9 Things WWE Experimented With On House Shows But Never Went With

Before breaking onto the main WWE scene as a monster singles act in 2002, Brock Lesnar spent a couple of years tagging with college roommate Shelton Benjamin as The Minnesota Stretching Crew.

In 2001 and into 2002, Lesnar and Benjamin would be found tagging together on WWE live events and working dark matches at tapings for the likes of Sunday Night Heat and Jakked. Away from working these shows, of course, the duo were also a formidable team in Ohio Valley Wrestling.

The combination of Brock and Benjamin wasn’t just a casually thrown together pairing for a handful of matches, for the team had a spell of being a permanent fixture of OVW to the point where they won the developmental company’s Southern Tag Team Championship on three occasions.

Regardless of the close relationship between the two, regardless of the in-ring chemistry between the two, and regardless of how WWE used the Minnesota Stretching Crew at non-televised events and in dark matches, the call was made to break up the team and go hard with Lesnar as a singles star on the main roster.