10 Best Modern Day Superstars To Never Be WWE Champion

#5 Shelton Benjamin

Still hope... Probably not

Shelton Benjamin is an active member of the WWE roster today, although you would hardly know it due to how often he is left off the card.

Shelton Benjamin really seemed primed for big things in WWE. After a great tag team run with Charlie Haas in 2003, which included two WWE Tag Team Championship reigns, Benjamin was drafted to RAW in 2004 and made an immediate impact when he defeated Triple H two weeks in a row.

He would feud with Evolution for several months, and then defeat Chris Jericho for the WWE Intercontinental Champions at Taboo Tuesday 2004. Things were going great.

It wasn't meant to last. Although the year 2005 started off okay for him, which included being in the first Money in The Bank Ladder match at WrestleMania 21 and having one of the best WWE RAW matches ever with Shawn Michaels, things went downhill when he lost the IC title to Carlito in June. He just went further and further down the card and was soon losing matches to the like of Trevor Murdoch.

He was given a 'Mama' character, inspired by Big Momma's House, which made him look like a wimp, and although he rebounded from that by winning the Intercontinental Championship back in early 2006, his heel turn had him lose his aura of a main event player.

Although he would also capture the WWE United States Championship, WWE just didn't seem to care to push him anymore and after almost 2 years of doing next to nothing, Shelton was released by WWE in 2010.

Shelton Benjamin returned to WWE in 2017, but they haven't done much with him ever since. Benjamin in an incredible athlete and how he never became a main event player in WWE will always be a mystery.