AEW’s Hurt Syndicate Adding New Member Update

The Hurt Syndicate continue to make its presence felt in AEW, with MVP providing an update on the group potentially adding a fourth member.

Comprising MVP, Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin, the latter two are former AEW World Tag Team Champions.

MVP has previously reflected on potentially adding a high-flyer to The Hurt Syndicate, noting that they would love to bring Cedric Alexander back to the collective.

In a recent interview with Adventure Gamers, MVP provided an update on a fourth member, revealing that they are still open to it, saying:

“None at all. We’re open to it. It’s something that we want to do. I don’t know what’s going on, and it’s above my pay grade, but we’d love to have Cedric Alexander back. But that’s above my pay grade. But if Cedric’s not available, or for some reason we can’t have Cedric, there are a few other guys that we’ve talked about amongst ourselves that we’d like to have.

“But the issue with The Hurt Syndicate is that our relationship is organic. We weren’t just three random guys that were thrown together and had to learn to get along. We’re three guys that are legitimate friends that actually hang out away from work. We train together, we go to events together. We’re actually friends, so you can’t just throw some random guy with us that we don’t vibe with because then that throws off the whole group. It’s not organic and it comes across as such.

“So we would like it if at some point when a new member is added that we have some input into who that person is because we don’t want to throw off the chemistry of the group. It’s got to be an organic fit so that that younger person, whomever it may be, can vibe with us, learn from us, grow with us, and we can have a relationship. Because after every show, me, Shelton, and Bobby go somewhere and we get something to eat and we talk about what happened that night, we’ll find a nice steakhouse and we’ll get some nice steaks and I’ll sip on some Macallen 18 or something, and then Shelton will sip on his Sprite and Bobby will drink his water. You don’t get a physique like Bobby and Shelton by drinking anything but water!

“Bobby will have a drink on occasion, but he’s not a drinker. Shelton, he doesn’t drink at all. Nothing. Not a drop. He drinks Sprite by the gallon. Sprite and Lemonade.

“That’s why I laugh, I see sometimes in comments or some of the talent going against us in promos will call us old and talk about how old we are. Dude, I can literally be your dad, but I’m more fit than you. I can beat your ass into a coma if I wanted to. There’s nothing you can do about it. So if you are calling me old and you don’t look half as good as I do, and I’m twice your age, what’s your problem?

“The fact that we’re all where we’re at, and we can still go the way we do. And like I said, Bobby and Shelton, they look better now than they did 10 years ago. I laugh at the old comments because yeah, I’m a grey beard, but you should be aware of an old man in a game where men die young.”

Earlier this year, MJF was affiliated with The Hurt Syndicate, although that relationship came to a rather abrupt end.

It was subsequently reported that the decision to remove MJF was at the request of “another member of the group“.