Bobby Lashley on His Continued Interest in MMA, If He Still Wants to Fight

– Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp spoke to WWE United States Champion Bobby Lashley ahead of WWE SummerSlam 2022, and Lashley discussed his career. Below are some highlights from Fightful:

Bobby Lashley on still training with MMA: “I opened up a couple of gyms and those gyms, I have a couple of fighters that are fighting in the UFC right now, Youssef Zalal and I have a couple other guys that were in my gym before that are still fighting, too. Fighting’s in me. I either want to do a cage fight or do a bare knuckles fight.”

His thoughts on Alex Huddleston: “Alex is one of my favorite people in this world. That guy is amazing. The cool thing about him is when we first started training, I went to Kansas City and I was training with him. Alex was knocking everybody else out. He’s a monster. He’s a jiu-jitsu guy. Before I came out there, I was wrestling him and I took him down. He was like, ‘Damn. I never felt a heavyweight like that before.’ So he moved out to Denver and he helped me out with my gym. He was training there and he went from knocking everybody out with kickboxing. He was like, ‘Man, I think it’s smarter to go on the ground.’ So he started doing jiu-jitsu and now he’s a black belt in jiu-jitsu and probably one of the most intelligent minds in jiu-jitsu right now. He is phenomenal. I can’t say enough good things about him.”

On if anyone ever tried to test him in an MMA ring or training session due to him being a pro wrestler: “I had one person try to do something that was a sleight to me and afterwards I was like, ‘Hey, good match,’ and everything like that. I’d never give them the opportunity to think that they had something that over on me or got in my head. So it’s one of those things in our business where if they do it, you say, ‘Alright,’ smile and everything and then when you get in the ring again, you give them one back and say, ‘You remember last time? That’s what that was for.’ But I don’t think anybody’s really tested me because I’m not that guy. I’m pretty much not an asshole. I try to work with people as much as possible. If someone wants to take a cheap shot at me – yes, I will pay them back. But I’m not one to pick unnecessary fights.”

Lashley successfully retained his US title last month at SummerSlam against Theory. He also retained the title earlier this week on Raw with a successful defense against Ciampa.