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Shelton Benjamin for WWE HOF

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 15:34:22 No.8366135 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>8366145 >>8366245 >>8366267 >>8366353 >>8366404 >>8367445

it's officially been 20 years since the debut of Shelton Benjamin. WWE posted a nice tribute video where HBK says he'll keep a seat warm for shelton in the HOF, whenever he's ready to hang up the boots.

I've always been a huge fan of the gold standard but he was never booked as strong as Lesnar, Cena, Batista or Orton. And ultimately he never made it into the main event scene. Regardless he still seems to have been a huge influence on the modern wrestlers.

Do you think shelton is HOF worthy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-YQKqxnkck

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 15:36:46 No.8366145 Report

Quoted By: >>8366155 >>8366163

>>8366135
Why not? They random jobbers like Koko B. Ware x-pac and trump in there, what’s another loser who never won shit?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 15:39:51 No.8366155 Report

Quoted By: >>8366168

>>8366145
Koko was a huge star in the territories. WWE made him a comedy jobber but still more famous thanShelton. Xpac got in as part of 2 groups as he was their mascot.
Shelton has done nothing

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 15:43:14 No.8366163 Report

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>>8366145
>what’s another loser who never won shit
Glad they're adding you to the hall of fame, anon

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 15:46:06 No.8366168 Report

Quoted By: >>8366191

>>8366155
he won every title available to him at the time (aside from the world title) and helped pioneer the MITB match. There's many ladder spots never seen before in WWE to that point. There's people who did less in the HOF.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 15:51:48 No.8366191 Report

Quoted By: >>8366208

>>8366168
The world titles the only one that matters you fucking Idiot nobody cares about any of that other bull shit that’s likes comparing the Super Bowl to winning some flag football tournament

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 15:54:48 No.8366208 Report

Quoted By: >>8366254

>>8366191
wrestling is a work, anon. no one actually wins the world title based on how well they compete. ADR, Jinder, Sheamus, Roman, Miz and many others won the world title too early or had shit title reigns. Roddy Piper never won the world title and he heems all those shitters.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 15:55:04 No.8366210 Report

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WWE's HoF already lost any credibility it could ever have so let them do whatever

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Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 16:01:41 No.8366245 Report

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>>8366135
Based. I love his facial expressions

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 16:03:48 No.8366254 Report

Quoted By: >>8366282

>>8366208
Roddy Piper fucking sucked, way out yourself as a revionist zoomer

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 16:06:14 No.8366267 Report

Quoted By: >>8366289 >>8366294 >>8366298 >>8366395

>>8366135
He should’ve won the belt at least once just due to his insane skill alone
>But
Fuck off.
Lesnar couldn’t and still can’t talk for shit, has a voice like he just broke through puberty and was given one of the greatest talkers in history to carry him. Shelton could’ve had a run with one of the world titles.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 16:08:41 No.8366282 Report

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>>8366254
Damn, this niggas is genuinely shitty at trolling

Should I post a picture of Jason to scare him away from the thread?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 16:09:52 No.8366289 Report

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>>8366267
He needs to come out with Brock as blackup. Just do some crazy shit interfering in a match when the ref isnt looking and make Brock look like gold.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 16:10:45 No.8366294 Report

Quoted By: >>8366311

>>8366267
unironically it's because he's black kek
there's no other good reason he was never given a chance.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 16:11:54 No.8366298 Report

Quoted By: >>8366309 >>8366324

>>8366267
>Lesnar
Is a generational attraction. And I think they should've continued with Shelton's push too, but comparing anyone to Brock is just retarded.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 16:13:46 No.8366308 Report

Quoted By: >>8366375

Shelton started phoning it in in 2007
dude did nothing people cared about since then

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 16:13:50 No.8366309 Report

Quoted By: >>8366326

>>8366298
comparing shelton and brock is completely fair considering they came up together. shelton trained lesnar before they both joined wwe and were a tag team during dark matches.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 16:14:15 No.8366311 Report

Quoted By: >>8366346

>>8366294
>unironically it's because he's black kek
Stop acting like Vince didn't try to push Ahmed Johnson, Ezekiel Jackson, Bobby Lashley, and didn't put the title on the Rock. It's much more likely that they just decided to run with other guys, which they had stars in Cena, Orton, and Batista.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 16:16:32 No.8366324 Report

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>>8366298
Brock is nothing without someone who was able to hold his hand and talk for him and was one of the lowest drawing champions in history by himself. What Brock was for power and strength, Shelton should’ve been for speed and agility.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 16:16:56 No.8366326 Report

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>>8366309
Just because they teamed up in OVW and went to college together doesn't mean it's a fair comparison, it just means he was the jannettey. Which isn't even a put down since Brock mogs everyone.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 16:20:45 No.8366346 Report

Quoted By: >>8366360

>>8366311
not everything is racism but in this case it might be just a little bit. none of the guys you named held the wwe world title until 2021. that logic is pretty fucking retarded anyway. slave owners did the same thing and were clearly acting on racism. so saying "oh this white billionaire tried using this black person to make more money" doesn't make it less racist.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 16:23:11 No.8366353 Report

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>>8366135
Everyone wanted to Shelton to move up the card because he seems very normal and likeable (I think) but truth be told Shelton is the definition of mid. He might actually be slightly overrated. He looked good with the IC belt though

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 16:24:41 No.8366360 Report

Quoted By: >>8366385

>>8366346
Who cares if Vince is shoot racist or not? The examples clearly indicate that being black doesn't preclude you from getting a push for the title in his eyes, which is what anon was getting at.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 16:30:28 No.8366375 Report

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>>8366308
This. I remember when he left the fed for new Japan and everyone on the internet was mega hyped about it. Fast forward to a some forgettable G1 matches and spending the rest of his independent career coasting through multi man tags. Dude was decent but was never it

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 16:32:22 No.8366385 Report

Quoted By: >>8366436

>>8366360
but it does. anon named 3 people from the last 2 decades. only 1 of those 3 would actually become world champion. being able to name 3 brothers when in that time you had niggas like hardcore holly facing brock for the world title is not a good example. it shows that black folks may get a push but it is a rarity when compared to other ethnicities. and the whole "there's not as many black wrestlers" argument is stupid. Every other wrestling company had black world champions. The Rock was the first and last until Kofi. that is fucking insane if you think about it properly. Wrestling is scripted. This is a choice being made, not someone lacking the ability to take that role.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 16:35:21 No.8366395 Report

Quoted By: >>8366445

>>8366267
2006 was the perfect time to get him a manager and start to push him. I feel the momma gimmick really hampered him.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 16:37:44 No.8366404 Report

Quoted By: >>8366666

>>8366135
Him and Carlito were two guys I thought for sure would be hovering around the main event scene.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 16:44:09 No.8366436 Report

Quoted By: >>8366487

>>8366385
The Hardcore Holly example is completely disingenuous. That was a brief angle to capitalize on some heat before he was squashed and Brock was able to move on.
And saying there's fewer isn't stupid. There is one world champion in the company, typically. So few wrestlers of any skin color get that push, and basing it around something like skin color is retarded. Just look at all the shitters Mid South tried to push after the success of JYD. You give the push to whoever you think is going to be the most over and draw the most long-term, which is clearly how Vince operates, even if he's wrong about his picks. Ahmed Johnson could've been champ if he wasn't an injury prone shitter with heat in the locker room. And Vince desperately wanted to push the other two in spite of the pushback because he saw star potential. All the fags online quick to complain of racism when talking about guys like Shelton and Booker T were also the community of retards who booed Bobby Lashely out of the building during his WWECW run.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 16:45:10 No.8366445 Report

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>>8366395
The momma gimmick was mega over, but you're right, it really lowers his ceiling. Eugene was over as fuck too, but some gimmicks lock you into a certain position on the card.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 16:56:51 No.8366487 Report

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>>8366436
>you can only cheer the blacks i tell you to cheer
you completely overlooked the fact that every other wrestling company has had multiple black world champions. if you want them to be a draw then book them like one. it's pretty easy. they've spent a decade doing it with roman (and failing) but he finally feels like a main event star despite being given the world title multiple times. why didn't they cancel his push like they did with ahmed? this roman nigga is literally prone to death (cancer). i would've been against bobby winning the title when he first returned to wwe because he was booked like shit. talking about his sisters abusing him and telling them he loves them.. the cuck angle with rusev. it was terrible. it would be hard to justify booking him to be champion. but then you see his run with mvp and the hurt business and everyone wanted him to become wwe champion.
it's absurd to imply it's all on the talent to even get close to that position.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 17:30:07 No.8366666 Report

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>>8366404
Carlito didn't seem that motivated, but his cool gimmick kind of fitted it, can't think of a great match of his though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 19:33:03 No.8367445 Report

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>>8366135
My two most favorite wrestlers back in the day was orton and shelton. only one of them became world champion.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Dec 2022 19:35:25 No.8367464 Report

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>Shelton in 2022
>when Ricochet and Kofi exists
lol lmao even

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