Bobby Lashley doesn’t think WWE has any serious competition at the top of the wrestling world. In a recent interview with DAZN, Bobby Lashley summarized his past few months in the ring and spoke about the landscape of professional wrestling. Check out the highlights below.
On the current Professional Wrestling landscape:
I think it’s great right now. I think there’s a lot of competition. I think we’re doing some big things, and we’re moving into a big season for us, with some big news coming around. I think that it’s a good time to be a wrestling fan, and it’s a good time for a wrestler with a good time to step up for everyone. Everybody always says competition is good. I don’t think really we have any serious competition. But the fans like it, the fans like the fact that there are other things going on that forces us to step up.
On how his past few months have gone:
Showing that I can be out there with anyone and I can do it with anyone out there. Bill’s had some ups and downs, a lot of downs, but we had some ups. We had a good match in Saudi (Arabia). We had a good match at SummerSlam. Big E also. You can’t have a good, good guy without a good bad guy. I hold so much for the roster across the board. Anybody that gets in the ring with me. They just have to survive. If they survive, it’s gonna elevate their career. A lot of the guys I’ve worked with within the last year from Apollo, who is starting to do some big things and changed his career. Riddle as well. I think everything that I’ve been doing up to this point has been fantastic and only gonna get better.
On sharing the ring with a fellow African-American (Big E) for the WWE Championship:
The biggest thing for me is I like to make sure that it’s a norm. I want to make all these things the norm. Like when I won the title, they were like, ‘Oh, you’re the third African-American, you’re the third black champion, and then Big E was the fourth’. I’m like, ‘We don’t need to put that next to it anymore. It’s just the norm’. I want it to get to the norm with anyone. We don’t want to say, ‘You’re the second African-American, you’re the second Mexican, you’re the second this’. It’s not even about that anymore. I think it’s just making it a norm. Everybody gets the opportunity to win that title. We put in the work. You do the things you have to do. You hustle, and you have the opportunity to win it, and it’s no asterisk by your name. It’s just here’s the guy. Here’s the guy who it is now. I’m glad that we broke those barriers and started to make this a norm. But ultimately, I just wanted to be, ‘Here’s your champion, period’.
You can read the entire interview here.
