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Bobby Lashley On Possibly Facing Brock Lesnar, Which Surprising WWE Stars He Thinks Could Excel In MMA

Bobby Lashley recently spoke with James Stewart for 98.5 The Sports Hub in Boston while promoting tonight’s RAW taping; you can read a few transcribed highlights below:

(Transcription credit to Bill Pritchard for Wrestlezone.com) 

Is one of his goals to face Brock Lesnar?

That is definitely something I would be interested in. Ever since I’ve started in the business everyone has compared Brock [Lesnar] and I, so I think that’s a match that just needs to happen at some point in time.

Who do you think in the WWE locker room would be a successful candidate to transition into MMA?

I think everybody has an opportunity—of course if you had a background—an athletic background or rather a combat background that would give you a better opportunity. But most of the guys currently in MMA don’t have a background in wrestling. If you’re talking about somebody that could just hop right into it, of course you’d have to bring up Chad Gable. He was an Olympian, I believe that he could go in there and he has the work ethic; he’s an animal in the ring working out. The Authors Of Pain—both of those guys—[Gzim Selmani aka ‘Rezar] is a kickboxing world champion. [Sunny Dhinsa aka Akam] is a multi-time wrestling champion. So both of those guys, and [Rezar] fought for Bellator for a while, so he could do it.

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