Bobby Lashley appeared on the NotSam Wrestling podcast this week. Lashley revealed that pitched an idea for an angle to Vince McMahon a year or two ago:
“I told Vince a year ago, I think a year or two ago, I told him, ‘I want to do this character.’ He said, ‘What is it?’ I said, ‘If I get beat one time, I want to go into the severe depression and put on like 40, 50, 60, or 70 pounds and just be fat, and then be a completely different character and then have like somebody like an MVP, or somebody that’s on my side, kind of like, pull me back and then have the crowd watch his transition back to me.’ He said, ‘There’s no way you can do that.’ I said, ‘Man, I think I can.’”
Lashley was asked if it is true that he tried to get a bare knuckles match with Mike Tyson:
“When I said that, some people reported Bobby is challenging Mike Tyson. It’s not that. It’s having the ability to be and challenge yourself against some of the greats. The only reason I said bare knuckles was because the promoter was a bare knuckles promoter. I don’t think it was gonna be a bare knuckles fight.”
On if he would do a bare knuckles fight against Mike Tyson:
“I got kids. I got kids to feed. Let’s talk about money (he laughs). Let’s not talk about what I will do. Let’s talk about how much I will do it for. Let’s say, $10 million. Would I do it, yeah.”
Click below for the entire interview.
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