Bobby Lashley speaks on WWE departure: ‘I still want to wrestle’
Former WWE Champion Bobby Lashley has addressed his career and future in a new interview after leaving WWE, noting that he still wants to wrestle.
Appearing on The Bo and Them Show on Dallas/Fort Worth’s Lone Star 92.5, Lashley noted that he is in negotiations with a boxing promotion, but that he still has his eyes on the wrestling ring:
“Wrestling, I still want to wrestle. I love wrestling. And the fans, the fans are writing me every day saying ‘when are you coming back, where are you going, I don’t care where you go, we want to be there for you,’ so I love the fans.
“Boxing, I’ve been boxing… A boxing company called me and offered me a legit matchup, so we’re in talks with them, so I’ve been training boxing, I love boxing.”
Lashley also mentioned acting, MMA fighting, and his charity work as things that he could spend time on after leaving WWE due to his contract expiring at the end of last week:
“Wrestling? Yes. Boxing? Yes. MMA? Yes. Acting? Yes. Everything yes right now… My non-profit working with kids, I love doing that, I love working with kids, I want to give back.”
“I do a lot of real estate, I’ve been linking with some real estate professionals down here [in Texas] to bring some of my properties down here.”
“I’m doing it all. I look at it this way — YOLO, you only live once. But I have a lot of gas in the tank. I’m in great shape. I feel good. I’m motivated. I’m rested.”
Lashley also sought to clarify comments he made regarding the differences in his relationships with former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon and current WWE chief content officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque, which he felt were twisted in a negative way:
“I just want to clarify… I made a comment about Triple H and Vince. First of all, when you look at any interview I’ve ever done, I’m never a negative person. I never badmouth anyone, I never badmouth the business. I left WWE in 2008, you can’t find any article where I said anything bad about the people there.”
“I said something where I had more of a relationship with Vince than Triple H, and everybody was going after me. Vince did this and Triple H did this. It was a very simple, innocent comment. When Vince was here, I had more conversations with him. I don’t know what anybody does in their personal life. And where I work, that’s what I concentrate on.“
“And when we were there, Vince was always trying to pull a different side of me. So there were different things I did at that time when I was in the wrestling business when Vince was in charge…”
“What Vince told me was I want to see different layers of you… He was like man, there’s so much more to you, so I want to make you feel uncomfortable on TV so that we can get those different layers.“
“So I had a different relationship with Vince. When Triple H came on, we didn’t really get a chance to sit down. He didn’t get a chance to get to know me.“