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Shelton Benjamin is a professional wrestler best known for his time in WWE. He sits down with Chris Van Vliet in Houston, TX to talk about his WWE release and what the future holds, whether or not he would consider a return, the possibility of signing with AEW or TNA, why he thinks he is the opposite of John Cena, responds to Max Caster’s comments about him on social media, being called underrated, his epic match on Raw with Shawn Michaels, why he thinks The Hurt Business never should have ended, how much longer he intends to wrestle and more!
00:00 Intro
00:38 What’s he been up to since he was released from WWE?
01:44 How has he been dealing with being at home since his release?
03:09 Was he surprised to be released from WWE?
05:45 Was there any talk of making him a producer?
06:35 Being a freak athlete at this stage of his career
07:57 Has he spoken to All Elite Wrestling?
09:53 Max Caster saying he doesn’t want Shelton in AEW
16:11 Does he want to be signed full-time somewhere?
16:57 Would he go back to WWE?
19:46 Why was The Hurt Business ended?
21:35 Why was the storyline with his momma ended early?
23:14 His decision to become ‘The Gold Standard’
24:12 How Steve Austin inspired him to dye his hair blonde
26:40 Memories of working with Dusty Rhodes
28:12 His love of working for New Japan Pro Wrestling
30:60 Who would he want to work with outside of WWE
34:12 Why he feels he was undervalued in WWE
35:47 What held him back in WWE?
38:03 Was it ever pitched for him to have a manager?
39:26 Regretting his promo with Yoshi Tatsu
40:57 Why his match with HBK was a fork in the road
43:18 Being excited for whatever is in the future for him
44:25 The famous HBK/Shelton springboard into a super kick
46:43 What is his favorite Money In The Bank spot
53:36 Thinking Billy Gunn is the best pro wrestling athlete of all time
56:54 How long does he think he can keep wrestling
57:55 What’s the deal with his gimmick where he wouldn’t speak
58:38 How he’s thinking about what comes next
59:50 Being shown a lot of love when he was released
01:00:20 3 things Shelton Benjamin is grateful for
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I would love to see Shelton in TNA
Bro is sooooooooo jacked
Shelton Benjamin would have done well in MMA if he had wanted to
If SB went to AEW, the number if incredible matches would rise.
He should team with KOR so he doesnt have to go back to Roddy and the KIngdom. They should have a match first of course.
uhhhh when they had billy gunn beat up motherfucking switchblade jay white!!!! that was a bad fucking billy gunn match. dude is like 80. he shouldnt be beating future GOATS in their prime.
Absolute legend
Shelton took the high road responding to Max Caster's "We dont want him."
Mansoor took a different route 😂😂😂
The only thing I didn’t like about the mama gimmick was that I immediately recognized Thea Vidale because I grew up watching her. So that kind of killed my suspicion of disbelief for that particular angle. Imagine if WWE started casting well-known Hollywood people for Kayfabe gimmicks. … that’s what it felt like to me.
Shelton and Charles hass reunion needs to happen.
Shelton could be a great trainer at the PC but still they released him smh
I saw Shelton and Jonathon Gresham work a handshake for 5 minutes on some Baki Hanma shit.
#BRINGBACKSHELTON
How did he survive that Sweet Chin Music on RAW
Max does a lot of his Twitter in character. I'll also blame it partially on young arrogance.
"I AM THE LEARNING TREE" sorry not sorry learning tree Jericho is great It show's how hard it is to truly hate him. People try cause he flirted with a woman but
He drove Samoa Joe through a wall on a forklift how are not entertained?. GWFL i laughed out loud when he drove through that wall it was so stupid so ridiculous in the right way. Take out shibata set up something for hook and Jericho at all in keep the Taz ban going and if he can do just 1 T bone at wimbley the place would explode.
Yes you are so right and Tony would be stupid if he didn’t sign him in AEW
Come back to WWE
Bullshit we've seen the splinters of wood when the ladder's break.
I also can't think of a billy Gunn match in general
I'm so glad I was able to watch the world's greatest tag Team in action before they disteamed
WWE….call!
Shelton vs HBK was a phenomenal match.
Team Angle was one of
The best teams during the early 00s. Smh
My favourite wrestlers of all time were Jericho and Shelton – different reasons obviously but recently with the news about Jericho. Shelton is now my standalone favourite.
My favourite ever mania moment will forever be him running up the ladder. He’s so underrated, underused and under appreciated.
Leon Slater Is Currently Signed to TNA. Bright Future Indeed!!!
Literally 1 of the funnest guys to use on smackdown vs raw . Loved running up the ladders and clotheslining people , that t bone suplex was fire , this guy really was great with the gold standard gimmick . He should go to TNA for a year , take over , then go to aew
Class act
I legit remember when he moved to smack down and fueded with taker, his crowd reactions compared to taker where subpar and I still think it’s because they didn’t give him a manager or something to sell him more
Go give Caster a tune up 😂
Shelton is one of the best wrestlers WWE has ever had. Everyone talks about Bryan Danielson and Kenny Omega. Shelton smokes them. He's trained with Brock Lesnar he's truly a gold standard. He shoulda been world champ based on wrestling alone
you really need to be praised for not just how you handle interviews but the style and the vibe, etc. etc. BUT also who you pick. This was a great interview just like the one year ago. sadly I don’t think many people would choose Shelton Benjamin for an interview, but I’m so glad that you never look at it. This was great
Go back to Japan win the world championship iwgp
I think he can have an enforcer role with a stable; kind of like Tanga Loa has with the Bloodline