Showing posts with label Brock Lesnar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brock Lesnar. Show all posts

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Bobby Lashley Versus Brock Lesnar?


On an appearance on ESPN Radio, Bobby Lashley said that he wanted to fight current UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar.
Of course we all know that Brock and Bobby both worked for WWE.
But how cool would it be (and how many tickets would they sell) if Vince could somehow wrangle the UFC into working with the WWE to do this match up at a WWE PPV?

Of course it won't happen.
Brock has distanced himself from the WWE, although even in the cage he still acts like a good old fashioned pro wrestling heel.
Just look at his last fight. His antics after the match would make Stone Cold Steve Austin proud.
And Bobby is signed with TNA, WWE's main rival.
Yes he said in that same ESPN interview that he has signed a TNA contract and will be appearing at the TNA Victory Road pay-per-view on Sunday.

But Vince is always looking for something fresh and exciting, this would be a world class event, combining pro wrestling and MMA.
Of course the match would have to be straight up MMA rules.
No run-ins by Kane or John Cena or Batista.
No sudden appearance by the Undertaker.
(Though in the middle of the bout, how cool would it be to have the lights go out and hear "Bonnng!"?)

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Hardcore Holly, part 3


In 2002, Bob Holly turned heel on SmackDown! and began a short feud with then-face and newcomer, Randy Orton.When then-face Crash Holly was drafted from RAW to SmackDown!, he reunited with Hardcore Holly. As a result, Hardcore Holly turned face again.

Holly suffered a broken neck during a 2002 match against Brock Lesnar. Holly was wrestling a very stiff match against Lesnar and sandbagged an attempted powerbomb by Lesnar in mid-air so that Lesnar couldn't get him all the way up. This led to Lesnar powerbombing Holly neck-first onto the mat. He had a thirteen month hiatus from wrestling after surgery. Holly returned at the Survivor Series in November 2003 for revenge. He went on to challenge Lesnar for the WWE Championship at the 2004 Royal Rumble. To prove that he could take down Brock, Holly defeated the Big Show in a street fight on SmackDown!. At the Royal Rumble, Holly could not overpower Lesnar and was eventually defeated.

After this he would form short-lived tag teams with Billy Gunn, and later Charlie Haas in the hunt for the WWE Tag Team Championship gold, in which he was unsuccessful with both partners. He also failed to claim the WWE Championship from John "Bradshaw" Layfield in a hardcore match.

At the November 21, 2004 SmackDown! house show in Syracuse, New York, Hardcore Holly was involved in a tag team match with René Dupreé when Holly broke kayfabe during the match and legitimately attacked Dupree, punching and kicking him over a speeding ticket that Dupreé had picked up whilst in Holly's rental car. Dupreé gave Holly consent to "take it out on him" in the ring, but was still fined $10,000 and told by owner Vince McMahon that he was on his "last strike" with the company.

Holly next went into singles competition trying to acquire the United States Championship from Champion Orlando Jordan. After being defeated twice by Jordan, Holly finally managed to pick up a non-title win over Jordan via disqualification on WWE Velocity, which aired on August 6, 2005. In September 2005, Holly began another short-lived singles feud with the metrosexual Sylvan, addressing him by the sobriquets "Sylvy-an", "Sylvester" and "Sylvia". This feud ended with Holly winning a falls count anywhere match during an edition of SmackDown!. Holly then entered a short feud with "SmackDown!" newcomer, Mr. Kennedy. This feud climaxed on October 9, 2005 at No Mercy, where Mr. Kennedy defeated Holly after a Green Bay Plunge. After the match, Sylvan once again came out and attacked an injured Holly.

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Shelton Benjamin


Shelton Albert Benjamin was born on July 9, 1975, in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
He is an American pro wrestler and former amateur wrestler currently performing on the RAW brand of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as one half of the World's Greatest Tag Team with Charlie Haas. Shelton Benjamin is known for his high-flying talent and, according to Jim Ross, is "the best pure athlete" on the RAW roster.

Shelton Benjamin was Brock Lesnar's tag team partner (also a wrestling teammate and roommate at The University of Minnesota) in Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW).

While attending the University of Minnesota, Shelton had a 36-6 win-loss record.

Shelton debuted on WWE's SmackDown! brand as a heel along with Charlie Haas on December 26, 2002 to form Team Angle, with Olympic gold-medallist wrestler Kurt Angle as their mentor. However on the June 12th Smackdown Kurt Angle confronted Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas and ended up firing them from Team Angle.

Their first official match in WWE together was on the January 2, 2003 edition of WWE SmackDown! against Edge and Chris Benoit in a feud that continued until No Way Out 2003.

Shelton was named African–American Wrestler of the Year award in 2005 by the Black Athlete Sports Network.
In 2005, Pro Wrestling Illustrated ranked him # 9 of the 500 best singles wrestlers in the PWI 500.
Shelton was also named Most Underrated Wrestler (2005–2007) by Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards.

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