J.R.’s Superstars of the Week - Shelton Benjamin & Beth Phoenix
By Jim Ross
Written: September 27, 2007

Greetings from under the 200X, black Resistol hat from your resident Okie, who smells the “Q” in Norman, Okla., while preparing to hit the road this week to visit the WWE TV Studios and then on to Boulder, Colo., for the Oklahoma-Colorado college football game this Saturday on Fox Sports Net. Then it will be a change of clothes and perhaps a nap before flying to Cleveland for next Monday’s Raw, which is shaping up to be an unpredictable and combustive night on USA Network. Whew!

This week’s panel of wrestling experts, who normally meet in a tavern outside the city limits of Parts Unknown to make the selection of Raw Superstar of the Week, have spoken. This week’s panel consisting of Dandy Jack Donovan and Verne Bottoms, The Elephant Boy and The Fabulous Moolah, The Missing Link and Dark Journey, Jimmy Garvin and Precious, Chris Adams and Sunshine, and the Bodydonnas and Sunny have selected the dynamic duo … the powerful pair (wouldn’t their children be beautiful?) of Shelton “The Natural” Benjamin and the Glamazon, Beth Phoenix, as this week’s Raw Superstars of the Week.

The uber-athletically-talented Benjamin, a former All-American in both wrestling and track, he ran a 4.3 in the 40-yard dash (if you are a data nerd), and the dangerously delicious powerhouse, Beth Phoenix, joined forces Monday night to defeat two champions in a Mixed Tag Match. Intercontinental Champion Jeff Hardy, who is getting rock star receptions at arenas all over the world, and Women’s Champion Candice Michelle, who did not experience the homecoming in Milwaukee that I am certain she would have wanted, fell victim to the Glamazon and Benjamin, who both are on the title trail for the Women’s and Intercontinental Titles, respectively. I would be willing to make a friendly wager of a bottle of J.R.’s Bar-B-Q Sauce, available at www.jrsbarbq.com (gratuitous plug), that one or both the challengers accomplish their goal much sooner than later.

You can read the rest of this weeks Superstar of the week here.