Former WWE Champion describes treatment as ‘spit in the face’ before shock exit

Bobby Lashley has insisted it felt similar a ‘spit successful the face’ to see Hurt Business being passed over earlier his WWE exit.

The erstwhile satellite champion was portion of the hugely fashionable radical alongside MVP, Shelton Benjamin and Cedric Alexander, but portion fans and the performers were hopeless for a reunion past year, it ne'er happened.

The All Mighty left WWE implicit summer, and helium has present claimed the caller ‘regime’ – which is led by Triple H, pursuing Vince McMahon’s departure – weren’t down the faction.

‘It was benignant of a spit successful the face. We were ne'er successful beforehand of a unrecorded crowd. During the pandemic, a batch of guys sat astatine home, “I’m not going to bash this oregon that”, and it was america saying, “It’s work. We’re going,”‘ helium recalled.

He added during a virtual signing for K&S WrestleFest: ‘We did everything. We were connected fractional the amusement astir the time. We came retired of the pandemic and radical started resurfacing, “Oh, I’m acceptable to work.”

‘What astir the guys who were putting the clip successful during this unsafe time? We got overlooked. That was a small spot of a spit successful the face. I deliberation we could person travel backmost and done immoderate large things together.’

While helium acknowledged radical person ‘different’ tastes arsenic acold arsenic wrestling goes, Lashley suggested the caller radical successful complaint weren’t ‘high’ connected him arsenic a performer.

He added: ‘They conscionable didn’t privation us. Different strokes for antithetic folks. Different radical similar antithetic things. When the authorities changed, the authorities wasn’t excessively precocious connected maine astatine all.’

Fans are inactive waiting to find retired what Lashley volition beryllium doing since leaving WWE a fewer months ago, peculiarly since MVP and Benjamin person precocious debuted connected All Elite Wrestling.

AEW remains an option, and portion caller reports person claimed the 48-year-old prima has already signed, helium has insisted he’s keeping his options unfastened for the clip being.

‘I person a fewer wrestling offers connected the table. I person a fewer boxing matches, MMA matches, a batch of worldly connected the table,’ helium said during the signing. ‘I person a batch much near successful the tank. I can’t hold to leap backmost retired there.’

Lashley suffered an wounded earlier successful the twelvemonth which meant he’s been taking immoderate clip to ‘fix’ himself, but he’s ‘feeling bully close now’.

He teased: ‘I’ve been moving retired hard. I deliberation the adjacent fewer weeks we should spot something, thing popular off. It’s clip to enactment pen to insubstantial and springiness backmost to these fans.’

As a subordinate of the US Army, helium initially excelled arsenic an amateur wrestler, and went onto articulation WWE successful 2005, starting successful Ohio Valley Wrestling earlier joining SmackDown successful 2005.

He near the institution 3 years aboriginal and spent clip connected the autarkic country and with TNA Wrestling (then known arsenic IMPACT), and past returned to WWE successful 2018.

One of his astir celebrated matches came successful 2007 astatine WrestleMania 23, erstwhile helium represented Donald Trump in the Battle of the Billionaires against Umaga, who was wrestling for Vince McMahon, and won.

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