Former WWE Champion Teases Boxing Debut

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Former WWE Champion Bobby Lashley is interested in a potential “bigger” boxing match and weighed in on the possibility of facing Tyson Fury.

Lashley has previously competed in various MMA companies, including Bellator, but hasn’t done so since 2016.

Lashley spoke about competing beyond the WWE ring with Mail Sport and revealed an interest in boxing.

Speaking about the possibility of swapping the WWE ring for a boxing ring, Lashley said:

“So I’ve been talking about it for a while now. At some point in time in your career, you got to stop fighting. But I still have so much fight left in me. But that time is ticking too, where I’m gonna say, ‘All right, get that out of your mind.’

“I’ve been offered a bare-knuckles fight against a football player. I talked about a couple of boxing matches that I’d be interested in doing. MMA is still in the horizon also.

“But for me to have another fight, I hope, I’m crossing my fingers, I’d like to do some…I personally think boxing is the way to go right now. There’s a lot of buzz with boxing.

“Am I fighting Tyson Fury? I don’t think so. That’s not where I wanna go. But I do wanna get in that ring, and I wanna have one of those bigger matchups against someone.

“I mean, I don’t have the time to train for a Tyson Fury. But I train all the time anyway, so I can probably fight somebody that has and boxing experience that still want to do it, such as myself.”

Tyson Fury has recently revealed that working a WWE match would be physically too hard for him.

He defeated Francis Ngannou by split-decision on October 28 in Saudi Arabia in a fight that was seen by Vince McMahon and The Undertaker.

Transcript from Fightful.

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