Chavo Guerrero Recalls Suplexing Bobby Lashley Out Of His Shoes During Shoot Wrestling Match

Chavo Guerrero used his technique to counter Bobby Lashley’s strength. 

Chavo Guerrero used his technique to counter Bobby Lashley’s strength. 

Long before he arrived in WWE, Bobby Lashley was a National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) National Wrestling Champion. He also competed in amateur wrestling once he joined the United States Army, and he won a gold and silver medal. Once he joined WWE, he sometimes used his amateur wrestling skills. On at least one occasion, he was technically outmatched. 

Speaking on Cafe de Rene with Rene Dupree, Chavo Guerrero was asked whether he had any stories about Bobby Lashley. He first noted that Lashley is a good worker, and they are friends.

“Bobby Lashley, tough guy. Very good worker, good friend of mine. I really like Bobby. I remember wrestling him in the ring a couple times, and he was just so strong,” Guerrero said.

Guerrero then detailed the time he and Lashley had a shoot wrestling match in a ring. He highlighted Lashley’s remarkable background as an amateur wrestler and stated that Bobby initially overpowered him. Guerrero went on to describe how he wound up suplexing Lashley out of his shoes, and he refused to wrestle him again. 

“There was a time that we were all shooting in the ring before the show, kind of doing a bunch of takedowns and that kind of stuff and seeing who the better wrestler was. Bobby, he was an All-American wrestler, he was in the army, wrestled for the army, whatever he was, he’s got some accolades. He’s a really good wrestler, and he’s super strong. So he grabs me, and as he grabs me, I whizzer down on him hard. I’m whizzering down, thinking, ‘Okay, this usually works.’ He literally picked me up with one arm like this and just held me there for a second. I was like, ‘Oh, you son of a bitch.’ So he puts me back down. I’m like, ‘Okay, you proved your point. So then we started messing around a little bit. We’re kind of going, he’s trying to get me. I’m pretty quick, so I’m doing some defensive stuff, but I can’t get him, he’s just too good. So then he goes around the waist again and I whizzer down again, so I feel him coming up again. As he goes, all I did was grab my wrist and push on his chest, and so I have his arm around my shoulder. So I’m hooking it here, key lock here, and I arch, and he goes ass over teakettle, he goes head over heels. Boom. As he goes head over heels, everybody saw, so it’s like, ‘Oh!’ His shoes fell off. So I don’t know if he didn’t have them tied, or I don’t know what. But both of his shoes fell off. This is the truth. They fell off, and everybody [went] ‘Oh, my god! Chavo just suplexed him out of his shoes!’ The only reason I suplexed him is because he was trying to lift me up, something he would never do in a match. As he’s lifting, he goes [motions with his arm], and it was just perfect timing. I roll out of the ring, and I’m like, ‘That’s it. I will never wrestle you again. Because the last time I wrestled you, I suplexed you out of your shoes.’ He was so pissed. ‘Fuck you, Chavo, get back in here.’ I was like hell no, I will never wrestle you ever again. There you go. I suplexed Bobby Lashley out of his shoes,” Guerrero said.

Guerrero recently discussed working with Zac Efron on “The Iron Claw”. Click here to see what he had to say.

Check out Guerrero’s comments about CM Punk here.

Bobby Lashley recently expressed his interest in boxing. Click here to see what he had to say.

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