Bobby Lashley revealed what Vince McMahon said to him following winning the WWE Championship where he defeated The Miz.
Lashley had been interviewed by FOX Sports, and below is what Lashley said about his title win.Â
âThe one thing that is more important than anything for me, itâs more than money, itâs that legacy. I was able to etch my name into the history of professional wrestling that only a few people can say that they actually have. Then, when you look at the lineage of people that have held that title, to put my name amongst those guys ⊠I canât even articulate what that means to me. This is huge, because being the WWE Champion, they expect a lot out of you. You gotta carry the show. You got a lot of things to go through. You gotta put on some of the best matches. You gotta do the things that a lot of the other guys arenât doing.
Before I came back on this last run, I told them, âI want all of that. Because thatâs what I came back for. Iâm coming back for that WWE Championship and Iâm not stopping until I get it. Then, when I do get it, Iâm ready to build a legacy.â I wanted Bobby Lashleyâs time, âThe Almightyâ Lashleyâs time, with that title to mean something, and mean something big. Thatâs what I want to make happen.â
Then he had stated what Vince said to him:
âBooker came on and said it one time on one of the pre-shows, he was like, âMan, you should be main eventing. I donât know what youâre doing right now, but I donât know why they donât have Bobby main eventing WrestleMania.â Booker said that,â Lashley recalled. âTo me, that meant the world, because I have so much respect for Booker. I have so much respect for a lot of the guys that I came up and first worked with, like JBL and Booker, some of those guys, so Iâve been hearing some really good word from some of those guys and those words really resonated in me and let me realize to stop just having fun. Youâre not here to have fun. Vince doesnât want you here to have fun. Vince wants to get in an argument with you because youâre fighting for something that you want. Vince wants you to step out of the box and do something bigger.
Vince wants you to want WrestleMania so much that the crowd forces them to give you that title. And I think I started to get into that point this last year, several months definitely. Iâve been mean, man. Iâve been mean. I go out there with a vengeance and thereâs a whole lot of confidence running through me.
When I was able to go through that curtain [after winning the WWE Championship] and give Vince a hug, he grabbed me and he held me for a while and was like, âMan, Iâm proud of you.ââ
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