Mark Henry Is The Reason Shelton Benjamin Got The Bag

[Art Barr]

During a recent edition of Busted Open Radio, WWE Hall of Famer and former AEW broadcaster Mark Henry discussed Shelton Benjamin making his AEW in-ring debut last week on Dynamite, beating Lio Rush. Henry revealed that he told Tony Khan to sign Benjamin to AEW after he was released by WWE in September 2023. Below are some highlights (via WrestlingInc.com):

Mark Henry on telling Tony Khan to sign Shelton Benjamin: “The first day that Shelton got let go, I went to Tony and I said, ‘Tony, you got to pick him in. Bring him in. Let me work with him. Anything. He’s the guy.’ Nothing happened. I’m glad that they’ve seen the error of their ways and they got him on board. Shelton is special, you’ve got to use him like he’s special. It’s only going to be good for everybody in the long run.”

Real talk.


Scorpio sky and shelton as tag champs would be some next shyt tbh.
Shelton being in a feud with Okada.
for the international title would be really interesting too.

Young bucks being vulnerable.
to mvp creating a coup of aew.
is what i really hopefor.
to be really honest.


be vulnerable and learn from wwe's blue blood racist shyt down play of mvp and company as characters from impact. While trying to siphon away impact.

They can have mvp come swoop all that moxley shyt up. Then bring in lash to feud with moxley over the company. Mox and lash could easily be as good if not bettee than lash v roode on tna. Then build back up Kenny.
to beat them all and restore order. It is the only way.



Art Barr

 

[Rollie Forbes]

Real talk.


Scorpio sky and shelton as tag champs would be some next shyt tbh.
Shelton being in a feud with Okada.
for the international title would be really interesting too.

Art Barr

Big facts!

 

[Art Barr]

Mark Henry has found three goat level talents.


Bianca bel air = in house trained wwe goat

Samantha irvin = best ring announcer of any sport all time

Jad Cargill = aew women goat


There is no reason Mark Henry is not known.
as the talent scout of wrasslin moving forward.


Art Barr

 

[T'Challa Trillmonger]

considering shelton's irl pedigree (esp with a guy like brock), i always thought he should have been presented like a lesnar/angle despite his lack of mic skills

this might be his best presentation since his initial ic title run

 

[Art Barr]

considering shelton's irl pedigree (esp with a guy like brock), i always thought he should have been presented like a lesnar/angle despite his lack of mic skills

this might be his best presentation since his initial ic title run

Wwe is racist.

Is why Shelton is not regarded like Brock.
. Lashley is hampered by this as well too
Even down to moveset, workrate, and actual finish as well.

Lashley Inherits the dominator ..

Then comes back and has Chris masters garbage ass finish.
Watching lashley matches catching up on what I missed while vince was there. Has been painful to watch. Especially how they buried him against Brock.
So of course.... Shelton was never gonna be booked right. Neither was mvp. Mvp I loathed in wwe. That when mvp made the best swerve if all time. That it showed mvp was held back completely as a wwe talent. Shame he got hurt. As mvp comeuppance after wwe was the stuff of black excellence. To then resign and be made a mockery of and buried by racist ass vince and the son in law.


Art Barr