Showing posts with label shelton benjamin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shelton benjamin. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

ROH: BADASS HYPE VIDEO FOR GLORY BY HONOR IX + TAG TEAM CHAIN MATCH ANNOUNCED

One more piece to the Glory By Honor IX puzzle has been placed: Kevin Steen & Steve Corino VS. El Generico and Colt Cabana in a brutally violent Tag Team Chain match. This raises the question - can you measure tag matches on the Muta scale?

This match just amps up what is already shaping up to be a memorable night - Wrestling's Greatest Tag Team in Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas are already challenging the ROH World Tag Team Champions, the Kings of Wrestling (Claudio Castagnoli & Chris Hero); Tyler Black's future as ROH World Champion is in peril with his apparent, newly-signed WWE Developmental Deal; Bryan Danielson will be in town for EVOLVE, but will he be at the Manhattan Center?; and Davey Richards and Christopher Daniels need to determine who truly is the best wrestler in the world at some point, right?

All of that, and I haven't even touched on Austin Aries, Roderick Strong, ROH World Television Champion Eddie Edwards, and the fact that Terry Funk will be appearing. HOLY FUNK.

Enough of me and my fanboner. Watch this short but sweet GBH9 hype video - there's quite a bit of footage of the Ultimate Dragon Bryan Danielson in there... makes you think, dunnit?


GLORY BY HONOR IX NEED TO KNOW INFO

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

WHOA: KINGS OF WRESTLING V. HAAS/BENJAMIN SET FOR GLORY BY HONOR IX ON iPPV!

I took so long to post this because I've been too busy MARKING THE F OUT.


I've been praying for this announcement since April. Amazing.

This match, plus a potential Bryan Danielson appearance (people are speculating that Roderick Strong will face Tyler Black, but I think Danielson is a dark horse for that spot), plus the possibility of both the Davey Richards/Christopher Daniels "who's the best in the world?" match, and the final encounter between Kevin Steen and El Generico... we could have a MASSIVE card on our hands come September 11th.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

WHOA: MASSIVE WWE RELEASES

From WWE.com:

WWE has come to terms on the release of WWE Divas Mickie James and Katie Lea Burchill as well as Superstars Shelton Benjamin, Kung Fu Naki, Slam Master J and Jimmy Wang Yang as of today, April 22, 2010. We wish them the best in all future endeavors.

Okay, not all shockers. But Mickie James?! Holy shitting pisswit. That came out of nowhere.

With Shelton gone perhaps my dreams will in fact come true...

And Jimmy Wang Yang has already thrown up some hints on his Twitter:

"3 strike and your out i hear florida is a nice place to visit"

Thursday, April 8, 2010

WHY THIS SHOULD HAPPEN: TEAM ANGLE TO ROH

SHELTON BENJAMIN AND CHARLIE HAAS
IN RING OF HONOR
Photo - WWE.com

I was listening to
Between The Ropes earlier today (the post-WrestleMania podcast) and Fritz briefly mentioned how Charlie Haas was publicly suggesting Shelton Benjamin to leave WWE when his contract is up. I was like "that's awesome," and thought nothing more of it.

Then I read Fritz's FanHouse interview with Haas and realized just how smack-yourself-in-the-face awesome this could be. Here's what I'm talking about:

Well Charlie, enjoy your freedom right now while it lasts.
I will. Believe me, I will. Everyone calls me and is like 'Charlie, are you OK?'. I've never been happier, trust me. And I've got one thing to say: Shelton, your (WWE) contract is coming up - don't sign! Please don't sign. You can go elsewhere. I'm telling you, there's life outside (WWE). We can go to TNA together. We can go to Ring of Honor together. Don't sign back. I'm going to get him more money that way.

Imagine.

Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas.

Team Angle.

The World's Greatest Tag Team.

In Ring of Honor.

I would mark out so hard that I would probably DDT my laptop.

It's such a long shot, but Charlie Haas openly admits to being very interested in Ring of Honor's wrestling style, right after explaining how he does not fit in with WWE's "Hollywood" direction that is more interested in entertainers than wrestlers.

Ring of Honor, with the Young Bucks leaving, the Wolves wrestling mostly singles, and Steenerico breaking up, has a definite hole in a once UNSTOPPABLE tag team division. Haas and Benjamin would tear shit up, and I think they would get a more than warm welcome from the ROH fans.

These are two guys who have been stuck doing a whole lot of nothing (Haas more notably) lately. If it's true that Shelton's contract is indeed coming up... this could definitely be a possibility.

If not, I would still settle for Charlie Haas in ROH. He is an absolute beast.

Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas, The World's Greatest Tag Team, in Ring of Honor. This should happen.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

2010: SHELTON BENJAMIN DOES INSANE SHIT AT WM26, IS FORGOTTEN ABOUT NEXT DAY


Should be most over midcard face on the roster (smarkiest sentence of the week).

He should just come to RAW and tear it up with Evan Bourne every week until people get it ingrained in their brains that he (uh, and equally Evan Bourne)'s amazing.


In fact this should be as much about Evan Bourne as it is Shelton. I just feel like Shelton is overlooked more, being on ECW and junk. And he seems to something crazy every year at WM that people pop so hard for, but when he comes out the week after, everyone's just like "meh."

MOVING ON!

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

FANTASY BOOKING: TEAM SWAGGER

I'm finally moved into my place and ready to haphazardly fantasy book an angle I randomly thought of yesterday.

SYNOPSIS
Jack Swagger reforms Team Angle with Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin, but under the name Team Swagger, and finally completes a worthy undefeated run on a major brand.

"THE ALL-AMERICAN AMERICAN"
JACK SWAGGER

THE WORLD'S GREATEST TAG TEAM
SHELTON BENJAMIN AND CHARLIE HAAS

PART ONE
Jack Swagger's demeanour during his last attempt at an undefeated run would return. He would confidently declare that he would not lose a match in 2010, and would then officially be the "UNDEFEATED All-American American."

A face would interrupt him, asking why anyone should take him seriously. He went on a one-match undefeated streak last time he told the world he would be undefeated for the rest of the year, how the hell does he expect to go undefeated for an entire year? Swagger exits sheepishly.

PART TWO
Swagger, laying low for a couple weeks, would make an unannounced return by sitting front row at ECW for a Shelton Benjamin match. Then, later in the week, he would do the same for a Charlie Haas match. A backstage segment would follow with Josh Matthews trying to catch up with Swagger before he leaves. When asked what he was doing in the crowd, Swagger continues walking. When asked how he thinks he'll manage a 365 day undefeated streak after he failed in his last attempt, Swagger stops and says, "I'll have help."

PART THREE
Swagger would remind everyone before his first match that they're about to witness the beginning of his 2010 undefeated streak.

Swagger would control the majority of the match, until he gets rolled up for a near fall. While arguing with the official, two men dressed in those classic red, white and blue hoodie/jumpsuits (or even black and purple to match Swagger), would take out Jack's opponent, letting him pick up the win.

After the match, Swagger would introduce Shelton and Charlie as "The All-American American..." Team Swagger.

PART FOUR
Swagger would continue to win for weeks, maybe longer, until he crosses paths with the original face who opposed him and his idea to go undefeated for 2010. Swagger would then feud with whoever filled this face role for a few PPVs, having the classic lone babyface vs. heel team, strength in numbers type program, that culminates is Swagger defeating his foe cleanly.

PART FIVE
Swagger would claim questions of his ability to go undefeated for a year are now gone, as he defeated the only person to ever oppose him. With 2010 finally beginning to wind down, he has run out of competitors and will now turn his sights to the WWE Champion. He would say he's beaten everyone there is to beat, so he only has one man left to beat... and that's just who interrupts him --

WARNING: ABOUT TO JUMP THE SHARK

Instead of the WWE Champion coming out - it's KURT ANGLE (okay, so it's a stretch, but it'd be perfect)! Angle says Swagger's right - he's gone one more man to beat. But it's not the WWE Champion - it's Kurt Freakin' Angle! Angle says he needed to return to put an end to Swagger's streak, which he's only had thanks to two men he knows all too well.


Angle would bring up how Team Angle was actually a gift to him, not Swagger. So the Olympic Hero is going to beat The All-American American for stealing HIS team, for stealing HIS fireworks, and for misrepresenting HIS country.

THE FINISH
Swagger and Angle would have a similar feud to Swagger's last one, but with Angle looking much stronger. The feud would culminate in a one on one match between the two near the end of the year, where Swagger would go over, setting him up perfectly to face the WWE Champion.

And then WWE would have to finally release a Kurt Angle DVD so I could wet myself whilst watching it, because it would be the greatest DVD they've ever not released because this is a made up storyline and now I'm no longer excited.

- mitts