Elias recently gave his thoughts on various topics during a recent interview with Cultaholic at the WWE Performance Center last week in Orlando, Florida to promote the WWE 2K19 video game that is slated to be released worldwide on October 9, 2018 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

During this interview, he talked about his journey in WWE and how being back at the Performance Center was interesting. He also reflected on top WWE officials deciding to call him up from NXT, which is considered WWE’s developmental system, to the main roster as a member of the roster for the flagship show of the company, Monday Night RAW.

He admitted that he got called up quickly and that it appeared like it was the right time for him as the reasoning behind it was because he thinks that’s obvious now if you watch RAW now as he stated, “The way people react and the way the world reacts to Elias.”

He thinks that it was a situation where people thought ‘we have him here in NXT, NXT is awesome, but let’s have him on a global stage and let the world see what Elias has’. Thus, he believes that it was an easy call for WWE officials to put him on the main roster.


Elias is slated to compete at the upcoming WWE Super Show-Down pay-per-view event that takes place on Saturday, October 6, 2018 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in Melbourne, Australia that will air on the WWE Network. He’ll team up with Kevin Owens to take on the team of Bobby Lashley and John Cena in a tag team match.