Bobby Lashley says he is fully healthy and cleared to return to AEW, while also suggesting that a potential MMA fight with Brock Lesnar could still happen.

Speaking at the Monopoly Events Fall Love of Wrestling convention, Lashley addressed rumors about his condition and made it clear he is no longer dealing with any injury issues.

“I am healed. Everybody thought I was hurt. I’m not hurt. Ready to go,” Lashley said.

Lashley has been away from AEW programming in recent months. He previously reunited with MVP and Shelton Benjamin as part of the Hurt Business, and he confirmed that their focus will remain on working together as a unit.

“Between Shelton and MVP, we want to do things collectively. We want to do things as a group,” Lashley said. “So I think we’re going to go after the trios guys. Let’s see what we can do with those guys, because I think that’s what we need.”

He also highlighted the bond within the group and how they continue to support each other.

“The crowd loves us over there. We have an opportunity to bring back what we had before, and it’s real,” Lashley said. “Shelton is an amazing person, an amazing wrestler. MVP is amazing at everything that he does. We just have a great group, and we’re all friends, so we all pull for each other. Anytime one of us is down, the other one pulls us up.”

Lashley added that his teammates have been pushing him to return.

“Right now they’re pulling me up. They’re yanking me back in. They said it’s ready. We’re ready to go back out there and win some titles,” he said.

He also commented on MJF, who is currently AEW World Champion.

“MJF has the title, so I think everybody has some unfinished business with him,” Lashley said. “But I have no hard feelings to anyone. All I want to do is win titles. So that’s where I’m really focused on when we get back.”

When asked about a possible MMA fight with Lesnar, Lashley said it would have delivered for fans.

“We would have both put on MMA gloves, and then we would have swung punches. We would have went takedowns. We would have swung punches, and it would have been great. And everybody would have loved it,” Lashley said.

He declined to predict a winner but expressed confidence in his abilities.

“I never say I’m going to beat anyone. I’m confident in what I can do,” Lashley said. “But nobody that goes out there and disrespects another fighter by saying they can beat them before they beat them. I’m a competitor. If you ask me if I can beat anybody, I can beat everybody in the world. But as respect for other fighters, until that happens, it is what it is.”

Lashley praised Lesnar as a competitor and left the door open for a future fight.

“I take my hat off to him, because Brock is a true competitor, and he loves the business, and he’s great at his character,” Lashley said. “I wish we would have had the opportunity to fight. I mean, we still have some time. We’re both in great shape. You saw Brock. He looks like a million bucks. I think we still have some time, so we can still book that for the fans.”

He even entertained the idea of the fight happening on a major platform.

“We can get on the Ronda-Gina card. That thing would do record numbers. I’m ready,” Lashley said.

Lashley also revealed there were informal discussions about him potentially joining the UFC, but nothing materialized as he chose to continue focusing on pro wrestling at the time.

Looking back, he admitted his mindset was different.

“I wasn’t in the mindset of, hey, let me go and win titles. Let me just go have some good fights and go out there and feed that desire that I had to go compete,” Lashley said.

He added that he might still have one more fight left in him.

“At the end of the day, I had a great time fighting, and I got maybe one more left in me,” he said.

Lashley also named several WWE stars he believes match his intensity in the ring, including Drew McIntyre, Roman Reigns, Bron Breakker, and Austin Theory, along with The Street Profits.

Bobby Lashley Says He’s Cleared to Return

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