MVP Critical Of WWE For Pulling Plug On The Hurt Business Reunion
MVP is opening up about how WWE stopped the return of The Hurt Business even though there was a plan for it to happen.
The Hurt Business group was a very successful stable during the “pandemic era” of WWE when there were no fans in attendance for about nine months in 2020 and the first half of 2021.
It was a powerful foursome that saw Bobby Lashley have title reigns as the US Champion and WWE Champion. They also had Shelton Benjamin & Cedric Alexander, who were the Raw Tag Team Champions. Montel Vontavious Porter (MVP) was the mastermind of the group that served as a manager/mentor who sometimes wrestled as well.
Over the last few years, there were teases about a reunion of the group. There were even backstage reports about how WWE planned to put The Hurt Business back together.
Bobby Lashley and MVP are no longer part of WWE after their contracts expired this summer while Benjamin had been released months earlier. Alexander remains under WWE contract and regularly appears on the NXT brand.
MVP: “We Were Told We Were Going To Be Reunited”
During an appearance for a K&S WrestleFest virtual signing, Porter revealed that there was a plan in place to bring The Hurt Business back. However, those plans changed and Lashley was put with The Street Profits instead.
“We were told we were going to be reunited. I still have a shirt. The shirts were made. Hurt Business on the front. Back in business on the back. They were made. We were told that it was going to happen. Next thing I see, Bobby is with the Street Profits. ‘What happened here?'”
“I get a call from Bruce (Prichard), ‘Somebody should have called you. Sorry. We decided we’re going in a different direction.’ What the f**k is that? That’s not professional. That’s how it went down. I’m a professional. I show up and I go to work and do what I’m told.”
“In the pro wrestling business, once you get to a certain level, you do have input into what you do. It’s one thing when we’re told, ‘We’re going to do this’ and steps have been made, and then there is a pivot without a conversation. That’s not good business. I don’t care what anybody thinks. That’s not how you do business. Needless to say, I was very salty about that.”
“We had Bobby going from a two-time WWE champion to not being in the conversation or in the title picture at all. Got put with The Street Profits [Montez Ford & Angelo Dawkins], who were white hot, and they got cooled off. The Street Profits went from being major figures to sitting in catering. I don’t know why. I don’t understand it, but I don’t make decisions in that way.”
As for his future, former WWE US Champion MVP claims he has no plans to retire from pro wrestling any time soon.