Bobby Lashley says it’s time to stop saying “Black champion” and instead normalize talking about everyone as champions.
During his time in WWE, Bobby Lashley etched his name in the history books by winning the WWE Championship. Upon his arrival in AEW, he started feuding with former AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland. Lashley beat Strickland at AEW Full Gear.
Speaking at the AEW Full Gear post-show media scrum, Bobby Lashley was asked about facing a former Black world champion in Swerve Strickland and seeing other Black champions like Private Party.
“I don’t like that, I don’t like that ‘Black champion.’ It’s just a champion,” Lashley said. “We’ve normalized this already, and that’s what I want to do with it. Winning a title as a ‘Black champion’, and there’s other Black champions here, we can kind of erase that word now and we can just say champion.
“It can be a Black champion, it can be an Asian champion, it can be a Latin champion, it can be any champion. So we have already normalized us, and we can kind of erase that ‘Black champion,’ and it’s just champion now.”
Lashley previously said that the new WWE regime was not high on him, and he looked back on the end of his time with the company. Check out his comments here.
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