Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Eric Bischoff who is also the first ever General Manager of Monday Night RAW recently looked back at Bobby Lashley working in TNA Wrestling and revealed why he was fired from the promotion back in 2010.
Bobby Lashley signed with TNA Wrestling back in 2009 after his departure from WWE. TNA back in those days was mostly built on established names from WWE. The promotion focused less on promoting their own talents and they relied more on released WWE stars that are already settled.
Eric Bischoff Reveals Why TNA Fired Bobby Lashley In 2010
Lashley was one of the name back in the time who was signed by TNA wrestling back in 2009 after his departure from WWE. He was introduced as one of the members of the Main Event Mafia stable led by Kurt Angle and he did pretty good in a very short amount of time in TNA Wrestling. He was mostly treated as a big threat and a potential main event for the future.
But in 2010 he was released from TNA wrestling as the he claimed himself that he wanted to focus more on his MMA career. After his release from WWE he started working on the Independent circuit and work on the Indies and in Japan for four years.
In 2014 he made his return to TNA Wrestling and this time he was treated as a legit main event star and he won the TNA World Heavyweight championship for a total number of four times. 2018 he left TNA Wrestling and joined WWE once again.
Eric Bischoff who is also the first ever General Manager of Monday Night RAW recently spoke on his 83 Weeks Podcast where he looked back at Bobby Lashley working in TNA Wrestling and revealed why he was fired from the promotion back in 2010. He said;
“Bobby was easy. Bobby was like working with butter. He was so easy. I’m talking about backstage, right? Just classy, easy, professional.”
“Kristal (Marshall) was not (so easy to work with). She was a little hard to deal with and she kind of ran that show, so that created a little bit of tension. As time went on, you know, she got in the way of Bobby’s career, not that it hurt Bobby at all.
“Obviously, TNA was not going to be where Bobby was going to end up. I actually fired Bobby Lashley in TNA. It wasn’t my decision to fire him. I was just voted the guy to go tell him and it was really because of her, not because of Bobby.
“I don’t know if it was Dixie. It had to be Dixie. Somebody made the decision that it was time for Bobby to go and nobody wanted to go tell him, so I got nominated. It was not my decision to fire him. I’m just giving him the bad news.”
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