Bobby Lashley has weighed in on the departure of Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods from WWE, calling it a fumble and suggesting the move could have major positive consequences for AEW’s tag team division.
Speaking on Good Karma Wrestling, Lashley was direct in his assessment of WWE’s handling of the New Day situation.
“Oh man. It’s one of those things where it’s like, that was a fumble. That was a fumble. Bro, you retire those guys. You take those guys to the end and give them whatever they want, because they’ve given the business everything. I don’t think there’s a person in the business that says, ‘Aye man, I don’t like those guys,’ or, ‘Those guys treated me wrong,’ or, ‘Those guys weren’t good to me.’ There’s no one. And we saw that one time before when somebody else got released.
When somebody else got released, they had to bring him back because they were like, oh! This is a bad move. Well, this is a horrible move also. But it can be a great move for someone else. So at the end of the day, we might see some different mix-ups and the tag team division might become really, really, really strong and interesting in AEW, and if so, a tremendous amount of fans will go over there because they’ll start kind of saying, what’s going on? Isn’t this business built on respect? And if you have respect for the business, you have respect for the people in the business, and these guys should have a lot of respect in the business. So what’s going on?” Lashley said.
Kingston spent approximately 20 years with WWE before his departure while Woods had been with the company for around 16 years. Both have since posted their own farewell statements following the news of their exits on May 2.
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