MVP Was Told The Hurt Business Was Reuniting In WWE Before Bobby Lashley Joined The Street Profits

The Hurt Business is dead and buried according to MVP during a virtual signing with K&S WrestleFest, though he noted that he was talking with Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin about potential future plans. When looking back though, MVP opened up about a time in which he was told the Hurt Business was going to come back - but even after shirts were made and plans were expected, Lashley ended up teaming with the Street Profits to form The Pride instead.

"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 f*ck 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.”

It was reported in recent months that after leaving WWE, MVP & Bobby Lashley were hoping to reform The Hurt Business outside of WWE.

H/T Fightful