Shelton Benjamin selflessly helped a former champion whom WWE had given up on

Shelton Benjamin once selflessly helped a former champion. This former WWE star has revealed this story.

David Otunga first started in WWE as part of season one of NXT. Following this, he moved on to the main roster along with all the remaining NXT competitors, where they formed the faction Nexus. The group was supposed to be the next big thing in WWE, but it slowly lost momentum. After a few months of terrible booking, the group slowly disbanded, which didn't serve most of the members well. This also included David Otunga, whose career trajectory slowly went downhill until he parted ways with the company.

During a recent video uploaded to his YouTube channel, David Otunga explained that Shelton Benjamin once came up to him and worked with him on a few things.

"Then Shelton Benjamin came over which was really cool. And he was like, 'Hey you know, you want to work on some stuff?' I'm like, 'Yeah.' I was just amazed. He knew who I was. And he was so humble and like he just worked with me on some stuff that he didn't need to do. Help my lock up. Whatever I could do, my headlock takeover, armbar. He showed me a couple of things, but like whatever I could do, he helped make it better."

The former WWE star also recalled Jamie Noble telling Shelton not to waste time on Otunga. But Shelton refused to listen.

"And I remember while we're doing this, Jamie Noble says to him in front of me, 'Shelton, what the hell are you doing? Why you wasting time on this kid? And Shelton actually told him, 'No, man. It's cool. We're just working with him.' And Jamie is like, 'I don't know what the hell you're doing.' He's saying this right in front of me. But anyway, it just was really cool of Shelton to do that and always stuck out to me. I always remember that. So, shout out to Shelton Benjamin. I really appreciate that, brother."

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Former WWE star David Otunga claimed John Cena purposely injured Michael Tarver

David Otunga has been outspoken about his time in WWE. He was especially outspoken about John Cena.

During a video he uploaded to his YouTube channel, David Otunga claimed that during a match with John Cena, the 17-time World Champion hit him so hard with a steel chair, he rolled outside the ring earlier than he was supposed to. This was Cena's way of handing him a receipt. After Otunga escaped, Cena attacked Michael Tarver so badly that he fractured his elbow.

"Boy, when I got away he was tearing Tarver up. He was tearing Tarver up. Tarver didn't get out as quickly as I did, I think Tarver thought he was tough and tried to take it, but one of those shots showed how stiff it was, and actually fractured Tarver's elbow. Like he legitimately was hurt."

It's surprising to hear these claims from David Otunga.