High remarks for Khan by The Hurt Syndicate.
It has been nine months since The Hurt Syndicate (Bobby Lashley, Shelton Benjamin & MVP) formed in All Elite Wrestling. Present day, Lashley and Benjamin are the reigning AEW World Tag Team Champions, and they've added MJF to the group.
There was a Hurt Business (Cedric Alexander, MVP, Shelton Benjamin & Bobby Lashley) reunion panel, and footage was posted to the Going Ringside YouTube channel. As the Q&A went on, The Hurt Syndicate members heaped praise onto AEW President Tony Khan.
MVP: “Like I said, especially when we were coming to work and other people wouldn’t (during WWE’s COVID-era), you know, we were putting that work in and holding it down. To just get unceremoniously tossed to the side. Okay, we’re not doing that anymore. We’re doing this now. Well, wait a minute. So nah, it doesn’t feel good. But what does feel good is being able to reunite with the squad and going across the street and doing great numbers and doing good business and being able to continue what we started and shout out to Tony Khan. Thank you very much for giving The Hurt Syndicate that opportunity.”
Lashley: “Tony’s fantastic.”
Benjamin: “I think Tony’s been great. I like to point this out: No matter what your opinion is, Tony has created a lane for people to be on TV, have gainful employment and make a name for themselves. So, I think first and foremost, I commend him for that because he’s, you know, given my career new life. He’s given guys who probably wouldn’t even get a sniff at the other place a chance to actually be stars so I think that alone makes Tony a real special guy. Tony’s been nothing but great to me and I think the other guys would say the same since we arrived…”
On the 6/25 edition of Dynamite, Lashley and Benjamin received a challenge for their AEW World Tag Team Championships, and that challenge came from JetSpeed (Kevin Knight & 'Speedball' Mike Bailey). JetSpeed wants the match at All In Texas.
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Going Ringside with an H/T to Fightful for the transcriptions.
