How The Hurt Business were treated at the end of their run does not sit well with Lashley.
The group once known as The Hurt Business (Bobby Lashley, MVP, Shelton Benjamin & Cedric Alexander) existed in WWE from 2020-2022. Present-day, Lashley is a free agent, Alexander signed a new contract with WWE and both MVP and Shelton Benjamin are signed to All Elite Wrestling.
Lashley reflected on the end of the group’s run in WWE as he was doing a virtual signing for K & S WrestleFest. He described it as a ‘spit in the face’ and explained why. In regards to his run in WWE coming to an end, Lashley feels the new regime was not high on him.
No. I think it was kind of a spit in the face towards the end (of The Hurt Business). We never was in front of a live crowd. During the pandemic, a lot of guys kind of sat back home and, ‘I don’t wanna do it. I’m not gonna do that,’ and it was us that were saying, ‘It’s work, so we’re going’ and we did everything. We were on half the show most of the time and we were doing everything that a lot of people wouldn’t do, and then we came out of the pandemic, then all of these people started resurfacing. ‘Oh, I’m ready to work, I’m ready to work.’ But what about the guys that were putting the time in-in this ‘dangerous time’ that we were having? And we got kind of overlooked and I think that was kind of a little bit of a spit in the face. I think we could have come back and we could have done some big things together. They just didn’t want us. I think different strokes for different folks, different people like different things. I think when the regime changed, the regime wasn’t too high on me at all and was definitely not high on them because they were the first people they got rid of.
Prior to Lashley and MVP’s WWE contracts expiring, Paul ‘Triple H’ Levesque was asked about them and said just like any sport and/or business, they sign talents and those contracts run out.
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