Bobby Lashley Names Four WWE Stars He Wanted To ‘Put Over’

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AEW star Bobby Lashley has named four WWE talents he wanted to “put over” before finishing up with the company.

The October 30 edition of AEW Dynamite gave us the long-awaited debut of Bobby Lashley, reuniting with former Hurt Business stablemates Shelton Benjamin and MVP in the process, only now under the new name of The Hurt Syndicate.

Before departing WWE in the Summer, Lashley had been leading a new faction known as The Pride, along with The Street Profits (Montez Ford & Angelo Dawkins) and B-Fab.

Speaking on the Lame Guys podcast, Lashley revealed that his original vision for the group was for Ford and Dawkins to eventually turn on him, leading to Lashley putting both over in a feud afterwards.

Revealing his plans with The Street Profits, as well as two other WWE stars, Lashley said:

“Over at AEW, my career and where it is now, it’s really good for me. Could I or would I have hoped to stay with WWE? Absolutely. My plan was to have one more, maybe two years, and then retire with WWE.

“I was doing the stuff with the Street Profits. What I ultimately wanted at the end of that is, when I go out, there are certain things I wanted to do. I wanted Dawkins and or Montez to turn on me, and I wanted to have a feud with one and then the other and eventually have both of them take me out at the end.

“Both of them are amazingly talented. I ultimately wanted to get beat. There are three or four people that I wanted to go out (against). I wanted every one of them to have a good feud with me and I wanted to put all of them over.

“It was definitely Dawkins, Montez, Austin Theory, I wanted to turn him babyface, and I never had the opportunity to do something with LA Knight. He and I were good friends in IMPACT and coming over, we had several talks about him coming up and what he was going to do. That would have been a cool one.

“Outside of that, I had no ego with it, I wanted to go out in the right way. That just didn’t happen.”

Lashley will make his AEW pay-per-view debut at Saturday’s Full Gear at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.

The full match card for the event can be found at this link here.

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