Shelton Benjamin reflects on teaming with Chad Gable.
When Shelton Benjamin first returned to WWE in 2016, Chad Gable was firmly a tag team competitor, teaming with Jason Jordan as part of American Alpha. When Jason Jordan and Chad Gable were separated as part of the brand split. Benjamin found himself teaming with Gable for a brief length of time.
Speaking to Kurt Angle on The Kurt Angle Show podcast, Benjamin was very complimentary of Chad Gable but admitted that he thinks he wasn't the right tag team partner for him.
"They put me with Gable at first, in the tag team. I’ll be honest, I wasn’t happy about that. I just felt like they were trying to replace Jordan with someone similar. I didn’t like that. I also felt like I had enough name value that I didn’t need a partner. I don’t feel like they really had any plans. It was more of a, ‘we need to give Chad a partner. Shelton is coming back. They’re both amateur wrestlers, they’re both from Minnesota.’ I think it was an attempt, but I don’t think it worked. Not to say we didn’t try. Gable is phenomenal. I really wish they would do more with him. The knock is always going to be his size, but who cares. That kid is phenomenal. I don’t think I was the right partner for him, but at the same time, I think he’s phenomenal, he’s underutilized, underappreciated. He has a lot in common with me [laughs]," he said.
Elsewhere in this interview, Benjamin opened up about weighing his options as a free agent. Read more here.
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