MVP: We Were Told Hurt Business Was Getting Back Together. Shirts Were Made. Next Thing, Bobby Lashley Is With Street Profits

MVP, Bobby Lashley, Shelton Benjamin, and Cedric Alexander came together during the pandemic as The Hurt Business. The group was heavily featured on television and collected gold during their time together, but split just after WrestleMania 37. 

Despite teases of a reunion every year after their split, the group was never fully put back together. 

According to MVP, there was a reunion planned and nearly executed. 

“We were told we were going to be reunited. I still have a shirt. The shirts were made. Hurt Business on the front. Back in business on the back. They were made. We were told that it was going to happen. Next thing I see, Bobby is with the Street Profits. ‘What happened here?’ I get a call from Bruce (Prichard), ‘Somebody should have called you. Sorry. We decided we’re going in a different direction.’ What the fuck is that? That’s not professional. That’s how it went down. I’m a professional. I show up and I go to work and do what I’m told. In the pro wrestling business, once you get to a certain level, you do have input into what you do. It’s one thing when we’re told, ‘We’re going to do this’ and steps have been made, and then there is a pivot without a conversation. That’s not good business. I don’t care what anybody thinks. That’s not how you do business. Needless to say, I was very salty about that. We had Bobby going from a two-time WWE champion to not being in the conversation or in the title picture at all. Got put with The Street Profits [Montez Ford & Angelo Dawkins], who were white hot, and they got cooled off. The Street Profits went from being major figures to sitting in catering. I don’t know why. I don’t understand it, but I don’t make decisions in that way,” MVP said on K&S WrestleFest virtual signing.

Lashley was paired with the Street Profits in July 2023. 

Lashley and MVP both departed WWE in the summer of 2024. 

Elsewhere during the signing, MVP clarified he never called Triple H a racist. You can find his full comments by clicking here.

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