During a recent appearance on the “AEW Unrestricted” podcast, Shelton Benjamin commented on his relationship with Bobby Lashley and recalled a shoot wrestling match they had back in OVW.
The Hurt Syndicate member said, “My relationship with Bobby actually started before his WWE debut. I was coming off an injury, I had broken my hand, and I went down to OVW just to get a few reps in. At the time, Bobby was still there training. We actually had a bit of an amateur wrestling match because at the time, typically if someone came in as a shooter, with amateur wrestling, I wanted to know, well, how good is he? It was crazy because they cleared the ring, and we kind of shot around for a bit. Bobby likes to say he won, and I like to say he cheated [laughs]. I was fighting honorably. I almost took him down twice, but he kept grabbing the rope and holding himself up. So when he finally got in on me, I didn’t grab the rope. So we will argue about that probably until we’re old men and gray [laughs]. But yeah, that’s when I found out, okay, he’s the real deal. He’s a great guy.”
In other AEW news, FTR will be appearing on Wednesday night’s edition of AEW Dynamite to speak about their attack from the Death Riders (PAC, Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, Jon Moxley, & Marina Shafir) on this past Saturday’s episode of AEW Collision.
You can check out the updated lineup for this week’s edition of AEW Dynamite below:
* AEW Continental Classic Gold League Match: Will Ospreay vs. Darby Allin
* AEW Continental Classic Blue League Match: Shelton Benjamin vs. The Beast Mortos
* TBS Championship: Mercedes Mone (c) vs. Anna Jay
* The Death Riders (Jon Moxley, Wheeler Yuta & PAC) vs. Orange Cassidy, Hangman Page, and Jay White
* FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler) to speak
* Nick Wayne and Christian Cage vs. HOOK and Katsuyori Shibata
* MJF to speak.
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