>Former WWE Intercontinental and Tag Team champion Shelton Benjamin has signed a deal to officially return to WWE, PWInsider.com has learned.
>WWE planned to sign Benjamin last summer as part of their brand split and even ran videos promoting his return to the company, only to learn the 42-year old had a torn rotator cuff during the standard pre-signing medical testing. Benjamin underwent surgery to repair the injury while WWE quietly stopped running the videos.
>Benjamin was signed to a developmental deal in 2000 and was brought to the main roster as one half of World's Greatest Tag Team with Charlie Haas. He was brought to the Raw brand as a singles star in 2004 and even scored several wins over Triple H. Benjamin would go on to work on both the Smackdown and ECW brands before being released in 2010.
>Possessing great timing and finesse as an in-ring performer, Benjamin had very good to great matches but never came off comfortable when WWE would try to build a gimmick around him, including an ill-fated gimmick when comedian Thea Vidale was hired to portray "Mama Benjamin", an idea that was dropped after just three months.
>Following his WWE release, Benjamin reprised his tag team with Haas in Ring of Honor and worked for New Japan, among other promotions.
>There is no word when Benjamin will return to TV or what brand he will be assigned to as of this writing, but one WWE source stated it would be "soon."
>>3020321
It was always the dream to see Shelton on Smack to manage American Alpha
Now they split them up, Shelton is probably going to Raw to train Jason or be revealed as his real dad once the BLACK SON angle goes up in flames
>>3020321
So he'll be teaming with Chad Gable within the month.
What if they work an story where him and Angle fight over whos rightfully Jordans son
>He returns to mentor Gable
>>3020321
He will be revealed to be Chad gable's dad.
>>3020420
In the end it will turn out it was neither of them,and the true father will be revealed as an 80s midcarder in an effort to garner "fuck yeah I remember xxxxxx" points.
Hes going to be the surprise return at Royal Rumble
He's running in to help Jordan and the Hardys beat The Miztourage.
Hes gonna be a jobber
It's such a shame that this dude can't cut a promo. He probably had the coolest voice of his era in the WWE and would be right up there again with this current roster.
Kurt Angle's other wife's son
Keep him off of Smackdown and keep him away from Based Gable.
Let RAM have him, their roster is already full of has been jobbers!
>>3020321
He's gonna interfere to help Brock keep the title
Vince will finally be able to call a black guy Shelton and be right
>>3020321
Oh for fucks sake
AIN'T NO STOPPIN' ME NOWWWWWWWWWWWW
>>3020321
>Hey Chad, it's me, your friend Jason Jordan. Let's go out there and win our match.
>W-what? You're not Jason, you're Shelton Benjamin, I never even met y-
>*Daniel Bryan passes by them* Good luck out there tonight, Gable and Jordan!
>Huh?
>You're acting weird, man. C'mon, our match is next, let's hit that Grand Amplitude!
And so it goes for the following weeks while Chad Gable continues to question his sanity, until he eventually accepts Sheldon was always his tag partner and his name was always Jason Jordan.
>>3020321
might be a decent guy to put on NXT as the next "veteran the young bucks need to overcome to move up in the world".
>>3021354
Certainly a better choice than the last guy they put in that spot.
>>3021337
this would be lollingtons
>>3021373
>BOTH of these guys would go on to become WWE champions
what a time to be alive.