Bobby Lashley wanted to work with 4 WWE stars before he ultimately stepped away from the company.
The end of The Allmighty’s WWE career did not go the way that he had envisioned. Not featured in prominent storylines and kept off TV for lengthy periods, Lashley quietly exited the promotion in the summer. Lashley’s final major storyline saw him team up with Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford with the trio feuding with The Final Testament.
With Lashley originally aligning with The Street Profits in the hope of giving the tag team a more serious edge, the former World Champion was also hoping that the students would eventually turn on their mentor.
While appearing on The Lame Guys Wrestling Podcast, Lashley stated that his original plan was to retire in WWE and to lose to 4 members of the SmackDown roster; Montez Ford, Angelo Dawkins, Austin Theory and LA Knight:
“Over at AEW, my career and where it is now, it’s really good for me. Could I or would I have hoped to stay with WWE? Absolutely. My plan was to have one more, maybe two years, and then retire with WWE. I was doing the stuff with the Street Profits. What I ultimately wanted at the end of that is, when I go out, there are certain things I wanted to do. I wanted Dawkins and or Montez to turn on me, and I wanted to have a feud with one and then the other and eventually have both of them take me out at the end. Both of them are amazingly talented. I ultimately wanted to get beat.
There are three or four people that I wanted to go out (against). I wanted every one of them to have a good feud with me and I wanted to put all of them over. It was definitely Dawkins, Montez, Austin Theory, I wanted to turn him babyface, and I never had the opportunity to do something with LA Knight. He and I were good friends in IMPACT and coming over, we had several talks about him coming up and what he was going to do. That would have been a cool one. Outside of that, I had no ego with it, I wanted to go out in the right way. That just didn’t happen,”
Bobby Lashley Hints At More Alliances
As fans are now aware, Lashley did not end his career in WWE and has since gone on to sign with AEW. Reuniting with Shelton Benjamin and MVP to form The Hurt Syndicate, Lashley has once again become a dominant force in the wrestling world. During the same interview, Bobby Lashley teased new members could be on the way.
After a victory over Swerve Strickland at Full Gear, Bobby Lashley has promised big things for The Hurt Syndicate in AEW.
H/t to Fightful.