Bobby Lashley believes ‘healthy competition’ among promotions benefits wrestling fans
Bobby Lashley gave his insight on ‘healthy competition’ in the wrestling industry.
Lashley told Good Karma Wrestling that healthy competition among promotions in wrestling is beneficial if handled the right way. He spoke about maintaining friendships with talents across companies, sharing how they observe and exchange feedback on their character developments and storylines.
“It helps out a lot, but it helps a lot when the guys understand that it’s healthy competition, it’s not negative. There’s a lot of guys that I know and am still friends with from other organisations I’ve been in, and I’ve been in multiple organisations, so I always want to see the best for those guys.”
“Those guys too, they watch what I’m doing and say ‘we love seeing you over there having a good time, still being able to take care of your family and enjoying this wrestling business’. I think that competition is good, because if that competition isn’t there, then the wrestling business owns what you can watch. But when the competition is there, the fans own what they can watch.”
“The fans, if they want to see wrestling, they can go tune into AEW and see some of the greatest wrestlers in the world. If they want to see storylines, or anything, you can tune into any program and see that. So it gives an opportunity for wrestling fans to pick and choose what they want to watch, or they can just watch it all and have a good time with it, because there’s great wrestlers everywhere you go.”
In the interview, Lashley also expressed how WWE fumbled with The New Day for releasing Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods.
Lashley made his AEW debut in 2024 and shortly after reunited with Shelton Benjamin and MVP to form The Hurt Syndicate.
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