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Bobby Lashley Reveals WWE Stars He Wanted To Put Over Before Leaving The Company

Some big names have parted ways with WWE this year and Bobby Lashley’s contract with the company expired a few months ago. Lashley recently made his debut with All Elite Wrestling, but it sounds like he still had a number of wrestlers he was looking to work with before he left WWE.

Bobby Lashley opened up about his WWE departure during an appearance on The Lame Guys Wrestling Podcast, and he noted that he was hoping to put over Angelo Dawkins, Montez Ford, Austin Theory and LA Knight on his way out.

“Over at AEW, my career and where it is now, it’s really good for me. Could I or would I have hoped to stay with WWE? Absolutely. My plan was to have one more, maybe two years, and then retire with WWE. I was doing the stuff with the Street Profits. What I ultimately wanted at the end of that is, when I go out, there are certain things I wanted to do. I wanted Dawkins and or Montez to turn on me, and I wanted to have a feud with one and then the other and eventually have both of them take me out at the end. Both of them are amazingly talented. I ultimately wanted to get beat.

There are three or four people that I wanted to go out (against). I wanted every one of them to have a good feud with me and I wanted to put all of them over. It was definitely Dawkins, Montez, Austin Theory, I wanted to turn him babyface, and I never had the opportunity to do something with LA Knight. He and I were good friends in IMPACT and coming over, we had several talks about him coming up and what he was going to do. That would have been a cool one. Outside of that, I had no ego with it, I wanted to go out in the right way. That just didn’t happen.”

Bobby Lashley will be in action at the AEW Full Gear pay-per-view this weekend as he’s set to go one on one with Swerve Strickland. Stay tuned for updates.

H/T Fightful

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