Bobby Lashley Reveals He Tore His Shoulder In February, Rejected Vince McMahon’s Request To Have Surgery

The former WWE Champion did not want to have surgery on his injured shoulder.

Speaking on the Masked Man Show after WWE SummerSlam, Lashley confirmed he was dealing with a shoulder injury, but explained why he opted not to get the surgery.

“I tore my shoulder two months before WrestleMania, I couldn’t even raise my hand. I kept that quiet. I took like three weeks off and said, ‘I have to make it to WrestleMania.’ I called Vince (McMahon), Vince was like, ‘Ah, let’s take off, get surgery,’ spend four months off. I was like, ‘I can’t do that. There is no way I’m going to do that.’ I sat at home for a couple of weeks and started going crazy. I was like, ‘I can’t stay at home, I have to go to work.’ I started training, getting ready, rehabbing, and I got back in and made it for WrestleMania. There is no downtime. Every other sport has an offseason, we don’t have an offseason,” he said. “It [the report] circulated. I get pissed off about that a little bit. Stuff that is supposed to be inside here gets leaked out. I don’t know how it got leaked out. I didn’t tell anybody. It was between me and the trainers. The trainers were like, ‘Go get an MRI,’ I got my MRI and the MRI said I had a 75% tear in my rotator cuff, my labrum was torn. I was like, ‘Does that mean I get a day off?'”

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Time will tell if Lashley will regret not getting that surgery upon the request of the former boss himself.

H/T to Fightful for transcription

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