WWE Champion Bobby Lashley Reveals Shocking Details of UFC President Dana White’s Offer to Him: “Everything Was Left Up in the Air for Me”

Bobby Lashley has been a dominant name in the combat sports industry. Apart from his successful pro-wrestling run, he had a stellar MMA career and earned a 15-2 professional record. Despite such a good run, he never competed in the UFC and he revealed his reasons for the same.

Bobby Lashley faced many issues trying to be a full-time MMA fighter. One of them was his desire to stay in pro-wrestling.

Per ‘The Almighty’ Bellator gave him a much more flexible schedule where he could also pursue pro-wrestling besides MMA, but the UFC deal wasn’t very flexible.

He appeared on The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani and said, “Dana seems fair, he said. You know we can’t offer him a huge contract, but we can give him something that he can get his foot in the door and prove himself…Dan was like, but they want you to sign everything. There’s no more pro wrestling… You can’t offer me a contract and say, yeah, we’ll bring him in, but he needs to shut all that down with small money.” 

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‘The Almighty’ continued, “Everything was left up in the air for me with Coker, and I wish I could have did that with Dana, but I understand that you can’t do that in the UFC. He’s not gonna let anybody have that part-time, do-whatever-you-want kind of contract and that’s what I needed and that’s what he wasn’t willing to give.” 

When it came down to a decision, Lashley expressed it would make much more financial sense to go back to pro wrestling. He saw more opportunity for growth in wrestling with his already established name.

Bobby Lashley’s current WWE run could be his best

Lashley is the current WWE champion and has become of the industry’s top stars. He is currently in his second WWE Championship reign and is looking stronger than ever. His career really took off in the pandemic era of 2020-21 when he teamed up with MVP. Since then, ‘The Almighty’ has seen a meteoric rise and has continuously had big main event matches.

With no signs of stopping, Lashley has beaten his competition and continues to be one of the most dominant WWE Champions in history. Defeating Brock Lesnar was an incredible career achievement (even though he had help from Roman Reigns). He will next defend his WWE Championship inside the Elimination Chamber on February 19th.

Should ‘The Almighty’ be successful, he will head to his second consecutive WrestleMania as the WWE champion.

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