AEW star and pro wrestling veteran Shelton Benjamin recently spoke with Maven on his YouTube channel about a variety of topics. One of the highlights of their discussion was when he won his first WWE Intercontinental Championship from Chris Jericho at Taboo Tuesday in 2004.
Benjamin said, “From this moment here, I am officially overachieving as a WWE Superstar, as far as my perception of where my career was going. Growing up in South Carolina, I always watched wrestling. I loved wrestling. However, there was not a lot of black singles champions, not saying there weren’t any, but I saw more championships on black tag teams than on black singles.”
On his perception when he joined WWE:
“So when I joined WWE, my perception was, ‘Oh, it’d be great if I can win the Tag Team Championship there.’ I’m not thinking about World Titles. I’m not thinking about US Titles or Intercontinental Titles. So when I won this, I’m literally going, ‘I’ve officially overachieved my own goals.”
You can check out Benjamin’s comments in the video below.
(H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes)
