Elias (wrestler)

Elias, born Jeffrey Sciullo in Pittsburgh, is the wrestler who turned a guitar into a finishing move on the imagination. Plenty of athletes can throw a clothesline, but few can hold a hostile crowd with a microphone and a chord progression. Across his WWE run as Elias and Ezekiel, and now in TNA as Elijah, he kept reinventing the same core idea: a performer first, an athlete second. At 6 ft 0 in he could lean on size, yet he chose persona over power. That's the choice I respect most. The ones who build a world the audience wants to live in tend to outlast the ones who only win matches.

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Name (English)

Elias (wrestler)

Name (Japanese)

イライジャ

Reading

いらいじゃ

Real name

ジェフリー・ダニエル・シューロ

Born

November 22, 1987 (age 38)

Origin

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Height

185 cm

Occupation

professional wrestler

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rabbit

High school

Plum High School

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias%20(wrestler)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%20(%E3%83%97%E3%83%AD%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18226867

Tags

• Pennsylvania
• professional wrestler

Last updated

September 28, 2026

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