Matt Hardy Believes Things Would Be Different If Shelton Benjamin Debuted Today

Matt Hardy recently took to his podcast, “The Extreme Life Of Matt Hardy,” to offer his thoughts on fellow professional wrestling veteran Shelton Benjamin.

Hardy was looking back on The Hardy Boyz rivalry with The World’s Greatest Tag Team in WWE, and noted that Benjamin never got the opportunity to shine as a singles star.

Hardy believes had Benjamin debuted today, things might have been very different for him. He said,

“I don’t know. I think if you had Shelton Benjamin, a young Shelton Benjamin, come along today, it would change a lot. I think because back then it was still they were looking for larger-than-life personalities, people that really like bonded with the crowd, and I feel like they didn’t see that as much in Shelton as they would have liked to.

They knew from an athletic perspective; he was just unbelievable. He was unreal, but I feel like in this day and age, if you have someone who’s an amazing athlete and produces these great quality matches day in and day out and does it every single time he hit the ring, then they get over in a different way because the fan base has kind of changed for their respective in-ring content as well.

So I think if Shelton came along today, I think it would be changed. I think he would definitely be programmed a lot higher than it was back then.”