Bobby Lashley on Future of His Wrestling Career and Ready to Put “Pen to Paper” for Next Destination, End of Hurt Business in WWE Feeling Like “Spit in the Face”

As noted before, former WWE talent Bobby Lashley is believed to have recently signed an official contract with AEW around the same time as Shelton Benjamin did for his recent debut in the company.

A recent virtual fan signing event for K&S WrestleFest featured Lashley as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Lashley’s thoughts about the future of his wrestling career and him revealing that he is ready to put “pen to paper” for his next destination.

“I know the last few years have been a little up and down. But I got a lot more left in the tank and I can’t wait to jump back out there. I had a little boo-boo, so I took a little time off to fix myself and I’m feeling good right now. I’ve been working out hard and I think the next few weeks, you should see something — something pop off. It’s time to put pen to paper and start getting back to these fans.”

Lashley also gave his thoughts about the offers he currently has on the table from wrestling, boxing, and MMA promotions.

“As far as wrestling and fighting, I have a few wrestling offers on the table. I have a few boxing matches, MMA matches. A lot of stuff on the table and after this, Steve (Kaye) and I are going to sit down and we’re going to… roll the wheel.”

Lashley also gave his thoughts about Shelton Benjamin’s recent in-ring debut match in AEW against Lio Rush.

“A feud with Dolph or Nic (Nemeth) would actually be pretty cool. I know he’s running the show over there. I also talk with Moose. He’s a good friend of mine also, and phenomenal wrestler so, that’s a feud I hadn’t really been able to really jump into so there’s all kinds of different feuds that’d look great, and I seen Lio (Rush) over there over at AEW plus, MVP and Shelton (Benjamin). That’s always a good opportunity to get back into the — you know what? It’s whatever. I’ll let the fans pick.

Lio Rush is my dude. I’ll fight for Lio. I saw Shelton fight Lio last week and I wasn’t too happy about that. I wasn’t too happy about that. I like Lio. Lio’s a freaking star.”

Lashley also gave his thoughts about how the end of The Hurt Business in WWE felt like a “spit in the face” to him by WWE’s new leadership regime.

“No. I think it was kind of a spit in the face towards the end (of The Hurt Business). We never was in front of a live crowd. During the pandemic, a lot of guys kind of sat back home and, ‘I don’t wanna do it. I’m not gonna do that,’ and it was us that were saying, ‘It’s work, so we’re going’ and we did everything. We were on half the show most of the time and we were doing everything that a lot of people wouldn’t do, and then we came out of the pandemic, then all of these people started resurfacing. ‘Oh, I’m ready to work, I’m ready to work.’ But what about the guys that were putting the time in-in this ‘dangerous time’ that we were having? And we got kind of overlooked and I think that was kind of a little bit of a spit in the face. I think we could have come back and we could have done some big things together. They just didn’t want us. I think different strokes for different folks, different people like different things. I think when the regime changed, the regime wasn’t too high on me at all and was definitely not high on them because they were the first people they got rid of.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com 1 & 2