Bobby Lashley: If You Put Suge Knight, Don King, And The Rock In Ballers All Together, That’s What I Wanted To Do With The Hurt Business

Bobby Lashley opens up about his time in the Hurt Business.

Bobby Lashley and MVP formed the Hurt Business during the pandemic era where it would introduce Shelton Benjamin and Cedric Alexander. Lashley would win the WWE Championship while Benjamin and Alexander won the WWE Raw Tag Team Championships.

While speaking on a virtual signing with K&S WrestleFest, Lashley would open up about how the group came to be even before MVP was part of the plans.

“It was my most fun time. Hurt Business was awesome because MVP was not in WWE at the time. Before, I was like, let me think of something I can do. I like the character where it was a mix of Suge Knight, Don King, and The Rock in (Ballers). If you took all those characters and squeezed them all together, that’s what I wanted to do. I wanted to do something where I’m managing people but being tough and fighting. The Rumble came and [MVP] walked in, I was like, ‘That’s him.’ When I was fighting, my boxing coach wore a shirt that had Hurt Business. I always thought the name was cool. When I get back into wrestling, I want to do the Hurt Business. I pulled Shelton aside and was like, ‘I really want to do this.’ I involved P [MVP] and we started talking about it. I called my boxing coach and out of respect, ‘Hurt Business, I want to use that in pro wrestling.’ He was like, ‘Done. Deal.’ When the shirts were made, I sent him a t-shirt,” said Lashley.

Lashley is currently a free agent, and Benjamin and MVP are part of All Elite Wrestling as the Hurt Syndicate.

H/t to Fightful for the transcription.

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