WWE superstar Shelton Benjamin was born in 1975 and currently wrestles on ECW.  He has held the WWE United States championship, the Intercontinental championship, and the Tag Team championship.  Benjamin also wrestled in high school and college and has done some amateur wrestling coaching.

His professional career began when the WWE offered him a developmental contract.  Benjamin began wrestling for Ohio Valley Wrestling as part of a tag team with Brock Lesnar called the "Minnesota Stretching Crew".  The two won the OVW Southern Tag title three times.  After Lesnar was moved to the main roster, Benjamin and Redd Dogg Bengnuad formed a new team.  Starting in 2002, Benjamin did some house shows for the WWE and later joined Sunday Night Heat.

In December of 2002, Benjamin debuted on Smackdown as a heel.  He and Charlie Haas became a part of Team Angle, the stable ran by Kurt Angle.  They feuded with Benoit and Benjamin’s former partner Lesnar.  They also seized the WWE Tag title and successfully defended it at WrestleMania XIX.  After Angle fired them from his team, Benjamin and Haas declared themselves the World’s Greatest Tag Team and continued working together.

In 2004, Benjamin was drafted to Raw, and he quickly made a name for himself by defeating Triple H three times.  He went on to defeat Chris Jericho and win the Intercontinental title and have the longest Intercntinental champion reign of the decade. After losing the title to Carlito in 2005, he lost a number of matches, which led to his kayfabe mother appearing on the show to chastise him. He went onto win the Intercontinental title two more times.

2007 saw Benjamin appearing on ECW with  new look and calling himself "The Gold Standard", although he made some appearances on Smackdown as well.  In 2008, he returned full-time to Smackdown, where he won the WWE United States title. On the 500th Smackdown show, he lost the US title to MVP ending his reign at 243 days. He was traded back to ECW in June 2009 where he currently wrestles.