During the AEW Full Gear media scrum, MVP, representing The Hurt Syndicate, stole the show not for wrestling but for his fiery demeanor and sharp responses to journalists.
Following Bobby Lashley’s dominant victory over Swerve Strickland in the co-main event, where Swerve passed out in The Hurt Lock, MVP made it clear he wasn’t tolerating questions or credentials he found lacking.
The drama began when a journalist asked Lashley about his motivation. MVP cut in, saying, “Bobby, that’s a dumba$$ question, man. Don’t answer that sh*t.” The blunt response left the room stunned.
The tension escalated when a reporter from The Believe Network tried to ask a question. MVP immediately challenged them, asking, “Do you have a journalism degree? From where?” When the reporter revealed they graduated from Full Sail University, MVP reluctantly let them proceed but made his disdain for “pretenders” evident.
Another journalist from The Wrestling Observer attempted to ask a question, but MVP shut it down completely, declaring, “No, we don’t entertain any questions from that nerd.”
In the end, Lashley was asked what it’s like to see so many black champions in All Elite Wrestling.
Here’s what the former WWE Champion replied:
“I don’t like that ‘black champion’, it’s just a ‘champion’. We have normalized this already and that’s what I want to do with it.
Winning a title as a ‘black champion’ and there are other black champions here, we can kind of erase that word now. We can just say champion.
It can be a black champion, it can be an Asian champion, it can be a Latin champion, it can be any champion. So we have already normalized this and we can kind of erase that ‘black champion’ and it’s just champion now.”
You can watch it below:
Bobby Lashley doesn't like the term "black champion" and wants to erase itpic.twitter.com/7LkuQR1hXS
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