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your favorite actors and athletes. The main character of our video today is Bobby Lashley.
American professional wrestler, mixed martial artist, and armed forces veteran
Bobby Lashley was born Franklin Roberto Lashley on July 16, 1976 in Junction City,
Kansas. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name
Bobby Lashley, and is the current WWE Champion in his first reign.
Lashley is also known for his time in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling/Impact Wrestling,
as well as his mixed martial arts career in Bellator MMA. He is one of two wrestlers in
history to have won the WWE, ECW, and TNA/Impact world championships, the other being Rob Van Dam.
Lashley is the son of Clara Lashley and Bobby Lashley, a U.S. Army drill sergeant. He has three
older sisters, Cathy, Frances and Jessica Lashley, one of whom is still on active service in the U.S.
Air Force as of 2015. The family occasionally moved from one military base to another.
He was introduced to amateur wrestling in seventh grade at Fort Riley Middle School.
He then attended Junction City High School and Missouri Valley College, winning a stack
of titles along the way. After graduating in 1999 with a bachelor's degree in human-service agency
management and recreation administration, Lashley followed his father into the army and continued
to compete in amateur wrestling in the army's World Class Athlete Program. During three years
in the army, he won a gold and silver medal in the International Military Sports Council senior
freestyle wrestling event. In 2003, Lashley was forced to dive for cover to avoid gunfire during
a bank heist, this resulted in a knee injury that required surgery, ending his amateur career.
The wrestler, as far as public knowledge goes, never married. He dated Kristal Marshall,
a former WWE Diva and retired professional wrestler, from 2007 to 2011. Two children
were born to their relationship, a son named Myles in 2008, and a daughter, Naomi, in 2011.
Meanwhile, Bobby Lashley had a daughter named Kyra,
who had come from a former relationship in 2005.
In mid-2005, Lashley debuted in World Wrestling
Entertainment (WWE), wrestling in dark matches for the Raw and SmackDown! brands,
where he later became a one-time United States Champion. On November 14, 2006, Lashley moved
to the ECW brand. He became a two-time ECW World Champion, the first African-American to hold the
championship and the third African-American world champion in WWE history, after The Rock and Booker
T. During this time, he had a high-profile rivalry with company chairman Vince McMahon,
which included representing Donald Trump in the "Battle of the Billionaires" at WrestleMania 23,
before leaving the company in 2008. He subsequently pursued a career in MMA
and had his first professional fight in December 2008. After amassing a career record of 10–2,
he signed with Bellator MMA in 2014 where he won all five of his career bouts from 2014 to 2016.
In 2009, he began appearing in TNA (later renamed to Impact), where he became a four-time
TNA/Impact World Heavyweight Champion and the first African-American to hold that championship.
He was also a one-time X Division Champion and the final King of the Mountain Champion. After
returning to WWE in 2018, he was assigned to the Raw brand, becoming a two-time Intercontinental
Champion and winning a second United States Championship. He ultimately won his first WWE
Championship, becoming the third African-American to hold the WWE Championship, after The Rock and
Kofi Kingston. Lashley has headlined multiple pay-per-view events for WWE and TNA/Impact,
including the 2016 edition of the latter's flagship event, Bound for Glory. He is one of two
wrestlers to have won the WWE, ECW, and TNA/Impact world championships, the other being Rob Van Dam.
Bobby Lashley has a net worth of $5 million dollars, as of 2021.
Lashley has been involved in several business ventures. In 2007, he opened up a health
smoothie shop. In July 2009, he announced the launch of the Lashley Network of websites,
comprising his official gym, nutrition store, and social media pages.
In a press release for the launch, he stated that he was aiming to keep his reputation
and name in the public eye so he could reach his goal of being the top MMA fighter.
Lashley is featured in the video games WWE SmackDown vs Raw 2007 and WWE SmackDown
vs Raw 2008. He made his first appearance in a WWE video game in 11 years appearing
as a downloadable character for WWE 2K19. He appears in WWE 2K20 and WWE 2K Battlegrounds,
and will appear in the upcoming WWE 2K22 game set to be released in March 2022.
One of the most surprising facts about Bobby Lashley is the fact he is a Trump supporter.
The pair does have a history, since Lashley was on Team Trump a couple of years ago, which saw Vince
McMahon’s head shaved after Team Vince suffered a loss against Team Trump at WrestleMania 23.
During an interview with the Ottawa Sun, Lashley stated Trump is not a racist. He also said he
likes Trump on a professional and personal level. So how do you think about him? Leave a comment to
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