Up to now into his AEW run, Bobby Lashley has maintained his usual standard of dominance, having a lengthy reign as an AEW World Tag Team Champion with Hurt Syndicate stablemate Shelton Benjamin in 2025. But thus far, singles success has eluded Lashley, largely because he’s stayed out of wrestling singles matches since his rivalry with Swerve Strickland in late 2024.
Pursuing singles championships is something Lashley would love to do in AEW eventually, nonetheless. Appearing on the “Good Karma Wrestling” podcast, Lashley was asked about his other goals in AEW, and admitted that he hadn’t given up on the thought of pursuing the AEW World Championship. He believes the fans could be into the thought, and that all of it comes right down to the timing lining up.
“I’ve won a World Title in TNA, I’ve won a World Title in WWE,” Lashley said. “Now I’m in AEW…I feel the fans see it. The fans see it. At any time when you set a title on another person, the fans are looking like ‘Oh man, I actually like that title.’ After which anyone else says ‘Bobby Lashley,’ and so they’re like ‘Woah, wait a minute. You have got Bobby Lashley on the roster, why is not he winning the World Title?’ Timing, timing.
“Straight away, I’m having the best time of my life, and that is being a tag team with Shelton Benjamin. It’s about being trios with Shelton and MVP. That is what I would like to be in my profession without delay. After which when the time’s right, when the landscape opens up, when it gives me the chance to go in there, I’d prefer to go after that World Title. Because ultimately, in my profession before I retire, to say I won World Title’s in every organization that I have been in could be an enormous accomplishment.”
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