Awesome / Bobby Lashley

"THE REIGN OF THE ALL MIGHTY IS UPON US!"

• 12/3/2006: First and foremost, at WWECW December to Dismember 2006, Lashley defeated Test and Big Show to win the ECW Championship. He's the first African American in ECW history to win the title. He'd lose it to Mr. McMahon at Backlash 2007 but then win it for a second time at the One Night Stand PPV during a Street Fight.
• As for Bobby's MMA career, he competed in promotions such as Mixed Fighting Alliance, Strikeforce, Titan Fighting Championship, Shark Fights, and Bellator MMA. He netted an impressive 15-2 record overall, fighting from 2008 to 2016. This record is among the best for pro wrestlers who transitioned to MMA.
• He also became the Impact World Heavyweight Champion for the first time on 6/19/2014, defeating Eric Young. He'd win the title about 3 more times afterwards, becoming a 4-time champion.
  • His third reign as Impact World Heavyweight Champion was particularly of note. Not only did he beat fellow future WWE Champion Drew Galloway for the title in a tapout or knockout only match on Slammiversary 2016. He also won the TNA X-Division Championship in a Title vs. Title steel cage match against Eddie Edwards on 7/13/2016. Afterwards, on 8/11/2016, he won the TNA King of the Mountain Championship on another Title vs. Title match against James Storm. Then on 8/12/2016, he retired the King of the Mountain Championship and vacated the X-Division Championship for good measure.
• 3/1/2021: Fast forward to 15 years later after his first ECW Championship win, he'd then become the second or third African American^note The first was Kofi Kingston or perhaps The Rock, who was half-Samoan to win the WWE Heavyweight Championship after defeating The Miz on the 3/1/2021 edition of Monday Night Raw.
• As champion, Bobby got a new entrance involving lightning bolts. He was called the Thunder God in TNA for good reason, after all.
• At WrestleMania 37, when everyone was expecting Drew to win because the visual of him winning with the crowd back should be good, Bobby Lashley defied such expectations and retained the WWE Heavyweight championship.
  • Mick Foley then praises the old-school finish of using a Full Nelson on 'Mania.
• The Squash Match he had with Kofi Kingston at Money in the Bank 2021 cements him as a truly dominant and unstoppable champion. It also sets up a potential WrestleMania match against Brock Lesnar.
• Not only did Lashley dismantle the legendary Goldberg at SummerSlam 2021 by injuring his leg in a No Contest. He also ended up choking out Goldberg's son Gage. Yes, he ended up eating a pin later on at Crown Jewel, but Bobby still succeeded in doing things to Goldberg that few others in the WWE currently could.
• Spearing Brock Lesnar through the barricade in the Fatal 5-Way Match for the WWE title at Day 1, then doing the same move later on inside the ring, and when Lesnar kicks out of it, Lashley then puts him in the Hurt Lock. Lashley almost won the match and the title via submission (due to Lesnar having great difficulty to break out of it), if not for Big E breaking it up instead. Among Lesnar's opponents in the match, Lashley is the one who did the most damage to him. Not only the Fatal 5-Way is the first time the All Mighty and the Beast are both in the same match, the former drew first blood to the latter via the aforementioned spear through the barricade, an All Mighty way (pun intended) of introducing himself to the Beast Incarnate.
  • In the first Raw of 2022, he defeated Big E, Seth Rollins, and Kevin Owens (who are the other participants of Day 1's Fatal 5-Way) in a Fatal 4-Way Match for the #1 Contendership against Brock Lesnar's WWE title at Royal Rumble 2022, finally setting up the Lesnar vs Lashley dream match (to the delight of many fans and Lashley himself, who said in shoot interviews that one of the reasons of his return to WWE is to have a match against Brock Lesnar).
• After losing the title to Big E via a Money in the Bank cash-in on the 9/13/2021 edition of Raw, which then went to a returning Brock Lesnar on WWE's Day 1 Event on New Year 2022 in a Fatal Five-Way Match, Bobby Lashley regained the championship on the Royal Rumble 2022.
• Royal Rumble 2022: Let's also not forget that the long-awaited dream match between Brock Lesnar and Bobby Lashley has finally come to fruition as two of the WWE's most legitimate competitors, and it lived up to the hype since Bobby was one of the few people, the others being Roman Reigns and Samoa Joe, who could bully the Beast Incarnate himself. He even got the win. You can catch the whole dream match here for free care of the WWE YouTube channel.
• Absolutely mauling the widely hated (at the time, at least) Austin Theory and ultimately putting him to sleep at Money in the Bank 2022 to win his third United States Championship, to the tune of one of the loudest crowd reactions of the night alongside Liv Morgan's cash-in.
• On RAW September 19, 2022, Seth Rollins attempts his Stomp, but Lashley doesn't go down by bracing himself with pure brute force.
• Bobby Lashley defeated Brock Lesnar back at Royal Rumble 2022 via Roman Reign interference. Brock Lesnar then defeated Bobby Lashley in their closely contested rematch at Crown Jewel. They should soon have a rubber match at any number of PLEs, including WrestleMania, the grandest stage of them all.