Bobby Lashley recently left WWE and hasn't shied away from sharing his opinion that Triple H simply didn't have the same belief in him as Vince McMahon.
The expectation is that he'll eventually sign with AEW, reuniting with MVP, Shelton Benjamin, and Lio Rush. Reflecting on his last few months in WWE during an interview with The Lame Guys podcast, the former WWE Champion shared an idea he had for a feud with World Heavyweight Champion Gunther.
"When Gunther was rolling, there was one thing I wanted to do with him, and everybody would have been like, 'Ohhhhh,'" he started. "If we were still the Hurt Business, I was like, 'I want to roll up on him, and I want Gunther to say, 'People like you don’t deserve a chance at my title.' People would have been like, "What did he say?'"
"We would have toed that line. If you think about the German and these black dudes. 'Is there a little bit of racial tension there?' We didn’t have to go there, 'What do you mean by 'People like you?'' He could be like, 'Older guys in wrestling.' The crowd would have been like, 'Uhhh, did he say that?' Then I was going to say, 'I think you look familiar,' and do one of these [holds his thumb to his top lip, indicating a mustache]."
"There it is! I don’t know if we could have went there, but if we could have," Lashley continued. "There are so many things you could toe the line with there, and it could have been a huge feud."
No, what this would have been is offensive on at least two different levels. For starters, making Gunther a racist would have derailed his career, while typecasting an Austrian as a Nazi...well, let's not go there. Regardless, if Lashley is taking ideas like this to AEW...well, good luck to them.
Here's what the former WWE Superstar previously said about his contrasting relationships with Triple H and McMahon:
"If I say the wrong thing right now [laughs]. I had a connection with Vince. Vince understood me. Vince was big on, like, the show. He looked at people that were stars, and he saw that in me. And there were a lot of little nuggets that Vince would give me all the way throughout my career and tell me different things. So Vince just looked at me, he was like, ‘I can tell Bobby works his ass off. I can send him anywhere around the country to represent the company [and] the brand.’ He just looked at me like a star. So I like Vince [in this comparison]. I haven’t really had too much of a connection with Hunter. Hunter has his guys. And I’ve tried to, but we haven’t really worked enough together to get to know each other."
You can listen to a clip from the interview below.