Bobby Lashley once pitched gaining weight for ‘severe depression’ WWE storyline
During an appearance on NotSam Wrestling with Sam Roberts, Bobby Lashley revealed an outside-the-box storyline idea that he once pitched to Vince McMahon.
Lashley said he proposed an angle a year or two ago where he would go through “severe depression” after losing a match. Lashley said the story would have involved him gaining 40, 50, 60, or 70 pounds before eventually transitioning back to his normal self.
I told Vince a year ago, I think a year or two ago, I told him, ‘I want to do this character.’ He said, ‘What is it?’ I said, ‘If I get beat one time, I want to go into this severe depression and put on like 40, 50, 60, or 70 pounds and just be fat and be a completely different character and then have like somebody like an MVP, or somebody that’s on my side, kind of like, pull me back and then have the crowd watch this transition back to me.’ And he said, ‘There’s no way you can do that.’ I said, ‘Man, I think I can do it.’
When Roberts asked Lashley if he would pitch the storyline again now that Paul “Triple H” Levesque is in charge of creative, Lashley responded by laughing at the idea.
A feud between Lashley and Brock Lesnar began when Lesnar attacked Lashley on Raw last Monday. It appears that Lashley and Lesnar will face off at Crown Jewel in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, November 5.
Lesnar’s attack led to Lashley dropping the United States title to Seth Rollins on last week’s Raw.
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