After the announcement Roman Reigns would be leaving due to illness, Raw seemed to domino into some big changes, among them a babyface turn for Elias.

Like many Raw's before, Elias came out to the ring for his traditional performance. As usual, the Drifter — who walks the line between babyface and heel — had the WWE Universe in attendance eating up his guitar playing, and many agreed to 'Walk With Elias', even though he was insulting everyone. Over the past few months, WWE has tried to keep Elias heel but the WWE Universe was certainly waiting for the moment Elias became a fan favorite.

Monday might have been that moment.

Elias' picked up a big win over Apollo Crews but after the win, he came back out to perform again. This time, he was interrupted by hated heel personality Baron Corbin who explained there simply wasn't time on a jam-packed show to let Elias perform again. Elias didn't agree. The conversation seemed to end when Corbin threatened to fire Elias if not for the fact that Stephanie McMahon was a fan. "Remember, you work for me. If Stephanie didn't like you, I'd fire you," Corbin said.

In an effort not to seemingly ruffle feathers, Elias left the stage area.  Corbin proceeded to get on with the show, only, Elias didn't actually leave. As Corbin proceeded to be his annoying self, Elias returned from backstage and leveled Corbin with a guitar shot that might change the direction of his character in a major way.

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One has to assume a match between Corbin and Elias will be announced for the near future, if not added to Crown Jewel in two weeks. If it is, it will certainly signify Elias has gone full-blown babyface.

What might be the most interesting thing about this turn is the timing. It looks like Elias is being promoted as someone the crowd can get behind because the WWE was just thrown a curveball in light of the announcement Roman Reigns would have to step away to fight his battle with Leukemia. Without a seemingly obvious top babyface on the red brand, WWE turned both Elias and Braun Strowman in the same night.

Will this lead to Elias becoming one of the biggest stars in the company? It feels like the WWE Universe is behind this move and prepared to 'walk with Elias' to a WWE Championship.

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