In the world of professional wrestling it’s always good when you can get people talking. Earlier this year Bobby Lashley & The Street Profits were feuding with Final Testament heading into WrestleMania, and Lashley pitched an idea that surely would have received some attention.
During a recent appearance on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Karrion Kross talked about his feud with Bobby Lashley and he revealed that at one point Lashley suggested they should get into a backstage fight without telling anyone ahead of time.
“On the way to that Mania match, Bobby and I were constantly trying to find ways to intensify the conflict. Respectfully, we just felt like there were certain things on the way there that felt redundant. And it’s not me being salty about anything, it’s just him and I wanted to make this as intense and as crazy as possible. He had an idea to try to blur the lines on the way there, to make it feel as real as possible.
There was even one time Bob was like, ‘You know what we should do? All these guys, they like to talk and they like to run to the dirt sheets and stuff. Dude, we should fight at the beginning of the show. We should get in a fight because all these guys are going to go and call the dirt sheets and tell them that we actually had a fight, and it’s going to stir people up into what we’re doing on TV.’
I was like, ‘Bob, what? Hold on a sec. First of all, what happens if nobody breaks up the fight?’ And he was like, damn, I didn’t think about that. I go, Yeah. And also, what happens if we get fired? Because what are we going to do? Hunter’s going to pull us aside and be like, what’s wrong with you guys? [We say] Oh, it’s just a work. And he’s like, You guys are bleeding, what are you doing?
Then just the whole logical process of having to explain that it was a work and hoping that the office would have been okay with it, that we did that, and then it spilling. I was like let’s hold off on this idea. I said, I love crazy stuff like this, but please, let’s hold off on that idea.”
