Bobby Lashley: The New WWE Regime Wasn’t Too High On Guys Like The Hurt Business And I

Bobby Lashley talks about his departure.

This past August, Bobby Lashley was granted his release from the WWE following issues with the way his character and members of the Hurt Business were being handled. Now, MVP and Shelton Benjamin are in AEW as they wait for the potential arrival of Lashley who spoke about the new regime from WWE and how they weren’t high on him.

“It was kind of a spit in the face,” Lashley told K&S WrestleFest when asked about Hurt Business not reuniting. “We were never in front of a live crowd. During the pandemic, a lot of guys sat at home, ‘I’m not going to do this or that’ and it was us saying, ‘It’s work. We’re going.’ We did everything. We were on half the show most the time. We came out of the pandemic and people started resurfacing, ‘Oh, I’m ready to work.’ What about the guys who were putting the time in during this dangerous time? We got overlooked. That was a little bit of a spit in the face. I think we could have come back and done some big things together. They just didn’t want us. Different strokes for different folks. Different people like different things. When the regime changed, the regime wasn’t too high on me at all.”

Benjamin is set to go one-on-one with Swerve Strickland on the Halloween Eve edition of AEW Dynamite.

H/t to Fightful for the transcription.

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