WWE King of the Ring 2019: The 4 best choices to win and the 4 worst choices to win

#3 Worst Choice - Shelton Benjamin

Benjamin's newest gimmick of hearing voices doesn't exactly scream of success

Benjamin is still in great shape, but he isn't the best on the microphone or outside of a tag team. He's a great wrestler but it's just that he's a sign of WWE's past instead of the future. A good deal of the stars in the tournament are either in their prime or have only been on the main roster for a year or so.

His first-round match up with Chad Gable is weird because both men would probably have been used as first-round matches for other stars with better chances of winning. The whole new direction of a still shot on his face while he's hearing voices is just strange. It's led to nothing more than him calling Gable short.

He's been forgotten about for most of 2019. Along with those weird promos, to dust him off only for this tournament seems awfully lopsided. While I'm sure he'll most definitely give anyone a great match, it just seems like his time for any type of a substantial push has passed.

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Matt Serocki is a sports journalist from outside of Boston, Massachusetts who has written about sports for a local newspaper, the MetroWest Daily News.

Matt has written about professional wrestling for the past year but has been writing lyrics, short stories and novels in his spare time. He writes around 30-50 articles per month.

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Studied Communications with a focus on writing at Framingham State University from 2000-2004.

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