Bobby Lashley Wanted To Fight WWE Star

Bobby Lashley wanted to fight a WWE star.

At WrestleMania 40, Bobby Lashley teamed with Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford to defeat Karrion Kross and the Authors of Pain in a Philadelphia Street Fight. To add to the chaos the match featured Snoop Dogg on commentary and Bully Ray as the special guest referee.

The rivalry between the two factions had been brewing for several months after Kross and Scarlett helped create The Final Testament.

During a recent interview, Karrion Kross reflected on the rivalry, claiming Bobby Lashley pitched a real backstage fight between the pair. Kross explained that while he was initially in favour of the scuffle, they eventually left the idea alone after deciding it was too difficult to explain to management.

Bobby Lashley Confirms Karrion Kross Claims

Speaking during a K&S WrestleFest signing, Lashley confirmed the story and explained why he thought it would have worked.

I have nothing bad to say about him. I’ve talked to him about several different things… There was one time we were starting our feud together. I was like, ‘Man, I think we should just get in a fight.’

Because there’s not too many people that I could actually do that with and Kross has the martial arts background and he has a boxing background, he has a jiu-jitsu background and for us, we were both itching to be a part of something and I was like, ‘Let’s just go and start slugging it out,’ and if people break it up, it’s gonna help out our feud and I think it brings a lot more attention to it because they were putting us together in this feud right before WrestleMania and wasn’t giving us an opportunity to really go after each other.

So I was like, ‘Man, this might be the thing to kind of spark the feud and bring a lot more attention to it.’ But I think it just naturally brought some attention to it because I think a lot of people just wanted to see us and they wanted to see him and his group do something so it just kind of went together.

With his WWE career behind him, Bobby Lashley is expected to debut with AEW in the coming weeks. While it’s been widely reported that Lashley has already agreed a deal with the company, the man himself said his future will become clear very soon.

The star left WWE in August after letting his contract expire, even though the company tried to keep him.

H/t to POST Wrestling