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Time goes by truthful quickly sometimes it’s unreal to deliberation that MVP and his Hurt Syndicate faction members, Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin, person been astatine All Elite Wrestling (AEW) for astir 2 afloat years.
MVP first debuted connected Sept. 25, 2024, aft a 2nd stint pinch WWE. Lashley and Benjamin would debut connected "Dynamite" a fewer weeks later. Since then, MVP has guided nan duo to 1 AEW tag squad title reign.
He reflected connected his clip pinch AEW successful a caller question and reply pinch Fox News Digital, contrasting nan institution pinch different places wherever he’s worked.
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Bobby Lashley, MVP, and Shelton Benjamin time off Swerve Strickland and Prince Nana lying successful nan ringing during AEW Dynamite connected Oct. 30, 2024, astatine nan Wolstein Center successful Cleveland, Ohio. (Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire)
"AEW is really cool because nan firm civilization location is truthful different from nan different places that I’ve worked. Tony Khan is highly passionate astir master wrestling. For him, it’s not conscionable immoderate business venture, he genuinely loves pro wrestling," he said. "He eats it, he drinks it, he breathes it. He’s been a wrestling instrumentality since he was a mini child. He knows much wrestling astir apt than anybody I cognize conscionable because of his encyclopedic knowledge of history. And working for him is simply a pleasure. The climate, nan ambiance location is truthful relaxed and everybody’s passionate.
"Everybody knows we person an opportunity pinch AEW to create thing new. And WWE has been ‘the’ institution and AEW has travel on and has fixed wrestling fans a morganatic replacement to nan WWE brand. I don’t get into nan tribalism. I emotion master wrestling and I don’t attraction what 3 letters are successful beforehand of it. The tribalism is ridiculous. I eat astatine McDonald’s and Burger King. … And astatine this shape of my career, AEW has a batch of young talent who person immense upside but tons of them are still learning really to do TV and really to attack master wrestling from a tv perspective.
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Bobby Lashley makes his measurement to nan ringing during AEW Dynamite connected Oct. 30, 2024, astatine nan Wolstein Center successful Cleveland, Ohio. (Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire)
"So, I person capable acquisition moving crossed various companies and doing TV virtually astir nan world that I’m capable to impart immoderate of my acquisition connected them to dream to turn individual talent and collectively lend to nan maturation of nan company. So, I emotion it, conscionable because nan ambiance location is truthful comfortable and you know, astatine slightest from my acquisition and what I deliberation astir group from AEW will show you, it’s refreshing to activity for a leader who genuinely cares astir his talent and who cares astir master wrestling arsenic an creation form, arsenic shape of intermezo and not conscionable a bottommost statement business venture."
Benjamin and Lashley still look and execute arsenic good arsenic they did erstwhile they first started pinch WWE. Benjamin will move 51 and Lashley will move 50 successful July.
MVP said nan duo are "still tin of virtually anything," moreover astatine their age.
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"Bobby and Shelton, they didn’t show maine but they recovered nan fountain of youth," he told Fox News Digital. "I wish they would smarten maine up because I don’t cognize wherever that is. It seems for illustration Shelton, now astatine 50, is amended than he’s ever been and he hasn’t mislaid a step. He still looks amazing. Bobby, if you return a image of Bobby from erstwhile he debuted and put it to a image of him correct now, there’s virtually nary difference. They’re still tin of virtually anything. They still person awesome matches pinch younger talent. In position of what nan untapped imaginable is, we’re nan Syndicate man – domination."
The Hurt Syndicate will play a awesome domiciled astatine Double aliases Nothing connected Sunday nighttime successful New York. Benjamin and Lashley will squad up pinch Chris Jericho, Kenny Omega, Jack Perry, Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson successful a Stadium Stampede Match against Ricochet, Bishop Kaun, Toa Liona, Mark Davis, Andrade El Idolo, Clark Connors and David Finlay.
Wrestlers Shelton Benjamin and MVP be nan Los Angeles premiere of "Queen Of The Ring" astatine AMC The Grove 14 connected March 6, 2025. (Michael Tullberg/Getty Images)
What tin pro wrestling fans expect from a Stadium Stampede Match, which debuted astatine Double aliases Nothing successful 2019? MVP put it simply.
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"I’ll sum it up successful 2 words: chaos and violence."
Ryan Gaydos is simply a elder editor for Fox News Digital.
