WWE Stars Demanded Omos Be Fired
Bobby Lashley has claimed several WWE stars tried to get Omos fired as they complained about getting hurt by the giant star.
Bobby Lashley clashed with the giant Omos at WrestleMania 38 kicking off a feud that lasted through the summer of 2022 and saw MVP screw Lashley to side with Omos.
Lashley came out on top of the feud when he defeated Omos and MVP at 2022’s Hell In A Cell and according to the former WWE Champion, there were not a lot of takers to get in the ring with the massive rookie.
WWE Stars Wanted Omos Gone
Speaking on The Lame Guys Podcast, Bobby Lashley discussed his feud with Omos and how he felt about facing him was in contrast to some WWE stars who he claims tried to get Omos fired:
That was cool, that was cool (working Omos at WrestleMania 38) and I’m taking the credit for Omos. Everybody else will, because he started turning it on after that, because when he first came on, they were gonna fire him because he hurt a couple people. He’s a freaking giant.
He makes me feel like a child and when he came in there at the beginning, he was wrestling with certain people and there was a couple people like, ‘Gosh dang it!’ And yelling at him and trying to make him look bad to the office and trying to get him fired because he hit a dude hard and stuff like that.
So when they put him with me, I was like, ‘I’ll work with him,’ because I understand where he’s coming from and I had the mentality of Taker. Taker looked at somebody like him saying, ‘I wanna work with that guy.’ Some of these guys are like, ‘I wanna work with my buddy because we can make a cool match, we can do cool stuff.’
Man, you gotta overcome obstacles. That’s what wrestling is about, and I was like, he’s an obstacle for me. Not too many people are but he is an obstacle for me. He’s bigger, stronger — well, I don’t know about stronger (Lashley laughed). He’s bigger.
Omos’ last televised singles match in WWE took place in May 2023 when Seth Rollins defeated him at Backlash. Since then his TV appearances have been reduced to battle royals and the 2024 men’s Royal Rumble. His last outing of any kind was the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal on the SmackDown before WrestleMania 40.