During a recent appearance on the “Insight” podcast, Bobby Lashley reflected on his rivalry with Vince McMahon over the ECW World title during the mid-2000s, describing it as a “great story.”
The feud resulted in McMahon becoming the ECW World Champion, which surprised fans back then.
Lashley said, “I never understood what he was saying at the time. I was like, you’ll get it all back, what are you talking about? You guys have me down. But that was a great story, and he taught me a great story. The whole crowd, [were] just like, kill him. And then the minute I grabbed Vince, boom, they were on me. So it took it away. We had a lot of heat with that story. Of course when he won the ECW title and he came in wearing a do-rag.”
During a recent appearance on the “The K&C Masterpiece” podcast, Bobby Lashley discussed how The Hurt Syndicate carries themselves, typically donning elegant suits and showcasing themselves as premier stars.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On The Hurt Syndicate’s presentation: “It’s very important how we present ourselves. If you come to a wrestling show, and say you are wanting to see the stars before the show starts, and you pull up and bring your kids. You’re going to see different people walking into the building. You’ll see guys in sweats and things like that, but you see me come out with a nice car, we always have suits on, you’re going to look and say, ‘If anybody, that’s the star.’ When we walk in and my match comes up, they’re not only going to see me come out and say ‘that’s the star,’ but they’re going to remember from earlier when I did come in. ‘That guy has to be somebody.’”
On the importance of their presentation: It’s just the presentation. If you go to a NBA or NFL game, you always see the guys walking in and they’re dressed to the nines. That’s what we want to bring to professional wrestling. We don’t want you guys coming in thinking we’re the grungy group that just goes and jumps and hits people with chairs. We want to show different. We’re putting on shows for people and we’re selling out stadiums.”
On what it means to be star athletes: “We’re stars. We make good money and we train hard to do what we do. We are stars. You have to present yourself like that. That’s how I always come to shows. You’ll always see me dressed nice and presenting myself in a certain way. Coming to AEW, we want to make sure that whole mindset is brought to AEW.”
