Why Shelton drives me nuts, Raw
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As some of you know Benjamin is a three time IC champion, he has also held the tag team belts with Charlie Hass, and he was a former OVW tag champ. Benjamin has a amateur wrestling backround, his biggest accomplishment was when he won South Carolina wrestling tourney when he was in high school.
A day after Chirstmas in 2002 Benjamin debuted on Smackdown as a part of Team Angle. I was already marking out for Benjamin since he was in Angle's stable, and as some know Angle is my favorite wrestler of all time.
The first match I saw of Benjamin was on a Smackdown show and he was featured in the semi main event of the night. The match was a number one contenders match for the tag belts between Hass and Benjamin vs Edge and Benoit. Thats one hell of a match you have four great wrestlers in one match. Shelton and Hass showed me alot in the match but they weren't as good as Edge and Benoit but they were still very entertaining, I remember I marked out like no other when the first did the Worlds Greatest Splash double team move. I forget the finish, but I know and Hass and Benjamin stole the win.
Now this is where I really started to love Hass and Benjamin as a team, because their tag team title match against the Guerreros was going to be in my hometown in Philly and I get to see it live. I can't remember being so pumped for a show, the semi main was Hass and Benjamin vs Los Guerreos and main was Benoit vs Angle. That was back in the day when Paul Heyman was writing SD!
So during the match as being a huge Angle mark, I was marking for team angle the whole night and Benjamin and Hass stole the belts in a cheating way but I marked out like no other when I was there live. I mean the cocky attitude by Hass and Benjamin was pure gold and the wrestling ability of these two just made you wish they were in the WWE earlier. And the way the reacted after they won the belts just made them seem like unstopable bad asses.
After having the belt for two months, I though they were going to lose the belts at Mania 19 since there was talk about breaking up Team Angle since Angle had the neck injury. I thought they were going to lose the belts to Eddie and Chavo, but they won the match and Shelton and Hass have become the best tag champs in my opinion since Edge and Christian. The wrestling ability by both were amazing and having Angle as their mentor helped them like no other.
Later on Hass and Benjamin broke up with Angle and they lost a bit of edge they weren't as good as heels. They were a dieing tag team and they needed a spark fast, so at the second draft, Benjamin was drafted to Raw, I was a little sad Hass and Benjamin broke up but it gave me a chance to see Benjamin on his own.
In Benjamins first match on raw Shelton beat HHH and I marked out like no other because I can't stand HHH even though he is a good wrestler. This was a smart move by wwe it gave Shelton a great push and it gave a chance for HHH to stay high on the card because a couple of weeks later HHH beat the crap out of Shelton and it made HHH look like a monster.
Benjamin was a little bland for a little while putting on decent matches but nothing special, later Benjamin got injured on a heat show against Lance Cade so I was a little bummed that he got hurt.
In his return match Benjamin had a very excellent match against Chris Jericho (who was one my favorites of a all time also) and won his first singles title, with the IC title. During his IC title regin he was the longest IC champ of the decade. It was a very sad day when he lost to Carlito, because Shelton is a much better wrestler than Carlito even though Carlito has a bit more charisma, I was pissed after all the great matches Shelton has performed he lost it to someone like Carlito, I would have preffered a much better wrestler but what can you do.
But there were two matches that made me love Shelton Benjamin. The first match was MITB one at Wrestlemania 21 vs Benoit vs Edge vs Y2J vs vs Christian vs Kane. The second match that was better was his singles match against HBK Shawn Michaels in the gold rush tournament.
The MITB one you had Edge Benoit Y2J and Christian and you went walking away talking about Shelton. Shelton Benjamin stole the match with his amazing athleticism. Now he didn't steal a match against losers he stole a match from five of the best wrestlers of all time. He stole the match from the second best technical wrestler of all time in Benoit, He stole the match from Ladder Experts Edge and Christian, and he stole the match from fan loved and very talented and tons of charisma Chris Jericho. Now thats pretty impressive
Gold Rush Tourney Shelton vs HBK. In my opinion this was the best match raw has ever had on their show. I mean HBK made Shelton look like a god in the match, Shelton made HBK look like a god to. The match was exciting like no other, Shelton kicking out of HBKs super kick HBK kicking out of Sheltons super kick. The first time we saw someone come of the top and get superkicked and it looked like Shelton was knocked out literally. The last ten minutes of the match was the most exciting finish I have seen in WWE in the last five years.
After those two matches, Shelton began to job after losing his IC belt and didn't go on a winning streak until he got his mamma on his side. Now this was a good and bad thing for Shelton fans.
With Sheltons Mama at his side Shelton got a winning push, but it made Shelton look like a fool even though he did get the IC belt back.
After that Shelton's best match was against RVD at a ppv that I can't remember the match was good but you expected more from it.
Ever since Shelton lost his mama as a manager he has been basically a full time jobber. Now its his fault hes a jobber and it drives me nuts. Shelton doesn't try at house shows and thats why they don't push him because they feel like he doesn't deserve that and I agree with the bookers on that notion. But carlito has been offended of not trying at house shows but they still push Carlito a bit by having him main event Raw some times. I just want Shelton to try at house shows so bad, just so he can get a push. I mean when Shelton actually tries the matches he has are amazing and it kills me when he jobs to wrestlers who are not as good as him.
Feel free to discuss.
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