Pro wrestling veteran Shelton Benjamin appeared on an episode of the Kurt Angle Show, where he talked about a number of topics including his program with WWE Chief Content Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque in 2004.
Benjamin said, “Basically, to fast-track me to that. Yeah, that was to fast-track me. I don’t think. Well, I don’t think I don’t know. Because, again, I don’t ask. I didn’t ask questions. I just did what I was asked. But I do know, the term fast track was used when they were saying I was going to have to match with a hunter. I think at the time, they wanted to feel like they wanted to create a black star. And at the time, like today, like you know, there’s tons of every color in the rainbow and WWE, but at the time, there was not I mean, that was me, Mark Henry, Ron Simmons. The truth was still working in TNA at the time, so Ron Simmons and Mark Henry there wasn’t a lot. There wasn’t a lot, and I was the new guy, and they wanted to basically create, they want, they need, they wanted to create a black superstar. That much I do know I’m, but as far as where the program was going to go, I never knew because it went for a couple of weeks, and then I got moved over to, I think, Ric, like I actually got my first pick who matches gonna be with Hunter, but it ended up being with Ric [Flair].”
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