(1975-07-09) July 9, 1975 (age 48)[2] Orangeburg, South Carolina, U.S.
Alma mater
Lassen Community College University of Minnesota
Children
2
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)
Shelton Benjamin Shelton X Benjamin[3]
Billed height
6 ft 2 in (188 cm)[4]
Billed weight
248 lb (112 kg)[4]
Billed from
Minneapolis, Minnesota Orangeburg, South Carolina[4]
Trained by
Danny Davis Dean Malenko Doug Basham
Debut
January 10, 2000[5]
Sports career
Medal record
Collegiate Wrestling
Representing the Minnesota Golden Gophers
NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships
1998 Cleveland
275 lb
Shelton James Benjamin (born July 9, 1975) is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenures with WWE, from 2000 to 2010, and then again from 2017 to 2023.
He is also known for his work in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and Pro Wrestling Noah through their working relationship under the ring name Shelton X Benjamin and for American promotion Ring of Honor (ROH) under his real name.[6] Within the World Wrestling Council (WWC), he won the WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship once. Prior to becoming a professional wrestler, he was a two-sport athlete in college. Benjamin won an NJCAA championship in both track and field and collegiate wrestling. After attending junior college, he completed his degree from the University of Minnesota.
Benjamin started his professional wrestling career in WWE's developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), where he held the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship four times (three times with Brock Lesnar and once with Rodney Mack). WWE then moved him to the main roster in 2002, where he formed an alliance with Kurt Angle and Charlie Haas, known as Team Angle, and later, The World's Greatest Tag Team with Haas. During his first tenure with the company, he won the Intercontinental Championship three times (his first title reign lasted 244 days, the longest in this century that lasted until 2023[7]), the United States Championship once, and the WWE Tag Team Championship two times with Haas. He was released from WWE in April 2010 but returned in August 2017, going on to join The Hurt Business and win the renamed WWE Raw Tag Team Championship a third time with Cedric Alexander, and the WWE 24/7 Championship three times. He was released again in September 2023.
^"Shelton J. Benjamin". Twitter. Archived from the original on October 20, 2021. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
^"WWE Profile - Shelton Benjamin". ESPN.com. July 29, 2016. Archived from the original on February 17, 2019. Retrieved February 16, 2019.
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Shelton James Benjamin (born July 9, 1975) is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenures with WWE, from 2000 to 2010, and then...
was a member of Team Angle, which later became a Tag Team duo with SheltonBenjamin known as "The World's Greatest Tag Team". Haas was an amateur wrestler...
Championship before disbanding in mid-2017. He formed a tag team with SheltonBenjamin before being traded to Raw in the 2018 Superstar Shake-up and subsequently...
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Business, he went on to win the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship alongside SheltonBenjamin. Over the course of 2010, Alexander mostly wrestled dark matches for...
Raw brand qualifying matches, Rob Van Dam defeated Trevor Murdoch, SheltonBenjamin defeated Chavo Guerrero, and Ric Flair defeated Carlito. On SmackDown...
ladder match featuring Bobby Lashley, Finlay, Matt Hardy, Ric Flair, SheltonBenjamin and Rob Van Dam. WrestleMania 22 was the third WrestleMania to take...
Center recruits, in late September. These included Dolph Ziggler, SheltonBenjamin, Elias, Mustafa Ali, Emma, Riddick Moss, Aliyah, Top Dolla, Rick Boogs...
wrestling scholarship, where he was roommates with future WWE colleague SheltonBenjamin, who was also his assistant coach. Lesnar won the 2000 National Collegiate...
months and was placed into a feud with SheltonBenjamin at the end of April 2008. After two straight losses, Benjamin got a win over Kingston on the May 20...
Archived from the original on April 21, 2007. Retrieved April 16, 2007. "SheltonBenjamin's first reign". WWE. Archived from the original on March 25, 2007. Retrieved...
with Cedric Alexander and Ricochet to defeat MVP, Bobby Lashley and SheltonBenjamin, thus moving to the Raw brand. After moving to the Raw brand, Ali later...
defeating Santino Marella. Both Montel Vontavious Porter (MVP) and SheltonBenjamin qualified for the match on the March 6 episode of SmackDown by defeating...
WrestleMania XIX, the WWE Tag Team Champions, Team Angle (Charlie Haas and SheltonBenjamin), put their titles on the line against Benoit and his partner Rhyno...
the title against AJ Styles. The following week, he retained against SheltonBenjamin, before getting challenged by Finn Bálor after the match. On the February...
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