With a professional profession spanning practically 25 years, Shelton Benjamin is one in every of AEW’s most skilled wrestlers, alongside the likes of Adam “Edge” Copeland, Christian Cage, and Chris Jericho. Throughout a latest look on “AEW Unrestricted,” Benjamin mirrored on his notable Intercontinental Championship victory over Jericho, again when he was a rising star in WWE. As revealed by Benjamin, the match, which befell on the 2004 WWE Taboo Tuesday pay-per-view, can also be his favourite in-ring efficiency of all-time.
“Primary, I 100% was not anticipating to be in that match,” Benjamin stated. “I do know that main as much as it, they gave me a bit of push and rub and I truly had a bit of factor I did with Mr. McMahon simply to assist deliver within the votes. However once we bought to the constructing, and I’ve stated this again and again, I anticipated Batista to be working Jericho that night time. So I actually did not put a lot thought into it.”
Based on Benjamin, apart from being pleasantly shocked by followers later voting him into the Intercontinental Championship match, he additionally appreciated the management that Jericho exhibited in it, particularly when no pre-match preparations may very well be made. Moreover, Benjamin felt he had exceeded his objectives by successful the Intercontinental Championship.
“Due to what I might watched in wrestling earlier than, I hadn’t seen loads of Black Intercontinental champions. I might seen Black tag crew champions. So in my head, that is all I used to be serious about. By that point, I might already received the tag crew championship twice. So for me, after I received the IC title, I am formally overachieving my unique objectives in stepping into the enterprise, however it was additionally a fruits of all the blokes who had taught me methods to simply go within the ring and hear.”
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