For years Bobby Lashley vs. Brock Lesnar was a major dream match and the two stars finally collided at the WWE Royal Rumble premium live event in 2022. Lashley picked up a win over Brock Lesnar at the Royal Rumble, and Brock Lesnar went on to score a victory over Bobby Lashley later that year at Crown Jewel. The two faced off one more time at Elimination Chamber in 2023, but some fans felt that their final encounter was underwhelming as it ended with a disqualification.
While talking to Chris Van Vliet on Insight, Bobby Lashley reflected on his feud with Brock Lesnar, and he shared his take on why he thinks a partnership between the two stars could have helped them build to a bigger feud.
“I wanted to do a lot more with it. I wish we could have really done the things that we could have and should have wanted to do with that. I think people could have really got sold into just us training to fight each other and some of the heat that we could have brought. Brock was a natural bully, but in this sense, he was kind of a babyface, because he was that guy coming back and forth and I was a heel at the time. But it could have showed how we prepared for a fight with each other and it could have showed something different. It could have been so much like the Rocky story.”
“I even went to a point where I was like, man, wouldn’t it be cool that they would have brought us both back here and then put us together, had Paul Heyman find a way to put us both together, and then the whole time we win tag team titles and he keeps referring to I got the greatest fighter in the world and the greatest tag team. Then it got to a point like, who you keep talking about as the greatest fighter? Because you’re only saying one person. So that could have built some natural animosity there. And it’s like, hold on a second man, I know you and Brock have this history, but you keep saying you have the greatest fighter and the greatest tag team. So Who are you referring to? And it could have been my ego got in the way, or something like that, whatever it was, whatever it did, but it brought us apart.
Because they always said some of the best feuds are the people that were together first, and something brought us apart. Could have been, I don’t know if we could have put us two together as a tag team, because it might have been too dominant, but I still see there were some people in there that we could have had great fights with and great matches with if we needed to.”
