Bobby Lashley won his first AEW PPV match against Swerve Strickland at the 2024 AEW Full Gear event. After the show, Lashley spoke with the media and addressed a question about joining a company with multiple “black champions.”
Lashley said, “I don’t like that, I don’t like that [term] ‘Black champion.’ It’s just a champion. We’ve normalized this already, and that’s what I want to do with it. Winning a title as a ‘Black champion’, and there’s other ‘Black champions’ here, we can kind of erase that word now and we can just say ‘champion.’”
“It can be a Black champion, it can be an Asian champion, it can be a Latin champion, it can be any champion. So we have already normalized us, and we can kind of erase that ‘Black champion,’ and it’s just champion now.”
Kate from #Fightful being dumb.#BobbyLashley with the perfect response. pic.twitter.com/cyphvvGmG6
— Makaveli (@MakaveliDTA) November 24, 2024
(quotes courtesy of Colin Tessier)
