Shelton Benjamin will return to the ring on April 21. There has been no word on WWE signing him as they were set to do before discovering he needed surgery.
Justin Roberts talked about JBL and his book:
- There's definitely a mentality of not speaking ill of certain names in hopes of making money in WWE again.
- As Roberts has said, firing one person isn't going to change much considering the behavior is sanctioned by WWE brass.
For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I'd like to think Angle would have still done pretty well for himself given his talents. Some people got over in the ECW environment but weren't necessarily a good fit for WWE, but I don't think Angle would have fallen into that category. I wouldn't have been surprised if he ended up in WCW along with Guerrero, Benoit, Jericho, Saturn, and Malenko, actually. That could have hurt him in Vince's eyes as WCW was much more of "the enemy" than ECW was. Overall, I think he would have still been world champion in WWE if he was molded into what we ultimately saw.
2. They were hosts because they had pretty much done everything they could do in the tag team division. I think they could have still have been hosts if they were in a similar situation on Smackdown and were over for their "sports entertainment" qualities there as well.
3. It does look like he's legitimately out of action a little while longer. WWE could hold off on using New Day on Smackdown until he's 100%.
4. The match ended up being pretty quick. He was out of there quickly enough to be treated.
5. It's a case of the people who have already seen those names are already excited for them. Now it's up to main roster creative to get everyone else on board. Shinsuke plays a lot of mind games, which you'll likely get to see more of when he gets in the ring on Smackdown. His "aura" or whatever is a lot of what makes him work, although he's one hell of a talented wrestler outside of that.
More wrestling tomorrow.
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