MVP, Bobby Lashley, Shelton Benjamin, and Cedric Alexander came together during the pandemic as The Hurt Business. The group 🐼was heavily featured on television and collected gold during their time together, but split just after WrestleMania 37.
Despite teases of a reun🅘ion every year after the⭕ir split, the group was never fully put back together.
According to MVP, there was a reunion 𝔉planned and nearly executed.
"We were told we were going to be reunited. I still have a shirt. The shirts were made. Hurt Business on the front. Back in business on the back. They were made. We were told that it was going to happen. Next thing I see, Bobby is with the Street Profits. 'What happened here?' I get a call from Bruce (Prichard), 'Somebody should have called you. Sorry. We decided we're going in a different direction.' What the fuck is that? That's not professional. That's how it went down. I'm a professional. I show up and I go to work and do what I'm told. In the pro wrestling business, once you get to a certain level, you do have input into what you do. It's one thing when we're told, 'We're going to do this' and steps have been made, and then there is a pivot without a conversation. That's not good business. I don't care what anybody thinks. That's not how you do business. Needless to say, I was very salty about that. We had Bobby going from a two-time WWE champion to not being in the conversation or in the title picture at all. Got put with The Street Profits [Montez Ford & Angelo Dawkins], who were white hot, and they got cooled off. The Street Profits went from being major figures to sitting in catering. I don't know why. I don't understand it, but I don't make decisions in that way," MVP said on
Lashley was🐭 paired with the Street Profits in July 2023.
Lashley and MVP both departed🍬 WWE in the summ𓆏er of 2024.
Elsewhere during the signing, MVP clarified he never called Triple H a racist. You can find his full comments by clicking here.
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