AEW star Shelton Benjamin appeared on an episode of the AEW Unrestricted podcast, where he talked about a number of topics including how he and fellow AEW star Bobby Lashley had a shoot wrestling match in OVW.
Benjamin 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.”
You can check out the complete podcast in the video below.
(H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes)
