Bobby Lashley recently spoke to Sports Illustrated about his MMA career, his wrestling career and more. During the interview Bobby Lashley mentioned that he thinks wrestling has lost its sense of realism.
“Wrestling has lost its sense of realism. Some of these guys try to walk down to the ring with a mean look on their face, but you know they don’t have a friggin’ mean bone in their whole body. Umaga could legitimately beat people up. He was a tough, tough Samoan. I came from a legit wrestling and fighting background, so when we locked up, the crowd said, ‘Oh sh–, now it’s on.’”
As far as his relationship with Vince McMahon goes Lashley says that he still keeps in tough with both Vince and Shane McMahon.
“There is no bad blood between Vince and myself. I still speak with Vince off and on, and Shane is a good friend. We text and joke around all the time, and I was just talking to him last week. But there are definitely some things in WWE that should happen and could happen, and there are people who are not in WWE but should be.”
Bobby also mentioned that he’s been left in the dark as far as TNA’s future is concerned.
“You know more than I know. I have the security of my body being healthy and I know I can fight for the duration of my career. I’ve also built my name up in wrestling enough where I have a little bit of security in that genre. If TNA is not around, I can still get my wrestling fix other places.”
