AEW star MVP touts Tony Khan's leadership, talks untapped potential of Bobby Lashley, Shelton Benjamin

Time goes by truthful rapidly sometimes it’s unreal to deliberation that MVP and his Hurt Syndicate faction members, Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin, person been astatine All Elite Wrestling (AEW) for astir 2 afloat years.

MVP archetypal debuted connected Sept. 25, 2024, aft a 2nd stint with WWE. Lashley and Benjamin would debut connected "Dynamite" a fewer weeks later. Since then, MVP has guided the duo to 1 AEW tag squad title reign.

He reflected connected his clip with AEW successful a caller interrogation with Fox News Digital, contrasting the institution with different places wherever he’s worked.

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Bobby Lashley, MVP, and Shelton Benjamin permission Swerve Strickland and Prince Nana lying successful the ringing during AEW Dynamite connected Oct. 30, 2024, astatine the Wolstein Center successful Cleveland, Ohio. (Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire)

"AEW is truly chill due to the fact that the firm civilization determination is truthful antithetic from the different places that I’ve worked. Tony Khan is highly passionate astir nonrecreational wrestling. For him, it’s not conscionable immoderate concern venture, helium genuinely loves pro wrestling," helium said. "He eats it, helium drinks it, helium breathes it. He’s been a wrestling instrumentality since helium was a tiny child. He knows much wrestling astir apt than anybody I cognize conscionable due to the fact that of his encyclopedic cognition of history. And moving for him is simply a pleasure. The climate, the ambiance determination is truthful relaxed and everybody’s passionate.

"Everybody knows we person an accidental with AEW to make thing new. And WWE has been ‘the’ institution and AEW has travel on and has fixed wrestling fans a morganatic alternate to the WWE brand. I don’t get into the tribalism. I emotion nonrecreational wrestling and I don’t attraction what 3 letters are successful beforehand of it. The tribalism is ridiculous. I devour astatine McDonald’s and Burger King. … And astatine this signifier of my career, AEW has a batch of young endowment who person immense upside but tons of them are inactive learning however to bash TV and however to attack nonrecreational wrestling from a tv perspective.

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Bobby Lashley makes his mode to the ringing during AEW Dynamite connected Oct. 30, 2024, astatine the Wolstein Center successful Cleveland, Ohio. (Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire)

"So, I person capable acquisition moving crossed assorted companies and doing TV virtually astir the satellite that I’m capable to impart immoderate of my acquisition connected them to anticipation to turn idiosyncratic endowment and collectively lend to the maturation of the company. So, I emotion it, conscionable due to the fact that the ambiance determination is truthful comfy and you know, astatine slightest from my acquisition and what I deliberation astir radical from AEW volition archer you, it’s refreshing to enactment for a brag who genuinely cares astir his endowment and who cares astir nonrecreational wrestling arsenic an creation form, arsenic signifier of amusement and not conscionable a bottommost enactment concern venture."

Benjamin and Lashley inactive look and execute arsenic good arsenic they did erstwhile they archetypal started with WWE. Benjamin volition crook 51 and Lashley volition crook 50 successful July.

MVP said the duo are "still susceptible of virtually anything," adjacent astatine their age.

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"Bobby and Shelton, they didn’t archer maine but they recovered the fountain of youth," helium told Fox News Digital. "I privation they would smarten maine up due to the fact that I don’t cognize wherever that is. It seems similar Shelton, present astatine 50, is amended than he’s ever been and helium hasn’t mislaid a step. He inactive looks amazing. Bobby, if you instrumentality a representation of Bobby from erstwhile helium debuted and enactment it to a representation of him close now, there’s virtually nary difference. They’re inactive susceptible of virtually anything. They inactive person awesome matches with younger talent. In presumption of what the untapped imaginable is, we’re the Syndicate antheral – domination."

The Hurt Syndicate volition play a large relation astatine Double oregon Nothing connected Sunday nighttime successful New York. Benjamin and Lashley volition squad up with Chris Jericho, Kenny Omega, Jack Perry, Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson successful a Stadium Stampede Match against Ricochet, Bishop Kaun, Toa Liona, Mark Davis, Andrade El Idolo, Clark Connors and David Finlay.

Wrestlers Shelton Benjamin and MVP be the Los Angeles premiere of "Queen Of The Ring" astatine AMC The Grove 14 connected March 6, 2025. (Michael Tullberg/Getty Images)

What tin pro wrestling fans expect from a Stadium Stampede Match, which debuted astatine Double oregon Nothing successful 2019? MVP enactment it simply.

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"I’ll sum it up successful 2 words: chaos and violence."