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TRIPLE H & STEPH TAKE IN 'HAMILTON', LASHLEY ON WHY HE DIDN'T WALK AWAY FROM PRO WRESTLING FOR UFC AND MORE

Triple H and Stephanie McMahon lauded 'Hamilton' after seeing the Broadway production over the weekend:

WWE Champion Bobby Lashley was recently on the MMA Hour and discussed why he chose to step away from MMA competition to return to WWE full-time, noting, 

“I’m not a hundred percent sure, but I know that Dan [Lambert] had talked with Dana [White, UFC] at one time and Dana he was fair with it, he said, ‘You know we can’t offer him a huge contract, but we will give him something that he can get his foot in the door and kind of prove himself,’” Lashley said. “That’s all I knew and then when I talked with Dan about it — Dan’s a huge pro wrestling fan — Dan was like, ‘They want you to sign everything. There’s no more pro wrestling. Are you ready to shut the doors on pro wrestling?’ I was like, ‘Golly.’ You can’t offer me a contract and say, ‘Yeah we bring him in, but he needs to shut all of that down and get small money.’ Because the wrestling is something that I knew that I could really make some good money on long term. So I couldn’t take a small contract to prove myself where I had pro wrestling where I’d already proven myself and that was always my money bag that I could always go back to. So I really couldn’t do it.  Everything was left up in the air for me with [Scott] Coker [of Bellator] and I wish I could have done that with Dana, but I understand that you can’t do that in the UFC,” Lashley added. “He’s not gonna let anybody have that part-time, do-whatever-you-want kind of contract and that’s what I needed and that’s what he wasn’t willing to give.”

Former WWE star Lince Dorado sat down with Justin Barrasso of SportsIllustrated.com at this link.

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