Drax Shadow: WWE's Youngest and Toughest Superstar
Triple H and Stephanie McMahon are two of wrestling's most hated villains. As figures of authority, they have mastered the art of drawing heat. Needless to say, they are unquestionably two of the best heels of the modern era.
Simply put, they're good at what they do. Very good.
With that fact in mind, there's also another side to Steph and Trips, a side that most of the world will never get to experience first hand. That's where this story comes in.
In this article, we will talk about the two most hated authority figures in wrestling today. However, we won't be discussing the sibling rivalry involving Raw vs. Smackdown, we won't bring up the way Stephanie attempts to undermine any and everyone in her path and we will not be discussing some sort of shovel Triple H keeps in his locker room to bury deserving talent.
In fact, the tone of this column may surprise you all together. Today, we take a look at something amazing that happened, thanks to the generosity of WWE's power couple.
Elijah Mainville is a young man from North/Central California, where he lives with his mom, dad, brother and a miniature petting zoo of really cool pets. Just like any other kid his age. He loves video games, marvel superheroes and of course, he's obsessed with WWE.
In fact, the whole family is crazy about wrestling.
They're like any other normal family, except one primary detail, Elijah has a form of pediatric cancer known as Neuroblastoma. For those who are not familiar with this disease, basically, neuroblastoma has a mutated gene, which eventually becomes resistant to pretty much any type of treatment.
There's even a possibility that the cancer can even become immune to aggressive forms of treatment, such as chemotherapy and radiation.
When Elijah was first diagnosed in 2013, doctors gave him a grim prognosis. Most who evaluated him were simply too pessimistic to even give him a chance at all. Little did they know, they were in fact dealing with a superhero.
Over the past few years, Elijah has defeated the disease several times. Unfortunately, he has also endured multiple relapses as well and today, the 9 year old is fighting the battle of his life as doctors are struggling to find answers to many questions surrounding his case.
Before we go any further into Elijah's latest battle, let's go back to the middle of last year. WWE had started searching for contestants to be on the latest season of Tough Enough and in order to find those who were in fact tough enough, they asked prospective contestants to submit a short video on YouTube, explaining why they deserved to be on the show.
Little did they know, someone far stronger and tougher than anyone they had ever met, was about to submit his own audition video.
While scouring through the thousands of audition videos submitted, Triple H came across a video from a then 8 year old Elijah Mainville and in that short video, they found out that this kid was in need of something that only they could offer.
What Elijah and his family didn't know, was that Hunter and Steph were preparing to do something very special and borderline magical for Elijah.