The professional wrestler who used to work as Elias in WWE has changed his name to Elijah in the ring, but now promotes the gospel and Christianity on his personal channel.
wrestler real name Jeffrey CiulloHe worked for WWE through the developmental promotion from 2014 and became a full-time member of the main roster from 2017 to 2023.
As Elias, Ciullo carried an acoustic guitar and performed ballads that always had a vaguely religious, life-and-death vibe. This became even more evident when Ciullo released his second studio album in 2020 called Universal Truth, in which he performed songs with titles like “.AmenOn a WWE broadcast.
Interestingly, just two weeks before Sciullo was released by WWE as part of roster reductions in September 2023, he announced his baptism.
“I was just baptized in the same place where John the Baptist baptized Jesus,” he wrote. Instagram.
After his release, the wrestler was reportedly given a 90-day no-competition clause (according to the article) border to comics), which likely restricted where he could perform and what he could post, given that his online handle featured WWE’s name.
Since then, the wrestler has started to use his many fans to promote the Bible and Christianity.
“The good news of the gospel is Jesus. We need to broadcast what happened on the cross in a big way,” Ciullo told an audience of about 180,000 people. tick tock followers. “We need to look at everything through the lens of the work completed on the cross, you know, that event that divided human history in two. We know that the word becomes flesh,” he added.
Some of the wrestling singer’s posts about his faith are among the most viewed, including a video of Sciullo displaying a message on a screen at the gym, which has been viewed nearly 630,000 times.
The caption reads, “When you realize that Jesus didn’t come to make bad people good, but to make dead people alive.”
Since leaving WWE, the wrestler has apparently changed his name to the biblical Elijah and restarted his professional career. promotion video It was that the priest would bury his old persona and introduce him anew.
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