a babyface whose popularity was up in the stratosphere, reaching beyond just WWE fans.
Sorry for the shitty quality dailymotion video, but this match isn't anywhere on youtube - this is a match from Ontario Canada September 27 1998 when the Rock was the most hated person in WWE ("Roman Reigns heat" + regular heel heat): http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xl6dz - note what happens around the 4:20 mark.
What path will Elias walk?
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