#4 The debut of Elias Samson, sort of
Despite the singles match between Charlotte and Nia Jax happening in the foreground, the real action here is in the stands.
NXT’s Elias Samson carried his guitar casually through the audience while the match was going on, an appearance that wasn’t addressed by the commentary team and wasn’t even noticed by the crowd until he was completely out of the view of the hard camera.
At first, this was quite a perplexing moment. Was this a brilliant cosplayer who strangely wanted to dress like The Drifter and not his way more over alter-ego, El Vagabundo? Or was it actually Samson, completely distracting from the action in the ring with no payoff whatsoever in the immediate moment?
The answers to those questions came later when Elias drifted out onto the entrance ramp prior to the 8-man tag match. Even so, he didn’t really do anything other than walking around for a moment. Did The Drifter truly debut on Raw or was he just lost and confused?
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