Bobby Lashley had a good reason for working with Omos despite other WWE talent apparently trying to get him fired.
Recently, Bobby Lashley shared that people were trying to get Omos fired. While speaking on the Lame Guys Podcast, Bobby Lashley mentioned that early on in Omos’ career people were trying to get him fired. Thus, Lashley worked a match with Omos at WrestleMania 38 and that was well-received by fans, management, and critics alike.
Bobby Lashley on Omos
“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,” Bobby Lashley said. [H/T POST Wrestling]
Omos has been absent from in-ring action for the past couple of months. His last match was the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal on the WrestleMania episode of SmackDown in April.
