Bobby Lashley is a extremely adorned skilled wrestler. He’s an eight-time world champion (WWE, ECW, TNA), a three-time United States Champion, and a two-time Intercontinental Champion, amongst different accolades. He was additionally paired with former United States President Donald Trump for a high-profile match at WrestleMania 23, which WWE billed because the “Battle Of The Billionaires.”
Through the build-up to that match, Trump famously flubbed Lashley’s final identify throughout an interview, mistakenly referring to him as “Bobby Lindsay.” It seems that Trump nonetheless can’t keep in mind Lashley’s identify.
Donald Trump was the particular visitor on this week’s new episode of the Six Ft Beneath podcast. The pair had been reminiscing about their reminiscences of the wrestling enterprise. Taker then shared a narrative about how his family and friends had been at a WWE occasion. He famous Trump was in attendance, and he was requested to maneuver again a row so Taker’s group might sit at ringside. Trump obliged, however Taker apologized for his pal’s huge head, which resulted in a humorous photograph of Trump leaning round to see the motion.
Trump then introduced up his notorious look at WrestleMania 23. Vince McMahon introduced Umaga to the ring and Trump was in Bobby Lashley’s nook. The stipulation of the match was that the dropping billionaire would have their head shaved within the ring. Trump remembered that and he remembered Umaga’s identify, however couldn’t fairly keep in mind who he was there for.
“The large factor — we had the Battle Of The Billionaires. There was Vince and me, and we every had our wrestler,” Trump defined. “He had Umaga, we had two good guys, and so they wrestled. And thankfully, my man gained and the loser needed to have their hair shaved. I mentioned, ‘I don’t need to have my hair shaved!’ However we really wrestled slightly bit. It was a fairly well-known factor, however I feel it has [WWE’s] all-time document for [pay-per-view buys]. It was a giant one.”
Bobby Lashley on Donald Trump in WWE
Bobby Lashley mirrored on working with Trump for one in every of Lana’s (CJ Perry) backstage vlogs. Lashley mentioned Trump was an necessary a part of the story, and requested how he might assist advance the story as a substitute of choosing his personal spots.
“It was an unbelievable time. And I can let you know one factor about Trump, when he got here there, he didn’t say, ‘I’m going to wrestle for you, Bobby. I’m going to do the refereeing for you, Steve [Austin].’ He got here on the market and mentioned, ‘What can I do to make this higher.’ And we simply used the sources that he had and all the pieces was nice,” Lashley mentioned. “He was an awesome staff participant right through it. It simply made the angle, the entire story, the feud, all the pieces, it made it nice. He was an important half.”
Lashley mentioned Trump additionally instructed him he had an awesome physique and tried encouraging him to get along with a Miss America contestant.
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