MVP: The Hurt Business Got Shut Down In WWE For Reasons That Have Never Been Made Clear
The Hurt Business disbanded in 2021 after dominating WWE during the pandemic era.
MVP, Bobby Lashley, Shelton Benjamin and Cedric Alexander collected gold as a quartet, but never got a chance to display their powers when crowds returned. There were teases of a potential reunion, but it never came to fruition.
“Everybody knows that The Hurt Business got shut down in WWE for reasons that have never been made clear to me,” MVP said on Insight with Chris Van Vliet. “No one has ever said, and I begged Vince, Bobby begged Vince, please don’t do this. Vince had his ideas of what he wanted to do, and everybody genuinely agrees that we got shut down way too soon. So when it came time for our contracts, I made it very clear that I don’t want to be there anymore. There are people there in management that I dislike immensely, a person, and I won’t even bother to get into that. But I just knew that with certain people in charge, and that’s how the wrestling game is, that’s how life is. I don’t care where you work. When management changes, some people are out, other people are in, and I knew it was time to go. I wasn’t gonna re-sign. I was in Bobby’s ear constantly like ‘Don’t re-sign. Shelton got released. Don’t re-sign. Let’s you me and Sheldon get back together. Let’s go to AEW. I know we can go to AEW and we can pick this thing back up.’ I’m grateful to Tony Khan for seeing the value in us and giving us an opportunity to come over there and continue to tell our story and help some of these younger talents. Because contrary to what the internet tells you, there are a lot of young guys that come up and ask us for advice and ask us to watch their matches and ask us for insight, and I love being able to pay it forward because people gave it to me. So thank you to Tony Khan for seeing something in us and believing in us and giving us an opportunity to end The Hurt Syndicate in AEW, and for us to finish telling our story.”
MVP, Lashley, and Sheton did reunite in AEW as the Hurt Syndicate in 2024.
Fans can read Lashley’s thoughts on the group not getting back together in WWE here.
