Chris Masters talk a possible return to WWE and a potential showdown with Bobby Lashley.
Since leaving WWE in 2011, Chris Masters has competed all across the world. Along with a few stints in IMPACT/TNA and the NWA, Masters has performed in promotions like F1RST Wrestling, Big Time Wrestling, WXW, along with many others.
In recent months, Masters has campaigned to return to WWE in the upcoming Royal Rumble match to face off against Bobby Lashley. In a new interview with Chris Van Vliet, Masters reiterated his desire to face off Lashley at WWE's second biggest event of the year.
"Oh, there's a lot of connections there. I'm kind of like a ghost from his past at this point. But like I just feel like you know in the right scenario you know, you have Lashley dominating with the hurt lock and then you were to hear that OG Chris Masters theme. I feel like and again this more is because everybody you know, I feel like since I've kind of started within the last year and this year to petition for the Rumble. Again, it's not as I don't feel like I'm ever coming back to WWE full time. For me, it would just be it would be great to come back to the Rumble to, you know, sort of make amends with certain people within the company, but also to show like you were saying before, show the WWE Universe the polished performer that I become and like, yeah, I wasn't able to do it there, unfortunately. But I did get there. And so for me, that would be, that would feel good. And like again, and but the biggest thing being about that oh sh*t moment of having that moment of me coming down the aisle and having like, some guy sitting next to his buddy slap on the chest, like 'Oh, my God, Hurt Lock vs. Master Lock, it's gonna happen.' Yeah, that's what it's about. So like, it's really not out of a place of selfishness and we're like, let's, let's have Chris Masters come back full time. But like, for all those reasons, it would be awesome."
Elsewhere in the podcast, Masters said that he hasn't really thought about a return to WWE, citing that his first couple of runs in the company didn't end very well.
"So, you know, all of this stuff has happened. And like I've never even thought about going back to WWE, honestly, because, and it's not out of anything bitter. It's just, you know, I had a couple of runs there and it ended the way it did. And, you know, I just realized that my love is for professional wrestling, even if it's not with WWE. But you know, with everything that I've learned in the last couple of years and then also seen Shelton, Carlito, MVP all my buddies you know, I finally started you know, looking at it and it was more out of this what you just mentioned. It was more not out of Chris Masters coming back, it was more out of because I remember getting in touch with that young wrestling fan. I remember what is it that we're always looking for? We're looking for that oh sh*t moment you know, I mean, like that Ultimate Warrior comeback at WrestleMania 8. It's not to say anything I could do can measure to that but the Bobby Lashley scenario is fascinating because I haven't been there for so long though."
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Special thanks to Chris Van Vliet for the quote(s).