10 of the most shocking WWE releases of the past decade

#9 Shelton Benjamin

Shelton was released from WWE back in 2010

For more than eight years Shelton Benjamin was one of the most athletically gifted wrestlers in WWE. He was a part of the Money in the Bank ladder match back at WrestleMania 26 but a few weeks later, he was another name on WWE's release list.

As a former Tag Team and Intercontinental Champion, Shelton was considered to be much more than a mid-carder on the WWE roster which is why his release came as such a shock for the WWE Universe.

Shelton had only recently been moved back over to the SmackDown Brand after a lacklustre stint in ECW and it looked as though his fortunes were changing but it seems that the management saw his future in a different way.

Shelton went on to prove his worth in Ring of Honor in the years that followed before he was resigned to WWE in 2016 and was once again brought to the SmackDown Live roster.