The Hurt Business was formed by Bobby Lashley and MVP, later, they added Shelton Benjamin and Cedric Alexander. It became the dominant force in WWE very soon and currently, Bobby Lashley holding the WWE Title and Cedric & Shelton holding the Raw Tag Team Champions.
The current WWE Champion Bobby Lashley recently had an interview with The Warp and revealed how they came up with the Hurt Business name. Lashley said that this name was used by his former boxing coach several years ago and he thought that it should be used in WWE. Here what Bobby Lashley said:
“It was me. I was thinking about this before, I was thinking about the whole thing before. Originally, a boxing coach that I had down in Coconut Creek at American Top Team. He used to always wear this T-shirt and I was like, man, that is incredible man, that needs to be in WWE because that’s my character. I just need a group. So I just loved it forever. And this was several years back, several, several years back, and I held onto it. And when we came, I was still holding onto it. And I was like man, I wanted to do something like that, but I need the right people involved.”
Lashley also said that after sticking to this name, they checked for any copyright or anyone used it before. Then, he found that no one used it and asked permission from his former boxing coach, he said go-ahead with it.
“But when we went to go look for The Hurt Business at that time, I was like, man, let’s try The Hurt Business, and we sent it in and then when it came back it shocked us. Like, what? Nobody has it? Nobody copyrighted it or nothing… And the merch guy came up to me and was like, ‘Bro, you’ll never believe it, it is open.’ I said let’s go, let’s start printing. And as soon as we put it out, the T-shirts went like crazy at the beginning. Black and gold, The Hurt Business, it was beautiful. And then our group just kind of formed from there.
And then before I ran with it, I called my boxing coach down there at Coconut Creek and I asked for his blessing and he was like, ‘Use the name, just send me a few T-shirts.’ I said cool.”
After winning the WWE Title from The Miz, The Almighty Bobby Lashley successfully defended it against The Miz this week. It was also speculated that Bobby Lashley will go to WrestleMania 37 as WWE Champion to defend against Scottish Warrior Drew McIntyre.
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