Montez Ford Reflects On Bobby Lashley’s WWE Exit, His Own Current Run

Montez Ford recently shared his thoughts on Bobby Lashley’s exit from WWE and how his own run in the company is going. Lashley exited WWE in August and made his AEW debut this week on Dynamite. Ford spoke with the Daily Mail for a new interview and you can see highlights below:

Speaking with Lewis Browning for Mail Sport, Montez Ford looked back on the Street Profits’ run with Bobby Lashley. He recalled how fans rejected the Street Profits being presented as heels. Ford then noted that anything can happen in wrestling, and he said he is doing his best to move forward now that Lashley has left the company. He also noted that the group’s momentum stopped after WWE WrestleMania XL.

On Lashley’s exit from the company: “I’m glad with what we had for the short period of time, B-Fab and the All Mighty when he was here. But what I took from that lesson is anything can happen, anything can transition, anybody can leave, anybody can just depart at any time. You kind of just have to pick up whatever’s left and just run with it. That’s exactly what I’m doing right now. When all of those things were happening, we were very, very excited, because he (Lashley) was somebody we looked up to, somebody I watched as a kid, and now I’m being paired with him, and he’s being my mentor, and he’s ushering us in this new chapter of The Street Profits. All these things are running, we have a WrestleMania win, and then boom, it just stops. It’s been this constant stop and go and stop and go and stop and go with the Profits where we’ll get momentum and then the momentum will stop, then momentum will start again, and the momentum will stop. For us, that’s frustrating, because it’s hard to get behind a team whose momentum starts and then it shifts again.”

On moving on from The Pride following Lashley’s exit: “This is a business at the end of the day. You can get into a faction. I have aspirations and passions and things I want to do, but if the other people that I’m attached to don’t have the same mentality, then it can fail. They can be having dreams or aspirations of being champion, or leaving or not renewing contracts or doing whatever else it is, but it’s not the same mindset of whatever I have going on. So I always take it as whatever you’re involved with just be prepared for it to shift, because everyone may not have the same mindset as you have. It’s like doing a group project at school. Everyone’s on the same page, but there’s always the one that may have different visions or a different route that they want to go, and you either have to reach a compromise and work it out together, where you reach a medium, or you all go your separate ways and you do what best works for yourself.”

On his current WWE run: “It’s the best, man. For me to sit here and go like, how’s it going, that it’s good, that’d be a lie. There’s always pleasure in doing what you love, what you admire, what you have dreamt of, what you have goals in and passion for, but it does get to that sense of frustration where anything you try to accomplish in life, where you may feel like it’s either taking too long, or it’s been too long, or nothing’s happening. You’ve got new faces showing up on the scene, and our audience naturally tends to forget what we’ve done and how we’ve done it. In the now, it is at the point where it’s been almost four years since we’ve been tag team champions.”

On occasionally being frustrated: “I’m not going to lie and say I don’t sit here and watch all the comments and everything. I watch everything. We’re not in conversations when it comes to top tag teams. We’re not in conversations when it comes to anything wrestling related, besides the fact of getting handled by The Bloodline, and that doesn’t sit well with me. So as well as is it is going in terms of being my dream job, it is enjoying as it is frustrating.”